Current active course description (last updated 2020/21)
Finance
FIN2007
Current active course description (last updated 2020/21)
Finance
FIN2007
This course deals with portfolio and capital market theory, stock pricing principles and models, as well as the valuation and risk of bonds and derivatives. Furthermore, the course focuses on the financing of companies, how to manage company risk, international projects and foreign debt.
It is possible to apply for admission to the course as a single course. There are reservations about the available capacity on the course. The applicant must meet the current admission requirements for bachelor's degree in business administration.
After completing the course, the student should have required the following learning outcomes:
Knowledge
- Be familiar with how capital markets function and how they may be favorably utilized.
- Have knowledge about the development in capital markets and about securities in these markets.
- Understand the pricing of securities and their risk characteristics.
- Understand the consequences of debt financing versus equity financing.
- Have knowledge about important relationships in currency markets.
Skills
- Be able to employ theories and models on important problems in finance.
- Be able to perform calculations related to return and risk for projects, securities and sources of capital.
- Be able to make decisions on how to finance the company's assets (debt versus equity) and how to spend annual profits (dividend policy).
- Be able to demonstrate how risk may be managed by using derivatives and other financial instruments.
- Be able to perform profitability analyses related to international projects and foreign debt.
Competence
- Be able to communicate, both in writing and orally, the above-mentioned elements related to knowledge and skills.
- Be able to use this insight on different relevant problems.
- Be able to exchange views and experience with other people having background in the field of business and thereby contributing positively to good practice.
No special costs except syllabus literature.
Compulsory
Lectures, problem sets, compulsory assignment, teaching assistant.
The study programme is evaluated annually by students by way of course evaluation studies (mid-term evaluation and final evaluation). These evaluations are included in the university¿s quality assurance system.
Compound evaluation, grading scale Letter grades A-F
- Assessment task 1, comprises 0/100 of the grade, grading scale Approved/ Not approved.
- Assessment task 2, comprises 0/100 of the grade, grading scale Approved/ Not approved.
- Digital school exam, 4 hours, comprises 100/100 of the grade, grading scale A-F. Students solve the whole exam directly in Inspera. The whole or parts of the exam can be solved with the help of Excel.
Pen, pencil, ruler, bilingual dictionary and simple calculator.
FIN1002 Finance and investment
Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:
FIN2001 - Finance - 5 credits