{"id":7488,"date":"2022-09-07T16:11:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ihu.gr\/ucips\/?page_id=7488"},"modified":"2023-07-17T18:53:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T15:53:36","slug":"foundations-of-finance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ihu.gr\/ucips\/course-information\/foundations-of-finance","title":{"rendered":"Foundations of Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1331.2px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:10px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:10px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h3>Foundations of Finance<\/h3>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><div id=\"post-1429\" class=\"post-1429 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><strong>Aims<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aim of this module is to provide students with the foundations of finance theory needed in accounting valuation methods. This will be achieved through the development of a common vocabulary and a set of tools that will assist students to gain a basic understanding of the theory of modern finance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learning Outcomes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On completing this module, students will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand the fundamental principles of modern finance theory;<\/li>\n<li>Appreciate the foundations of capital budgeting decisions;<\/li>\n<li>Understand the foundations of valuing financial assets;<\/li>\n<li>Understand the principles of risk in capital markets;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Knowledge and Understanding<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support decision making with regard to investment and capital expenditure analysis, including how they should be financed and structured;<\/li>\n<li>Be familiar with the fundamental principles of financial economics;<\/li>\n<li>Understand the concepts and principles of risk and return;<\/li>\n<li>Understand basic financial concepts, computational methods, and techniques of financial analysis;<\/li>\n<li>Understand the principles of portfolio theory and asset pricing;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Skills<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apply financial and investment decision criteria in a variety of business cases;<\/li>\n<li>Utilize valuation concepts as applied to shares and bonds;<\/li>\n<li>Assist decision making with regard to investment and capital expenditure problems;<\/li>\n<li>Use models and their applications in relation to investment and business decisions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Content<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The module aims to develop practical skills and this requires substantial time in practising with problems, exercises, quizzes and other such learning drills.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction and Basic Principles<\/li>\n<li>Agency Problems and Corporate Governance<\/li>\n<li>Time value of money<\/li>\n<li>Bond Valuation<\/li>\n<li>Term Structure of Interest Rates<\/li>\n<li>Stock Valuation<\/li>\n<li>Investment Decision Rules<\/li>\n<li>Making Investment Decisions with the Net Present Value Rule<\/li>\n<li>Portfolio Theory<\/li>\n<li>Capital Asset Pricing Model<\/li>\n<li>Arbitrage Pricing Theory<\/li>\n<li>The Weighted Average Cost of Capital<\/li>\n<li>Contemporary issues in Finance<\/li>\n<li>Derivatives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3322,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7488","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ihu.gr\/ucips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ihu.gr\/ucips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ihu.gr\/ucips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ihu.gr\/ucips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ihu.gr\/ucips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ihu.gr\/ucips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10632,"href":"https:\/\/www.ihu.gr\/ucips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7488\/revisions\/10632"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ihu.gr\/ucips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ihu.gr\/ucips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}