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BADM 351-01, Business Administration, Fall 2007
Pittman, Deborah N.
Pittman, Deborah N.
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By the end of the course, the student should:
1. Understand NPV as a basic concept of corporate finance and be proficient in solving all types
of time value of money problems.
2. Appreciate the relevance of finance in our daily lives through exposure to contemporary
financial issues by outside reading and selected videos; in addition, you should be familiar with
web sources of financial markets such as www.morningstar.com, www.bloomberg.com;
www.wsj.com; www.finance.yahoo.com; www.marketwatch.com; www.fool.com
3. Have a sound grasp of underlying financial theories and the objectives and tradeoffs involved
in corporate financial decision making.
4. Understand how today’s financial manager uses spreadsheets and calculators to perform
financial analysis and make capital budgeting decisions.5. Be familiar with the key contributions of the Nobel laureates in financial economics,
specifically Markowitz, Sharpe, and Miller and Modigliani, and have a better appreciation of financial research through the reading of seminal works and a description of how key financial theories evolved,
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This syllabus was submitted to the Rhodes College Office of Academic Affairs by the course instructor.