General provisions

The course is offered within the Bachelor's Programme in Business and Economics and as a single subject course. The course syllabus was approved by the board of the Department of Business Studies on delegation from the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Entry requirements

Completed 15 credits from basic courses (A-level) in business studies, and registered for another 15 credits at the same level.

Learning outcomes

This course aims to provide students with an introduction to the subject area of financial economics. After completing the course, students are expected to understand and apply financial theories and models so that optimal financial decisions can be made within companies and organisations.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understanding and applying various financial theories and models that have arguments embedded within
• To critically evaluate information from financial models

Content

The course covers corporate investment, financing and payout decisions, portfolio and capital market theory, equity, bond and option valuation and financial statistics.

Instruction

The instruction takes the form of lectures and classroom exercises.

Assessment

The student will get one single grade, equivalent to 7.5 credits.

The assessment is based on an individual written exam and an assignment carried out in groups. The grade for the entire course is based on an assessment of all parts of the examination. Grading criteria are presented in the study guide that applies to the course section. The following grades will be used, pass with distinction (VG), pass (G) and fail (U). Examinations handed in late will not be assessed except under special circumstances. Any remaining supplemental work must be handed in by the deadline specified in the study guide.

For students who have not received a passing grade for the course, there is the opportunity to be examined without re-registration via a make-up exam.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.

Uppsala University does not accept cheating or plagiarism. Suspected incidents of cheating or plagiarism are reported to the Vice-Chancellor, which may issue a formal warning to the student or suspend the student from studies for a certain period.

NOTE: Only completed courses can count toward a degree.

Transitional provisions

The course substitutes/overlaps among others Management Accounting and Management Control 2FE254 and Corporate Finance 2FE982