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The assessment is carried out as partial written exams (according to Section 4(2), 1 of the examination regulation) of the single courses of this module, whose sum of credits must meet the minimum requirement of credits of this module. The examinations are offered every semester. Re-examinations are offered at every ordinary examination date. The assessment procedures are described for each course of the module seperately.

The overall grade of the module is the average of the grades for each course weighted by the credits and truncated after the first decimal.

The student

• has fundamental skills in modern finance
• has fundamental skills to support investment decisions on stock, bond and derivative markets
• applies concrete models to assess investment decisions on financial markets as well as corporate investment and financing decisions.

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The module Essentials of Finance deals with fundamental issues in modern finance. The courses discuss fundamentals of the valuation of stocks. A further focus of this module is on modern portfolio theory and analytical methods of capital budgeting and corporate finance.

The total workload of the module is about 240 hours. The workload is proportional to the credit points of the individual courses.