Advanced Topics in Finance 7,5 hp

Undervisningen bedrivs på engelska.

Kursinnehåll

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

Förkunskapskrav

A bachelor degree (with at least 180 credits), 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.

Utbildningsnivå: Avancerad nivå
Kurskod/Ladokkod: JATR24
Kursen ges vid: Jönköping International Business School