Advanced Corporate Finance

Course Outline
Key TakeAways
• 24h contact time, 3 ECTS, 75h students Time, 9 sessions of 2h40’ each
• IBL Format at 16hrs

• This course deepens what you started to learn in Bsc3 in Corporate Finance. It
also revisits some foundational aspects of the topic.

• The Advanced Corporate Finance course reinforces the notion of Value Creation
in the context of Corporations’ financial decisions (Invest, Finance, Distribute).

• It also stresses on Valuation, Venture Capital, IPOs, M&A and LBO.

Typical Session
Each session is organized around the following elements:

• A series of slides (condensed, formatted slides with a complement referencing to the

book mentioned later)
• A one-page PDF briefing on the case study

• An XLS containing the case study and

• Another XLS containing the exercises to be done in class

Evaluation & Feedback
Final Grades are relying on:

• Case Studies: (40%) Students form groups and work on case studies.

• Each session gives the opportunity to students to work on a case study.

• Only 3 case studies are graded (S3-5-8)

• Final exam: (60%)

• The exam covers the whole content of the course and mixes MCQ and micro case studies
Resources
The reference book for this class is
Vernimen’s fifth edition of Corporate
Finance. Students can access the ebook
version via iesegonline ==> Pedagogy
==> Library ==> University Library ==>
Consult ==> Electronic Ressource ==>
Wiley Online Library ==> Corporate
Finance: Theory and Practice, Fifth
Edition.