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FIN40490

Academic Year 2024/2025

Advanced Treasury Management/Financial Engineering (FIN40490)

Subject:
Finance
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
8
Module Coordinator:
John Kelly
Trimester:
Summer
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

“Financial engineering is the use of financial instruments to restructure an existing financial profile into one having more desirable properties.”
Galitz (2013)

The main tools in a financial engineer’s toolbox are financial derivatives
Financial derivatives are financial assets whose value is derived from the performance of an underlying asset, index, or interest rate. The creation of a financial asset requires the use of contract law – one side’s financial asset is another side’s financial obligation (liability). These contracts can be used for hedging or its corollary, speculation. Common types of derivatives include options, futures, forwards, and of course some of the commonest derivative instruments; debt and equity.

Treasury products are a specific class of financial derivative (financial asset/liability) that relate to interest rate risk, currency risk and also counterparty risk (credit risk).

This module is designed to show you how to use this toolkit to value and to manage risk in your organisation. How you can change the risk profile of operational cash flows to suit investors’ requirements.

(See Brightspace for further information)

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this module, you should be able to:
1. Explain various forms of market structures and securities, interactions and their implications for financial managers
2. Develop a valuation range for a project, enterprise or a company with multiples and discounted cash flow valuation approaches
3. Demonstrate the value impact of capital structure on an organisation
4. Identify applications for financial engineering (i.e. hedging, speculation, arbitrage and deal/transaction structure).
5. Build an Excel spreadsheet to conduct a discounted cash flow analysis of a business financial model

Indicative Module Content:

See Brightspace

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

26
Specified Learning Activities

125
Autonomous Student Learning

36
Total

187

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Students will attend classes for this module and have the opportunity to engage in active learning during these sessions. There will be in-class discussion and group work to analyse module concepts. Where appropriate, the module will incorporate case based learning.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Exam (In-person): Closed book exam End of trimester
Duration:
2 hr(s)
 Graded No

45

 No
Group Work Assignment: Presentation assignment - details on Brightspace Week 3 Graded No

40

 No
Quizzes/Short Exercises: Provide feedback on the Group Presentations. Week 3 Graded No

15

 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Self-assessment activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

TBA

Name Role
Dr James Golden Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
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