2024 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Technology and Innovation Management Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management

Corporate Finance I

Academic unit or major: Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
Instructor(s): Yumiharu Nakano / Mitoshi Yamamoto
Class Format: Lecture (Livestream)
Media-enhanced courses: -
Day of week/Period (Classrooms): 11-12 Mon
Class: -
Course Code: TIM.A534
Number of credits: 100
Course offered: 2024
Offered quarter: 3Q
Syllabus updated: Mar 14, 2025
Language: Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

Explain meanings of corporate finance and its task or problem. In order to increase corporate value, I will explain finance and finance related matters. For the improvement of corporate value, how to manage companies would be main target from the point of corporate finance. As for current movement, I will explain digital currency movement.
I hope every student understands how interesting corporate finance is.

Course description and aims

１． Enjoy corporate finance
２． Understand finance, interest rate and so on
３． Learn about investment theory

Keywords

Finance, Corporate Finance, Financial Statements, Investment Theory, ESG(SDGs)

Competencies

Specialist skills
Intercultural skills
Communication skills
Critical thinking skills
Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Understand broad picture of corporate finance

Class flow

I have 2 levels. Basic and advanced. First half is basic and second half is advanced. Communication between students is required. Contents may change according to students’ needs.

Course schedule/Objectives

	Course schedule	Objectives
Class 1	What is Corporate Finance？ 1 Difference of corporate finance and finance 2 Who is shareholder? What is share(Equity) 3 Difference of meanings of corporate finance: Japan and other country 4 Asset and Liability 5 Capital ratio 6 AI and corporate finance	Learn and understand baseline of corporate finance
Class 2	Finance 1 Finance and Corporate Finance 2 Financial Statements 3 Asst , liability, profit and loss, and cash-flow 4 Expected return and risk 5 Going concern	Understand role of financial statement
Class 3	Investment management 1 Investment 2 Investment of balance sheet and profit and loss statement 3 Investment gives profit? 4 ROA 5 Current Value 6 Quantification of risk	Learn and understand investment and asset manegement
Class 4	Capital Raising: Owned capital 1 Equity will be made 2 Capital increase 3 Internal capital and fund raising 4 Capita increase and Balance sheet 5 ROA and ROE	Understand capital and owned capital
Class 5	Capital raising :Debt capital 1 Debt capital 2 Which is better? Net worth or Debt capital? 3 Bonds: Corporate Bonds, Convertible Bonds, Warrant Bonds 4 Debt capital and balance sheet	Understand debt capital
Class 6	Dividend 1 What is Dividend 2 How to measure dividend ? : Dividend yield 3 Shareholder return 4 Talk about 1 to 6	Learn meanings of dividend and role of Equity
Class 7	Current Value 1 Why we learn theory of finance 2 Current value 3 Risk and current value of cash flow	Understand current value and method of calculation
Class 8	Value of Equity and value of corporation 1 Finance and Financial Products 2 How to theorise price of financial products 3 Theory of price of bonds 4 DCF（Discounted Cash Flow），DDM（Dividend Discount Model），RIM（Residual Income Model）	Learn Co. Ltd and its Value

Study advice (preparation and review)

Everyday in your life, you always see TV, read newspaper or access to internet. Please find out corporate finance related information and try to understand meanings of these information.

Textbook(s)

None

Reference books, course materials, etc.

May give at classes

Evaluation methods and criteria

Understanding level of Corporate Finance would be evaluated
Report: 100%, Class participation may be evaluated

Related courses

Corporate Finance Ⅱ

Prerequisites

None

Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).

Mitoshi Yamamoto m.yamamoto[at]ccrcenter.jp

Office hours

Contact by e-mail in advance to schedule an appointment.