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COURSE DESCRIPTION

FINANCIAL DECISIONS AND DIVIDEND POLICY/5160004

Course Title:	FINANCIAL DECISIONS AND DIVIDEND POLICY
Credits	3	ECTS	7.5
Semester	2	Compulsory/Elective	Compulsory

COURSE INFO

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

Prof. Dr. Metin Kamil ERCAN

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/mkercan/contact

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

mkercan@gazi.edu.tr

-- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

Uses financial theory and its associated tools to analyze financial scenarios
Learns theory based capital budgeting decisions
Determines capital structures and other financial policies
Understands risk, return, opportunity cost and cost of capital
Understands the dividend policies

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face

-- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES

There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.

-- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS

There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.

--COURSE CONTENT
1. Week	Introduction: Review of the finance theories
2. Week	Investment, financing and dividend decisions
3. Week	Valuation of cash flow
4. Week	Risk, return, cost of capital
5. Week	Asset pricing theories: CAPM, APT
6. Week	Capital budgeting and project analysis
7. Week	Capital structure and firm value
8. Week	Midterm exam
9. Week	Bankruptcy and financial distress
10. Week	Taxe, agency theory, asymmetric information and capital structure
11. Week	Debt Policy
12. Week	Dividend Policy
13. Week	Homework Presentations
14. Week	Homework Presentations
15. Week	Homework Presentations
16. Week	Final Exam

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

Investments / Bodie, Kane and Marcus Fundamentals of financial management / Eugene F. Brigham An introduction to financial management / Ezra Solomon, John J. Pringle.

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture, Question & Answer, Demonstration, Drill - Practise

-- WORK PLACEMENT(S)

-- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

	Quantity	Percentage
Mid-terms	1	0
Assignment	1	0
Exercises	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade		40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade		60

-- WORKLOAD

Efficiency	Total Week Count	Weekly Duration (in hour)	Total Workload in Semester
Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week	14	3	42
Practising Hours of Course Per Week			0
Reading	7	4	28
Searching in Internet and Library	7	4	28
Designing and Applying Materials			0
Preparing Reports	6	4	24
Preparing Presentation			0
Presentation	6	4	24
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term	7	3	21
Final and Studying for Final	7	3	21
Other			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			188
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.52
ECTS:			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

NO	PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES	1	2	3	4	5
1					X
2					X
3					X
4					X
5					X
6					X
7					X
8					X
9					X
10					X
11					X
12					X
13					X
14					X

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