2017-2018 Academic Catalog

Apr 19, 2024

2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

FIN 5417 - Financial Consulting Project

The goal of this course to cultivate students’ capability to structure and present a rigorous analysis that supports a recommendation to make a capital investment. Across the sectors of the economy, investors must understand complex and evolving markets and regulations, available funding sources, and business models, to fully evaluate the risks and opportunities and make smart capital investment decisions. Student will learn the tools of corporate and project finance, capital budgeting and asset valuation, and risk analysis and work as interdisciplinary teams to propose, analyze, and defend a capital investment opportunity. The class project will be structured as a consulting engagement. By the end of the semester, students will understand how to model the capital structures commonly used to fund projects; apply the capital budgeting and risk analysis techniques that professionals use to make investment decisions; apply basic project management principles and tools to the completion of complex analysis; and present and defend a recommendation to make a capital investment.

Counts as Experiential Learning Requirement II or an elective for the MSF and MBA programs.

Prerequisites: FIN 4200 or FIN 5401

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically