MSF 717: International Finance and Financial Markets Master Syllabus
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Course Description
Advanced analysis of managing firm’s international financial operations. Topics include currency risk, political risk, returns and funding of international projects, international markets and accounting, and cost of capital. Lecture, discussion, readings.
Course Style
The class will meet synchronously for 7 weeks, and asynchronously for 7 weeks. Synchronous classes will be primarily devoted to new material, while the asynchronous sessions will be mostly to answer back of chapter questions and problem sets. The asynchronous videos will be posted on blackboard by the end of Sunday following the Thursday class.
Course Goals
The primary goal of this course is to build on the students' knowledge from core requirements to introduce the students to the complexities of international financial management and markets. Rapid globalization requires executives to have a deep understanding of the methods and procedures of global finance and trade. This course aims to familiarize many of these concepts in real world situations.
Teaching Methods or Teaching Philosophy
Consider me the piano teacher that would spend what seems to be countless hours on musical style, and techniques that will do you no good in playing “Happy Birthday” after your first lesson, but that by the end of the Summer lets you attend a recital and be able to objectively score another piano player.
I also firmly believe that:
“There is no such thing as a stupid question. Only stupid ambiguities”
Expectations
- Attendance: Attend is required for every class, unless there is absolutely no way you can via an acceptable excuse. Excessive absences may result in the equivalent of an F grade for the course.
- Promptness: Consider this class a meeting with the big boss. You don’t want to be late or the last person to the meeting.
- Class workload: Students must be prepared to take a significant amount of notes and take them well.
- Please read in advance all the relevant material assigned for each class
- Participation: Please, please, please participate, participate, participate
- Absolutely under no circumstances should you open smartphone or any electronic or mechanical device during class that would take even the slightest attention away from the subject at hand
Required Textbook
Alan C. Shapiro, Paul Hanouna, Multinational Financial Management, 11th Edition. Wiley. ISBN: 978-1-119-68811-2
The text can be purchased in print, e-text or rented.
Grading
| Attendance & Participation: | 10% |
| Homework | 40% |
| Final Exam | 50% |
| A | A- 90-93 A 94 and above |
| B | B- 80-83 B 84-86 B+ 87-89 |
| C | B- 80-83 B 84-86 B+ 87-89 |
| F | Less than 70 |
Homework
Final Exam
Classroom Participation
I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to participate as much as possible in every discussion of every class.
Tentative Schedule
Best efforts will be made to complete the schedule below recognizing that student needs, time, and course management may impact material covered, chapter completions, and timing of quizzes.
| Week | Date | Chapter |
| Week 1 | 1, 2 | |
| Week 2 | 6, 3 | |
| Week 3 | 5 | |
| Week 4 | 11, 12 | |
| Week 5 | 13 | |
| Week 6 | 14 | |
| Week 7 | 15, 17 | |
| Week 8 | Final Exam |
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