Courses
ACCT 459
Topics will be announced when offered.
BLAW 202
Introduction to Law; Public Law; Private Law; Introduction to Turkish Law (Turkish Judicial System; Constitutional Law; Administrative Law; Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure) History of Turkish Private Law; Basic Concepts of Private Law; Law of Persons; Law of Contracts; Sales Contracts; Law of Torts; Law of Property; Business Enterprises; Negotiable Instrument; Secured Transactions; Corporate Law; Corporate Taxation; Competition Law; Intellectual Property Law; International Commercial Arbitration; Labour Law.
EFIN 490
MFIN 202
The time value of money; discounted cash flow analysis; valuing financial assets; capital budgeting; risk and return; cost of capital; corporate financing decisions; and capital structure.
MFIN 304
Introduction to the process of investing in financial securities; overview of the investment decision-making process; analysis of securities markets and trading practices; asset pricing under the capital asset pricing and the arbitrage pricing models; principles of modern portfolio theory; performance measurement techniques; asset allocation strategies; introduction to fixed income and derivative securites, risk management strategies.
ACCT 495
ECON 311
Methods used for empirical examination of economic phenomena. Linear regression: least squares, goodness of fit, prediction; classical regression model; properties of estimators; links between models and economic theory; functional form; interpretation of regression results. Inference; confidence intervals and hypothesis testing; introduction to econometric packages and applications using data from economics and business; implications of relaxing the assumptions of the classical regression model.
HPBA 492
Available to students with a GPA equal to or greater than 3.00 and with consent of the instructor.
MFIN 302
Banks as financial intermediaries; risk measurement and management: interest rate risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, foreign exchange risk, and off-balance sheet risk; emphasis on analysis of interest rate risk (including duration and gap analyses) and hedging techniques using derivative instruments (forwards, swaps, caps, floors, etc.); capital adequacy and deposit insurance. Sovereign lending, credit rationing, and securitization of bank loans.
MFIN 402
Special financial problems of corporations operating in more than one country, including corporate strategy, decision to invest abroad, forecasting exchange rates, measuring and managing exchange risk, international portfolio diversification, international structure of interest rates, taxation, and financial structure in a multi-national firm.
ACCT 490
BUSA 499
Integration of the knowledge from different areas of the business curriculum: operations, marketing, accounting, finance, information systems, management strategy by applying concepts and frameworks to real life cases to solve business problems; teamwork and presentations.
HPBA 491
Available to students with a GPA equal to or greater than 3.00 and with consent of the instructor.
MFIN 301
Analysis of special corporate finance topics including dividend policy, capital structure, leasing, option valuation, risk management, mergers, and acquisitions.
MFIN 401
Procedures for valuing derivative securities, such as options and futures contracts, and swaps; costs and benefits of using derivative securities to change the risk exposure of corporations and financial intermediaries, including static and dynamic portfolio policies; applications from commodity, equity, and bond markets.
