Online MBA Degree

Sauder School of Business > University of British Columbia

BAFI 510 Security Analysis

Prerequisites
BAFI 500, BAFI 511

This course is an advanced topics course in Corporate Finance. The course covers two major subject areas. The first area focuses on advanced project and firm valuation. It is an extension of topics addressed in your previous finance courses such as BAFI 503. The second area deals with initial public offerings, with a focus on valuation and various players involved in the IPO process. Business cases and real world applications are used extensively throughout the course. This course will be useful to students considering careers in corporate finance, investment banking, commercial banking and consulting.

Sauder School of Business > University of British Columbia

COMM 459 Financial Statement Analysis

The primary objective of this course is to help you develop the analytical skills with which to evaluate a company’s financial performance. The valuation framework, information quality issues, and several application-related topics will be thoroughly analyzed. We will emphasize the role of financial statement data in valuation, using advanced problems and cases developed from and around actual financial statements. The material is designed for students who have little or no background in security analysis but a basic understanding of finance and financial accounting is required. It is also expected that students are able to work with Excel spreadsheets and to collect data from various databases (available on-line and in the library).

The topics covered are intended to complement related courses in accounting and, to some extent, in finance. The course is beneficial for students planning careers in accounting and/or finance related fields. It is also designed to be valuable to a broader set of students who wish to understand, to distinguish among, and to appropriately implement valuation techniques and to understand how and under what circumstances accounting may impact the capital markets.