标题: 爱丁堡大学 College of Humanities & Social Science专业介绍 [打印本页] 作者: Godfery 时间: 2010-5-6 10:29 标题: 爱丁堡大学 College of Humanities & Social Science专业介绍 1、MSc Finance and Investment专业介绍
先把这个专业的情况介绍给大家,主要介绍课程设置、师资配备等,信息共享~
第一学期课程:
Investment Mathematics
Statistics for Finance
Financial Markets
Analysis of Corporate Financial Information
两门数学课,两门专业课。
上课的是Andrew Adams, 貌似是纯正英国人。Senior Lecturer in Finance and Director of the Centre for Financial Markets Research at the University of Edinburgh. He has studied financial markets for over thirty years, as a practitioner in the City of London and as an academic. His research interests focus mainly on investment trust pricing and risk.
Topic1: Data: Plots and summaries
Topic 2: Introduction to Probability,包括Random variables, conditional and joint distributi##被过滤##, IID random variables, random walk model
Topic 3: covariance and correlation, normal distribution, cumulative distribution functi##被过滤##, expectation as a 'long run average', central limit theorem等
Topic 4: statistic inference: confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, and p-values
Topic 5: regression analysis, the simple linear regression model, fits, residuals, and r-squared, multiple regression analysis, 看起来很复杂,其实大家仔细看看就会发现,对于学过统计的同学,很多东西都很熟悉。相信大家会对统计的难易程度有一定的了解了。作者: Godfery 时间: 2010-5-6 10:29
Financial Markets
课程如下:
week1: financial markets and institut i o n s
week2: the credit crunch, northern rock, and retail banking
week3: investment banking: the global settlement
week 4: equity capital market
week 5: debt capital markets
sweek 6: fund management and mutual funds
week 7: hedge funds
week 8: pension funds and the pensi o n crisis
week 9: market efficiency and financial regulat i o n
week 10: international comparisi o n
[ 本帖最后由 Godfery 于 2010-5-6 10:31 编辑 ]作者: Godfery 时间: 2010-5-6 10:31 标题: Analysis of Corporate Financial Informati o n 这门课说白了是教你如何分析一家公司的好坏,通过各种报表各种数据各种比率,什么比率说明了公司的哪方面如何如何,对于有问题的方面要如何改进等等。这门课最好要有会计基础,看得懂报表(当然这个老师上课会教)。这门课是和accounting and finance专业的同学一起上。老师是希腊人,口音超级重 要好好适应一段时间。对于基本没有会计基础的我,上课要好好下功夫了。。。
老师是Maria Michou。MSc Accounting and Finance的programme director,Exeter的MSc, PHD,曾任教于MBS。这门课20个课时的lecture,3个课时的workshop,12个课时的tutorial,和workshop类似,会有很多数据库的training,因为要查很多数据,所以tutor会教你如何使用各种database。考试形式是,30%的group assignment,五个人组成的小组写一篇5000字的论文;期末70%的考试。
课程如下:
week 1: financial statements: form and content of financial statement
Mweek 2: financial statements: form and content of financial statement (continued)
week 3: ratio analysis)
week 4: ratio analysis7
week 5: raionale, drivers and perspectives for financial accounting
week 7: internaional harmonisation of accounting
week 8: fair value)
week 9: economic approcoaches to asset valuation and income theory
week 10: informational perspectives, forecasting models, signalling and the value of information
week 11: valuation mode
第二学期,三门必修课+三门选修课
必修课是:Corporate finance, Derivatives, Research methods in Finance
选修课有:Advanced Finance Theory, Advanced International Accounting, Behavioural Finance and Market Anomalies, Cases in Finance and Investment, Equity valuation, Ethics and Corporate Governance, Portfolio management and investment analysis, Public sector financial management 8门课作者: -Harriet- 时间: 2010-5-7 09:07
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