Computer Applications in Finance

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Prerequisites: FINANCE 6500 and 3.0 overall GPA. This course focuses on modeling and data analytics in finance. Hands-on projects include applications in loan amortization, buy or lease decisions, financial statement analysis and forecasting, capital budgeting, bond and stock valuation, risk analysis, capital structure, and portfolio analysis. Students will learn basic and sophisticated Excel tools and how to build executive dashboards, interfaces, and other monitoring tools used in day-to-day business. They will also gain exposure to statistical inference, time series modeling, event study analysis, and machine learning techniques for forecasting and working with financial data.