Entrepreneurial Finance (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

Explain entrepreneurial finance; Prepare financial planning and measuring new venture operations; Estimate financial projections; Structuring financing for the growing venture; Formulate exit and turn around strategies

Topics:

1. Introduction and Overview & From Idea to the Business Plan
2. Organizing and Financing a New Venture
3. Measuring and Evaluating Financial Performance
4. Financial Planning: Short Term and Long Term
5. Types and Costs of Financial Capital
6. Securities Law Considerations when Obtaining Venture Financing
7. Valuing Early Stage Ventures & Venture Capital Valuation Method
8. Professional Venture Capital and Other Financing Alternative
9. Security Structures and Determining Enterprise Values
10. Harvesting the Business Venture Investment & Financially Troubled Ventures