RM 711
Applied Financial Analysis · 3 credits · Spring 2027
Requirements
Prereq.: ECON 602 or BUS 241. Open to Risk Management MS degree & Advanced Certificate students and Accounting MS students only.
About this course
This course will introduce students to programming for quantitative analysis with finance applications. The course will start with a review of advanced Excel Functions (Financial Functions, Data Tables, Regression Functions, Conditional Functions, Dates, Lookup Functions, Pivot Tables, Matrices) and then will cover VBA, including recording macros, creating and using functions in VBA, creating and using VBA Sub Procedures, incorporating user interaction, loops, and arrays, objects and add-ins. Students will work with dynamic datasets, construct Bloomberg formulas, extract Bloomberg data into Excel and use Bloomberg's function builder. Students will also cover documentation and good practices for database and model management. Credit will not be given if BUS 387 has been successfully completed.
Seat status as of Oct 2, 8:21 PM ET. Seats can change between refreshes.
No sections have been posted for this course in this term yet.