Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Study Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Corporate Financing and Investment Decisions (2019/2020)
Teaching code
4S00409
Academic staff
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
SECS-P/11 - FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS
Period
Second semester bachelor degree dal Feb 17, 2020 al Jun 5, 2020.
Learning outcomes
The course aims to examine, in the perspective of non financial firms, the principles of corporate finance by deepening the characteristics of the net present value in the capital budgeting decisions, the choices of financial structure, the financing instruments in the short and medium-long term, the dividend policy, the payment instruments in international trade and the operations of hedging of financial risks (currency risk, interest rate risk and commodity risk). At the end of the lessons, students will be able to analyze, interpret and evaluate in a critical and autonomous way the firm’s decisions that have financial implications.
Program
The principles of corporate finance.
The determination of the relevant cash flows and the cost of capital in the net present value.
The decisions of financial structure. The benefits and the costs of borrowing.
The Initial Public Offering (IPO).
The technical forms of medium and long-term financing.
The technical forms of short-term financing.
The dividend policy.
Payment instruments in international trade.
Introduction to Corporate Financial Risk Management.
The patent box.
The teaching methods consist of lectures and examples designed to facilitate the understanding and interpretation of theoretical concepts.
Reference material
Volume Create for the course “Analisi e copertura dei fabbisogni finanziari” (academic year 2019-2020) published by McGraw Hill.
Students must also prepare the material loaded on the elearning page of the course.
With the aim to a fruitful learning of the topics covered in the teaching it is appropriate that the Student has an adequate knowledge of the concepts taught in the course of “Financial markets and Institutions”.
Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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AA.VV. | Volume create del corso di "Analisi e copertura dei fabbisogni finanziari" (a.a. 2019-20 - sedi di Verona e Vicenza) | McGraw-Hill | 2020 | 9781307518948 |
Examination Methods
The exam is written and is directed to verify the knowledge of the topics in the program. It consists in three questions (open theoretical questions and exercises to be solved by providing a commentary to the obtained results), structured to ascertain whether the student is actually able to treat with awareness and critical view the firms’ financial decisions. The duration of the test is variable from a minimum of one hour and a half to a maximum of two hours.
There will be a mid-term exam at which the Student may elect to participate. The mid-term exam will focus on the following topics:
- the principles of corporate finance;
- the determination of the relevant cash flows and the cost of capital in the net present value;
- the decisions of financial structure. The benefits and costs of borrowing;
- the Initial Public Offering (IPO).
The mid-term exam consists of a written with 3 questions (theoretical open questions and exercises). The duration of the test is variable from a minimum of one hour and a half to a maximum of two hours. To pass the mid-term test the minimum vote is 18/30.
Those who pass the mid-term exam will have to bear, in one of the appeals of the session of June-July 2020, a test which will focus on the second part of the course:
- the technical forms of medium and long-term financing;
- the technical forms of short-term financing;
- the dividend policy;
- payment instruments in international trade;
- introduction to Corporate Financial Risk Management;
- the patent box.
Also, the test on the second part of the program consists of a written with 3 questions (theoretical open questions and exercises) and has a duration variable from a minimum of one hour and a half to a maximum of two hours.
Compared to the final vote, the result obtained in the mid-term exam will have a weight equal to 50%. The final vote will be the average of the vote of the mid-term exam and that of the second test; this average will rounded upward if the decimal fraction is equal or greater to 0.50. In order to pass the exam, the vote obtained in the test on the second part of the program must be at least 18/30.
The Student may refuse the vote of the mid-term exam. The notification must be made by email at lorenzo.faccincani@univr.it prior to the 6 pm of the day before the first appeal of the session of June-July 2020. In case of rejection of the vote of the mid-term test, the Student must, of course, take the exam on the whole program.
The Student cannot only refuse the vote obtained in the test on the second part of the program; this means that if, after passing the second test, the Student is not satisfied with the vote, he will have to refuse the result of the average of the two tests, losing then automatically the vote of the mid-term exam. The refusal of the vote must be notified at the email address lorenzo.faccincani@univr.it prior to the moment of the registration of the final vote.
The Student loses the vote of the mid-term exam if he does not sustain the second test in one of the appeals of the session of June-July 2020.
Finally, the exams are the same for attending and non-attending Students.
IMPORTANT - Following the Covid-19 emergency and the consequent need to take the exam tests online, the sessions of the June-July and august-september 2020, as well as January-February 2021, include a multiple choice test and an oral test. For more details, please refer to what is reported on the elearning platform