MGMT 231

Corporate Valuation

Management · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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(Formerly numbered 231C.) Lectures, discussions, and student presentations. Issues and analytical tools relevant for valuing projects, divisions, and corporations. Theories of discounted cash flow valuation (DCF) and relative valuation using market multiples. Theories of practice to value different projects, including IPO, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and private firms. Exploration of how real options affect investment decisions and how they can be identified and valued.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Spring 2026
Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 430, Management-Executive MBA 408 or Management-Full-Time MBA 408 or Management-Fully Employed MBA 408.

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MGMT 430
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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

MGMT 231

MGMT 430Corporate Finance
MGMTEX 408Financial Policy for Managers
MGMTFE 408Foundations of Finance
MGMTFT 408Foundations of Finance

4 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 4 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

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