International Finance

Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences

Version 5.0 of 02/20/2018

22C9023

International Finance

International Event Management Shanghai (B.A.)

2

This module focuses on international financial management and related issues including global financial environment, foreign exchange theory, foreign exchange exposure, financing of the global firm, foreign investment decisions, and managing multi-national operations. This course is designed to assist students in understanding and assessing international financial issues, risks, and strategies employed by multi-national firms.

1. Corporate Governance
2. The International Monetary System & Balance of Payments
3. International Parity conditions and Foreign Exchange Rate determination: Transaction, Operating, and Translation Exposure, Global cost of Equity and Debt, Foreign Direct Investment Theory
4. Political Risk Assessment and International Tax Management
5. Multinational capital budgeting

Knowledge Broadening
Students who successfully complete this module
1. Understand fundamental concepts and tools of analysis in the core areas of business administration, accounting, economics, marketing and finance.
2. Develop analytical and critical-thinking skills necessary to make sound business and personal decisions.
3. Analyze and control cash flows in a foreign exchange environment.
Knowledge Deepening
Students who successfully complete this module
1. Understand the goals and functions of the international financial manager to make sound business and personal decisions.
2. Understand the time value of money and implications thereof to risk, rates of return and value.
Instrumental Skills and Competences
Students who successfully complete this module can
1. Have significant dexterity with the use of computers and computer applications in business.
2. Utilize the basic tools of finance in analyzing to provide international companies with solutions for identified problems.
3. Implement capital budgeting techniques in making capital expenditure decisions.
4. Utilize the concept of cost of capital in making international investment decisions.
5. Analyze sources available for international business organization financing.
Communicative Skills and Competences

Systemic Skills and Competences

Lectures, discussions, presentations, case studies, readings, in-class exercises, quizzes

None

Wang, Chunlei

Prof. LI Jing

5

Robert J. Carbaugh, International Finance 13th Edition, China Renmin University, ISBN: 9787300154763

Oral Presentation / Seminar Paper

1 Term

Only Summer Term

Chinese