Corporate Finance course is a practical course but it is sometimes presented to students as a theoretical course. Could that explain why some undergraduate students struggle to understand this course?
It appears that students with practical knowledge of the Corporate Finance course understand the theoretical aspect of the course better. If that is the case, the MBA and Master’s students (with relevant industry experience) may better understand the theoretical aspects of the Corporate Finance course than other students.
Probably, there are alternative method(s) to teach this course ( especially to undergraduate students) which is unknown to instructors. Your contribution is welcome.
In order to teach such subjects,a teacher should follow a mix of theoretical and practical orientation to teach his students in a better way. They must try to involve the whole class through some mode say Mutual Funds. But while teaching a complicated subject like International Finance,there is a lot of difficulty.In order to makesuch subjects interesting,adding practical orientation is required.
I specifically ask students to value a listed company and calculate the probability that the company trades below intrinsic value. This forces them to understand discounted cash flow and that risk is measured by the standard deviation. Then they can assume a normal distribution (even if it should be a lognormal) and get the probability.
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