BUS 520 Financial Management
This course studies the effects of time and uncertainty on decision making. Topics include discounted cash flow valuation, stock and bond valuation, the term structure of interest rates, bond duration, capital budgeting under certainty and uncertainty, portfolio theory, asset pricing models and efficient markets. The goal of this course is to teach you to solve real problems using regression analysis and related statistical techniques for quantitative analysis of data. By the end of the course, you should understand what regression is and how to apply it in a variety of decision-making contexts. As well as understanding the statistical theory underlying regression, you should become familiar with a number of applications of regression in areas such as finance, marketing and management.