Postgraduate Course: Finance, Risk and Uncertainty (MATH11088)
Course Outline
| School | School of Mathematics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Mathematics |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course is available only to students on the 'Financial Operational Research' Degree Programme.
- Identify the main building blocks of modern finance theory;
- Use compounding and discounting to evaluate financial proposals;
- Determine the net present value and internal rate of return of investment proposals;
- Explain the merits of the net present value rule as an investment criteria;
- Appreciate the merits as well as the limitations of the internal rate of return as an investment criterion;
- Determine the cost of borrowing and evaluate financing proposals;
- Define and measure risk;
- Evaluate the risk of investment and securities;
- Construct portfolios to reduce risk exposure;
- Differentiate between efficient and inefficient portfolios;
- Develop the capital asset pricing model;
- Explain and critically evaluate capital market theory;
- Understand the role of beta as a measure of risk;
- Undertake the evaluation of capital budget proposals;
- Derive the implications of the capital asset pricing model for security analysis and corporate financial management;
- Explore the behaviour of the prices of financial assets and returns in competitive capital markets;
- Critically appraise the efficiency of the capital market; |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
1. Skills in structuring and taking decisions;
2. An appreciation of the need to evaluate decision criteria in relation to the objectives of the decision;
3. An ability to construct and manipulate mathematical models;
4. An appreciation of the role of abstract reasoning in understanding and approaching practical problems;
5. The ability to assess and test theories and hypotheses on the basis of empirical evidence. |
Assessment Information
| Continuous Assessment 30%; Examination 70% |
Special Arrangements
| MSc Financial Modelling and Optimization and MSc Financial Operational Research students only. |
Additional Information
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| Keywords | FRU |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sotirios Sabanis
Tel: (0131 6)50 5084
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Course secretary | Mrs Kathryn Mcphail
Tel: (0131 6)50 4885
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