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Finanças Empresariais

Código 16283
Ano 1
Semestre S2
Créditos ECTS 6
Carga Horária TP(30H)
Área Científica Gestão
Mode of delivery Face-to-face.
Learning outcomes - Provide skills on advanced topics of Corporate Finance, seeking to prepare students for professional activity.
- Provide skills for decision taking on investment, financing and dividend areas;
- Provide competences for capital cost measurement and management;
- Develop the critical and creative capacity of students;
- Develop the interest of students by scientific research;
- Develop the spirit of teamwork and the exchange of ideas.
Syllabus 1. Introduction
1.1 Introduction to Corporate Finance concepts
1.2 Financial decision making and company value creation
2. Capital Structure Decisions
2.1 The importance of capital structure decisions
2.2 Modigliani and Miller Theorem (MM)
2.4 Static Trade-off Theory
2.5 Agency Theory
2.6 Signally theory
2.7 Theory of hierarchical preferences
2.8 Empirical evidence
3. Financing Decisions and Value Creation in the Company
3.1 Financing decisions and value creation
3.2 Medium- and long-term debt financing operations
3.3 Hybrid financing operations
3.4 Empirical evidence
4. Dividend distribution decisions
4.1 Introduction to dividend distribution
4.2 Information, signalling and dividend policy
4.3 Free cash flows, agency issues and dividend policy
4.4 Empirical evidence
5. Short-term financial decisions
5.1. Financial planning and short-term financial management
5.2. Treasury management
5.3 Empirical evidence

Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria The teaching methodologies are based on the detailed explanation, in the sessions, in the contents of the curriculum taught in the curricular unit, as well as in the support of the sessions in the resolution of exercises, in the modeling of theoretical concepts and in the interpretation of empirical studies, critical thinking in order to achieve the objectives of the curricular unit.

Assesment:
- preparation, presentation and discussion of a written work on a topic of Corporate Finance - 45%;
- Frequency - 50%;
- Attendance - 2.5%;
- Participation - 2.5%.
Main Bibliography Berk, J. and Demarzo, P. (2017). Corporate Finance, Pearson Education, 4th Edition.
Besley, S. and. Brigham, E. F. (2000). Essentials of Managerial Finance, The Dryden Press, 12th Edition.
Bodie, Z. and Merton, R. (2000). Finance. Prentice-Hall.
Brealey, R., S. Meyers and F. Allen (2012), Princípios de Finanças Empresariais, McGraw-Hill, 9th Edition.
DAMODARAN, A. (2014). Applied Corporate Finance 4th, John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Ross, S. A., Westerfield, R. W. and Jaffe, J. (2013). Corporate Finance, Irwin/ McGraw-Hill, 10th Edition,
Tirole, J. (2006). The Theory of Corporate Finance, Princeton University Press, New Jersey.


Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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Curso

Economia
Data da última atualização: 2025-07-01
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