Course Information

794 G - Small Business Finance

Professor: Larry T. Garvin
Credits: 3
Semester: 2008 Autumn
Second Writing? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No

Legal and financial issues arising from small and start-up businesses, from formation to initial public offering. Topics to be discussed include basic accounting and valuation techniques; transaction cost economics, relational contract, and entrepreneurial psychology; choice of entity; founder finance, including tax and bankruptcy issues; insider finance, including shareholder oppression and restraints on alienability; non-bank finance, including trade credit, leasing, factoring, and purchase money lending; bank credit; angel investing; venture capital, including control and cash flow rights, fiduciary duties, and exit strategies; and franchising. The class will be taught using a combination of traditional lecture and discussion with problem-solving, contract drafting, and role-playing. Grading will be by take-home examination, class participation, and in-class and take-home exercises.

• PREREQUISITE OR CO-REQUISITE: BA.

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