Business/Marketing


Lecture # Subject Title
Module 1: Portfolio Theory
Presenter: Myke Yest, PhD
1 Introduction to Investments and Rates of Return
2 Calculating Rates of Return for a Single Asset
3 Calculating Risk Measurements for a Single Asset
4 Historical Return and Risk Measurements for a Portfolio
5 Expected Return and Risk Measurements for a Portfolio
6 The Stock Market
7 Stock Market Transactions
8 Stock Valuation Techniques
9 Professional Asset Management
10 Market Efficiency and Evaluating Professional Asset Managers
Module 2: International Finance
Presenter: William Reese, PhD
11 Overview
12 International Trade and Balance of Payments
13 Exchange Rates
14 Forward Rates
15 Triangular and Locational Arbitrage
16 Purchasing Power Parity
17 Exchange Rate Determination
18 Forecasting Exchange Rates
19 Hedging Transaction Exposure
20 Currency Swaps
21 Investing Globally
22 Multinational Capital Budgeting
Module 3: Financing and Valuation of Firms
Presenter: Venkat Subramaniam, PhD
23 Introduction to Financing Choices
24 How Debt Financing Affects Risk and Return
25 Debt Financing in a World With Taxes
26 Impact of Debt and Taxes on Risk, Return and Value
27 Limits to Using Debt Financing: Part One
28 Limits to Using Debt Financing: Part Two
29 The APV Method
30 The FTE and WACC Methods
31 Market Multiples and Adjusting Cost of Equity in Mergers
32 Valuation of an Acquisition Target
Module 4: Options
Presenter: N.K. Chidambaran, PhD
33 Introduction to Options
34 Payoff Tables and Graphs
35 Option Trading Strategies
36 Bounds on Option Prices
37 Put-Call Parity and Other Properties
38 One-Step Binomial Model
39 Risk-Neutral Valuation
40 Multi-Step Binomial Model
41 Black-Scholes Model
42 Volatility

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