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Syllabus

FÖ0459 Quantitative finance, 15.0 Credits

Investering och finansiering

Subjects

Economics Business Administration

Education cycle

Master’s level

Modules

Title	Credits	Code
Assignments	5.0	0202
Exam	10.0	0203

Advanced study in the main field

Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Master’s level (A1N)

Grading scale

Language

English

Prior knowledge

Knowledge equivalent to 180 credits, including 90 credits within business administration or economics. 15 credits microeconomics must also be included as well as 15 credits statistics or 5 credits mathematics and 5 credits statistics. Knowledge equivalent to English 6.

Objectives

The course is intended to provide a dynamic perspective on economic issues related to the firm´s capital expenditures as well as to financing capital expenditures.

After successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:

• account for the investment process and the economic objectives of the firm,

• analyse investment related cash flows considering the effects of taxes, inflation and uncertainty,

• analyse the determinants of optimal lifetime and replacement of real assets,

• analyse the determinants of capital structure and proper capacity to analyse a situation when investment and financing decisions interact,

• analyse an investment decision from a portfolio perspective as well as the use of real option theory in the investment decision making process.

Content

The course is implemented with lectures, problem classes and exercises.

The course covers investment theory, continuos as well as discrete measures for evaluating investment under certainty as well as under uncertainty over future conditions. Additional major topics include portfolio theory and applications of portfolio management to agricultural investment. Also, the determinants of capital structure are addressed with a specific emphasis to how personal taxes, transaction costs and product quality choices affects the capital structure and the real capital employed at the firm level.

The specific contents of the course are:

• Introduction, classification of investments, the value of time

• Financial mathematics; series and interest

• Measures for evaluating investments including fiscal and inflationary concerns

• Economic life-time and replacement decision analysis

• Evaluating investment decisions under uncertainty

• Portfolio theory and expected utility

• Capital Asset Pricing Model

• Arbitrage Pricing Model

• Evaluating the interactive investment and financing decision

• Option theory

• The investment process

The topics "Investment theory" and "Option theory" addresses economics issues that are of central relevance in the governance of small businesses as well as in the manangement of natural resources.

Grading form

The grade requirements within the course grading system are set out in specific criteria. These criteria must be available by the course start at the latest.

Formats and requirements for examination

Passed exam.

Passed assignments.

• If a student has failed an examination, the examiner has the right to issue supplementary assignments. This applies if it is possible and there are grounds to do so.
• The examiner can provide an adapted assessment to students entitled to study support for students with disabilities following a decision by the university. Examiners may also issue an adapted examination or provide an alternative way for the students to take the exam.
• If this syllabus is withdrawn, SLU may introduce transitional provisions for examining students admitted based on this syllabus and who have not yet passed the course.
• For the examination of a degree project (independent project), the examiner may also allow the student to add supplemental information after the deadline for submission. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.

Other information

• The right to participate in teaching and/or supervision only applies for the course instance the student was admitted to and registered on.

• If there are special reasons, students are entitled to participate in components with compulsory attendance when the course is given again. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.

Additional information

The specific entry requirements can also be fulfilled through four years of completed studies at the Forest Science programme with specialization in business administration.



Entry requirements can also be met by students who are admitted to the agricultural programme and have the knowledge equivalent to 180 credits at undergraduate level out of which at least 60 credits in business administration or economics, and have taken (and been approved) the FÖ0449 (Företagsbeslut & mikroekonomi) och FÖ0373 (Lantbruksekonomi och driftsplanering) or NA0179 (Econometrics and programming). Level of English equivalent to upper secondary school English.



Students admitted autumn 2015 or earlier: the requirement of FÖ0449 can be replaced by the course FÖ0395 and the requirement of NA0179 can be replaced by the course NA0161.

Responsible department

Department of Economics