Finance

• QST FE 870: Analysis and Management of Financial Risk
  Pre-requisite: QSTFE 712 or QSTFE 722 - This course introduces the analysis and management of financial risk by corporations and financial institutions. The objective of the course is to provide a conceptual framework for thinking about financial risk, covering both theoretical background and practical implementation.
• QST FE 875: Advanced Valuation Methods (Valuation Boot Camp)
  Prerequisite: QSTFE 712 or QSTFE 722. This course will provide students the opportunity to learn about valuation methods other than the discounted cash flow plus weighted average cost of capital method taught in the core curriculum, including adjusted present value, the method of comparables (multiples) and (time permitting) the equity cash flows method.
• QST FE 895: Action Learning Directed Study in Finance
  ALDS: FINANCE
• QST FE 898: Directed Study: Finance
  Graduate Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and the department chair - Graduate-level directed study in Finance. 1, 2, or 3 cr. Application available on the Graduate Center website.
• QST FE 899: Directed Study: Finance
  Graduate Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and the department chair - Graduate-level directed study in Finance. 1, 2, or 3 cr. Application available on the Graduate Center website.
• QST FE 918: Doctoral Seminar in Finance
  This doctoral course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the theory of corporate finance. This lecture-based course will be based on Nobel prize winner Jean Tirole’s textbook “The theory of Corporate Finance.” The emphasis in this book is on a contract theory approach to corporate finance, considering how to provide incentives to entrepreneurs and the financiers who are supposed to monitor them by designing financial claims on the firm accordingly. In addition to lectures, this class will include readings, presentations and assignments. Open to MBA students with faculty member's permission. Quantitative ability and prior courses in finance or microeconomics required.
• QST FE 920: Advanced Capital Markets
  This course provides a comprehensive and in-depth treatment of modern asset pricing theories. Extensive use is made of continuous time stochastic processes, stochastic calculus and optimal control. In particular, martingale methods are employed to address the following topics: (i) optimal consumption- portfolio policies and (ii) asset pricing in general equilibrium models. Advances involving non-separable preferences, incomplete information and agent diversity will be discussed.
• QST FE 921: Banking and Corporate Finance Theory
  The course will provide an overview of banking theory. The primary focus will be on bank regulation, but we will also consider issues of bank competition and bank-firm relationships.
• QST FE 998: Directed Study: Finance
  Graduate Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and the department chair - PhD-level directed study in Finance. 1, 2, or 3 cr. Application available on the Graduate Center website.
• QST FE 999: Directed Study: Finance
  Graduate Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and the department chair - PhD-level directed study in Finance. 1, 2, or 3 cr. Application available on the Graduate Center website.
• QST SM 132: Measuring Financial Value
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: SM131 previous or concurrent. Open to non-Questrom students who have completed a semester of FT work at BU. - This course offers an overview of fundamental financial analyses, such as time value of money, interest rates, basic valuation of cash flow streams, and basic stock and bond valuation. The content is relevant to understand a broad class of problems and decisions for businesses or individuals. It offers applications across decision domains. The teaching materials include online problem solving and case writing. Students may not take SM132 and FE101 for credit.