Pay Attention!
Home Up Syllabus Topics, Dates Student Work Assignments Resources

Free Cash Flow
Scenario Analysis
Sensitivity Analysis
Contingent Project
DON'T RUN OUT
Leverage
Agency Issues
Contract Design
Options
Scalable
Option Value
Graph p. 28
New vs. Small
Free Cash Flow (2)
Burn Rate
OOC
TTC
Operating W.C.

 

UNIT 1 

 p. 1-23 (Sahlman, "What Should Entrepreneurs Know?")
Free Cash Flow--Definition and formula, p. 2; add page number to glossary
Scenario--p. 4; add term and page number to glossary 
Sensitivity Analysis--p. 12; add term and page number to glossary
Contingent Project:  see discussion, paragraph 2, p. 6; add term and page number to glossary
p. 6, DON'T RUN OUT OF CASH-- "To obtain cash from external sources, there must be value within the firm that can be sold off."  WHY?????  
Leverage--discussion, #1, bottom of p. 14; add page number to glossary
Agency Issues--discussion #2, 3, top of p. 15; add page number to glossary
Contract design (from "Differences" lecture)--example, p. 17, last full paragraph
Options, p. 19; add page number to glossary
Scalable, p. 19, first bullet point; add term and page number to glossary
Option Value--variables that affect, p. 20.  Are these variables also present when we talk about "real options"?  

p. 24-48 (Timmons, New Venture Creation, Chapter 12 "Entrepreneurial Finance")

Loss as a percentage of initial equity--graph, p. 28--Explain what this graph means.  

List of corporate financial theories/concepts/models which differ when applied to new ventures--p. 28-30; think about how the list would be modified for small ventures (as opposed to new)

Free Cash Flow, p. 31-32; add page number to glossary

Burn Rate, p. 31;  add term and page number to glossary

OOC (out of cash), p. 31; add acronym and page number to glossary

TTC (time to close financing deal), p. 31; add acronym and page number to glossary

Operating Working Capital, p. 32; formula; add term and page number to glossary

 

Webmaster:  jgasper@creighton.edu  ©2002  Juli-Ann Gasper, Ph.D.
 Creighton University , College of Business Administration, 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE  68178