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FINN42115: Multi-National Finance

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Type Tied
Level 4
Credits 15
Availability Available in 2024/2025
Module Cap None.
Location Durham
Department Finance

Prerequisites

  • None

Corequisites

  • None

Excluded Combinations of Modules

  • None

Aims

  • To provide students with an up to date and advanced understanding of the issues that confront the financial management of multinational companies.

Content

  • The International Business Environment;
  • Currency Risk and Currency Risk Management;
  • Foreign Direct Investment;
  • International Capital Budgeting;
  • Multinational Cost of Capital and Capital Structure;
  • Country Risk Analysis.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

  • Have an appreciation of the complexity and contradictions of the current academic literature in the field of financial management of multinational companies;
  • Have an advanced understanding of risks encountered by multinational companies and the process of managing these risks;
  • Have an advanced understanding of complexities and complications in the processes of foreign investment and financing decisions of multinational companies.

Subject-specific Skills:

  • Have the ability to learn and work independently in the area of multinational finance, exercising critical judgement and discrimination in the resolution of complex problematic situations.

Key Skills:

  • Written Communication;
  • Planning, Organising and Time Management;
  • Problem Solving and analysis;
  • Using initiative;
  • Adaptability;
  • Numeracy;
  • Computer Literacy

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

  • A combination of lectures, seminars and guided reading will contribute to achieving the aims and learning outcomes of this module.
  • The summative written examination will test students' knowledge and critical understanding of the material covered in the module, their analytical and problem-solving skills.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

ActivityNumberFrequencyDurationTotalMonitored
Lectures101 per week2 hours20 
Seminars41 per fortnight1 hour4 
Preparation and Reading126 
Total150 

Summative Assessment

Component: ExaminationComponent Weighting: 100%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
Written in-person Examination2 hours100same

Formative Assessment

Work prepared by students for seminars; answers to questions either discussed during a seminar, or posted on Learn Ultra; feedback on discussions with teaching staff during consultation hours, or via e-mail.

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