BUS 427 - Financial Risk Management

3 Credit(s)

An introduction to financial risks including business risk, operational risk and legal risk. Topics include how to identify, measure, compute and manage financial risks. The focus will be on tools and methods for identifying sources of risk and risk factors for hedging, implementing market risk/value at risk (VaR) methods, economic capital and risk adjusted return on assets (RAROC), asset backed securities (ABSs) and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).

Prerequisite(s):
BUS 363 Minimum Grade: C- OR T