COURSE NUMBER: MBA222.1
COURSE TITLE: Financial
Information Analysis
UNITS OF CREDIT: 3
INSTRUCTOR: Shai Levi
E-MAIL ADDRESS: slevi [at] haas [dot]
CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION (HTTP
URL): Catalyst
MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Tuesday
and Thursday, 9:30-11:00 AM
PREREQUISITE(S): MBA 202
Financial Accounting (taken in past semesters or
concurrently in fall 2007).
CLASS FORMAT: Lectures and
case discussions
REQUIRED
BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE: Case
write ups, group project, and final exam
ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT
AND OBJECTIVES: The course provides students
with frameworks and practical tools for analyzing
financial statement data
and assessing the business standing and valuation of firms.
At the end of
the course you will be able to critically review the
information in
financial disclosures and use it to gauge firms' performance
and equity
value. In class, we will discuss concepts from accounting
and finance that
are useful for financial statement analysis and
valuation, and apply them
in case studies and on live market data.
The course is useful for
those planning a career in finance, whether it is
investment banking, portfolio management, securities analysis, or
venture
capital. It is also valuable for those aspiring to be
consultants or
business analysts.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Shai Levi has joined Haas as an Assistant Professor in
July 2004. His research is
primarily in the area of equity valuation,
investigating the determinants of financial reporting quality and
their
pricing implications. Before entering academia, Levi worked
as an attorney
in the field of corporate finance, and as an economist
devising regulatory
policy on mergers and acquisitions. He holds a PhD in
business
administration from
economics from