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FIN 502 Principles Of Finance 3 Credits
This course develops an understanding of the theoretical and practical issues relating to financial management. Fundamental financial concepts from the perspective of financial managers/entrepreneurs are examined and practical applications within local and global contexts are discussed. Topics include use of accounting information for decision making/performance evaluation, financial statement & ratio analyses, financial planning, time value of money, capital budgeting, risk-return relationship, capital structure, valuation of financial securities & firms, risk management, and derivatives.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Principles Of Finance 3
Spring 2022-2023 Principles Of Finance 3
Spring 2021-2022 Principles Of Finance 3
Spring 2020-2021 Principles Of Finance 3
Spring 2019-2020 Principles Of Finance 3
Spring 2018-2019 Principles Of Finance 3
Spring 2017-2018 Principles Of Finance 3
Spring 2016-2017 Principles Of Finance 3
Spring 2015-2016 Principles Of Finance 3
Fall 2014-2015 Principles Of Finance 3
Fall 2013-2014 Principles Of Finance 3
Spring 2012-2013 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2011-2012 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2010-2011 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2009-2010 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2008-2009 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2007-2008 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2006-2007 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2005-2006 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2004-2005 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2003-2004 Financial Resources Management (GSM504) 3
Spring 2002-2003 Financial Resources Management (GSM504) 3
Spring 2001-2002 Financial Resources Management (GSM504) 3
Spring 2000-2001 Financial Resources Management (GSM504) 3
Spring 1999-2000 Financial Resources Management (GSM504) 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite:
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 523 Derivatives 3 Credits
This course serves as a comprehensive introduction to derivative securities. Naturally, forward contracts, futures, options, and swaps are the focal point of the course. While the main emphasis is on the use of derivatives as risk-transferring/minimizing devices, valuations of such contracts are also included. In addition to hedging strategies to be created by any of the derivative securities, various other trading strategies involving options (spreads and combinations) are presented. A solid coverage of no arbitrage based pricing is provided as the common underlying premise to valuing derivative securities. Therewith, cost-of-carry valuation of forwards and futures, binomial pricing of options, dynamic delta-hedging, the Black-Scholes option pricing formula, and swap pricing are introduced.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2007-2008 Derivatives 3
Fall 2006-2007 Derivatives 1.5
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 524 Private Equity 1.5 Credits
The purpose of this course is to familiarize the students with private equity firms, and valuation of private equity investment. In an imperfect market, Private Equity firms provide an important financial intermediation service by facilitating start-ups' and small firms' access to equity funds. Therefore, it is important to understand how Private Equity firms operate, and what is needed to attract them to a market. Furthermore, valuation of private equity investments poses a problem as standard DCF methods are not applicable, and real options method is required. This course starts with an introduction to valuation of derivative securities as background for real options, and proceeds to discussion of private equity.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2005-2006 Private Equity 1.5
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 525 Portfolio Management 3 Credits
This course is designed to study the theoretical and practical aspects of modern portfolio theory. The course is intended for those students who are interested in working in the investments area as well as those who want to as those who want to become informed individual investors. Based on the interest of the class and the emphasis of the instructor, a selection of the following topics will be covered: overview of the investment environment and how securities are traded; valuation of major investment instruments such as stocks, bonds, options and other derivatives; risk aversion and the risk-return trade-off; asset allociation; portfolio optimization; modern portfolio theories including the Capital Asset Pricing Model, Arbitrage Pricing Theory, and multifactor models; market efficiency and behavioral finance; pricing and managing fixed income portfolios; security analysis and equity valuation; the theory and practice of portfolio management and portfolio performance evaluation.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2007-2008 Portfolio Management 3
Spring 2006-2007 Portfolio Management 3
Spring 2005-2006 Portfolio Management 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 527 Financial Modeling 3 Credits
Financial modeling is the quantitative representation of the relationship among the variables of financial problems. A well-designed financial model captures the interdependencies among the variables at hand and makes it easy to answer "what-if" questions. This course tackles common financial problems -ranging from the simple NPV analysis to the relatively more complex VaR(value at risk) analysis, option valuation, portfolio optimization, and term-structure modeling- and help the students gain the necessary competencies in building appropriate financial models for each case. The aim is to get the students to the skill level where they can model and solve most financial problems they will face in the business world. Excel and VBA will be used throughout the course.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2007-2008 Financial Modeling 3
Prerequisite: OPIM 530 - Masters - Min Grade D
and (FIN 502 - Masters - Min Grade D
or FIN 552 - Masters - Min Grade D)
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 528 Investments and Equity Markets I 1.5 Credits
This investments course will equip students with techniques on the valuation of basic financial instruments, on fundamental and technical analysis, on portfolio management, performance measurement, and with information about efficient markets, microstructure of financial markets, microstucture of financial markets, risk and return, and risk management.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2008-2009 Investments and Equity Markets I 1.5
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 529 Investment Management 1.5 Credits
The main objective of this course is to provide you a useful toolset of theoretical and practical aspects of investment management. In the first part of the course; the main theoretical structure of Modern Portfolio Theory will be introduced by covering Markowitz mean-variance optimization and risk-return trade-off, basic financial market organization and functioning, equilibrium models and by giving some background information about traditional asset classes; namely fixed income secrities and equities. After this theoretical introduction; practical investment management concepts; such as Portfolio Management Process and Investment Policy Statement, formation of capital market expectations, strategic/tactical asset allocation will be summarized in the second part of the course. By the end of the course, students will have built an investment management notion and are expected to follow and think about financial markets in a more structured way.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2016-2017 Investment Management 1.5
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 556 Financial Markets and Instruments 1.5 Credits
This course will cover special topics in financial markets and instruments.Course objective is to provide students with a working knowledge of the theory and skills to apply the techniques developed in Fixed Income markets. It also aims to introduce students to more quantitative aspects of capital markets.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Summer 2015-2016 Financial Markets and Instruments 1.5
Prerequisite: FIN 502 - Masters - Min Grade D
or FIN 502 - Doctorate - Min Grade D
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 591 Special Topics in Finance 1 1.5 Credits
These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 592 Special Topics in Finance 2 1.5 Credits
These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 593 Special Topics in Finance 3 3 Credits
These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 594 Special Topics in Finance 4 3 Credits
These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2006-2007 Special Topics in Finance 4 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 599 Wealth Management 1.5 Credits
The course offers a hands-on experience about the practical aspects of financial portfolio management. Along with the concepts covered in the class, students are expected to build a portfolio management notion by thinking on real world problems. The main themes are investment decision making process and investment policy statement, management of individual and institutional portfolios, integrating capital market expectations and asset allocation, technical and practical aspects of portfolio management in traditional asset classes and alternative investments.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Wealth Management 1.5
Spring 2022-2023 Wealth Management 1.5
Spring 2021-2022 Wealth Management 1.5
Spring 2020-2021 Wealth Management 1.5
Spring 2019-2020 Wealth Management 1.5
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 601 Financial Economics 3 Credits
Choice under uncertainty, stochastic dominance, Arrow-Debreu model of complete markets, portfolio choice, mutual fund separation theorems Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT).
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2010-2011 Financial Economics 3
Spring 2008-2009 Financial Economics 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 602 Advanced Asset Pricing Theory 3 Credits
This course focuses on particular topics and / or perspectives within asset pricing theory. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature on the topic. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 610 Research Methods in Finance 3 Credits
This course introduces doctoral students to different research areas in finance and provides an overview of the contemporary topics in financial economics. Subfields covered in the course include portfolio theory, derivative markets, asset and risk management, capital structure decisions, mergers and acquisitions, credit rankings, market microstructure, financial intermediaries and international finance among others. Topics to be covered include common threats to validity in research design, decisions regarding the choice of samples and settings, measurement issues such as reliability and validity, estimation methods, data collection tools, and ethics in planning, conduct, and publication of research.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2017-2018 Research Methods in Finance 3
Spring 2016-2017 Research Methods in Finance 3
Spring 2015-2016 Research Methods in Finance 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 611 Corporate Finance Theory 3 Credits
This seminar deals with contemporary issues in corporate financial theory and some related empirics. It focuses on selected classic and current theoretical research in corporate finance. The main objective is to provide an advanced and rigorous background in the mainstream issues of modern corporate finance. Journal articles constitute the primary material for the seminar.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2010-2011 PhD Seminar in Finance I : Corporate 3
Fall 2009-2010 Corporate Finance Theory 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 612 Empirical Finance 3 Credits
This course presents available empirical methods that are used to test the theoretical models covered in FIN 601 and/or FIN 602. The aim is to provide an in-depth review of the empirical finance research. Students are expected to understand and apply these methods on selected topics including asset pricing models, portfolio valuation, time-varying volatility, capital structure, payout and corporate takeover theories.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Summer 2016-2017 Empirical Finance 3
Spring 2009-2010 Empirical Finance 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 618 Asset Pricing Theory 3 Credits
Expected utility and risk aversion, choice under uncertainty, consumption-based asset pricing, contingent claims markets, mean-variance frontier and beta, factor pricing models, continuous time, investment-based asset pricing
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 619 Empirical Corporate Finance 3 Credits
This course presents available empirical methods that are used to test the theoretical models covered in FIN611. The aim is to provide an in-depth review of the empirical finance research. Students are expected to understand and apply these methods on selected topics including capital structure, payout and corporate takeover theories.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2022-2023 Empirical Corporate Finance 3
Spring 2021-2022 Empirical Corporate Finance 3
Fall 2011-2012 PhD Seminar in Finance III: Empirical Corporate Finance 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 620 Empirical Asset Pricing 3 Credits
This course presents available empirical methods that are used to test the theoretical models covered in FIN618. The aim is to provide an in-depth review of the empirical finance research. Students are expected to understand and apply these methods on selected topics including asset pricing models, portfolio valuation, and time-varying volatility.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2021-2022 Empirical Asset Pricing 3
Fall 2017-2018 PhD Seminar in Finance IV: Empirical Asset Pricing 3
Fall 2011-2012 PhD Seminar in Finance IV: Empirical Asset Pricing 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 621 Special Topics in Finance I 3 Credits
In this course, doctoral students are expected to write a research proposal, conduct literature review, or replicate in part an existing research paper in the field. The course guides her/him through the various stages involved in formulating a research question, investigating existing literature on the topic, and executing preliminary scientific analysis. The course is aimed to be a first step in writing a dissertation proposal.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2022-2023 Special Topics in Finance I 3
Spring 2021-2022 Special Topics in Finance I 3
Spring 2020-2021 PhD Seminar in Finance V: Research Paper I 3
Fall 2017-2018 PhD Seminar in Finance V: Research Paper I 3
Fall 2016-2017 PhD Seminar in Finance V: Research Paper I 3
Spring 2011-2012 PhD Seminar in Finance V: Research Paper I 3
Fall 2010-2011 PhD Seminar in Finance V: Research Paper I 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 622 Special Topics in Finance II 3 Credits
In this course, each doctoral student will be required to write an original research paper. The course guides her/him through the various stages involved in creating scientific work. The students are required to present their work in front of faculty and defend their thesis. Upon receiving feedback, the student completes the paper and submits it for final evaluation. The course is aimed to be a first step in guiding the doctoral student towards writing a dissertation.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2017-2018 PhD Seminar in Finance V: Research Paper II 3
Spring 2016-2017 PhD Seminar in Finance V: Research Paper II 3
Spring 2011-2012 PhD Seminar in Finance V: Research Paper II 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 802 Principles Of Finance 3 Credits
This course develops an understanding of the theoretical and practical issues relating to financial management. Fundamental financial concepts from the perspective of financial managers/entrepreneurs are examined and practical applications within local and global contexts are discussed. Topics include use of accounting information for decision making/performance evaluation, financial statement & ratio analyses, financial planning, time value of money, capital budgeting, risk-return relationship, capital structure, valuation of financial securities & firms, risk management, and derivatives.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2023-2024 Principles Of Finance 3
Spring 2022-2023 Principles Of Finance 3
Spring 2021-2022 Principles Of Finance 3
Spring 2020-2021 Principles Of Finance 3
Spring 2019-2020 Principles Of Finance 3
Fall 2018-2019 Principles Of Finance 3
Spring 2017-2018 Principles Of Finance 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 806 Behavioral Finance 1.5 Credits
Behavioral finance is a relatively new but quickly expanding field that seeks to provide explanations for people’s financial decisions by combining behavioral and cognitive psychological theory with conventional economics and finance. Neoclassical economists assume that; i) all individuals act rationally to maximize their utility for both monetary and non-monetary gains, and ii) markets are fully efficient and prices reflect all available, relevant information. However, in reality these assumptions often do not hold. Behavioral finance helps explain why and how markets might be inefficient, why people are imperfect processors of information and why they are often subject to biases, errors and perceptual illusions. CFA exam curriculum devotes more and more weight to behavioural finance every year. Portfolio managers, investment advisors, consultants, CFOs and individual investors must have an in-depth understanding of different behavioral biases and their impacts on financial decision making. This course aims to be a guide to understanding the fundamentals of behavioral finance and reasons and impacts of irrational investor behaviour. Throughout the course, we will cover psychological biases that effect the financial decision-making process and examine their impacts on financial markets and on people’s lives. The course will be supported by real-life case studies, analyses of investor behaviour, cases of behavioral interventions to modify investor behaviour and interviews / Q&A sessions with investment practitioners.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Behavioral Finance 1.5
Spring 2022-2023 Behavioral Finance 1.5
Spring 2021-2022 Behavioral Finance 1.5
Spring 2020-2021 Behavioral Finance 1.5
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 824 Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring 1.5 Credits
Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring Valuation, deal structuring, leveraged buyouts and corporate structurings will be the outline of the course.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 829 Investment Management 1.5 Credits
Investment Management The main objective of this course is to provide you a useful tool set of theoretical and practical aspects of investment management. In the first part of the course; the main theoretical structure of Modern Portfolio Theory will be introduced by covering Markowitz mean- variance optimization and risk-return trade-off, basic financial market organization and functioning, equilibrium models and by giving some background information about traditional asset classes; namely fixed income secrities and equities. After this theoretical introduction; practical investment management concepts; such as Portfolio Management Process and Investment Policy Statement, formation of capital market expectations, strategic/tactical asset allocation will be summarized in the second part of the course. By the end of the course, students will have built an investment management notion and are expected to follow and think about financial markets in a more structured way.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2021-2022 Investment Management 1.5
Spring 2020-2021 Investment Management 1.5
Spring 2019-2020 Investment Management 1.5
Spring 2018-2019 Investment Management 1.5
Spring 2017-2018 Investment Management 1.5
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 899 Wealth Management 1.5 Credits
The course offers a hands-on experience about the practical aspects of financial portfolio management. Along with the concepts covered in the class, students are expected to build a portfolio management notion by thinking on real world problems. The main themes are investment decision making process and investment policy statement, management of individual and institutional portfolios, integrating capital market expectations and asset allocation, technical and practical aspects of portfolio management in traditional asset classes and alternative investments.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Wealth Management 1.5
Spring 2022-2023 Wealth Management 1.5
Spring 2021-2022 Wealth Management 1.5
Spring 2020-2021 Wealth Management 1.5
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 901 Introduction to Finance 1.5 Credits
This course introduces basic financial concepts and tools with an emphasis on cash, risk/return, and value as they form the basis for a sound financial way of thinking. Topics are intended to serve as a foundation for more advanced subjects covered in Managerial Finance class and include the following: financial statement & ratio analyses, financial planning, time value of money, financial markets and securities, bond and stock valuation, and an overview of corporate finance.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2006-2007 Introduction to Finance 1.5
Summer 2005-2006 Introduction to Finance 1.5
Fall 2005-2006 Introduction to Finance 1.5
Fall 2004-2005 Introduction to Finance 1.5
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 902 Managerial Finance 3 Credits
Fundamental financial concepts from the perspective of financial managers/entrepreneurs are examined and practical applications within local and global contexts are discussed. Topics include accounting information for decision making/performance evaluation, financial statement & ratio analyses, financial planning, time value of money, capital budgeting, risk-return relationship, capital structure, valuation of financial securities & firms, risk management, and derivatives.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2022-2023 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2021-2022 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2020-2021 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2019-2020 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2018-2019 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2017-2018 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2016-2017 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2015-2016 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2014-2015 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2013-2014 Managerial Finance 3
Summer 2012-2013 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2012-2013 Managerial Finance 3
Summer 2011-2012 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2010-2011 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2009-2010 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2008-2009 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2007-2008 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2006-2007 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2005-2006 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2004-2005 Managerial Finance 3
Spring 2003-2004 Financial Management (GSM541) 3
Spring 2002-2003 Financial Management (GSM541) 3
Spring 2001-2002 Financial Management (GSM541) 3
Spring 2000-2001 Financial Management (GSM541) 3
Fall 2000-2001 Financial Management (GSM541) 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 9 ECTS (9 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 906 Behavioral Finance 1.5 Credits
Behavioral finance is a relatively new but quickly expanding field that seeks to provide explanations for people’s financial decisions by combining behavioral and cognitive psychological theory with conventional economics and finance. Neoclassical economists assume that; i) all individuals act rationally to maximize their utility for both monetary and non-monetary gains, and ii) markets are fully efficient and prices reflect all available, relevant information. However, in reality these assumptions often do not hold. Behavioral finance helps explain why and how markets might be inefficient, why people are imperfect processors of information and why they are often subject to biases, errors and perceptual illusions. CFA exam curriculum devotes more and more weight to behavioural finance every year. Portfolio managers, investment advisors, consultants, CFOs and individual investors must have an in-depth understanding of different behavioral biases and their impacts on financial decision making. This course aims to be a guide to understanding the fundamentals of behavioral finance and reasons and impacts of irrational investor behaviour. Throughout the course, we will cover psychological biases that effect the financial decision-making process and examine their impacts on financial markets and on people’s lives. The course will be supported by real-life case studies, analyses of investor behaviour, cases of behavioral interventions to modify investor behaviour and interviews / Q&A sessions with investment practitioners.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Behavioral Finance 1.5
Spring 2022-2023 Behavioral Finance 1.5
Spring 2021-2022 Behavioral Finance 1.5
Spring 2020-2021 Behavioral Finance 1.5
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 913 Money & Banking 1.5 Credits
The course will provide an introduction to macroeconomics. Characteristics of financial institutions will also be examined in detail.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Money & Banking 1.5
Spring 2019-2020 Money & Banking 1.5
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 929 Investment Management 1.5 Credits
The main objective of this course is to provide you a useful tool set of theoretical and practical aspects of investment management. In the first part of the course; the main theoretical structure of Modern Portfolio Theory will be introduced by covering Markowitz mean- variance optimization and risk- return trade-off, basic financial market organization and functioning, equilibrium models and by giving some background information about traditional asset classes; namely fixed income secrities and equities. After this theoretical introduction; practical investment management concepts; such as Portfolio Management Process and Investment Policy Statement, formation of capital market expectations, strategic/tactical asset allocation will be summarized in the second part of the course. By the end of the course, students will have built an investment management notion and are expected to follow and think about financial markets in a more structured way.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2020-2021 Investment Management 1.5
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 951 Investments&Portfolio Management 3 Credits
The primary objectives of this course is to introduce the students to the concepts and analytical tools of modern finance. The course together with the teaching methods will provide the students with a broad overview of concepts and principles of financial decision making, with particular emphasis on time value of money, equity and bond valuation, risk and return, capital allocation line, asset pricing models (capital asset pricing model and arbitrage pricing theory), security market analysis, alpha, mispricing (money making opportunities!), option strategies and the relevant corporate decisions in maximizing the firm value. The course will emphasize intuition and insight, as well as rigorous analysis in order to foster students? interest and skills in applying financial theory to practical applications.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Summer 2010-2011 Investments&Portfolio Management 3
Summer 2006-2007 Investments 3
Summer 2004-2005 Investments 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 9 ECTS (9 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 953 International Finance 1.5 Credits
Determination of exchange rates; foreign exchange markets, country risk, international banking, international capital markets and stock exchanges, globalization of financial markets, global cash management, special topics pertaining to the financial management of multinational corporations.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2018-2019 International Finance 1.5
Summer 2014-2015 International Finance 1.5
Summer 2013-2014 International Finance 1.5
Fall 2013-2014 International Finance 1.5
Summer 2012-2013 International Finance 1.5
Summer 2011-2012 International Finance 1.5
Summer 2010-2011 International Finance 1.5
Summer 2009-2010 International Finance 1.5
Summer 2007-2008 International Finance 1.5
Summer 2004-2005 International Finance 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 4 ECTS (4 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 954 MNCs & Global Trade 1.5 Credits
This course is about global trade and its main actors , namely, MNCs (Multinational Corporations), with specific emphasis on Turkey.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Summer 2014-2015 MNCs & Global Trade 1.5
Summer 2012-2013 MNCs & Global Trade 1.5
Summer 2011-2012 MNCs & Global Trade 1.5
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 955 Applied Corporate Finance 1.5 Credits
This course intends to provide a rigorous treatment of financial concepts and theories introduced in Managerial Finance class. The topics develop on issues/discussions related to corporations in real & hypothetical settings and include the followings: long term financing, cost of capital, corporate valuation, acquisitions and takeovers, economic value added, short term financial management, derivatives, and currency risk management.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2013-2014 Applied Corporate Finance 1.5
Summer 2012-2013 Applied Corporate Finance 1.5
Summer 2008-2009 Applied Corporate Finance 3
Summer 2005-2006 Applied Corporate Finance 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 4 ECTS (4 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 956 Financial Markets and Instruments 1.5 Credits
This course will cover special topics in financial markets and instruments.Course objective is to provide students with a working knowledge of the theory and skills to apply the techniques developed in Fixed Income markets. It also aims to introduce students to more quantitative aspects of capital markets.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2015-2016 Financial Markets and Instruments 1.5
Summer 2013-2014 Financial Markets and Instruments 1.5
Summer 2012-2013 Financial Markets and Instruments 1.5
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
FIN 957 Bank Management 3 Credits
Basic financial concepts, techniques, and strategies used in banking, management of commercial banks assets and liabilities, and how it differs from that of non-bank firms, study of theories justifying existence of banks based on their role in mitigating problems of asymmetric information through loan screening and monitoring, measurement, and management of bank risks.
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Summer 2005-2006 Bank Management 3
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ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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FIN 958 Global Financial Markets 1.5 Credits
This course is an introduction to the global financial markets that are used by banks, multinational corporations, and government agencies, in the conduct of their business and implementation of economic policy. The global financial markets include the market for foreign exchange, the Eurocurrency and related money markets, the international capital markets, the commodity markets and the markets for forward contracts, options, swaps and other derivatives. The course seeks to explain how these markets work both in the context of basic principles of economics and finance and by means of examples and applications using several case studies. It will also look at a very important risk namely the exchange rate risk for multinational corporations, banks and other entities (hedge funds, shadow banks, etc.) and discuss how to manage and hedge these risks using various financial instruments. Finally the course will provide theoretical and empirical analysis on the prediction, prevention and management of various financial crisis, such as banking, currency, debt and balance of payments crises.
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Spring 2023-2024 Global Financial Markets 1.5
Spring 2022-2023 Global Financial Markets 1.5
Spring 2021-2022 Global Financial Markets 1.5
Spring 2020-2021 Global Financial Markets 1.5
Spring 2019-2020 Global Financial Markets 1.5
Spring 2018-2019 Global Financial Markets 1.5
Spring 2017-2018 Global Financial Markets 1.5
Spring 2016-2017 Global Financial Markets 1.5
Summer 2015-2016 Global Financial Markets 1.5
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ECTS Credit: 4 ECTS (4 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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FIN 959 Merger and Acquisitions 1.5 Credits
This course examines (1) issues related to structuring an M&A deal and forming an opinion about a proposed transactions, such as value creation in mergers, choice of payment method, valuation, deal protection, and investment bank due diligence process; and (2) financial reporting issues that accompany M&A, including accounting for acquisitions and the related goodwill and in-process R&D, and accounting for foreign transactions and operations. The class will combine readings, discussion of relevant news, short cases, and quantitative and qualitative analyses (hands -on experience). Most assignments will be done in teams.
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Summer 2007-2008 Merger and Acquisitions 1.5
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ECTS Credit: 4 ECTS (4 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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FIN 999 Wealth Management 1.5 Credits
The course offers a hands-on experience about the practical aspects of financial portfolio management. Along with the concepts covered in the class, students are expected to build a portfolio management notion by thinking on real world problems. The main themes are investment decision making process and investment policy statement, management of individual and institutional portfolios, integrating capital market expectations and asset allocation, technical and practical aspects of portfolio management in traditional asset classes and alternative investments.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2022-2023 Wealth Management 1.5
Spring 2020-2021 Wealth Management 1.5
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ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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