Shanghai MBA Taster Lecture: Should Management Teams Seek An Optimal Capital Structure?

Nov 09-2024   

In today's fast-moving business world, the power of capital is key to driving growth and innovation. How to effectively identify and use different sources of capital to maximise value is a challenge that every manager must face.

Peking University-UCL MBA invites you to join this taster lecture to introduce equity and debt financing together, analysing their characteristics, risks and rewards, and how they affect a company's cost of capital. We will learn how to construct an optimal capital structure by combining different sources of funding to reduce the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), thereby improving the financial health and overall value of the company.

This taster lecture will take you through the boundaries of optimal capital structure theory and practical application, reviewing and discussing different perspectives and theories together, and debating in depth whether a company's management team should seek an optimal capital structure in the context of the practical choices they face. We look forward to welcoming you to the Peking University-UCL MBA Experience Class!

 

Time: 9 November 2024 (Saturday) 10:00-12:00
Venue: Wework Shanghai Fuxing Middle Road (1237 Fuxing Middle Road, Xuhui District, near Exit 7 of Shaanxi West Road Station, Metro Line 1/10/12)

The event will also be streamed.          

 

Agenda：

10:00-10:30 Introduction to the School and MBA (in Chinese)
10:30-11:30 Theme presentation by Alan and Lynsie (in English)
11:30-11:45 Q & A on the lecture
11:45-12:00 MBA application Q & A

 

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Speakers:

Alan Parkinson

Director of Studies and Deputy Director (Education) and Professor of Financial Education

UCL School of Management, University College London

 

Lynsie Chew

Professor of Financial Education and Director of MSc Professional Accountancy

UCL School of Management, University College London