Courses NonDegree Display 2022-2023

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Course title Entrepreneurial Finance
Course code EBC4181
ECTS credits 6,5
Assessment Whole/Half Grades
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
2 31-10-2022 16-12-2022 X X
Level Intermediate/Advanced
Coordinator Pomme Theunissen
For more information: p.theunissen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
Goals
The course provides a thorough understanding on financial decision-making faced by entrepreneurial firms (SME's and start-ups) over their life cycle.
Description
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT METHOD(S) USED IN THIS COURSE IS WITH RESERVATION. A RE-EMERGENCE OF THE CORONAVIRUS AND NEW COUNTERMEASURES BY THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT MIGHT FORCE COORDINATORS TO CHANGE THE TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT METHODS USED. THE MOST UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEACHING/ASSESSMENT METHOD(S) WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE COURSE SYLLABUS.

Choosing how to finance an entrepreneurial venture raises many questions. The first question the course addresses relates to valuation. Can young companies and start-ups be valued with the same tools as established firms? The second question the course addresses relates to the sources of financing. What possible sources of financing are available to entrepreneurial firms, depending on their current life cycle stage? Under what conditions can financial funds be obtained? How can a firm signal its trustworthiness to potential investors in an environment characterized by high levels of asymmetric information? Financial sources covered in the materials include among others relationship lending, crowdfunding, angel investing, and venture capital investment. The course discusses the stance of current academic research on these topics via research articles that present important and relevant empirical results for practitioners, policy makers, and of course the firms themselves.
Literature
Journal articles and case studies
Prerequisites
The course materials and related workload are demanding. Students that have no background in finance are strongly advised to study the basic concepts beforehand. Basic finance concepts such as net present value, internal rate of return, CAPM, agency theory and moral hazard are assumed to be known at the level of Berk and Demarzo (2016).
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) PBL / Presentation / Lecture / Papers / Groupwork
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Final Paper / Written Exam / Presentation
Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
This course belongs to the following programmes / specialisations
Master Business Research - No specialisation Year 1 Disc - IB Entrepreneurship and Bus. Dev.
Master Business Research - No specialisation Year 1 Disc - IB Entrepreneurship and SME Mgmt
Master Business Research - No specialisation Year 1 Disc - IB Strategic Corporate Finance
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