This syllabus was submitted to the Rhodes College Office of Academic Affairs by the course instructor.By the end of the course, the student should: 1. Understand valuation theory as a basic concept of corporate finance. 2. Appreciate the relevance of finance in our daily lives through exposure to contemporary financial issues by outside reading and selected videos; in addition, you should be familiar with web sources of financial markets such as www.morningstar.com, www.biuombes'g.co?n; www.wsj.com; www.finaiice.yahoo.com; \vww.markelwatch .com: www.iooJ .com 3. Have a sound grasp of underlying fnancial theories and the objectives and risk-return tradeoffs involved in corporate financial decision making. 4. Understand how today's financial manager uses spreadsheets and calculators to perform financial analysis and make capital budgeting decisions. 5. Be familiar with the key contributions of the Nobel laureates in financial economics, specifically Markowitz, Sharpe, and Miller and Modigliani, and have a better appreciation of financial research through the reading of seminal works and a description of how key financial theories evolved.