ECON229 - Corporate Finance and Managerial Control

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Academic Year 2003/2004

Corporate Finance and Managerial Control
ECON 229 SP

This course offers an introduction to accounting and business decisions: balance sheets, income statements, and sources and uses of funds; capital budgeting; cost of capital; the link between accounting records and economic analysis. Emphasis is placed on the uses of present-value techniques.

MAJOR READINGS

Text to be determined; daily issues of the WALL STREET JOURNAL

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Hour test, quizzes, final examination as scheduled by the registrar, project and frequent problem sets. Answers to problem sets will often be discussed in class.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Please note that if you do not match one of the prerequisite listings EXACTLY, then you need a prerequisite override.
ECON 101 will not serve as a prerequisite.

PLEASE NOTE: Students who have taken ECON 249 previously are not eligible to take this course.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS ECON Grading Mode: Graded

Prerequisites: (ECON111 AND ECON112) OR ECON105 OR ECON110

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Miller,Richard A.

Times: .M.W.F. 09:00AM-09:50AM; Location: PAC004

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 35)

SR. major: 8 Jr. major: 12

SR. non-major: 5 Jr. non-major: 5 SO: 5 FR: 0

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Quantitative Reasoning

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Last Updated on MAR-19-2004