公司财务精品教学（徐江旻）Session1 Intro.pdfVIP

Corporate Finance Jiangmin Xu Fall 2014 Today’s Class • Practical information about the course • Overview of the course – Financial Decisions and Goals of Corporations – Firms and Financial Markets • Basic financial statement analysis General Information • This class: Tue 9am – 12pm, week 1 – 16 • we break for 15min in the middle and finish at ≈ 11:55am • attendance is checked and counts towards your grade • My office: Guanghua new building #337 • Email: jiangminxu@ • Office hour: Friday 4pm – 5pm or by appointment • could come in a group of 2 – 5 people, but ≤ 5 please • Teaching assistants • Jiajun Jiang: georgejjj@ – office hour: by appointment • Kaitang Zhou: zhoukaitang@ – office hour: by appointment General Information • This course aims to give you a comprehensive understanding of Corporate Finance (the big picture) • If you think the lectures are going too fast or too slow, please let me know • If you think you do not understand something in the lecture, please feel free to stop me and ask me to explain it again – Do not wait until after the class (easy to forget…) • If you have any suggestions about how the lectures can be improved, please let me know Readings • Lecture notes • Berk and DeMarzo “Corporate Finance,” 2nd edition – 1st edition OK also • Other handouts • Newspapers/magazines: – If you find an article related to a recent lecture, e-mail it to me or the TAs and explain how it is related Public Email for the Course • Lecture notes, homework, announcements and all other relevant course materials available at: – gsm2014cf@126.com – password: gsm2014 • Please check it regularly – Don’t miss homework, announcements, etc. • Print out your own copy of the lecture not