702710: Business Analysis and Financial Report 3 (3-0-6)
Business and Financial Statement Analysis
Prerequisite: None
Concepts of business and financial analysis, industry analysis, competitiveness and business strategies, accounting analysis, financial ratio and cash flow analysis, business growth analysis, stakeholder analysis and corporate governance, credit analysis and financial forecasting, business ethics and case studies.
702711: Business Finance 3 (3-0-6)
Corporate Finance
Prerequisite: None
Overview of financial management and financial market and financial institutions, financial statement analysis, concepts of risk and returns, concepts of time value of money and financial asset valuation, the cost of capital, capital structure and obligation levels, payment of returns to stockholders, capital financing, capital budgeting, working capital management, financial derivatives, international financial management, organizational restructure and financial practices.
702711: Investment Analysis 3 (3-0-6)
Investment Analysis
Prerequisite: None
Introduction to investment and equity instruments, mutual funds and investment analysis in mutual funds, investment risk and returns, suitable investment assets, capital asset pricing model, market efficiency hypothesis and behavioral finance, fundamental analysis, common stock valuation, introduction to fixed income instrument and valuation by the theory of interest, introduction to derivative instruments.
702741: Financial Derivatives and Derivative Markets 3 (3-0-6)
Derivatives and Derivative Markets
Prerequisite: None
Overview of financial derivatives and derivative markets, forwards, futures and future markets, currency and index futures, forwards and futures valuation, options and options valuation, option risk analysis, exotic options, swap and swap valuation.
702742: Investment Analysis in Fixed Income Instruments 3 (3-0-6)
Fixed Income Security Management
Prerequisite: 702712 Investment Analysis
Fixed income instruments and fixed income markets, risks and returns of fixed income instruments, interest rates and the theory of interest rate, risk analysis of interest rates, fixed income instruments valuation, fixed income instruments with embedded option as collateral, fixed income derivatives, fixed income securities management.
702744: Alternative Investment 3 (3-0-6)
Alternative Investment
Prerequisite: 702712 Investment Analysis
Introduction to alternative investment, investment in tangible assets, investment in real estate and real estate investment trusts, investment in investment businesses, investment in private funds and venture capital, investment in risk security funds, investment in commodities, investment allocation for alternative investment.
702751: Economic Theories for Financial Markets 3 (3-0-6)
Economic Theories for Financial Markets
Prerequisite: None
The theory of consumer choices, theory of companies and market systems, markets under the asymmetric information, decision making under uncertainty, game theory, general equilibrium, national accounting, theory of consumption and theory of investment, unemployment and inflation, monetary and fiscal policy, growth economics, international trade theory, international monetary theory.
702752: Financial Econometrics 3 (3-0-6)
Financial Econometrics
Prerequisite: None
Statistical concepts and market return rates, probability for financial problem solving, probability distribution patterns for financial problem solving, sampling and valuing for financial problem solving, hypothesis testing for financial problem solving, correlation and regression analysis for financial problem solving, multiple regression analysis for financial problem solving, time series analysis for financial problem solving.
702753: Financial Theories 3 (3-0-6)
Financial Theories
Prerequisite: None
Business theory, satisfaction theory, risk and return-based securities analysis, capital asset pricing model and arbitrage pricing theory, equilibrium models in perfectly competitive markets, market efficiency hypothesis, agency theory and asymmetric information, capital structure theory and cost of capital, dividend theory, behavioral finance theory, firm value and corporate governance.
702755: Financial Research Methodology 3 (3-0-6)
Financial Research Methodology
Prerequisite: 702711 Financial Management
Overview of financial research, research methodology, identification of financial research questions, research proposal, research design, data collection and statistical data preparation and data analysis, presentation of research findings.
702756: Financial Programming 3 (3-0-6)
Financial Programming
Prerequisite: 702711 Financial Management
Concepts of applied financial software, application of spreadsheet software for analysis and financial forecasting for the business, application of spreadsheet software for valuation, VBA programming for solving financial problems, application and statistical programming for downloading and preparing the financial data, application and statistical programming for financial data analysis, application and statistical programming for financial modeling.
702757: Financial Technology and Digital Asset 3 (3-0-6)
Financial Technology and Digital Asset
Prerequisite: 702711 Financial Management
Financial innovations, financial technology and monetary system, blockchain technology and Bitcoin, digital asset taxonomy, decentralized finance, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in finance, laws and regulations, and case studies of financial technology and digital asset.
702758: Applied Econometrics for Financial Research 3 (3-0-6)
Applied Econometrics for Finance Research
Prerequisite: 702752 Financial Econometrics
Learning from incidents, completion of financial research, methods for using advanced panel data, regression analysis by time series data, other forms of advanced analysis, application of econometric tools for research development, data and data collection, theoretical framework, hypothesis development for regression modeling and hypothesis testing, evidence-based findings.
702789: Selected Topics in Finance 3 (3-0-6)
Selected Topic in Finance
Prerequisite: None
Topics in the field of business finance, topics in the filed of investment analysis, topics in the field of financial technology, topics in the field of financial econometrics, topics in the field of derivatives and debt instruments.
702797: Thesis 36 Credits
Master’s Thesis
Prerequisite: Approval of the proposal title or the registration along with the submission of proposal title for approval.
702799: Thesis 12 Credits
Master’s Thesis
Prerequisite: Approval of the proposal title or the registration along with the submission of proposal title for approval.