Corporate finance final document
Monday, 19 December 2016 14:10
Financial markets
• Give an overview of the two key financial instruments: Stocks and Bonds
• Understand how these instruments are issued, priced and traded
The risk-return trade-off and the pricing of market risk
• Introduce the concepts of risk and return in financial markets and how
diversification influences risk and return
• Show how return is related to risk through the Capital Asset Pricing Model
Corporate finance
• Extend understanding on company valuation and investment appraisal
• Introduce the concept of the cost of capital and how it can be calculated.
• Understand how extreme events can affect the cost of capital
• Show how companies are financed and how to decide between different types of
finance.
Finance in practise
• Most lectures will include a discussion/case study to illustrate how the lecture
material is relevant to current financial trends and issues
Materials:
- Pre lecture materials
- Summary for each lecture
- Self study questions
- Case studies
• Lecture 1: Introduction to Finance (not examinable)
• Introduction to Finance, Financial Markets and Corporate Finance
,
,- Self study questions
- Case studies
• Lecture 1: Introduction to Finance (not examinable)
• Introduction to Finance, Financial Markets and Corporate Finance
Lecture 2: Bond Markets
Pricing bonds, Government & corporate bond markets, Green Bonds
Bond terminology:
- Bond indenture = legal contract stating terms of the bond
- Bond Covenants = additional requirements or conditions on the borrowing as
written in the indenture
- Face Value = Notional amount used to compute the interest payments
- Maturity date = Final repayment date
- Term = The time remaining until the repayment date
- Coupon Rate = Determines the amount of each coupon pay
- ment, expressed as an APR
- Coupon payment
○
- Yield to maturity (YTM) = the discount rate that sets the present value of
the promised bond payments equal to the current market price of the bond
○ The single discount rate that equates the present value of the bond
remaining cash flows to its current price
- Dirty price = bond price reffering to the price of a coupon bond that includes
the PV of all future cash flows, including interest accruing on the next
coupon payment.
- Clean price = Price of bond without accounting for accrued interest
Zero Coupon Bond
- No coupon payments
- If price < face value = sells at a discount. Called "pure discount bonds"
- T-bills are US govnerment zero-coupon bonds with a maturity of up to one
year. These Sovereign Bonds have no risk of default, and can be used for
risk free rate.
- Yield to maturity equals the rate of return, expressed as a function of the
price:
○
Coupon Bonds
- Sovereign Bonds
○ Coupon bonds pay face value at maturity with regular coupon interest
payments
○ Treasury Notes (Gilts in the UK) have coupon security with original
,
Monday, 19 December 2016 14:10
Financial markets
• Give an overview of the two key financial instruments: Stocks and Bonds
• Understand how these instruments are issued, priced and traded
The risk-return trade-off and the pricing of market risk
• Introduce the concepts of risk and return in financial markets and how
diversification influences risk and return
• Show how return is related to risk through the Capital Asset Pricing Model
Corporate finance
• Extend understanding on company valuation and investment appraisal
• Introduce the concept of the cost of capital and how it can be calculated.
• Understand how extreme events can affect the cost of capital
• Show how companies are financed and how to decide between different types of
finance.
Finance in practise
• Most lectures will include a discussion/case study to illustrate how the lecture
material is relevant to current financial trends and issues
Materials:
- Pre lecture materials
- Summary for each lecture
- Self study questions
- Case studies
• Lecture 1: Introduction to Finance (not examinable)
• Introduction to Finance, Financial Markets and Corporate Finance
,
,- Self study questions
- Case studies
• Lecture 1: Introduction to Finance (not examinable)
• Introduction to Finance, Financial Markets and Corporate Finance
Lecture 2: Bond Markets
Pricing bonds, Government & corporate bond markets, Green Bonds
Bond terminology:
- Bond indenture = legal contract stating terms of the bond
- Bond Covenants = additional requirements or conditions on the borrowing as
written in the indenture
- Face Value = Notional amount used to compute the interest payments
- Maturity date = Final repayment date
- Term = The time remaining until the repayment date
- Coupon Rate = Determines the amount of each coupon pay
- ment, expressed as an APR
- Coupon payment
○
- Yield to maturity (YTM) = the discount rate that sets the present value of
the promised bond payments equal to the current market price of the bond
○ The single discount rate that equates the present value of the bond
remaining cash flows to its current price
- Dirty price = bond price reffering to the price of a coupon bond that includes
the PV of all future cash flows, including interest accruing on the next
coupon payment.
- Clean price = Price of bond without accounting for accrued interest
Zero Coupon Bond
- No coupon payments
- If price < face value = sells at a discount. Called "pure discount bonds"
- T-bills are US govnerment zero-coupon bonds with a maturity of up to one
year. These Sovereign Bonds have no risk of default, and can be used for
risk free rate.
- Yield to maturity equals the rate of return, expressed as a function of the
price:
○
Coupon Bonds
- Sovereign Bonds
○ Coupon bonds pay face value at maturity with regular coupon interest
payments
○ Treasury Notes (Gilts in the UK) have coupon security with original
,
