Universidad Pública de Navarra - Nafarroako Univertsitate Publikoa
Public University of Navarre
| Course code: 176105 | Subject title: FINANCIAL OPERATIONS | ||||
| Credits: 6 | Type of subject: Basic | Year: 1 | Period: 1º S | ||
| Department: Business Administration | |||||
| Lecturers: | |||||
| FERRER ZUBIATE, ELENA (Resp) [Mentoring ] | |||||
Contents
The subject is organized in three units:
- The first one deals with the main basic concepts and methodological aspects of financial valuations.
- The second one studies the behavior of the different types of financial annuities and perpetuities.
- Finally, the third one is dedicated to examine long-term financial operations. In particular, is dedicated to the study of repayment loans.
Descriptors
Introduction to financial operations; the time value of the money and the interest rate; simple and compounded financial laws; annuities and perpetuities; long-term financial operations.
General proficiencies
- CG01 A capacity for analysis and synthesis
- CG02 A capacity for organisation and planning
- CG03 Oral and written communication in their mother tongue
- CG05 Computer skills relevant to the field of study
- CG07 The capacity to solve problems
- CG09 The capacity to work as part of a team
- CG12 Interpersonal skills
- CG15 An ethical approach to work
- CG17 A capacity for self-reliant learning
- CB1 - Students have demonstrated that they possess knowledge of and understand an area of study, based on general secondary education and usually to a level which, albeit with the support of advanced text books, also includes some aspects which imply knowledge of the latest developments in their field of study.
- CB2 - Students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess skills which are usually demonstrated by developing and defending arguments and resolving problems in their area of study.
- CB3 - Students are able to compile and interpret relevant information (normally within their area of study) in order to voice opinions which include reflection on relevant themes of a social, scientific or ethical nature.
Specific proficiencies
- CE01 To understand economic institutions as the application and result of theoretical or formal representations of how the economy works
- CE02 To identify sources of economic information relevant to their particular enterprise and their contents
- CE03 To discern information and data relevant to their particular enterprise which a non-professional would be unable to recognise
- CE04 To analyse business management problems, applying professional criteria based on the use of technical instruments
- CE05 To produce advisory reports on specific business and market situations
- CE07 To assess the situation and foreseeable development of a company on the basis of the relevant records
- CE09 To form part of any functional area within an enterprise or organisation and perform any managerial task required within it confidently
- CE10 To set up a business and manage its key components
- CE11 To understand the nature of enterprises as organisations and places in which players with different interests interact
Learning outcomes
R17 Mathematics of financial operations (ADE)
R15 Economics and financial institutions (Econ)
Methodology
| METHODOLOGY-ACTIVITY | PRESENCIAL HOURS | NON-PRESENCIAL HOURS |
| A-1 Lectures sessions | 29 | |
| A-2 Practical sessions | 29 | |
| A-3 Personal study | 42 | |
| A-4 Teamwork and individual activities | 40 | |
| A-5 Office hours | 08 | |
| A-6 Final exam | 02 | |
| Total | 60 | 90 |
Evaluation
The proposed assessment system is as follows:
a) Recoverable activities (60%)
- Final exam: 60%
- To pass the course it will be necessary to obtain, at least, a 50% over the final mark of the exam.
b) Non-recoverable activities (40%)
- Individual evaluation exercises: 25%
- Teamwork activities: 15%
Agenda
- UNIT 1: Financial Valuation, Financial Laws, and Short-Term Financial Operations
- UNIT 2: Annuities and Perpetuities
- UNIT 3: Classical Long-Term Financial Operations and Other Financial Operations
Bibliography
Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.
Basic Bibliography:
Córdoba-Bueno, M. (2010) "Fundaments and Practices of Financial Mathematics", 2nd Edition. Ed.: Dykinson.
De Pablo López, A. (2002) "Valoración Financiera" Editorial Centro de Estudios Ramón Areces.
Additional Bibliography:
De Pablo López, A. (2002) "Matemáticas de las operaciones financieras" Editorial UNED.
Delgado, C y Palomero, J (2002) "Gestión Financiera: Teoría y 800 ejercicios". Palomero-Delgado Editores.
Ruiz Cabestre, F.J. y Rodríguez Oses, E. (2005): "Valoración de las Operaciones Financieras: Manual teórico-práctico" Ed. Thomson.