Modules

• To learn the financial tools needed to make good business decisions
• The course presents the basic insights of corporate finance theory, but emphasizes the application of theory to real business decisions

• This course studies corporate finance and capital markets, emphasizing the financial aspects of managerial decisions
• The course touches on all areas of finance, including the valuation of real and financial assets, risk management and financial derivatives, the trade-off between risk and expected return, and corporate financing and dividend policy
• The course draws heavily on empirical research to help guide managerial decisions

• This class examines the elements of entrepreneurial finance, focusing on technology-based start-up ventures, and the early stages of company development
• It addresses key questions which challenge all entrepreneurs: how much money can and should be raised; when should it be raised and from whom; what is a reasonable valuation of the company and how funding should be structured
• The subject aims to prepare students for these decisions, both as entrepreneurs and venture capitalists

• This course teaches how to make sound investment decisions through in-depth knowledge of the financial markets, rigorous analytical thinking and precise mathematical derivation
• Also, students gain hands-on experience with optimization, data analysis, and other quantitative techniques by completing the five group assignments

• The purpose of this class is to advance student understanding of how to use financial information to value and analyze firms
• Apply student economics/accounting/finance skills to problems from today's business news to help student understand what is contained in financial reports, why firms report certain information, and how to be a sophisticated user of this information

• This course is an intensive introduction to the preparation and interpretation of financial information for investors (external users) and managers (internal users) and to the use of financial instruments to support system and project creation
• The course adopts a decision-maker perspective on accounting and finance with the goal of helping students develop a framework for understanding financial, managerial, and tax reports

• This course examines management accounting and related analytical methodologies for decision making and control in profit-directed organizations
• It also defines product costing, budgetary control systems, and performance evaluation systems for planning, coordinating, and monitoring the performance of a business
• This course defines principles of measurement and develops framework for assessing behavioural dimensions of control systems; impact of different managerial styles on motivation and performance in an organization

• This course objective is to introduce the most fundamental concepts, principles, analytical methods and tools useful for making investment and finance decisions regarding commercial real estate assets
• Key objective of this course is to recognize the unique features of real estate that distinguish it from so-called "mainstream" securities investments and corporate finance

• As the second in a two-course sequence, this course focuses on more advanced topics and the "macro" level, which pertains to decisions about collections of many individual real estate assets, that is, portfolio or firm level decisions and investment management considerations
• This course also introduces and surveys the major public capital market real estate vehicles, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS)
• Other topics treated include a selection among such subjects as real options, land valuation, development project financial analysis, corporate real estate, capital structure, portfolio strategy, equilibrium pricing of asset classes, investment performance measurement and benchmarking, investment management, and international real estate investing