Corporate Finance

Introduction to Corporate Finance
The Objective in Corporate Finance
The Time Value of Money
Understanding Financial Statements
Value and Price: An Introduction
The Basics of Risk
Estimating Hurdle Rates for Firms
Estimating Hurdle Rates for Projects
Estimating Earnings and Cash Flows on Projects
Investment Decision Rules
Investment Analysis with Inflation and Exchange Rate Risk
Project Interactions, Side Benefits and Side Costs
Investments in Non-Cash working Capital
Investments in Cash and Marketable Securities
Investment Returns and Corporate Strategy
An Overview of Financing Choices
The Financing Process
The Financing Mix
The Optimal Financing Mix
Financing Mix and ChoicesDividend Policy
Analyzing Cash Returned to Stockholders
Beyond Cash Dividends: Buybacks, Spin Offs and Divestitures
Valuation: Principles and Practice
Value Enhancement: Tools and Techniques
Acquisitions and Takeovers
Option Applications in Corporate Finance

Aswath Damodaran is a professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University, and teaches the corporate finance and equity valuation courses in the MBA program. He received his MBA and Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. His research interest lie in valuation and applied corporate finance.
He has published articles in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , the Journal of Finance , the Journal of Financial Economics , and the Review of Financial Studies , and has written two books on equity valuation ( Damodaran on Valuation and Investment Valuation ) and two on corporate finance ( Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice and Applied Corporate Finance: A User s Manual ). He has co-edited a book on investment management with Peter Bernstein ( Investment Man agement) and is working on a book on investment philosophies.
He was a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1984 to 1986, where he received the Earl Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award in 1985. He has been at NYU since 1986, received the Stern School of Business Excellence in Teaching Award (awarded by the graduating class) in 1988, 1991, 1992, and 1999 and was the youngest winner of the University-wide Distinguished Teaching Award (in 1990). He was profiled in Business Week as one of the top twelve business school professors in the United States in 1994.