Introduction to Finance -- Business Organization and Taxes -- Basic accounting concepts -- Cash Management -- Section Capital Budgeting and Valuation -- Time Value of Money -- What does it cost? -- Basics of Capital Budgeting -- More Issues in Capital Budgeting -- The Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) -- Using Financial Planning Models for Valuation -- Section Portfolio Analysis and the Capital Asset Pricing Model -- What is Risk? -- An Introduction to Portfolio Statistics -- Portfolio Returns and the Efficient Frontier -- The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the Security Market Line (SML) -- Using the SML to Measure Performance -- Using the SML for Cost of Capital Calculations -- Section Valuing Securities -- Market Efficiency -- Bond Valuation -- Share Valuation -- Section Capital Structure and Dividend Policy -- Capital Structure and the Value of the Firm--Theory -- Capital Structure and the Value of the Firm--Practical Implications -- Dividend Policy -- Section Options and Option Valuation -- Introduction to Options -- Properties of Option Prices -- Valuing Options--The Black-Scholes Formula -- Valuing Options--The Binomial Model -- Background to Excel -- Starting Off in Excel -- Graphing in Excel -- Common Excel Functions -- Using Data Tables -- Dates in Excel -- Goal Seek and Solver -- Data Manipulation in Excel -- Word and Excel.