This is an advance course in financial theory, so you must have the requisite academic background
in finance and accounting and be fimiliar with basic macroeconomic theory.
For the latter it would include knowledge of monetary theory and policy; for example, how
a central bank conducts monetary policy, the quantity theory of money, etc. It will be beneficial to
review your basic macroeconomic theory prior to taking this course, any basic
economics textbook will suffice for this purpose.
In addition, the website:
http://www.federalreserveonline.org/
relates information on the structure of the U.S. central banking system.
There will be numerous homework assignments throughout the semester as well as a mid-term and final
examination. All exams will be on campus, on a Saturday, as scheduled by the Office of CPE.
All the details of this course are on NJIT's WebCT server, registered students
will have access to it when the Fall 2006 semester commences. Once you have
registered for this course go to the web page:
http://webct.njit.edu and
click on to
I am currently taking a credit course at NJIT.
You will be asked to enter your UCID and password. Then click on to
the Fin 627 course.
The textbook for this course semester is
Multinational Financial Management,
eighth edition, by Alan C. Shapiro (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006), ISBN-10: 0471-73769-0.
You may commence your knowledge of international finance by purchasing the book and begin reading
the first several chapters.
When the semester begins you are to learn the webct software by going through the
WebCT Tour
and
Help menus. You are to regularly log on to learn of the topic to study,
review course content, obtain the homework assignment and to learn of the dates of the
on campus lectures. This course will be taught on a theoretical
and applied level, so expect extensive assignments.
Again, welcome to
Fin 627-International Finance.
Now let us begin ... log on to webct and click on to the
syllabus icon on the course home page.