FIN-3154: Corporate Financial Analytics and Strategy
Description: This course provides the understanding of the types of financial management decisions that firms make, the environment in which decisions are made, the available choices and decision criteria, and valuation consequences of these choices through financial analytical modeling. Determination of a firm’s optimal debt- equity ratio, estimation of cost of capital, evaluation of capital investments, payout policies, merger and acquisition decision-making, and sources of financing with emphasis on identifying and mitigating potential agency conflicts. Pre: Sophomore standing.
Pathways: N/A
Course Hours: 3 credits
Corequisites: N/A
Crosslist: N/A
Repeatability: N/A
Sections Taught: 67
Average GPA: 2.95 (rounds to B)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 14.73%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 2.94%
| William J Coleman | 2023 | 18.4% | 49.0% | 27.0% | 1.0% | 1.2% | 3.3% | 2.85 | 14 |
| Jamie Lynn M Byram | 2021 | 38.5% | 34.0% | 15.2% | 3.9% | 3.3% | 5.1% | 2.99 | 7 |
| Jin Xu | 2024 | 24.8% | 36.1% | 34.7% | 1.2% | 0.4% | 2.8% | 2.82 | 13 |
| Otero Staff Cabezon | 2024 | 18.1% | 48.2% | 28.6% | 0.0% | 4.3% | 0.7% | 2.78 | 3 |
| Pengfei Ye | 2023 | 37.9% | 44.8% | 10.3% | 3.4% | 3.4% | 0.0% | 3.03 | 1 |
| John C Easterwood | 2024 | 29.6% | 41.4% | 24.1% | 1.1% | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2.98 | 13 |
| Hongyan Li | 2019 | 26.6% | 47.3% | 17.3% | 6.1% | 1.3% | 1.5% | 2.94 | 2 |
| Jesse R Lineberry | 2024 | 20.5% | 53.4% | 22.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 4.2% | 3.00 | 2 |
| Nikolaos Artavanis | 2021 | 32.6% | 43.7% | 16.7% | 1.0% | 1.8% | 4.3% | 3.09 | 8 |
| Mengyang Chi | 2019 | 88.9% | 11.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.79 | 1 |
| Catherine A Kennedy | 2024 | 37.9% | 47.8% | 13.4% | 0.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.22 | 3 |