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BUS220

Finance and Investment

Course responsible

Atle Guttormsen

IØR

Number of credits allocated

10.0

Language

Norwegian

Limits for class size

Semester/trimester

August block	Autumn parallel	January block	Spring parallel	June block
			X

Colour explanation: Red/yellow = teaching periods. The red period indicates when the teaching starts.

Teachers

Ole Gjølberg.

Type of course

Lectures: 45 hours, plus direct guidance and guidance over the Internet. Review of exercises.

Reduction of credits for overlapping courses

Students can not be awarded credits for both BUS220 and RØP310.

Prerequisites

Basic financial accounting. Basic cost accounting. Introductory mathematics and statistics.

Exam

Grading

A-F

Examination aids

B1: distributed calculator, no other aids.

Course frequency

Annually

Comment on frequency

The couse can be given in the spring semester from the academic year 2011/2012

Teaching methods

Lectures, exercises, group work.

Examiner

External examiner will control the quality of syllabus, questions for the final examination, and principles for the assessment of the examination answers.

Entrance requirements

Minimum requirements for entrance to higher education in Norway (generell studiekompetanse)

Objective of course

The course should provide the student with basic knowledge and understanding of modern finance and investment theory. Through the course students should acquire necessary theoretical and methodological skills to analyse finance and investment problems in different practical situations.

Course contents

Basic financial mathematics. Net present value. Risk and return. Basic portfolio theory. Capital asset pricing method (CAPM). Pricing of stocks and bonds. Capital budgeting. Project analysis. Cost of capital. Financial structure and dividend policy. Ethical problems in finance.

Syllabus

Distributed at the start of the course.

Last updated

2011-04-12