Math 5621 (369) Financial Mathematics II
(Applied Mathematics of Corporate Finance)
Fall 2011
Instructor – James G. Bridgeman
Opportunity Cost
of Capital and WACC trinomial default model
The solution manual has an error for
exercise 2.8. You should be able to spot
the error yourself, but ask me if you don’t see it.
The solution manual has an error for
exercise 5.14 part (b). A hint for the
correct solution: when you sell something short you get cash in return.
A take-home open book final exam was distributed at the end of
class on December 9. Here are the solutions (with correction on
12-19) and a spreadsheet with some of the calculations. Grades for the exam and paper are posted here.
Final course grades have been posted on the registrar’s system.
Cumulative assignments (most recent assignment at top)
(Final)
Read ch. 9 for background
Do exercises 16.1, 16.5, 16.6, 16.7, 16.8 and 16.10
Study sections 16A-D and 16G
Do exercises 15.1-15.9,
15.11-15.15, 15.17-15.18, and 15.20-15.21
Read for background 15K-L
Study Sections 15E-15J
Study Section 14C and
Sections 15A-15D
Send Term Paper Outline by Friday Nov. 11
You should send me your term paper topic selection by Friday Nov. 4!
Study sections 7G, H, and I
and read 7J and 7K for background
Do exercises 11.1, 11.3,
11.4, 11.8, and 11.9
Study Chapter 11 sections A,
D, E, F and G (read the other sections for background only)
Do exercises 10.1, 10.2,
10.5, 10.6, 10.8
Study Chapter 10, sections A,
C, E, and F (read the other sections for background only)
Get ready to submit a topic
for your term paper on Nov. 4
Do exercises 6.2-6.18, 6.21
Study Chapter 6
Do exercises 5.3-5.7,
5.9-5.11, and 5.13-5.14; make sure you understand exercise 5.8 (but no need to
prove)
Study Chapter 5
Read chapters 3 and 4 for
background only
Do exercises 14.1 thru 14.5
Study Chapter 14, section B …
keep connections with financial analysis statement handout, chapter 2 and
chapter 14A in mind.
Work out formulas like 14A
but without assuming that depreciation equals investment required to maintain
prior investments
Study Chapter 7, sections A-E
Study Chapter 14, section A …
keep in mind the connections with chapter 2 and with financial statements
Do exercises 2.1 thru 2.11
Study Chapter 2 C-H
Study Opportunity Cost of
Capital and WACC (download it just above)
Read for background Chapter 1
and Chapter 2, sections A and B
Study the financial statement
analysis handout, do all Quiz questions, Practice Qu. 4,7,8,9,10
and Challenge Qu. 1
(the
quiz solutions are in the handout; the PQ and CQ solutions are here.)