MIT Sloan School of Management Course Description

Security Design and Corporate Financing

Subject: Accounting

Description: Examines how corporations choose securities and markets to finance themselves. These are decisions which the firm must make after it has determined its financial policies including capital structure and dividend policy. Subject discusses recent trends in corporate financing including globalization, secularization, and transformation. Explores new securities and institutional factors, particularly tax and accounting factors that affect their design.

Course #: 15.522

Professor(s) who recently taught this course:
Joseph Weber