Current active course description (last updated 2021/22)
Finance
FIN2007
Current active course description (last updated 2021/22)
Finance
FIN2007
This course gives the students extensive knowledge about financing decisions in companies. It includies both investors' placement of capital (Investments) and firms' financing and risk management decisions (Corporate Finance). Focus is also on ethical standards.
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. Ethical and professional standards are also discussed in this course.
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.
Students have to satisfy requirements for admission to the related study programme.
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.
- Have knowledge about ethical standards and related evaluation.
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.
- Be able to make evaluations and decisions based on ethical standards.
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, two compulsory assignments, 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.
Written school exam, 4 hours, counts 100%. Two individual compulsory assignments.
Pen, pencil, ruler, bilingual dictionary and simple calculator.
FIN1002 Finance and capital budgeting
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