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BE-408-1 International Finance

Master's Programme in Business Administration , , Master's Programme in Business Administration (5-years)

Autumn

English

Students are requested to have knowledge about investments under uncertainty, CAPM and corporate finance (on the same level as BE-200)

Upon completion of this course students will: have knowledge about international exhange markets and their functions, including understand how exhange rates is decided within various regimes (fixed rates, flexible rates, managed floating etc). have knowledge about how exhange risk measures for MNC's and which tools we have ot limit the risk to a tolerable level. have skills to analyse companies exhange risk positions and be able to recommend how companies should be able to succeed in controlling their exhange positions in both theory and practice.

Give an understandment of exhange markets and study companies international behaviour towards invensments and finance to exhange risk. Exchange markets and the international monetary system. Exchange rate forecasting. Exhange risk. International investments. International financial markets. Multinational corporations (MNC's, their economic management, capital budgeting, tax laws and system fro transfer pricing). Hedging tools and exhange risk.

3 hours with lectures and 1 hour group work ech week

Approved compulsory assignment

4-hour written examination with graded marks

Theoretical

Graduate

Normally fourth year

Head of Department Andre Tofteland or Academic International Coordinator Oddmund Wallevik

Face-to-face

The syllabus will be published on the home page of the course when finalised. See link in the upper right hand corner of the page.

IN-4000- 1 - 7.5 ECTS credits
IN-4000- 2 - 7.5 ECTS credits

No

Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

ECTS Course Catalogue University of Agder 2009-10
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