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Business Finance |
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Introduction |
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of business finance.
Students learn how to identify, calculate, and assess individual investments and investment portfolios, identify types of investment risks, calculate risk, and analyze the results.
In addition, students learn how to calculate the future and present values of individual cash flows, ordinary annuities, annuities due, perpetuities, and investments with uneven cash flows.
Course activities also cover calculating interest rates and maturity dates, establishing an amortization table, and calculating payments on amortized loans.
Students also learn about the bond and stock markets, identifying characteristics of various types of stocks and bonds and their risks, and how to evaluate and invest in stocks and bonds.
The manual provided is designed for quick scanning in the classroom and filled with interactive exercises that help ensure student success.
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Objectives |
Use the diversification principle to invest in portfolios; use the Capital Asset Pricing Model; and calculate different types of financial ratios.
Identify different bond types and describe their characteristics; identify different types of stocks.
Calculate the time value of money; and use compounding and discounting methods to calculate the future and present value of money.
Identify the types of annuities and calculate their present and future values; identify the types of interest rates; analyze uneven cash flows; and prepare a scheduling table for amortized loans.
Identify different bond types and describe their characteristics; identify different types of stocks; describe the characteristics of the stock market; evaluate bonds and stocks; and identify the terms involved in their valuation.
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Units Covered |
1. Stand-alone risk : Risk basics, Probability analysis and rate of return, and Risk calculation
2. Portfolio risk : Diversification principle, The Capital Asset Pricing Model and Ratio analysis
3. Future and present value of money, Time value of money and Compounding and discounting
4. Even and uneven cash flows: Annuities and Calculating financial values.
5. Bonds and stocks: Bond fundamentals, Stock fundamentals and Valuation of bonds and stocks.
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Assessment |
Certificate of Participation will be issued basing on following criteria:
Please take all the required online tests and score at least 80% each.
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Course Materials |
"Essentials of Financial Management", 1st Edition, Eugene F. Brigham, University of Florida, Joel F. Houston, University of Florida (supplementary material)
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Fees |
$385 (Includes GST) |
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Duration |
3 months access |
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Lecturer |
Associate Professor Gah-Kok, Jacob Gan |
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Lecturer Profile |
Associate Professor Gah-Kok, Jacob Gan
He started his apprenticeship as an EDB projects officer in 1975 after graduating from the then University of Singapore with a mechanical engineering degree. Lured by the opportunities in Saudi Arabia, he joined a Singapore-based company to manage a cargo handling operation at Jeddah Port in 1977. After failing to strike black-gold there, he returned to Singapore in 1978 and worked for a firm to set up and manage a manufacturing plant as its general manager until in 1983 when NTU (then NTI) made him an offer that excited him. He went for his graduate studies at the University of Michigan in 1984 and has been working with NTU ever since.
In addition to face-to-face learning and teaching, he also has great passion for eLearning and has been developing and conducting eLearning courses, both scientific and soft-skill based courses. To hone his presentation skills he has been active practicing his babblings in Toastmasters clubs, including taking parts in many speech contests which he failed to win until recently when he emerged Champion in the District 80 Area Z Humorous Speech Contest. |
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