This class exists in these courses :
• Faculté de Gestion, Economie & Sciences - Licences & Prépas - Classe Sup + Licence 3 parcours Economie Finance - S6 - 4 ECTS

Prerequisites

Management accounting : understand and interpret company accounts (profit and loss, balance sheet)
Management strategic : information for decision making, strategic analysis with the internal factors and external environments

Learning outcomes

When you have completed this course (12 hours), you should be able to :

• Understanding investing in general through what investment means, what you are already have and the sort of return you can expect, the idea of risk and reward and how you may face up to finance
• Explaining and undertake an investment appraisal using four techniques : payback, accounting rate of return, net present value and iternal rate of return
• Building a project investment through cases study as Bitcoin vs Ether, Amazon vs Walmark, Google vs Microsoft, Facebook vs Twitter

Course description

• Chapter 1: Investment basics

• Chapter 2: Investment methodology

• Chapter 3: Project investment

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Recommended reading

• Business Planning and Control, Bruce Bowhill, Willey, Decision d'investissement, Jacques Chrissos et Roland Gilley, Pearson, Corporate finance and investment, Richard Pike and Bill Neale, Prentice Hall, ,

Internet resources

• Investment case study competition, The Economist 2016