This course covers topics in finance: financial statement analysis, the operations of financial markets and their efficiency, international financial transactions, time value of money, diversification and analysis of risk, valuation of financial assets (stocks and bonds), capital budgeting, capital structure, and an introduction to derivatives. Emphasis is given to both theory and application with particular attention paid to using spreadsheets for building simple financial models, working with a case study, and the writing of brief reports.
Please note that the course is a 300-level course in finance with a prerequisite of one year of accounting (financial and managerial), and a semester each of statistics and macroeconomics which includes college algebra - it is not an "introductory" class. Students should be prepared to review some of this material as part of the course.
The course materials are posted on Moodle, our leaning management system, available at http://moodle.johncabot.edu/ .
If you have technical problems at any stage of this process, get in touch with [email protected].
Students are strongly encouraged to obtain the Bloomberg Market Certificate (BMC) upon completion of the course. Book a Bloomberg terminal.
What is a Bloomberg Terminal? It is a database into financial information and so when you learn how to use this database you can have this recognized with a "Bloomberg Market Concepts Certification." Here is the link to the Frohring Library where you can learn about the Bloomberg Terminals and complete the certification:
https://johncabot.libguides.com/bloomberg/BMC
JCU Frohring Library has two Bloomberg Terminals fully functioning – you can just go in and use them. We also still have around twenty accounts that can be used for those students that cannot come to campus. These students should get in touch with Livia Piotto ([email protected]) for accessing the web version as we definitely still have that as an option.
This is very nice to do - it is not hard but, takes about 8 hours to complete and nearly all of our students who are majors in Economics and Finance have done this (required in the EC 480 Seminar). Once you have the certificate, you put on your CV.