Financial Modeling and Programming Course at The University of Tokyo

4806: Financial Modeling and Programming
Summer Kobayashi
In this class, we aim to acquire important concepts and some methodologies for financial modeling and technologies of computer programming, which will be available for practical aspect. We are going to cover the following as topics for this year:
1. Basic Financial Calculations
2. Calculating the Cost of Capital
3. Financial Statement Modeling
4. Portfolio Models - Introduction
5. Calculating the Variance-Covariance Matrix
6. Calculating Efficient Portfolios When there are No Short-Sale Restrictions
7. Estimating Betas and the Security Market Line
8. Efficient Portfolios without Short Sales
9. Value at Risk
10. An Introduction to Options
11. The Black-Scholes Model

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