• Discuss the financial manager's place in the corporation.
• Explain the main goal a financial manager is trying to achieve and the types of decision financial manager makes.
• Discuss what you can learn from management's discussion or the notes to the four main types of financial statements.
• Discuss the relevance of financial statement analysis for decision-making.
• Describe the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and discuss the impact of this law on the financial reporting practice.
• Discuss the Net Present Value (NPV) decision rule. Describe how is the NPV rule is related to a cost-benefit analysis, and how is it related to the Valuation Principle.
• Explain the implication the Law of One Price has for the price of a financial security. Provide examples.
• Discuss the importance of the Time Value of Money concept, and why cash flow in the future is worth less than the same amount today.
• Discuss the difference between annuities and perpetuities, and the methods to calculate their value.
• Discuss the case of growing perpetuity.