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Finance electives

532.  Corporate Financial Policy. (3.0 hours)
This course is intended to give the students a forum to investigate both the theory and practice of finance in a corporate setting. It covers a broad spectrum of issues facing a financial manager including: planning and financial control; working capital policy; analysis of financing alternatives; capital structure and equity management policy; investment analysis; resource allocation policy; and corporate restructure and merger analysis.

533.  Securities Analysis. (3.0 hours)
This course is designed to give students an understanding of the principles of security analysis as applied to stocks, equity options, and futures, in the context of portfolio management in a global capital market. Topics include expected utility analysis, return and risk measurement and forecasting, portfolio theory, capital asset pricing, earnings forecasting, portfolio performance measurement, Black-Scholes option valuation, spot-futures parity, and international interest rate parity. Students should emerge from this course with the ability to measure and evaluate the risk/return tradeoffs associated with the decision to buy or sell equity securities, and to articulate reasons for their recommendation.

535.  Financial Markets. (3.0 hours)
Investment banking firms originate, underwrite, and distribute new security issues. They may also advise clients, arrange lease financing, arbitrage profit opportunities, place unregistered securities, and provide broker and dealer services. The course objective is to give a basic understanding of these activities.

536.  Portfolio Management. (3.0 hours)
This course is designed to give students an understanding of the principles of portfolio management in a global capital market. Emphasis is placed on mutual fund management. Topics include individual and institutional investor behaviors, international diversification, latest developments in trading, fundamental analysis and technical analysis, performance measurement, mutual fund structures and management, risk management and hedging. Students will emerge from this course with an understanding of the portfolio management process, and with the ability to evaluate the performance of portfolios with respect to different investor objectives and to articulate recommendations for changes.

537.  International Trade, Growth, and Development. (3.0 hours)
This course concerns the influence of trade, technical change, and tariffs on economic growth and development.  The course will follow the preliminary work done by students in Buad 594, The Global Environment of Business course.  It is a natural, but not required preparation for Buad 538 International Financial Management.

538.  International Financial Management.  (3.0 hours)
Covers important concepts in international economic and financial analysis, and stresses their use in the financial management of multinational corporations, in international portfolio management, and foreign direct investment decisions.

539.  Fixed Income Investing. (3.0 hours)
This course concerns the instruments, strategies, and derivative contracts that are used in fixed income portfolio management.  The course is designed to follow naturally from the Fall course, Buad 535 Financial Markets, which concerns primary markets for capital markets instruments.  Financial Markets is not a prerequisite for this course; any graduate introductory finance course is sufficient preparation.