CFA Corporate Finance Level 2

Welcome to Corporate Finance CFA Level 2 Course.  As the name indicates, this course covers Corporate Finance Paper of Level 2 of CFA Exams. About Coverage: Section 1 will cover Reading 23: Capital Budgeting Section 2 will cover Reading 24: Capital Structure Section 3 will cover Reading 25:Dividends and Share Purchases: Analysis Teaching and Learning Style: This course is structured in self paced learning style. It is suggested to take screenshots of case studies for reference back during problem solving. Approaching the course with note book and pen or MS Excel and solving problems paralelly along with instructor will make you feel like attending real class and improve your listening and learning experience.     Teaching and Learning outcomes: By taking this course, you will be able to calculate the yearly cash flows of expansion and replacement capital projects and evaluate how the choice of depreciation method affects those cash flows;explain how inflation affects capital budgeting analysis;evaluate capital projects and determine the optimal capital project in situations of               a) mutually exclusive projects with unequal lives, using either the least common multiple of lives approach or the equivalent annual annuity approach, and b) capital rationing;explain how sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, and Monte Carlo simulation can be used to assess the stand-alone risk of a capital project;explain and calculate the discount rate, based on market risk methods, to use in valuing a capital project;describe types of real options and evaluate a capital project using real options;describe common capital budgeting pitfalls;calculate and interpret accounting income and economic income in the context of capital budgeting;distinguish among