This course provides a survey of fundamental financial concepts, techniques, and theory for management decision making. This course is designed to enhance financial skills by using both the traditional and case methods to apply finance theory, concepts, and analytical tools to corporate and individual business decision-making situations. Topics include valuation, corporate capital budgeting and cost of capital analysis, working capital management, corporate financial policy and management of risk and return. This course enables students to examine and understand the nature, structure, function, and regulation of domestic and international money and capital markets, including the effect of change, technology, globalization, and innovation on financial institutions and markets. This course studies the valuation of financial instruments, and attempts to measure the risk and return of securities in the context of modern portfolio theory.
Coverage includes a variety of stock and bond types, as well as futures, options and swap contracts.
This course introduces students to the unique financial issues facing a corporation doing business in a global environment. The focus of the course is the efficient management of financial resources in a global environment. This course provides information relevant to a wide range of derivative instruments, including financial and agricultural options, equity options, future options, currency options and index options. The emphasis is on pricing models, as well as on strategies to identify, price, hedge and transfer risk using derivative instruments. This is an advanced course in the analysis and valuation of real property, with an emphasis on income producing property.