INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (FINANCE 107)

Benjamin Franklin famously stated that the only things certain in life are death and taxes. If anything, the amount of uncertainty in our world has increased between the 18th and the 21st centuries. A common distinction is made between aleatory uncertainty, i.e., objective and irreducible uncertainty about future occurrences that is due to inherent stochasticity in physical or biological systems, and epistemic uncertainty; which is subjective and reducible, because it results from a lac...