3904071: International business finance

Description

• Global Financial Environment
• International Parity Conditions
• Foreign Exchange Rate Determination and Forecasting
• The Foreign Exchange Market and Foreign Currency Derivatives
• Foreign Exchange Exposure
• Financing the Global Firm
• Foreign Investment Decisions
• International Trade Finance
• Working Capital Management

Learning Outcomes

• Having at ones disposal comprehensive and integrated knowledge of the majority of core areas in international business finance
• Independently solving problems in international business finance by means of acquired concepts
• Applying procedures and techniques that are specialised and always state-of-the-art
• Identifying, conceptualising and defining new and abstract issues and problems in international business finance
• Communicating acquired information comprehensibly to specialists and laities

Lectures Method

Interactive lecture with exercises

Literature

Required reading:

• Eiteman, D.K. /Stonehill, A. I. /Moffett, M.H. (2007). Multinational Business Finance (11th ed.). Boston: Pearson.
• Madura, J. (2006). International Financial Management (8th ed.). Cincinnati: South-Western.
• Sercu, P. /Uppal, R. (1995). International Financial Markets and the Firm. Cincinnati: South-Western.

Materials

Lecture slides, additional literature will be available on moodle.