The E. Philip Saunders College of Business (COB) located inside Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) offers a variety of undergraduate, graduate and executive programs in business. RIT 0104-846 – Financial Analysis & Planning is part of the MBA finance plan. GraduateTutor.com has provided live online finance tutoring for quite a few courses for the MBA and executive MBA programs. This page pertains to our finance tutoring for the Financial Analysis and Planning program (RIT 0104-846) which was offered in the summer of 2011 to executive MBA students among others.
RIT 0104-846 – Financial Analysis & Planning is the second half of the corporate finance path in the MBA program. RIT 0104-846 – Financial Analysis & Planning is offered both in the in-campus and online executive MBA programs. Its objective is to teach finance students how to manage the various finance decisions of a business.
Topics covered in RIT 0104-846 – Financial Analysis & Planning course
(1) long-term financial planning, corporate financing and cost of capital
(2) short-term financial planning and the analysis of short-term assets and liabilities
(3) risk management and the corporate use of derivatives
(4) the analysis of international activities
(5) corporate control activities.
Credit analysis, financial forecasting and planning, working capital management and cash flow management, capital structure, dividend policy, and risk and hedging are covered in more detail.
The finance text book used for the RIT 0104-846 – Financial Analysis & Planning course: Corporate Finance: Core Principles. This book is written by Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe and Jordan. Although the third edition is recommended, earlier version may be sufficient to keep up with the class.
Study plan for the RIT 0104-846 – Financial Analysis & Planning course
When our tutors provide live tutoring for the RIT 0104-846 – Financial Analysis & Planning course, our tutors break up the entire course into the following components for the convenience of students.
- Valuation of a business using the WACC Method (DCF analysis, Weighted Average Cost of Capital)
- Valuation of a business using the APV Method (DCF analysis, Weighted Average Cost of Capital and the Adjusted Present Value (APV)
- Using APV method to estimate the value of acquisition and to decompose value drivers in merger acquisition
- Evaluating the impact of capital structure choices on corporate values using financial theories such as M&M and intrinsic valuation methods (WACC and APV)
- Analyzing the limits to the use of debt including financial distress, agency costs, information asymmetry
- Examining the Efficient Market Hypothesis and its implications for corporate finance managers.
- Understanding Option Valuations including call, put, synthetic options, Black-Scholes model (B-S model), etc to determine option values
- Applying Option Theory using payoff diagrams and option theory to analyze stockholder and bondholder positions in levered firms
- Long-term corporate finance planning including forecasting and modeling the balance sheet and income statement; using the percentage of sales and other methods to determine external funding needs, analysis of the Du Pont drivers of growth
- Short-term planning using percentage of sales method, studying the uses and sources of funds
You can read more about the RIT 0104-846 – Financial Analysis & Planning course and the entire MBA program on their website cob.rit.edu.