Course Description
The operations and functions of domestic and international finance markets and institutions. The determinants of bond prices and the level and structure of interest rates. Techniques for measuring and managing risk in financial markets.
Athena Title
Financial Institutions Markets
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in FINA 4000
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Prerequisite
FINA 3000 or FINA 3000E or FINA 3000H
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This course, which focuses on money and capital markets, has three objectives for student learning: 1. Students will learn to interpret and assess the importance of money, credit, and interest rates in a financial system in terms of the functions of capital markets. 2. Students will be able to evaluate firms' balance sheets and debt and equity concentrating on market value versus book value. 3. Students will learn to evaluate the myriad of innovative financial instruments that exist between plain-vanilla debt (bonds) and equity (common stock). The overall objective is for the student to be able to evaluate these important elements of the financial system.
Topical Outline
Financial Systems How Interest Rates are Determined Financial Markets Commercial Banking Financial Institutions Future of Financial Systems
Syllabus