| source City University of New York (X) |
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department Finance (X) |
Discusses the problems involved in efficient handling of personal finance and consumption expenditure, including consumer protection, taxation, insurance, home financing, and methods of borrowing and investing money.
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This course provides students with a rigorous introduction to the fundamental principles of finance. The primary concepts covered include the time value of money, principles of valuation and risk, and the nature and characteristics of domestic and international financial securities and markets. Specific applications include the valuation of debt and equity securities and capital budgeting analysis.
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This course introduces student to the fundamental financial issues of the corporation. It covers basic concepts of debt and equity sources of financing and valuation; capital budgeting methods; cash flow forecasting and risk analysis; and the cost of capital. It introduces students to the process of securities issuance and techniques of financial planning and forecasting.
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This course will provide an understanding of the basic financial tools available for the small entrepreneur. The course content will cover (a) the preparation of financial statements: balance sheets, income statements, net cash flow, etc.; (b) forms of business organization for small business proprietorship, partnership, and corporation and the advantages and disadvantages of each form; (c) sources of capital: how and where to get money to start a business, operate a business, and expand a business; (d) budgeting: cash flow and cash flow prediction; (e) record keeping and inventory management; (f) credit and collection: how and when to extend credit and how to collect; and (g) ethics in small business.
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This course introduces students to the fundamental principles and theories of financial asset pricing and valuation. It provides students with a rigorous analysis of modern portfolio theory, the capital asset pricing model, and the valuation of common stocks and bonds. It includes an introduction to the main finanical markets, their organization and functional characteristics.
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Consideration of specific management problems facing financial institutions such as commercial banks, savings institutions, and insurance companies. Management of asset and liability structures, control of financial operations, and the impact of the regulatory structure on financial practices.
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The role of financial markets and intermediaries in the savings-investment process. Overview of the structure of wealth holding, financial flows, and capital market institutions. The theory of financial intermediation and its relationship to economic efficiency and growth. Analysis of major individual capital markets.
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This course provides intensive analysis of several major types of decisions faced by corporate managers. It includes a rigorous theoretical analysis of firm's capital structure and dividend policies, and supplements this with an overview of the real-world considerations, constraints and risks facing managers. It also covers corporate cash and liquidity management, and option applications in corporate finance. Additional special topics include mergers, and acquisitions, risk management, and leasing.
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This course provides an intensive analysis of several advanced topics in investments. It covers bond valuation and analysis in depth, with special emphasis on risk analysis, securitization, and innovation in the fixed-income markets. It covers investment management of stock and bond portfolios, performance measurement, and evaluation. Special topics include mutual fund management and evaluation, and the development of financial derivatives.
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The course provides a detailed analysis of futures markets and related forward markets, and emphasizes the valuation and uses of financial futures. It examines their institutional setting and provides and analytical foundation for pricing and valuation. It covers hedging, speculative and arbitrage techniques that involve futures contracts and their cash market counterparts. It also surveys relevant empirical evidence on valuation models and trading strategies.
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The course is designed to give students a broad understanding of the operations of equity markets, and an in depth knowledge of liquidity, market structure and trading. In equity markets around the world, investors are increasingly concerned with controlling transaction costs, and innovative trading technologies have been introduced. In this context, the course focuses on the operations of exchanges, trading systems and broker/dealer intermediaries, and on the impact of computer technology. Students will evaluate a spectrum of issues regarding the formulation of trading decisions, market structure design, and market structure regulation. Implications for portfolio management will also be discussed. Simulation software is used to provide hands-on experience with making tactical trading decisions in different market structure environments.
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The course introduces students to the options market. Its broad objectives are to link the underlying financial and real markets to their derived option markets, and to present students with a variety of possible trading strategies and pricing mechanisms. Specifically, the course analyzes the history and operations of the options markets; the factors affecting option pirces; trading strategies involving a single option on a stock and the stock itself, as well as trading strategies invovling combinations of options; and the two main types of option valuation approaches, the binomial and the Black-Scholes models.
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This course introduces students to the fundamentals of technical analysis, one of the oldest forms of security analysis. It first covers the history of technical analysis and its underlying logic and rationale. Students then learn the basics of charting construction and tehcniques, the calculation of moving averages, and statistical indicators such as relative strength and momentum. Finally, students learn statistical and analytical approaches needed to evaluate the predictions and results of technical analysis.
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This course exposes students to evolving techniques and theories in finance and to current applications in the real world. Students read journal articles and relevant texts, do independent library research, write papers, and make oral presentations. Topics will vary from semester to semester but will include such areas as mergers and acquisitions, derivative instruments, market microstructure, portfolio selection, technological analysis, and market globalization.
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This course provides students with a rigorous introduction to the complex problems of risk measurement and management in financial institutions. The course surveys the major types of financial institutions and analyzes in depth the major risks facing each type. These risks include foreign exchange and sovereign risk, among others. The course derives relevant risk exposure of financial institutions. Not open to students who have previously taken FIN 3820.
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This course offers students a thorough analysis of a wide range of risk management problems faced by financial institutions. It extends the analysis of risk measurement and management covered in FIN 4808, Risk Management in Finanical Institution I. This course covers credit risk, liquidity risk, asset/liability management, deposit insurance, capital adequacy, and insolvency risk. A primary focus of this course is understanding how managers identify and deal with the various risks.
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This course explores the fundamentals of international financial markets. The primary focus is on key institutional and organizational features of the international marketplace, including the capital and money markets, as well as the futures, forward, swap and options markets. Students learn how to judge the outlook for a currency, and they gain skills in techniques of foreign-exchane risk management. The course also covers the role of banks in the operation of the international economy and international portfolio diversification.
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This course covers concepts and applications of corporate finance in an international context, with specific emphasis on the international financial decisions of multinational corporations (MNCs). It examines different types of foreign-exchange risk exposure, as well as methods of managing such risks. It covers the reasons for foreign direct investments (FDI), evaluation of the climate for FDI, and estimation of cashflows. It analyzes the implications of inflation and currency fluctuations on all aspects of the international operations of MNCs.
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This course introduces students to the fundamental financial issues concerning mergers and acquisitions. It covers a background on mergers and acquisitions; the valuation of M&A transactions, tax and accounting for M&A transactions, analyzing the type of acquisition hostile versus friendly, adopting tactics to deal with hostile takeover bids, managing merger negotiations first-hand, and junk bonds and LBOs.
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A course open to juniors or seniors majoring in finance who wish to pursue independent research in an area or topic not otherwise covered in the course offerings. The coursework will include a comprehensive term paper.
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Seminar on special topics in corporate finance.
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Students work in a supervised internship in finance. Students are required to write a series of reports on their internship duties and progress, and a term report in which they analyze in detail an aspect of their work that relates closely to their academic studies in finance.
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Students work in a supervised internship in economics. Students are required to write a series of reports on their internship duties and progress, and a term report in which they analyze in detail an aspect of their work that relates closely to their academic studies in economics.
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Seminar on special topics in investment analysis.
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The course covers new developments in futures and options and/or topics not covered in related courses offered by the department.
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