Description: This course studies the techniques of financial analysis, including financial statement analysis, cash budgeting, and pro forma analysis. It also covers the firm's investment and financing decisions, including the concepts of present and net present value, capital budgeting analysis, investment analysis under uncertainty, the cost of capital, capital structure theory and policy and the interrelation of the firm's investment and financing decisions.
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 145 M 07:00PM-09:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 48 / Total Seats: 40
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 145 Tu 04:30PM-06:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 45 / Total Seats: 40
Description: This course considers banks and other financial institutions as information and deal-making entities. This broad perspective is used to explain how and why changing information and contracting technologies are altering the structure of the financial services industry and financial regulation. Lectures explore the implications of these ongoing changes for the methods financial institution executives should use to measure and manage an institution's risk and return.
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 150 W 07:00PM-09:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 47 / Total Seats: 45
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 145 W 04:30PM-06:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 41 / Total Seats: 45
Description: This course exposes students to a broad range of financial restructuring techniques that can be applied to improve business performance. Case discussion and visitors are used to illustrate how various corporate restructuring approaches can be used to increase firm value and to highlight characteristics of potential candidates for different restructuring techniques. The case analysis provides opportunity to practice the application of standard corporate valuation methods.
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 453 W 04:30PM-06:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 20 / Total Seats: 23
Description: This course provides an opportunity for students to utilize both theoretical and practical aspects of the investment management process by competing to actively manage a million dollar portfolio for the University. AIM1 teaches students about institutional portfolio management, asset allocation, risk assessment, investment manager evaluation, and fundamental equity analysis. Students are placed in investment teams to respond to a Request for Proposal (RFP) in which they develop a framework for identifying and evaluating equities and bonds and managing a diversified risk-adjusted portfolio. Winning teams will be selected based on final presentations to a board of professional institutional investors and given the opportunity to manage live accounts in AIM2 during the spring semester.
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 230 Tu 04:30PM-06:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 21 / Total Seats: 32
Description: The focus of this course is on the fundamental drivers, functioning and inter-connectedness of global financial markets. Products covered will be interest rate markets (government bonds, money markets, swaps, interest rate derivatives, credit markets), equity indices, and foreign exchange markets.Tickers flash across TV screens detailing every move ininterest rates, currencies and equity markets. Why do some events move marketssometimes and not at other times? What just happened in UK markets? We willexplore the role of economic data, flow of funds analysis, central bank policy,and fiscal and other government policies from a macro perspective in assessingthese questions. We will learn from historical episodes that still shapemarket structures and behavior today.We will approach these topics from a practitioner's perspective and two or three active portfolio managers will be guest lecturers over the course of the semester. Learning will be via a combination of classroom, reading research papers, and observing markets in real time. There will be weekly homework assignments related to required reading that include current events. A team based project and a mid-term project will tie together subjects covered to that point in the course. Discussions of the current market environment will take place over the period of the course, with the final project requiring each student to formulate and present an investment outlook that ties together the various disciplines learned over the semester. A curious and open mind are helpful attributes for students wishing to take this course.
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 220 M 04:30PM-06:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 12 / Total Seats: 20
Description: This course teaches how mathematical techniques and econometrics are used in financial research and decision making. Topics include matrix algebra, differential and integral calculus, simple linear regression, residual analysis, multivariate regression, and the generalized linear model. Students will be introduced to the latest developments in theoretical and empirical modeling.
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Location and Time: On-line Asynchronous
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 45 / Total Seats: 40
Description: This course is reserved for special topics, offering advanced course work in sub-fields of finance. This year, MFIN8860 is an introduction to derivative assets, financial engineering, and risk management. The course covers the pricing of futures and options contracts as well as securities that contain embedded options, risk management strategies using positions in derivative securities, static hedging, and dynamic hedging. Applications from commodity, equity, bond, and mortgage-backed markets are considered.STEM-designated
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 130 Tu 07:00PM-09:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 17 / Total Seats: 30
Description: This course is for second year Ph.D. students of finance. The course is intended to generate enthusiastic, high quality intellectual activity around the course material. Focuses on the development of skills that will help students become conversant enough with basic theory and the current literature on asset pricing that would permit them to read critically and analyze papers in this area, develop enough expertise in selected empirical methods in finance that they will be able to use these techniques in their research, and to find potential thesis topics.
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 240 Th 09:00AM-11:20AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 7 / Total Seats: 10
Description: Data Analytics in Finance focuses on critical skills in programming and computation/analysis of financial data, and more importantly, pragmatic applications in portfolio management and risk management. Theoretical concepts and background for these techniques will be introduced, and the focus is on their applications and hands-on implementation utilizing software packages and programming platforms that are widely used in the financial industry (Python). The course will extensively focus on real-world applications of finance theory.STEM-designated
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 115 Th 04:30PM-06:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 12 / Total Seats: 30
Description: This course presents the fundamental theoretical concepts of financial economics. Topics include measuring and managing interest rate risk, the theory of portfolio choice, and introduction to asset such as capital assets pricing models, arbitrage pricing theory, option pricing models, and state-preference theory.
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Location and Time: On-line Asynchronous
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 21 / Total Seats: 25
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 130 M 07:00PM-09:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 6 / Total Seats: 20