Undergraduate Studies
Academic Year 2025-26
Corporate Finance
Files and Links
- Course Outline .pdf (Greek)
- Course Outline .pdf (English)
- Full Description @courses.xrh
- Link to e-class
4th Semester
ΧΡΧΡΗ02
Course id
7,5
ECTS
Core Course
Course type
This course:
- Presents and analyzes the key business decisions such as investment, financing and payout in an environment of risk and asymmetric information
- Describes the main conflicts of interest between the shareholders, lenders and managers of the company as well as their consequences in relation to the main objective of the managers which is to maximize the value of the company
- analyzes the effect of leverage on the value of the company
- analyzes the effects of payout policy on the value of the company
- analyzes company’s decision to go public (IPO)
With the successful completion of the course, students will be sufficiently capable to:
- understand the process of making financial decisions in modern businesses
- assess the value of company’s investments as well as the entire company’s value
- understand the impact on stock market share prices of corporate announcements regarding IPO, profits, capital structure, dividends, etc.
- Search, analyze and synthesize data and information relevant to business decisions
- Investments and companies evaluation
- Recognizing the impact of business developments on the stock market
- Synthesis of the interactions between business decisions, money and capital markets and the public
- Risk and Return
- Risk, Cost of Capital, and Valuation
- Efficient Capital Markets and Asymmetric Information
- Long-Term Financing
- Capital Structure
- Valuation and Capital Budgeting for the Levered Firm
- Payout Policy
