After successful completion of the course, students are able to value unconditional forward contracts and to use them to hedge against foreign exchange risks, interest rate risks, or commodity price risks to increase the firm value.
Furthermore students will be able to value conditional forward contracts and to use them for hedging purposes to increase the firm value.
Forward and Futures
Options
IFRS financial statement issues and valuation methods
Fair Value Hedging, Cash Flow Hedging, Net Investment Hedging
The first session is scheduled for Thursday, March 25th, 2021, 18:00 – 18:30, via Zoom. The Zoom meeting login information are available in “FMR Outline (2021).pdf” (see TISS for downloading).
The TUWEL course with all materials (slides, videos (for first parts of slides), exercises, take home exams) will be available from March 25th, 2021, onwards.
The document “FMR Outline (2021).pdf” (see TISS for downloading) provides especially information about the schedule (including Zoom login data) and the assessment. All sessions and tests will take place in Zoom.
The predecessor of this course (Financial Management and Reporting (330.215)) is the course Project and Enterprise Financing (330.214). Thus, the course Project and Enterprise Financing (330.314) basically takes place in March and April, whereas the course Financial Management and Reporting (330.215) basically takes place in April and May. For students taking part in Financial Management and Reporting (330.215) it is highly recommended also taking part in the course Project and Enterprise Financing (330.314).
Test 1 (topics of the examination: written, solving of short case examples, achievable number of points: 40)
Test 2 (topics of the examination: written, solving of short case examples, achievable number of points: 20)
Several Take Home Exams (Solving of a case examples, in total achievable number of points: 40)