TM703
Finance for Technology Firms
0.5 Credit

The course examines topics in corporate finance of interest to senior managers in a technology company including:

  1. how debt holders and shareholders in private and public technology corporations affect corporate decision-making;
  2. how technology companies raise debt and equity capital and how this capital is valued;
  3. the risk-return trade-off that technology investors face;
  4. how to analyze projects from a financial perspective including the application of real options;
  5. how to evaluate mergers and acquisitions of technology companies from a financial perspective.