Required Courses

 

Financial Statement Analysis

Textbook: Financial Statement Analysis, 13th Edition by C.H. Gibson
Financial Statement Analysis course teaches Undergraduate students to interpret and analyze financial statements. This course explores in greater depth financial reporting introduced in courses like Financial or Managerial Accounting.

 

Financial Management

Textbook: Financial Management Theory and Practice, 11th Edition by E. Brigham M. Ehrhardt

Financial Management course provides Master students with a conceptual framework to understand financial decision-making companies. This course teaches how to efficiently and effectively manage funds to accomplish the financial and operational goals of an organization by managing, financing and investing a variety of assets. Topical coverage will include fundamental concepts of financial statement analysis and forecasting; time value of money; stocks, bonds and options valuation; cost of capital; and risk and return trade-offs.

 

International Business Management

Textbook: International business: Environments and operations, 13th Edition by J. Daniels

International Business Management course provides Master students a fundamental understanding of the global environment where international businesses operate; and of business practices essential to compete successfully in international markets. This course develops students’ decision-making skills related with managing different aspects of international business. This course also familiarizes Master students to various legal, political, economic, and cultural systems affecting global businesses influence firm’s strategies.

 

Special Topics in Research

Reading materials: Selection of journal research publications and invited speakers

Special Topics in Research provides PhD students with updated research topics in marketing, finance, international trade and human resource. Students will have insights on the recent research inquiry in different areas of business.

 

Managerial Economics

Textbook:  Managerial Economics and Business Strategy, 7th Edition by M. Baye

Managerial Economics provides Master students with analytical tools from intermediate microeconomics, game theory, and industrial organization that they need to make sound managerial decisions. The course teaches practical utility of basic economic tools such as principles of economics, demand and supply, quantitative demand analysis via regression, consumer theory, advanced topics in business strategies, and market structure. 

 

Business Ethics

Textbook: Ethical Decision Making for Business, 8th Edition by J. Fraedrich, O. Ferrell and L. Ferrell

Business Ethics course offers PhD and Master students an understanding on the ethical issues dominating the corporate world and the role of various stakeholders in promulgating ethics. This case study course identifies ethical controversies that affect business’ moral philosophy, corporate culture and social responsibility.
 

 

Elective Courses

 

Corporate Finance

Textbook: Corporate Finance Foundations, 14th Edition by G. Hirt, S. Block and B. DanielsenCorporate Finance course teaches Master students on the operational financing and investing decisions that a corporation makes. The course deals with the management of funding sources and capital structures of companies. With the primary goal of maximizing shareholders’ wealth, Master students will be taught to make corporate decisions in relation to working capital management; capital budgeting process; short- and long-term financing; and mergers and acquisitions.

 

Investments

Textbook: Investments and Portfolio Management by Z. Bodie, A. Kane and A. MarcusInvestments course provides Master students with a theoretical and practical background in the field of investments. It offers an analytical framework for asset allocation and manage portfolio of securities; and provides experience in doing virtual stock trading through an investment game.

 

Multinational Financial Management

Textbook: International Financial Management by G. Bekaert and R. Hodrick Multinational Financial Management course offers Master students with a conceptual framework to comprehend financial decision-making in the globalized market. The course covers the application of traditional macro-economic variables and factors that are essential for financial investing decisions with respect to the changing economic and political global environment.

 

Financial Derivatives 

Textbook: Derivatives and Risk Management by R. Srivastava

Financial Derivatives for Master students provides a comprehensive introduction to the

sophisticated investment instrument called "derivatives". Students will be acquainted to the different forms of derivatives instruments (i.e., forwards, futures, options, swaps and structured products); and how they are traded in exchanges and over-the-counter markets. Master students will be also introduced to the Black-Scholes option pricing model; option strategies; derivative Scandals and disasters; and the applications of options in Corporate Finance.

 

Finance Ethics

Textbook: Ethics and Finance: An Introduction by J. Hendry

Finance Ethics for Undergraduate students offers a comprehensive introduction to the ethical issues in modern finance. The course aims to provide a careful and balanced treatment designed to help finance students and practitioners approach the relatively new discipline of Finance Ethics in a comprehensive and constructive way.  At the end of the Finance Ethics course, Undergraduate students are expected to learn from ethical theories and case studies about the global financial system and its regulation and control. Students are also expected to explain ethical issues on specific areas of Finance from mis-selling, market manipulation, insider trading and excessive bankers' bonuses.

 

Seminar on Financial Markets

Reading materials: Selection of journal research publications

Seminar in Financial Markets aims to make Doctoral students understand and contribute to the academic field of knowledge related to financial markets, particularly focusing on emerging stock markets and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The course introduces students established literature and the recent publications in the areas of financial markets, and the statistical/econometric tools used in these areas of empirical investigation. It also prepares students to create an academic research paper in financial markets. 

 

Special Topics in Financial Management

Textbook: Financial Management Theory and Practice, 11th Edition by E. Brigham and M. Ehrhardt

Special Topics on Financial Management provides Master students with a conceptual framework to understand strategic and tactical financing decisions, with a special topic on mergers, leverage buyouts, divestitures, and holding companies. Students are expected to learn about long-term capital financing through the basics and advanced concepts on capital structure decisions; and distributions to shareholders through dividends and repurchases. Short-term financing is also featured with a focus on initial public offerings, investment banking and financial restructuring, lease financing and hybrid financing.