FIN 4399 Sp Top: Entrep Finance
Prerequisite: FIN 3313 (with a grade of C or better) Finance for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurial Ventures takes a three-pronged stage-sensitive approach to introduce financial thinking, tools, and techniques adapted to the realm of entrepreneurship and small business ownership. The course emphasizes the differences between large corporations and Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) relative to funding, risk assessment, and management. Topics include introduction to financial tools, financial markets, instruments, and management of short term assets and liabilities. Analysis of bootstrapping strategies in estimating financial resource requirements is followed by a comprehensive discussion of sources of funds for small businesses in the development, start-up, and survival stages of the entity's life cycle (including Small Business Administration programs), and in later stages of life, entrepreneurial venture growth capital, harvesting the venture investment and turnaround opportunities or liquidation under financial distress.
Prerequisite
Required: Take FIN-3313 with minimum grade C.
Offered
Spring/Fall