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When: Monday, 31st May 2010 -   12.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m.
            & Tuesday 1st June 2010 - 9:00 a.m. - 5.30 p.m.
            NOTE: change of date!

Lectured by: Jozef Michalko, Executive Director, Swiss Theta Investments

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Where: USBSP – University of Pittsburgh, Truhlářská 13-15, Praha 1, Czech Republic

Who Should Attend: Beginners to Finance and Non-Financial Managers

About the Course:

Even if you are not a financial manager, you need to understand basic financial concepts and terminology. This crash course will fill-in the gaps in your financial knowledge and help you make more confident finance-related business decisions.

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I can honestly say that I did learn a lot from this course and very much appreciated the fact that it was specifically designed for non experts or beginners. It was very practical and the instructor did a fantastic job explaining things is a simple and clear manner – no complex and abstract theories.
Participant of Intro to Investments course lectured by Jozef Michalko

Agenda:

PART1:
Entities, Goals of Financial Management
Global financial markets, Exchanges, Participants,
Instruments (Shares, Futures, Options, Forex, Indices)
Financial Statements, Chart Reading

PART2:
Capital Budgeting
Valuation and Discounted Cash Flow
Net Present Value and Other Investment Rules
Bond Valuation, Stock Valuation

PART3:
Risk and different type of risks
Mean, Variance, Covariance, Standard Deviation
Expected Return, Beta, Range Analysis

PART4:
Capital Structure, Cost of Capital
Efficient Markets (Weak, Semi Strong, Strong)

All study materials necessary will be supplied.

Lunch, coffee, tea, soft drinks and light refreshments throughout the day will be provided.

Price discount of 5% available:
- To every additional person from the same company
- To participants of previous Open courses of USBSP - University of Pittsburgh
- To Alumni of our MBA programs

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