MFIN674-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Financial Decision Making

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

The purpose of MFIN674 is to enable students to develop and apply advanced theoretical and technical skills of financial decision making. Students will be required to provide sound decisions to a range of real world financial problems and then evaluate those decisions against success criteria. Findings will be have to be presented in a way that is "client-ready" and accessible to a non-expert in financial management. Students will also achieve a Bloomberg certification as part of this course.

Besides developing and proposing solutions to a range of business case studies on problems including the cost of capital, capital budgeting, and company evaluation, students will learn how to use the Bloomberg Terminal to obtain and analyse economic and financial data and apply it to equity valuation. This includes completing the Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) certification.

Furthermore, this course seeks to provide students with the statistical background and theoretical foundation to apply common machine learning (ML) approaches to problems in business and finance using SAS Viya. The SAS integrated learning modules use a series of demonstrations and practices to teach the required concepts and analytical skills. This includes fundamental statistical concepts, problem identification, data exploration, data processing, feature selection, model training and validation, and model assessment. The learning modules are part of the wider SAS Data Analytics and Machine Learning curriculum. Students will complete a corresponding SAS certification exam as part of the course.

Prerequisites

(1) MFIN601; (2) MFIN602; (3) MBAZ604

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 11:00 - 14:00 Meremere 105 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun

Course Coordinator

Moritz Wagner

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,130.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Business Taught Masters Programmes .

All MFIN674 Occurrences

  • MFIN674-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025