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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to strengthen students' ability to correctly analyze, interpret, and evaluate financial statements and their accompanying disclosures. The course is aimed at anyone whose career might involve working with accounting data, and should be especially useful for those interested in consulting and financial analysis. Throughout the semester we will discuss how to use financial accounting information for evaluating past performance and predicting future performance of a company or division. The course revolves around a number of topics of recent interest to the business community including accounting and financial analysis, performance forecasting, the quality of earnings, mergers and acquisitions, purchased R&D, post-employment benefits, executive compensation, and intangible assets. This course assumes that you have a basic knowledge of accounting, finance, economics, and business strategy. The focus is on integrating key concepts from each of these areas and applying them to financial decision-making. Half of the course time will be devoted to case analysis. Students are responsible for reading each case thoroughly, and familiarizing themselves with the relevant accounting issues, before the class. Credit Hours: 3
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces interactive trading in financial instruments. Students learn the principles of asset price discovery through real-time trading in a variety of markets, including equities, bonds, options, derivatives. Topics addressed include asset valuation, portfolio management, and risk management in the context of real-time trading of financial instruments. The course uses the facilities of the Lally School's Virtual Trading Room. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MGMT 2320 and two upper-level finance courses or permission of the instructor. When Offered: Spring term annually . Credit Hours: 4
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to financial markets, financial instruments, and basic investment principles. The course provides students with an understanding of how to value securities, how to assess risk and return tradeoffs, how to make investment decisions, and how to measure investment performance. Topics include market microstructure and impact of technology on securities markets, principles of investment banking, valuation of stocks and bonds and hybrid instruments, portfolio theory, asset pricing models, bond portfolio management, and derivative securities. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MGMT 2320. When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually. Credit Hours: 4
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4.00 Credits
Advanced course in investment decision making. Analysis of investment strategies in national and international equity markets including emerging markets. Other topics include arbitrage pricing principles, portfolio insurance, study of the term structure of interest rates and interest rate forecasts, duration analysis, and bond portfolio management, including immunization and active strategies. Principles of option and futures pricing and strategies in options and futures markets. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MGMT 2320 and MGMT 4320. When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually. Credit Hours: 4
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4.00 Credits
Advanced topics in financial theory and corporate policy as they are applied to the modern corporation. Emphasis in blending theory with application. Case studies are used to illustrate relevance of theoretical concepts. Topics include corporate financial decision making under uncertainty, financial forecasting, application of option pricing principles to capital budgeting decision making, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and takeovers, leasing, financial engineering. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MGMT 2320 and MGMT 4320 or permission of instructor. When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually. Credit Hours: 4
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4.00 Credits
This course investigates the roles financial markets and financial intermediaries play in the flow of funds in the world economy. The course provides a conceptual framework for why markets exist and the important functions of intermediaries in the global markets. Major topics include interest rates; roles of Central Bank; debt, equity and derivatives; commercial banking; and the increasing importance of non-bank financial intermediaries such as pension funds, insurance companies and mutual funds. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MGMT 2320. Students cannot receive credit for both this course and MGMT 6340. When Offered: Fall term. Credit Hours: 4
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4.00 Credits
The objective of this course is to provide a conceptual understanding of the international financial markets and instruments and how corporations and investors use them in their financial decision-making process. The course coverage includes the international financial environment, foreign exchange markets, offshore financial markets, derivative securities markets, and international capital markets. Class sessions will be devoted to lectures and case discussions on topics outlined in the class schedule. Equipped with the background provided in the classroom, students solve problems and analyze cases representing real-life situations. Credit Hours: 4
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4.00 Credits
Analysis and management of some nonspeculative risks in business, and management devices available for dealing with them. Insurance, the most important of these, is dealt with extensively. Intelligent employment of insurance makes possible the transfer of significant risks, at minimum and known cost. Self-insurance considered. Case studies are employed to demonstrate the principles and objectives of static risk management. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MGMT 2320. When Offered: Spring term annually . Credit Hours: 4
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces the institutional structure of the financial markets for derivatives. It also covers hedging and basis risk, interest rate, and stock-index derivatives with financial management applications. Other topics covered include an introduction to options, rational option pricing restrictions, binomial option pricing model, and put and call option strategies. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MGMT 2320 and MGMT 4320 or permission of instructor. When Offered: Spring term biannually. Cross Listed: (Cross-listed with MGMT 6370). Credit Hours: 4
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4.00 Credits
This course provides students with an understanding of marketing principles and the role of the marketing discipline. The course is intended to help students learn the basic concepts and practices of marketing and to familiarize them with the terminology and techniques for properly framing and analyzing marketing problems. In addition to marketing concepts, processes, and strategy, issues such as the social consequences of marketing are discussed. When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually. Credit Hours: 4
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