SOBEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3C3
Text Box: Home Text Box: Vita Text Box: Research Text Box: Teaching Text Box: Links Text Box: Business Finance — FINA5561/MFIN6663 Text Box: The path-breaking advances in finance theory and practice over the past several decades have profoundly changed the financial world. These changes are further accelerated by the extensive globalization of financial markets and the rapid development in financial technologies in recent years. Furthermore, with the recent spectacular debacles of systematically important financial institutions, it has become imperative for any serious player in the financial world to understand the complex interplay of forces that determine value of financial assets. This course provides an introduction to modern finance theory and its applications within a unified framework. Text Box: Course Summary Text Box: Capital Structure Theories Long-term Financing Market Efficiency Financial Derivatives Real Option Text Box: Finance is sexy!! Text Box: Topics Covered in the First Part Text Box: Topics Covered in the Second Part Text Box: Introduction to Financial Market Time Value of Money Basic Asset Pricing Capital Budgeting Portfolio Theory Text Box: Text Box: Go to the Blackboard for the Course Materials for