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CM F87 - Topics of Finance*"CLOSED FOR FURTHER ENROLMENT"

Faculty
Johannes Mouritsen
Course Coordinator
Claus Parum
Prerequisite/progression of the course
Participants are required to have completed basic courses in finance (approx. 80-100 class hours or equivalent to the Danish HA-bachelor degree).
FIR-students cannot participate in the course.
Course content, structure and teaching
The course will cover the following topics:
The reading material for the course will include a textbook (Brealey, Meyers, and Marcus) in addition to a collection of articles (Dickson) on selected issues from financial economics with relevance for business practice. The articles will give condensed reviews of developments of theoretical models and ways of thinking in practice within the last decades. They will preponderantly focus on results and applications in practice and be of a non-technical nature.
The course will present issues and results from the following areas:
Valuation, Equity and Debt Finance, Managing Value, Nature of Financial Markets, Equity and Debt Markets, Portfolio Investments, Risk Management, and Derivatives
Examples from practice to be discussed will among others include LBOs (leveraged buy-outs), IPOs (initial public offerings of equity capital), merger and acquisitions, EVA (economic value added) as measure of performance, new types of securities and securitization, active vs. passive portfolio strategies, to hedge or not to hedge risk, futures & options as risk control instruments. Some examples of mismanagement in business practice will also be discussed.
The course has 30 class hours consisting of approximately 15h lectures and 15h seminars.
The course's development of personal competences
Students will trained in analyzing and assessing problems of corporate finance and capital market issues.
Learning Objectives
Focus for this course is graduate students with basic knowledge of finance who are interested in an overview of selected issues and results of financial economics. The course will present results with practical impact from the theory of corporate finance and the theory portfolio investments.
At the end of the course, students should:
  • be familiar with fundamental theories and models of portfolio selection, pricing of shares, bonds,
  • derivatives, as well as concepts of and tests of capital market efficiency, performance evaluation
  • be able to apply the theories and models in solving portfolio problems, pricing issues and,
  • capital budgeting, real options and performance evaluation of corporations in practice
  • have presented results from a group project in a seminar session and responded to critic from fellow students.
Type of examination, exam aids and assessment
Mundtlig u. forberedelse
Recommended literature
The course uses the textbooks, Brealey, Myers & Marcus:
  • Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, lastest edition
  • Tim Dickson (ed): Mastering Finance. Pitman Publishing, 1998.
  • Supplemental texts and handouts will be assigned for the lectures.

Last updated by The Electives Office 27/08/2010