Teaching

Course Evaluations 

The following comments are quoted from students' course evaluations: 

• "Thank you for amazing lectures. I learned a lot and benefited from your course. When I was in college, my finance was not good. So I didn't like this course and was disgusted with numbers. But your course is clear and makes it easier for me to understand."

• "I also want to thank you for your courses, which I learned a lot. I’m sure this course will be really helpful when I actually start my own business."

Finance & Investment - Master & Executive

• Investment & Stock Markets

Introduction to financial system, risk and return calculation, portfolio and fund management, CAPM, Markowitz Efficient Frontier, EMH, derivatives and risk management

• Financial Programming & Data Analysis 

VBA & Python applied in Finance for NPV, bond valuation, Black-Schole / VaR simulation, implied volatility

• Foundations of Investments

Basics on bonds and stock valuation with practical cases 

• Capital Budgeting and Financing

NPV and other investment criteria, scenario and what-if analysis, cost of capital (WACC), leverage and optimal capital structure

• Financial Analysis 

Analyze financial reports (balance sheet, income statement, cash flows statement) to describe the financial indicators; apply financial ratios to evaluate the business performance 

• Financial & International Risk Management 

Investigate financial decisions within a firm: investment, financing, and working capital management; analyze cost and effectiveness of a firm's hedging in an international market

• Cash Management 

Basic tools to manage cash regarding the collection, disbursement, and usage of cash in relation to assessing cash flows, determining optimal cash holding to balance between liquidity and investments.

• Fundamentals of Finance 

Basic concepts and tools of financial decision-making for (i) financial statement analysis; (ii) time value of money; and (iii) capital budgeting decision

• Finance Research - Quantitative Method 

Applied statistics/ econometrics and Research methodology in finance

• International Monetary and Financial economy 

Analyze evolution in the international monetary & financial economy (esp. Europe): balance of payments; foreign exchange; determinants of crises; monetary policies; and financial integration in Europe. 

• Banking Financial, Regulatory Reports & Applied Excel 

Presentation of reports (COREP, FINREP) using Oracle's Corebanking software and SAP's Business Object with application in Excel analysis. 

Accounting & Management Control - Bachelor & Master

• Financial Management

• Management Control & Budgeting 

• Budget Controlling

• Strategic Management Accounting

• Cost Accounting

• Financial Accounting

Other courses - Master

• Entrepreneurship Seminar

Analysis on the innovation of rising startups and lessons learned (business model, creativity, possible scale)

Teaching Tools 

• Moodle, Blackboard Collaborate, Wooclap, TestWe

Sample exercises 

• Students can find below some sample exercises with suggested solutions: