The path-breaking advances in finance theory and practice over the past decades have profoundly changed the financial world. These changes are further accelerated by the extensive globalization of financial markets and the rapid development in financial technologies in recent years. This course provides a rigorous introduction to the fundamentals of modern financial analysis and their applications to business challenges in capital budgeting, project evaluation, corporate investment and financing decisions, and basic security analysis and investment management.

The course is lecture based. Lectures will consist of covering the theory, examples, and class discussion. Homework assignments will focus on applying the material from lectures.