INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND BANKING IN ASIA

The course focuses on the basic issues of the financial and banking management in a global economy. It examines why companies need financial resources as well as the criteria that the financial market uses to decide whether to provide that money to a company or not. The risk is considered as a key element for both business and banking decisions, so that an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) approach must be used when working internationally and financial hedging instruments become very useful. At the end of the course, students will be able to fully understand and drivers of financial sustainability and feasibility for companies approaching the Asian markets.

To know the fundamental drivers of corporate financial equilibrium. To know the processes of financial planning. To address the risks of the international dimension of the business activity. To know the peculiarities of the Chinese market and of the local banking system.

None, basic knowledge of accounting is welcome

Topics covered in this course include:
- The financial function of the firms;
- Financial analysis of corporate performance;
- Working capital management and international payments;
- Foreign Exchange Market;
- Corporate currency risk management.

International Finance and Banking in Asia, McGraw Hill – Create Custom Publishing
Supplementary study material - such as slides, papers, and exercises - will be available to all students (attending and non-attending( on the course's Moodle page.

The course will conclude with a final written exam consisting of 5 multiple-choice questions and 2 open questions based on the contents discussed during the course. Grading will apply the following scale:

28-30L: excellent understanding of the topics covered in lessons and course material; excellent ability to organize information; use of technical terminology and methodology of the discipline;
26-27: good knowledge of the topics covered in lessons and in course material; good ability to sort information and present it; substantially correct use of the technical terminology and methodology of discipline;
24-25: reasonable knowledge of the topics covered in lessons and in course material; reasonable ability to sort information; use not always correct in the technical terminology and methodology of the discipline;
22-23: sometimes superficial and/or incomplete knowledge of the topics covered in lessons and in course material; exposition not always clear and/or lacking in terms of the technical terminology and methodology of the discipline;
18-21: knowledge at times incomplete of the topics covered in class and in the course material, but still sufficient; unclear exposure and/or lacking and/or with little use of the technical terminology and methodology of discipline.

Theoretical lessons, exercises and business cases

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