FIN41540 Security Analysis & Valuation

Academic Year 2023/2024

Full details of the course are available here.
http://analystreports.som.yale.edu/internal/

This is a trimester-long finance elective offered since Fall 2001. It is designed to help you develop skills in conducting in-depth industry and company analyses, writing reports, and presenting and defending your results.

Each team of two students will analyze and report on one industry and three companies. Most of the class time will be spent on presenting and discussing the reports. There will be a few invited speakers. Grades will depend on your reports and insightful contributions to class discussion. Reports of exceptional quality will be posted to the Internet for public downloading and comment with the authors' name on them. There will be no exams. Enrollment (limited to 25) is by instructors' permission.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Overview: Students in this course will learn to conduct in-depth financial analysis of both industries and their constituent firms, write analytical reports, and present their results. Each two-person team is expected to write and present one industry reports and three company analyses during the trimester. Both the students in the course as well as the faculty will discuss, comment on, and grade the written reports and class presentations. All members of the class are expected to actively participate in all sessions.

WARNING: This class requires students to be both self-directed and capable of accepting harsh criticism of their work. The goal is to help students learn to produce both first rate research into firms as well as report the results of that work to other professionals and the public at large. Expect blunt feedback on your work immediately following its presentation!

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

0
Total

0
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
active/task-based learning; peer and group work; critical writing; debates; case-based learning; student presentations 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Group Project: Reports and Presentation Unspecified n/a Graded No

100

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback will be given to students during and after the term

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
 

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