Foundations of Financial Management I

A compact introduction to the financial reasoning toolkit every executive needs: how the macro environment shapes interest rates and asset prices, and how time-value-of-money mechanics let you actually put a number on a cash flow stream. Most of the work happens outside class — three homework sets, a project, and a written report force you to apply discounting and valuation to real scenarios rather than just memorize formulas. As the first half of the EMBA finance sequence, it lays the quantitative groundwork for corporate finance, capital structure, and investment decisions you'll meet in the follow-up course and in any managerial role touching capital.