Advanced Finance

Beskrivning

The aim of this course is to enable students to develop deeper knowledge and skills in the field of finance. The students learn to obtain and refine financial data for analysis, to estimate key essential statistics parameters from data sets, to develop financial optimization models based on Modern Portfolio Theory and Capital Asset Pricing Model, and finally to construct an option’s pricing simulation.

Content

• Risk and return relationship in financial context
• Portfolio theory, financial assets allocation, and optimization
• Black-Scholes Model for options pricing

Förkunskapskrav

Financial Management. Statistics and good Excel skills.

Bedömningskriterier

Grading Scale: 0 – 5

Completing the required sequence of assignments according to the due date schedule.

Arbetsformer och schemaläggning

100% online (Moodle)

Independent online course.

Anmälningsinformation

Studies are free of charge for CampusOnline students, i.e. for the present degree students of Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland and for the study path and exchange students of UAS degree studies.