Economia e gestione delle imprese (Anno Accademico 2017/2018) - Financial management

In order to be eligible for the exam the student must have viewed all the video lessons. These requirements must be met by the student no later than the closing date of the exam booking.

The following items do not constitute requirements for admission to the exam but constitute elements of evaluation by the teacher / tutor on the effectiveness of teaching:

1. The results of the quantitative tracing (evaluations and statistical data) of the activities carried out in the didactic cyberspace in which the student took part (participation in interactive classes, number of accesses to the video library and to the media library, number of exercises completed and relative average evaluation/self-evaluation)

2. Qualitative evaluation made by the tutor as it regards the activities carried out by each student, related to synchronic tutoring (telephone, chats, video-chats, audio and videoconferencing systems)

3. Qualitative evaluation by the tutor of the activities, carried out by each student, related to diachronic tutoring (e-mail, discussion forum).

At the end of the course, the successful student should be able to:

1. master the basic theories of international finance;
2. apply basic theories of finance into case analysis or simulated cases.

Contents of the course:

1. Multinational enterprise and multinational financial management 

2. The determination of the exchange rate

3. IThe international monetary system

4. Parity condition in international finance and currency forecasting

5. Balance of payments and international economic linkages 

6. Foreign exchange market

7. Measuring and managing translation risk-part1

8. Measuring and managing transaction risk-part2

9. Measuring and managing economic exposure

10. International bond market

11. International equity market

12. International banking and money market

13. International cost of capital

14. International portfolio investment 

15. Country risk analysis

16. Financing foreign trade

17. Corporate strategy and foreign direct investment

18. Capital budgeting for the multinational corporation

19. Managing working capital

20. Managing the multinational financial management