. Critically evaluate the advanced concepts and procedures of financial risk management;
- Critically evaluate and quantify financial risk;
- Identify and apply practical and theoretical concepts to the management of financial risk in a
business environment. - Provide students with an understanding of how financial and non-financial corporations can
identify, quantify and manage risks. - Provide an understanding of how corporate management may contribute to increasing
shareholder wealth. - 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.