EWMBA203 Syllabus2022 March6.pdf - EWMBA 203: Intro to...

EWMBA 203 : Intro to Finance
Spring 2022
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
Professor Peter Maxted
Email: [email protected]
Web:
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 6 - 7 : 30 pm and by appointment
Graduate Student Instructor
Rawool Sahu
Email: rawool [email protected]
GSI sections and tutoring:
– GSI section: Tuesdays, 6 - 7 : 30 pm (combined Axe and Oski)
– GSI office hours: Thursdays, 6 - 8 pm (combined Axe and Oski)
– Small-group tutoring: Available to those attending GSI section (schedule directly with Rawool)
Course Overview
This is an introductory MBA course in finance. We will begin by covering present value and
future value, learning how to project cash flows, and discussing criteria for making investment
decisions. We will apply these concepts to evaluate new projects (e.g., starting a company),
and discuss how the concepts we learn in finance can be applied to other domains. Next, we
will turn to financial markets with the objective of providing an introduction to stocks, bonds,
diversification, and optimal portfolio choice. With an understanding of how market prices are
determined, we will return to a firm’s investment decisions and evaluation of project risk. This
course will combine the theoretical underpinnings of finance with real-world examples.
Course Resources
We will use bCourses for circulating slides, problem sets, and other materials. These materials are
intellectual property of the Haas School of Business so please do not repost. External cases are
available on study.net. In addition, the textbook has a website, which will be used for the weekly
assignments (details below).
To facilitate exchanging questions, answers, and ideas, we will also have a course Slack channel.
Any questions that are not answered by your peers will be answered by the GSI. Please post
course-related questions on Slack, rather than emailing the GSI, so that other students who may
have the same questions can also benefit from seeing the answers. Feel free to also use the Slack
channel to share resources of interest, e.g., news articles that relate to concepts we discuss in
class.
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Required Text and Assignment Tool
Corporate Finance plus MyLab, 5 th Edition , by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo.
$ 104 . 99 for the eText (read on screen) plus MyLab
See the file MFL Registration Handout.pdf posted on bCourses (under Week 1 ) for MyLab reg-
istration instructions. After registering, if you want the loose leaf printed textbook, click on
“Purchase Options” inside MyLab and click on the link under “Purchase a Print Textbook”.