Advanced Topics in Finance 7,5 Credits

Course Contents

This course presents a smorgasbord of selected advanced topics in finance and therefore deepens the student’s knowledge from previous finance courses including corporate finance. The major purpose of the course is to prepare students for writing a thesis in Finance at the advanced level. The various topics included are self-contained course modules and students will complete assignments related to each module. One important focus of the course is the application of quantitative methods in various contexts such as valuation techniques, financial statement analysis and asset pricing. In the assignment works students will also get familiar with retrieving financial information from common databases e.g. Amadeus and Datastream.

Main areas covered are

• Quantitative analysis of financial statements, introduction to statistical software GRETL
• Application of advanced valuation techniques
• Principles of risk management
• Financing of innovation
• Private equity mergers & acquistions and corporate finance
• Event study methodology

Prerequisites

Bachelor's degree incl. 15 credits in statistics, and either (a) 60 credits in business administration with 30 additional credits in business administration, economics or industrial organization or (b) completion of a course in financial accounting and 15 credits in finance including corporate finance.

Level of Education: Master
Course code/Ladok code: JATR24
The course is conducted at: Jönköping International Business School Last modified 2014-12-04 10:52:09