Quantitative Analysis in Finance

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to: explain the quantitative methods to improve portfolio decision making; demonstrate the knowledge of using spreadsheet software and statistical tools in order to explain the financial assets variable and prices; identify alternative solution and to apply best solution for portfolio decision making process.

Topics

This course provides students with a framework for understanding the fundamentals of financial decision making on investment, financing, and dividend matters. Topics include the following: preliminary understandings on the time value of money, diversification and arbitrage, skills in preparing and processing financial data; and the elementary applications of mathematical statistics in the finance area.

Prerequisite : AC206 – Financial Management for Business AND MS109 – Economics Statistics