ADVANCED CORPORATE FINANCE
Lubin School of Business
PACE UNIVERSITY
FALL 2014
CRN 70433
Wednesday afternoon 1:20 PM to 4:20 PM
New York City campus
Professor Edmund H. Mantell
University office : room 530 in NYC and room 524 at the GC in White Plains
University telephones: NY: (212) 618 6520, GC: (914) 422 1964
Consulting office telephone: (914) 725 4882 (this is the best number to use)
E-mail address: EMantell@pace.edu (N.B. I usually access this mailbox once daily)
Required text: Ross, Stephen A., Randolph W. Westerfield and Jeffrey Jaffe
CORPORATE FINANCE, tenth ed., McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2013
GENERAL INFORMATION
(1) The instructor will presume that all enrolled students have satisfied the prerequisites for FIN 647. These include Graduate level MBA 626 Minimum Grade of B and
Graduate level MBA 628 Minimum Grade of B and Graduate level MBA 632 Minimum
Grade of B) or (Graduate level MBA 644 Minimum Grade of B and Graduate level MBA
646 Minimum Grade of B and Graduate level MBA 648 Minimum Grade of B) See the graduate catalog.
(2) The final examination will be comprehensive of all lecture materials as well as all assigned readings.
(3) The final examination is scheduled on Wednesday, December 17, 2014. See the on-line academic calendar.
(4) The student is presumed to be familiar with the financial theory found in Chapters 1,
2, 3 and 4 of the assigned text. The material in Chapter 4 is especially important. It is related to the valuation of intertemporal cash flow streams. The analytical concepts developed in Chapter 4 will be applied often in the materials included in this syllabus.
The student should be able to answer problems 1 through 34 appended to Chapter 4.
(5) 5% of this course’s grade is based on completion of Bloomberg Essentials Training program, which will train you how to navigate the Bloomberg Professional Service. The
Bloomberg Professional Service is an important data, news, and analysis resource