Financial Management is a popular choice among MBA students. Graduates can look forward to a wide variety of career opportunities, including investment management, investment banking, treasury and controllership, and management consulting. SolBridge’s faculty ensures that students acquire a wide range of skills and background knowledge to prepare for challenging and rewarding careers.
Curriculum Overview
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Derivatives
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- Financial Statement Analysis
- International Banking
- International Corporate Finance
- Investment Analysis
- Management of Taxation
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Private Equity and Venture Capital
Corporate Finance
Prerequisite : FIN500, FIN501
Credit : 3
Description :This course is about business finance. It is to provide a framework, concepts, and tools for analyzing financial decisions based on fundamental principles of modern financial theory. The approach is rigorous and analytical. Topics covered include discounted cash flow techniques; corporate capital budgeting and valuation, investment decisions under uncertainty, capital asset pricing, capital structure, cost of capital, dividend policy, options, and market efficiency.
Financial Derivatives
Prerequisite : FIN500, FIN501
Credit : 3
Description : Valuation methods of options, futures, and related financial contracts will be studied. The topics that will be covered include the valuation of futures contracts on stock indices, on commodities and Treasury instruments; the valuation of options; empirical evidence; strategies with respect to these assets; dynamic asset allocation strategies, of which portfolio insurance is an example; swaps; and the use of derivatives in the context of corporate applications.
Financial Markets and Institutions
Prerequisite :
Credit : 3
Description :This course studies today’s financial system. It includes foundational topics on financial instruments, markets and institutions in the US, Europe and Asian, as well as contemporary issues and methods in financial risk management. Students would understand the role and interdependence between the different elements in the financial system.
Financial Statement Analysis
Prerequisite : FIN500, FIN501
Credit : 3
Description :This course is an applied approach to financial statement analysis. This course focuses on how to extract and interpret information in financial statements. The course adopts a user perspective of accounting by illustrating several specific accounting issues in a decision context. The students will understand fundamental valuation techniques that are used by investment and hedge fund managers. The principles of valuation and return forecasting will be applied to a setting of managing a simulated equity portfolio.
International Banking
Prerequisite : FIN500, FIN501
Credit : 3
Description :This course focuses on international financial institutions and international banking. Students will study how current and historical events are reshaping the industry. The basic analytics of managing a bank’s exposure to liquidity, credit, market and country risk will be studied. Evaluating and comparing the risk exposures and performance of individual banks will be studied. International debt crises and regulation will be discussed.
International Corporate Finance
Prerequisite : FIN500, FIN501
Credit : 3
Description :This course studies 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.
Investment Analysis
Prerequisite : FIN500, FIN501
Credit : 3
Description :This course is to study 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 on corporate investment management, bank-administered trusts, and other institutional investment management. Students will learn the methods to establish appropriate investment objectives, develop optimal portfolio strategies, estimate risk-return tradeoffs, and evaluate investment performance.
Management of Taxation
Prerequisite : FIN500, FIN501
Credit : 3
Description :This course focuses on international financial institutions and international banking. Students will study how current and historical events are reshaping the industry. The basic analytics of managing a bank’s exposure to liquidity, credit, market and country risk will be studied. Evaluating and comparing the risk exposures and performance of individual banks will be studied. International debt crises and regulation will be discussed.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Prerequisite : FIN500, FIN501
Credit : 3
Description :Mergers and friendly acquisitions, hostile takeovers and buyouts. This course studies the factors of a successful merger or acquisition . Issues about motive and strategy will be discussed, financial theory and corporate valuation would be used to view these control acquiring transactions. Students will learn to develop a concept and translate that idea into a proposal through deal design; and to analyze to form opinions about proposed deals.
Private Equity and Venture Capital
Prerequisite : FIN500, FIN501
Credit : 3
Description :This course covers the finance of technological innovation, with a focus on the valuation tools useful in the private equity and venture capital industry. These tools are venture capital method, comparables analysis, discounted cash flow analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, contingent-claims analysis, decision trees, and real options. The primary audience for this course is finance majors interested in careers in private equity fund, venture capital, or in R&D-intensive companies, high technology companies or information technology.
