Bachelor
2024/2025
Corporate Finance: International Practices
Type:
Compulsory course
Area of studies:
Public Policy and Social Sciences
Delivered by:
Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
When:
4 year, 3 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The Corporate finance course is an intermediary two-module course for four-year undergraduate students. It is focusing on corporate applications in the international environment. The course develops theoretical and practical frame works for understanding and analyzing major financial problems of modern firm in the market environment. The course is taught in English. Russian is used as supplementary language to explain basic concepts and introduce some Russian terminology. The first part of the course is devoted to principles of accounting. By the end of this part of a course, students are expected to be able to apply a set of accounting concepts to read annual financial report of a corporation and financial ratios to assess its financial position. The second part deals with principles of company valuation and covers the essentials of capital structure and methods of company valuation. It is focused on estimating and forecasting cash flow of a firm in order to calculate its market value.