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This course will strengthen your practical understanding of the financial statements, and you will gain intellectual insights into finance and accounting management. You will learn how to address business challenges through applied financial principles. Payment Deadline: October 30, 2026

This course in microeconomics will provide the fundamentals in understanding the how scarce resources and allocated in a system of unlimited wants. We will be examining how firms and workers respond to incentives, how tools & statistics help us determine the most efficient use of resources, how firms profit maximize and how markets arrive at equilibrium.

The course is designed as a workshop in which law students and business students work together to structure and negotiate varying aspects of a private equity deal, from the initial term sheet stages, through execution of the purchase agreement, to completion of the financing and closing. Private equity deals that are economically justified sometimes fail in the transaction negotiation and documentation phase. This course will seek to provide students with the tools necessary to understand and resolve difficult issues and complete successful transactions.

This course will study the financial markets, and the financial intermediaries that make the markets operate. Attention will be given to both the short-term money markets | the source of temporary financing | and the long-term capital markets (bonds and stocks) as a source of more permanent financing. Among the institutions examined will be securi-ties brokers and dealers, commercial and investment banks, and investment companies and investment partnerships. A natural extension of the study of institutions is a discussion of the role of central banks and their conduct of monetary policy. Emphasis will be placed upon financial innovation and the efficiency of financial markets will be questioned, while acknowledging the extensive regulatory structure that exists.

How do organizations motivate people to perform and ensure they deliver? This course looks at the systems — performance measurement, target-setting, and incentive and reward structures — that drive behavior, shape decisions, and create accountability in the workplace. What You’ll Learn in This Course: How organizations use incentives and accountability systems to influence what people do and the decisions they make. Why performance measures matter — and how they can motivate or mislead. The trade-offs among key incentive levers — such as individual vs. team rewards, short-term vs. long-term focus, financial vs. non-financial rewards, subjective vs. objective evaluation, and easy vs. difficult performance targets. How bias, gaming, and unintended consequences creep into performance evaluation. The role of governance — from review committees to shareholders — in keeping leaders accountable. How pay practices raise big-picture issues like pay fairness, gender equity, and human capital investment. How to design better systems for motivating and evaluating performance.

This course explores venture capital and private equity utilizing case studies, problem sets and extensive class discussion to build the intuition needed to understand the industry. There is an emphasis on honing skills necessary to understanding the financial and economic tools used in leveraged buyouts and venture capital investing. The class addresses (1) industry structure, strategies and motivations, (2) types of private equity transactions and, (3) transaction structures. The course prepares students interested in a variety of finance careers. See www.emoryprof.com.