Objectives:

In this capstone course of the Master of Agribusiness program, our goal is to understand how the finance function supports the strategic goals of agribusiness firms. You will be challenged to bring together skills and ideas from previous courses in finance, management, and agribusiness.

The issues we will investigate affect large corporations as well as the privately held companies and agricultural cooperatives that comprise an important part of the agribusiness sector. You will reinforce your skills in using the financial tools that enable firms to gain a sustainable competitive advantage or that signal problems in the firm (financial statement analysis, capital budgeting, and risk management).

We use the case study method of learning in this course. Full participation by all students is essential to take advantage of this learning opportunity. Each week we will analyze a new business case problem, and assignments are due in written and discussion formats.

We will learn to work in teams in several ways: through small group discussions, both in class and outside class, and through a project developed jointly with AGEC 629 and AGEC 630.

Prerequisites: FINC 635 and ACCT 640. NO EXCEPTIONS will be made. Concurrent enrollment does not satisfy the prerequisite. Students who have not satisfied the prerequisite will automatically be dropped from the course. Students will also benefit from prior business and agribusiness course work, including AGEC 625, MKTG 621, and MGMT 655. This course is designed to be taken concurrently with AGEC 629.

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