COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE
FIN3CLF
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
Computational Finance aims to provide practical relevance and real-world application to finance concepts. Adopting a problem-solving approach, it focuses on computational issues in corporate finance, asset portfolios and stock options. The areas covered by the subject include application of net present valuation approach, capital cost estimation and regression analysis, asset and option pricing and risk management, portfolio optimisation, and simulation of financial outcomes. The subject intends to provide you with theories and modelling skills required for financial decision making in business and management and also enable you to master the quantitative skills and computation techniques required to solve practical problems.
School: La Trobe Business School (Pre 2022)
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Angela Lou
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG
Available as Elective: No
Learning Activities: Role plays and student presentations to develop interview and presentation techniques
Capstone subject: No
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: FIN1FOF OR FIN2FIN
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: N/A
Equivalent subjects: N/A
Quota Management Strategy: N/A
Quota-conditions or rules: N/A
Special conditions: N/A
Minimum credit point requirement: N/A
Assumed knowledge: N/A
Learning resources
Financial modelling
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Prescribed
Author: Benninga, S.
Year: 2014
Edition/Volume: 4th ed
Publisher: MIT PRESS
ISBN: 978-0262027281
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Other description: N/A
Source location: N/A
Career Ready
Career-focused: No
Work-based learning: No
Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A
Entire subject or partial subject: N/A
Total hours/days required: N/A
Location of WBL activity (region): N/A
WBL addtional requirements: N/A