砺儒云课堂

The main aim of this course is to enable students to develop a sound understanding of the fundamental principles underlying the theory and practice of business finance; thereby providing a strong basis for further study of advanced finance theory and cognate disciplines.

The course will introduce students to a number of important concepts in finance, which lie at the heart of basic financial decisions.

First half of the course (taught by Dr. Filipa Da Silva Fernandes):

• Capital budgeting decisions/investment criteria
  
• Net Present Value, IRR and Payback period
• Comparing different projects
• Concept of risk
  
• Risk measurement and diversification
• Security Market Line (SML)
• Market beta and introduction to Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

Second half of the course (taught by Dr. Sola Kasim):

• Introduction to bond valuation
  
• Interest rate risk 
  
• Theory of interest rates
• Term structure of interest rates
• Introduction to financial options
  
• Stock valuation
• Basic financial option valuation
• Market beta and introduction to Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
• Options valuation
  
• Introduction to real options
• Real options
• Introduction to the Black-Scholes model

All the topics will be approached from both theoretical and practical perspectives.

This course is meant to provide an solid introduction to the basic concept of linear equation systems, vectors, matrices,  least squares methods, and other basic topics in applied linear algebra. Our goal is to give the beginning student, with little or no prior exposure to linear algebra, a good grounding in the basic ideas, as well as an appreciation for how they are used in many applications, including for econometrics and finance. 

华南师范大学“政治经济学”经历了六十多年的建设，凝聚了华南师大三代经管人的不懈努力和追求，为本科人才教学和培养做出了应有的贡献。进入新世纪，课程的科研和教学踏上了新的征程，2005年课程入选首批广东省级精品课程，2013年获得广东省精品资源共享课程立项，2020年认定为广东省一流本科课程（线下课程）和国家一流本科课程（线下课程）。2016年课程教材《政治经济学教程》第二版出版，教材APP 、砺儒云在线课堂以及课程新网站相继上线，移动互联网技术与课程的结合为未来课程的建设和发展提供了广阔的平台和基础。本课程适合本科经济学和管理学专业的基础课程。