Investment Analysis (MAN446) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Investment Analysis MAN446 3 0 0 3 5
Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A
Course Language English
Course Type N/A
Course Level Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu Dinçergök
Course Assistants
Course Objectives The aim of this course is to introduce the students with the investment environment and investment instruments, enable them to understand the investment theories and make them to be aware of the important issues while making investments.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • To understand the main concepts of investment environment.
  • To make fundamental analysis and to understand technical analysis.
  • To construct and manage a portfolio.
  • To understand derivative instruments.
Course Content Risk and return relationship, portfolio theories and portfolio management, asset pricing models, derivative instruments.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Investments and investment environment Course Book: Pages: 1-22
2 Capital Markets Course Book: Pages: 47-62
3 Capital Market Activities in Turkey and Istanbul Stock Exchange
4 The Valuation of Riskless Securities Course Book: Page: 108-135
5 Portfolio selection problem Course Book: Pages: 140-170
6 Capital asset pricing model Course Book: Pages: 227-232
7 Factor models and arbitrage pricing theory Course Book: Pages: 256-295.
8 Midterm
9 Efficient market hyphotesis
10 Common stock Course Book: pages: 457-490
11 Common stock valuation Course book pages: 523-550
12 Fixed income securities Course Book: 340-402
13 Financial Analysis Course book: pages: 740-780
14 Forward and Future Contracts Course book: pages: 654-690
15 Options Course book: pages: 601-647
16 Final Exam

Sources

Course Book 2. "Investments" William Sharpe, Gordon J. Alexander, Jeffery Bailey

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments 1 30
Presentation - -
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 30
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 40
Toplam 3 100
Percentage of Semester Work 60
Percentage of Final Work 40
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses
Major Area Courses X
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 The ability to have and use theoretical and practical information in international trade and logistics
2 The ability to define problems, as well as to collect, evaluate, analyze, and interpret data, and to devise solutions, making use of the information, skills, and competencies in the field
3 The ability to perform numerical analyses and research through accessing different resources of information in the field
4 The ability to take part in intra- and interdisciplinary, or multi-cultural working groups, as well as work individually
5 The ability to communicate verbally and in writing in English, and to make use of at least 1 foreign language
6 The ability to act responsibly, and with the awareness in the issues of environmental sensitivity, sustainability, transparency, social responsibility, and ethical values
7 The ability to read, understand, and interpret the relevant legislation in the field of international trade and logistics, and to see the global, and social effects of practices
8 The ability to question and interpret the acquired interdisciplinary pieces of information within the framework of the current economic, social, and environmental conjuncture
9 The ability to stay up to date regarding the local, regional, and global changes in the international trade and logistics, and the supply chain sector; and relevant through improvements on professional competencies and backgrounds, and to devise quick and effective solutions to possible problems through an innovative approach
10 The ability to track national and international regulations in international trade and logistics, to learn logistic procedures and risk management, to use current instruments of technology and informatics, to analyze and improve processes, to devise new ideas and suggestions, to manage activities for change, and to report and document these processes
11 -

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 16 3 48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 14 3 42
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments 1 15 15
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 1 10 10
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 10 10
Total Workload 125