Contemporary Issues in Finance (WP)*

2. Study cycle, Master

The students are able to: • expand financial knowledge, especially with regard to current business trends and financial innovations. • understand and interpret financial articles. • understand and classify current practical trends (e.g. digitization and sustainability developments in investment and financing decisions, block-chain based innovations as well as mechanisms). • prepare their own analyses.

Course: Corporate Finance / 2nd semester: Course: International Accounting I

• The focus of this course is on acquiring and expanding knowledge of current corporate trends and financial innova-tions by means of current financial articles. • Sample trends concern the field of digitization and sustainability developments in entrepreneurial investment and financing decisions, block-chain based innovations as well as mechanisms such as: • Trends in managers' remuneration strategies • New financing and investment opportunities for companies • Financing via crowdsourcing and funding • Crypto currencies and related financial technologies (fintech) • Digital payment systems • Sustainable investment rules (keyword: green finance, ESG rules)

• Berk, Jonathan; DeMarzo, Peter: Corporate Finance. Pearson (latest edition) • Wooldridge, Jeffrey: Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach. Thomson South-Western (latest edition) • Various materials and articles from the Financial Management Journal and Review of Finance

presentation

English

3

15

2.0

Blended Learning

2

Prof. (FH) Dr. Peter Dietrich

08.MV.SIF.2.3

integrated lecture

Compulsory

none