Advanced concepts and procedures of financial risk management

. Critically evaluate the advanced concepts and procedures of financial risk management;

  1. Critically evaluate and quantify financial risk;
  2. Identify and apply practical and theoretical concepts to the management of financial risk in a
    business environment.
  3. Provide students with an understanding of how financial and non-financial corporations can
    identify, quantify and manage risks.
  4. Provide an understanding of how corporate management may contribute to increasing
    shareholder wealth.
  5. Examine the characteristics of the four major derivative instruments: forwards, futures,
    options and swaps and consider how their value is determined and how they may be used to
    manage financial risk.