International Financial Management

The students have mastered all relevant aspects of exchange rate formation and dealing with foreign currency risks. They are capable of designing suitable hedging strategies for a range of risk situations, applying the necessary hedging tools. They have also gained the knowledge to examine the advantageousness of cross-border investments and to use futures trading to reduce finance-based false incentives.

The teaching units on international finance management focus above all on shaping foreign currency management. The following specific issues are covered, among others: exchange rate formation, swap transactions, options, forwards and futures and the hedging strategies related to them. The importance of currency risk in international direct investments and international diversification is also analysed.

• Responsible person: Professor Dr. Hirth
• Relevant teaching and research assistant: Felix Reichenbach
• Course language: german
• Module number: 70170
• Module components: lecture and exercise
• Credits: 4 SWS / 6 CP
• Offer: winter semester
• No registration required for participation in lecture and tutorials
• Written final examination on one of two dates offered per semester
• Exam covers content from lecture and exercise
• Compulsory elective module for bachelor's program in Sustainable Management
• Compulsory elective module for master's programs in Industrial Economics, Industrial and Network Economics, Industrial Engineering and Management, Information Systems Management and Business Mathematics

Lecture: Thursday 2-4 p.m., H 2032, Professor Dr. Hirth, start 10/26/23

Exercise: Thursday 4-6 p.m., H 2032, Felix Reichenbach, start 11/09/23

All further information are available in the associated ISIS course: Internationales Finanzmanagement [WiSe 23/24].

All contents and information about the current course can be found in ISIS: Internationales Finanzmanagement [WiSe 23/24].

On the following pages you will find our next examination dates:

Written exams

Oral exams

Professor Dr. Hans Hirth is the head of the Chair of Finance and Investment. He is responsible for the module and the associated examinations.

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