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Subject |
Related Preparation |
1) |
Types of Business Entity, Organization of Corporate Firm, The Role of Financial Management, Financial Management Decisions
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The Goals of the Firm, Profit Maximization and Shareholder Wealth Maximization, Principal-agent Problem,
Agency Costs, Asymmetry of Information, Shareholder, Stakeholder.
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Financial Environment: Markets, Institutions, and Interest Rates
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Financial System, Capital Markets, Money Markets, Primary versus Secondary Markets, Financial Institutions, Financial Instruments.
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Basic Financial Statements of a Firm: Balance Sheet Identity, Assets, Liabilities, Equity
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Overview of Income Statement, Concepts of EBIT and Net Profit.
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Interest Rates, Real versus Nominal Rates, Simple Interest Rates, Compunded Interest Rates.
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Time Value of Money, Opprtunity Cost, Present and Future Value
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Annuity and Perpetuity, Compounding, Concepts of Risk, Rate of Return and Discount Factor.
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10) |
More on Annuity and Perpetuity, Annuity Tables, Finding the Number of Periods.
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11) |
Characteristics of Bills, How Bills are Bought and Sold, The Valuation of Bills
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Features of Bonds, How Bonds are Bought and Sold, Pricing of Bonds. The Relationship Between Bond Prices and Interest Rates.
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Characteristics of Stocks, Capital Gain, Dividend Gain, Common Stocks, Preferred Stocks.
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14) |
How Common Stocks Are Traded, Logic Behind The Pricing of Stocks, Capitalization Rate. |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
1) |
Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. |
4 |
2) |
Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. |
3 |
3) |
Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. |
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4) |
Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. |
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5) |
Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. |
3 |
6) |
Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. |
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7) |
Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. |
4 |
8) |
Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. |
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9) |
Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. |
4 |
10) |
Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. |
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