ØABED4800 Advanced Corporate Finance and Research Methodology Course description

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Applied Statistical Methods (Statistiske metoder), Econometrics, and Corporate finance (Finansstyring)

Individual written exam (multiple-choice questions) under supervision, up to 2 hours.

After completing the course, the student should have the following overall learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student has

• advanced knowledge about the differences between the characteristics of a corporation and other forms of organizing a business and how these characteristics affect investment, financing, and risk-taking policies of a business.
• advanced knowledge about how companies raise private and public capital, decide on capital structure, and implement valuations.
• advanced knowledge about how companies can engage in value enhancing strategies and complete mergers and acquisitions (M&As).
• advanced knowledge about how companies determine payout policies and executive compensation.
• advanced knowledge about empirical techniques used in contemporary academic research to test corporate finance theories and when to use them.

Skills

The student can

• review and discuss key concepts in corporate finance
• apply knowledge acquired and relevant theories to his/her work with his/her master's thesis
• use relevant empirical methods to carry out limited empirical research projects.

General competence

The student

• is able to analyze and propose solutions to contemporary corporate finance problems managers of companies face in their day-to-day business.
• can apply his/her knowledge and skills in new areas in order to carry out advanced assignments and projects.
• can communicate extensive independent work and master language and terminology of the academic field.
• can communicate about academic issues, analyses, and conclusions in the field, both with specialists and the general public.

Pass/fail.

One external and one internal examiner control the set of questions, the internal examiner controls the answers.

BIOB1050, ERGOB1050, FYB1050, RAB1050, SYKK1050, SYKP1050, TAB1050 and VERB1050 overlap 100 %.

The following aids are permitted:

• One dictionary (Native language-English/English-native language or English-English).
• Calculator (see regulations for the use of calculators in the programme description)

Grade scale A-F

The exam papers are assessed by one internal and one external examiner.

At least 25% of the exam papers will be assessed by two examiners. The grades awarded for the papers assessed by two examiners form the basis for determining the level for all the exam papers.