Course

Corporate Finance (BØK260)

This introductory course in finance primarily focuses on how companies select investments, and then determine financing for the investment decisions. The purpose of the course is to give the students the necessary knowledge about the concepts and methods used to make investment decisions. The main focus is on financial investments (stocks and bonds), project financing and various investment decisions for projects are reviewed. An introduction to options is also given. The language of instruction and the exam language is English .


Dette er emnebeskrivelsen for studieåret 2025-2026

Fakta

Emnekode

BØK260

Vekting (stp)

10

Semester undervisningsstart

Autumn

Undervisningsspråk

English

Antall semestre

1

Vurderingssemester

Autumn

Timeplan

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Litteratur

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Content

  • Introduction - course context in economy and financial markets
  • Cash flows
  • Interest calculation / financial mathematics
  • Decision criteria (Net present value, internal rate of return, payback, etc.)
  • Risk and return
  • Cost of capital
  • Market efficiency
  • Financing of investments
  • International finance
  • Options
  • Risk management

Learning outcome

Knowledge

On completion of the course, students will be able to understand:

  • General principles of investment analysis
  • Why we focus on cash flows and not profit
  • Discount rate / cost of capital
  • The various decision criteria for an investment. NPV, IRR, etc
  • The concept of total risk, and how it is determined
  • Portfolio theory and its significance for diversification.
  • Beta and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
  • Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) and when to use it
  • Market efficiency
  • Options and risk management in international finance

Skills

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • make investment calculations and decisions for projects
  • apply discounting rules
  • use various decision criteria for both equities and bonds
  • apply the portfolio theory to different investment options and calculate Beta
  • apply the CAPM model
  • calculate the weighted average cost of capital
  • calculate the present value of investment projects and discuss risk in investment decisions
  • evaluate different financing options
  • evaluate options and arbitrage opportunities (as opposed to estimating option premiums)

Forkunnskapskrav

Et av følgende alternativer:
Financial accounting - principles and analysis (BØK102)
Financial and management accounting - an introduction (BØK195)
Statistics

Anbefalte forkunnskaper

Financial accounting - principles and analysis (BØK102), Mathematical method for economists (BØK108), Financial and management accounting - an introduction (BØK195), Microeconomics (BØK265)
Statistics

Exam

Form of assessment Weight Duration Marks Aid
Written exam 1/1 3 Hours Letter grades None permitted, Standard calculator 1), Valid calculator

1) Financial or graphing calculators NOT allowed

Vilkår for å gå opp til eksamen/vurdering

Mandatory assignments
Weekly individual assignments: assignments must be approved in order to take the final exam.

Fagperson(er)

Study Program Director:

Tarjei Mandt Larsen

Course coordinator:

Olga Aleksandrovna Rabanal

Method of work

One three hour lecture, and additional TA sessions. In order to stimulate a good learning environment, two-way communication with the students is necessary. The students are responsible for participating in lectures, with questions, comments and discussion. It is therefore crucial that students prepare well for each lecture. The expected workload in this course is approximately 300 hours, including self-study.

Overlapping

Emne Reduksjon (SP)
Corporate Finance (BØK260_2) , Capital investment and decision theory (ØK0111_1) 2
Corporate Finance (BØK260_2) , Managerial Finance (NH0523_1) 6
Corporate Finance (BØK260_2) , Managerial Finance (NH0523_A) 6
Corporate Finance (BØK260_2) , Financial management (ØK0012_1) 6
Corporate Finance (BØK260_2) , Finance 1 (ØK0012_2) 6
Corporate Finance (BØK260_2) , Finance 1 (ØK0012_A) 6
Finance 1 (BØK130_1) , Corporate Finance (BØK260_2) 10
Economic analysis (BHO200_1) , Corporate Finance (BØK260_2) 5
Corporate Finance (BHO395_1) , Corporate Finance (BØK260_2) 10
Corporate Finance in the hospitality industry (BHO395_2) , Corporate Finance (BØK260_2) 10

Åpent for

Business Administration - Bachelor's Degree Programme
Exchange programmes at UIS Business School

Emneevaluering

There must be an early dialogue between the course supervisor, the student union representative and the students. The purpose is feedback from the students for changes and adjustments in the course for the current semester.In addition, a digital course evaluation must be carried out at least every three years. Its purpose is to gather the students experiences with the course.

Kontakt

Study Program Director:

Tarjei Mandt Larsen

Course coordinator:

Olga Aleksandrovna Rabanal

Tilbys av

UiS Business School

UiS School of Business and Law

The course description is retrieved from FS (Felles studentsystem). Version 2