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AFM 473Advanced Topics in Corporate Finance

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Last listed
Spring 2024

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2024. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

In the course catalog from Winter 2020 to Spring 2024; Open Data has no classes for it in that time.

Topics include items such as corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and divestitures, security issuance, and capital budgeting.

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: AFM 274 or AFM 275/AFM 372/ACTSC 391; Accounting and Financial Management, Biotechnology/CPA, Computing and Financial Management, Mathematics/CPA, or Sustainability and Financial Management students

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  • The entire course consists of students presenting pretty historic financial papers (half of which aren't useful in today's world) during every class, and the professor putting a few of his insights at the end during class discussion. The professor basically never really lectures. The paper presentations are worth 15%, the pop quizzes and participation is worth 15%, the midterm (basically a memory dump) is worth 30%, and the final group assignment (there is no final exam) is worth 40%, in which students make a group of 4-5 and replicate a paper (this involves getting data from Bloomberg). There is no textbook for this course; the only required readings are 2 papers per week. Be wary this…

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Fall 2017

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