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IM│Sciences, Peshawar
MSc. Finance
Computer Applications for Finance
COURSE OBJECTIVES
With blunt tools even a master cannot do much. “sharpen your saw”, as advised by Stephen R. Covey in his best seller book, “The Seven Habits of Most Effective People”. The objective of this course is to bring finance and computer into one place. The course tries to sharpen your computer skills, providing you the tools with which financial models and techniques can be easily applied for valuation of financial assets and projects, creating budgets, and many general office tasks.
COURSE CONTENTS
1. Overview of Finance and Computer applications
2 – MS EXCEL Environment
3 – Excel Basic Functions
4 - The 'IF' commands, and nested IF commands
5 - Data Management with 'VLOOKUP and named ranges
6 - FILTERING AND SORTING OF DATA
7 - File, sheet, and range protection with password
8 - Automation with Macros
9 - Charts and Graphs, Shapes
10 - Time value of money in Excel and Amortization
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4. Analysing Cash Flows Using Excel Tables and Pivot Tables
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6. Analysing Financial Statements
6.1. Calculating Profitability Ratios
6.2. Calculating Liquidity and Activity Ratios
6.3. Calculating Leverage Ratios
7. Calculating the Effect of Interest Rates on Loan Repayment
8. Determining Future Cash Flows
9. Forecasting Future Growth
10. Determining Amortization and Depreciation Schedules
12. Asset Valuation Models
12.1 CAPM Model
12.2 Analyzing Bond Investments
13. Portfolio Risk and Return
13.1 Markowitz Theory: Risk and Return
13.2 Making efficient portfolios
Tentative Topics:
14. Basic Hypothes Testing
15. Basic Regressions
16. Percentiles, quartiles, etc.
Course Books:
Class handouts, power point presentations
Course In-charge: Attaullah Shah
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