Universidad Pública de Navarra - Nafarroako Univertsitate Publikoa
Public University of Navarre
| Course code: 172105 | 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
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.