Unit name | Financial Markets and Corporate Finance |
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Unit code | ACCG30014 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Ozkan |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
Corporate Finance (EFIM20006) |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Economics, Finance and Management |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This is the main Final year course in Finance. Building on the 2nd year Principles of Finance unit, it develops further some of the topics studied previously and introduces some new ones.
The course will be divided equally into two teaching blocks and topic areas: Asset pricing and Investments (Sylvain Friederich), and Corporate Finance (Neslihan Ozkan). These correspond to the broad Industry divide between market-based Finance (security analysis, sales and trading, fund management, etc) and Investment banking (security issuance, M&A, etc).
This course requires a variety of mathematical and econometric skills but remains intermediate in its technical level. We will attempt to strike the right balance between theory, evidence available from empirical studies, and exposure to real-world institutions (example: how options markets operate). The other Final year course in Finance (Advanced Topics) requires a greater inclination to think theoretically and a greater willingness to derive all key results explicitly.
On successful completion of this unit a student will be able to:
Lectures & tutorials.
Summative assessment: 3 hr exam which tests all of the learning objectives
Formative assessment: Students do group presentations and hand in their answers for tutorial sets. These are designed to provide practice for the exam and test all the learning objectives.
No single text book covers the material completely. The following will be used at different times: