Fulbright Economics Teaching Program
Academic Year 2005-2006
Financial Analysis
Case Study
Syllabus
Mr. Nguyen Minh Kieu
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Fulbright Economics Teaching Program
Academic Year 2005 2006
Fall Semester
Financial Analysis Syllabus
Teaching team
Instructor : Mr. Nguyen Minh Kieu, Ms. Viktoria Dalko
Co-instructor : Mr. Diep Dung
Tutor : Mr. Huynh The Du
Translator : Ms. Tran Thi Kim Chi
Class meeting time
Weekly Lectures
Date
Time
Lecture 1
Tuesday
2:00 4:30 pm
Lecture 2
Wednesday
10:15 11:45 am
Review or case study
Friday
10:15 11:45 am
Office hours
Office hours for this course are planned on all working days from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. and from
9:00 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday. Specific office hours of each teaching team member will be
announced at the beginning of the course. If the office hours scheduled are not convenient for
you, please feel free to make appointments with teaching team members and choose the most
convenient time to you.
Course objectives
To provide participants a framework and tools of financial analysis for policy
planning and decision making
To introduce participants the basic financial concepts of time value of money, risk
and return, cost of capital, capital budgeting, capital structure, dividend policy, debt
and equity financing, and financial models such as discounted cash flows model,
capital asset pricing model, Gordon model, Baumol model, Miller-Orr model,
To instruct participants to use these concepts and models in a real world of business
To provide participants basic concepts and knowledge to study other related courses
including Appraisal of Development Expenditures, Development Finance, Public
Finance.
Course description
This course will be offered on Fall Semester and lasted in 16 weeks with two lectures and
one review or case study each week. Additionally, there are six assignments delivered and
required participants to submit for every two weeks, and 2 exams: one mid-term and one
