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Offerings

DUBAI-ISC-TJD-INT-2020-2020
DUBAI-ISC-TMD-INT-2019-2019
DUBAI-ISC-TSD-INT-2020-2020

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Learning outcomes

1.

Appreciate that trends in the financial and economic environment affect business and financial success and enhance the need for numeracy, financial literacy and planning.

2.

Explain the time value of money concept and use your financial calculator to solve time value of money problems.

3.

Value bonds, debentures, preference shares and ordinary shares.

4.

Organise data and construct and interpret visual displays of data relevant to particular situations.

5.

Input data and use Excel to generate summary statistics.

6.

Interpret probabilities.

7.

Generate scatterplots and related statistics using Excel and interpret the results.

8.

Explain issues of information asymmetry in relation to financial structure, credit markets, and venture capital firms.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Topic 1: Introduction- The Business Context
Topic 2: Time Value of Money I
Topic 3: Time Value of Money II – More complex calculations
Topic 4: Valuation Concepts (Debentures and Shares)
Topic 5: Collecting and Organising Data
Topic 6: Numerical Descriptive Statistics
Topic 7: Probability and Normal Distributions
Topic 8: Correlation and Regression
Topic 9: Asymmetric Information: Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard
Topic 10: Asymmetric Information in Credit Markets
Topic 11: Banking and Venture Capital