City: Copenhagen
Language: English
Credits: 7.5 EC
About
This is an introductory course in finance focusing on corporate applications in the
international environment. It covers the basic theories of interest rates, valuation of streams of
cash flows, and pricing of risk, and it draws practical implications for capital structure, project
valuation, financing, and risk management.
More specifically, the course contains a basic introduction to topics such as:
- The main characteristics of corporations
- The relationship between accounting information and the information analyzed in
corporate finance
- Interest rates and the time value of money
- The valuation of bonds and stocks
- The investment decision
- The financing decision including capital structure theory and the cost of capital
Learning objectives
To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or errors:
Identify, explain, discuss and apply the core concepts, models and methods
Calculate, interpret and compare financial statistics, prices, returns and costs
Elaborate, present and discuss solutions for financial decision problems
Course leader
Rama Seth - Department of Finance (FI)