This course has the following objectives:
1) provides students with an appreciation of the theories and methodologies of financial modeling.
2) trains students to apply finance theories to solve various problems in financial management,
investments, portfolio management, and risk management.
This objective is achieved by teaching on how to design and implement financial models in the computer,
with Excel as the main tool. It covers four classes of models: Corporate Finance models, Portfolio Models,
Option-Pricing Models and Bond Models. It also covers simulation, some numerical methods, and VBA
programming as well.