International finance is a popular choice among students of business. Graduates can look forward to a wide variety of career opportunities. SolBridge’s faculty ensures that students acquire a wide range of skills and background knowledge to prepare for challenging and rewarding careers.
Curriculum Overview
- Financial Derivatives
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- Financial Statement Analysis & Evaluation
- International Banking
- International Corporate Finance
- International Financial Markets
- Investment Analysis
- Management Accounting
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Strategic Financing
Financial Derivatives
Prerequisite : FIN210, FIN211
Credit : 3
Description :This course introduces students to valuation methods of options, futures, and related financial contracts, including futures contracts; strategies with respect to these assets; dynamic asset allocation strategies, swaps; and the use of derivatives in the context of corporate applications.
Financial Markets and Institutions
Prerequisite : FIN210, FIN211
Credit : 3
Description :This course examines all of the major components of combining organizations: target selection, valuation, deal negotiation, and organizational integration. Topics covered include alternative valuation and pricing models, negotiation strategies, integration planning, and the retention of human and intellectual capital.
Financial Statement Analysis & Evaluation
Prerequisite : FIN210, FIN211
Credit : 3
Description :This course teaches students how financial statements are relevant for decision making of all stakeholders of a business. It also provides the students the analytical skills necessary to succeed in business. It integrates the learning from finance and accounting courses for interpreting what is seen in accounting statements, showing how the structure of accounting can be exploited for valuation.
International Banking
Prerequisite : FIN210, FIN211
Credit : 3
Description :This course focuses on the financial management and regulation of financial institutions both in national and international arenas. Students will be given insight into the various forms of risk faced by intermediaries and the trade-offs required in order to balance risk and return. The focus will be on modern techniques of asset, liability and risk management.
International Corporate Finance
Prerequisite : FIN210, FIN211
Credit : 3
Description :This course provides an introduction to corporate finance problems in an international environment. Students will learn corporate strategy and the decision to invest abroad, forecasting exchange rates, international portfolio diversification, managing exchange risk, taxation issues, cost of capital and financial structure in the multinational firm, and sources of financing.
International Financial Markets
Prerequisite : FIN210, FIN211
Credit : 3
Description :This course focuses on international financial markets and exchange rates, involving topics such as pricing in foreign currency and Eurocurrency markets, use of forward exchange for hedging, short-term returns and market efficiency in the international money markets, foreign currency options, international capital asset pricing, etc.
Investment Analysis
Prerequisite : FIN210, FIN211
Credit : 3
Description :This course focuses on the concepts of portfolio analysis in the general area of institutional investment management. The course discusses principles for managing investment assets that include equity and fixed-income securities. These principles can be used for corporate investment management, bank-administered trusts, and other institutional investment management.
Management Accounting
Prerequisite : FIN210, FIN211
Credit : 3
Description : Management Accounting seeks to create value for the organization by managing resources, activities and people to achieve the organization's goals. This course offers an introduction to the fundamentals of management accounting. Topics include cost accounting terminology, job costing, process costing, activity-based costing, activity-based management, cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting, standard costing, variance analysis, responsibility accounting, variable costing, transfer pricing, and decision making.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Prerequisite : FIN210, FIN211
Credit : 3
Description :This course examines all of the major components of combining organizations: target selection, valuation, deal negotiation, and organizational integration. Topics covered include alternative valuation and pricing models, negotiation strategies, integration planning, and the retention of human and intellectual capital.
Strategic Financing
Prerequisite : FIN210, FIN211
Credit : 3
Description :This course develops skills in financial analysis, problem solving and complex decision making through encouragement of a wide appreciation of the finance function as it relates to the economic environment in which an organization competes. Topics covered include portfolio combinations; arbitrage pricing theory; implications for discount rates; traditional views of capital structure; the ADJUSTED PRESENT VALUE(APV) approach, and the interactions of financing and investment decisions.
