Module BUSI47715: SECURITY ANALYSIS (PT/EXECUTIVE)

Department: Management and Marketing

BUSI47715: SECURITY ANALYSIS (PT/EXECUTIVE)

Tied To

• N1KB17: Business Administration (see Postgraduate Handbook 2018-2019 for details)
• N1KD17: Business Administration [Finance] (No longer recruiting) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2010-2011 for details)
• N1KP17: (programme not found)
• NPK017: (programme not found)

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• Develop students' knowledge and understanding of key issues in security analysis at an advanced level.
• Provide students with the opportunity to become familiar with recent developments in the field of security analysis.
• Offer students the opportunity to develop some key skills.

Content

• Overview of Financial Markets.
• Common Stocks: Technical analysis; Fundamental valuation and analysis.
• Financial Statement Analysis.
• Earnings Estimation and Forecasts.
• Accounting Information and Stock Prices.
• Asset Allocation and Index Models.
• Fixed Income Securities: Analysis and valuation; Managing fixed income securities.
• The Search for Value: Measuring the Company's Cost of Capital.
• Derivative Security Analysis.

Learning Outcomes

• Upon successful completion of the module, the students will have:
• an advanced knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices of some of the models used for analysing common stocks;
• an advanced knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices of some of the models used for analysing fixed income securities;
• become familiar with recent empirical research and its applications in certain topics of security analysis.

• Upon successful completion of the module, the students will have:
• practised problem solving and analytical skills as applied to areas of security analysis.

• Written communication; planning, organising and time management; problem solving and analysis; using initiative; computer literacy.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Learning outcomes will be met through a combination of lectures, groupwork, case studies and discussion, supported by guided reading. The written assignment will test students' understanding of relevant concepts and their ability to apply and interpret what they have learned to the analysis of a particular issue in depth.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

None.