The course is designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of corporate finance theory, and to enable you to reflect on the extent to which real-world management practice has been shaped by it. Corporate finance is an area of finance that deals with sources of funding, the capital structure of corporations, the actions that managers take to increase the value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and analysis used to allocate financial resources. Critically evaluate corporate finance theories with reference to seminal research and real-world practice. Analyze a range of financial decisions in the context of real-world problems and discuss the implications of the analysis to the corporation. Corporate Finance is the worldwide leading discipline in business administration that describes the theory and practice of corporate finance. Throughout this course the instructors shall show how managers use financial theory to solve practical problems and as a way of learning how to respond to change by showing not just how but why companies and management act as they do.