Course List
FINM3083 Introduction to Financial Accounting
财务会计学导论
This course provides students with an overview of the fundamental concepts and principles of accounting; equip them with technical knowledge in processing, preparing and reporting accounting information in accordance with GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) for external users in a business environment, and management control procedures and financial ratios.
Check DetailsFINM3103 Money, Banking and Financial Markets
货币、银行学和金融市场
This course aims to provide students the awareness of how the financial system and its economic effect on their lives. It intends to equip learners, through various teaching and learning activities and assessment methods, with skills and knowledge to understand financial instruments, financial markets and central bank as well as how they work in an economy
Check DetailsFINM3113 Financial Engineering Workshop
金融工程工作坊
This course introduces how to use python programming language to do data collection, storage, analysis and visualization. After studying this course, students will learn how to crawl data from the web, store data into database, perform statistical analysis, and visualize the result. Equipped with these skills, students can further analyse finance data, make predictions and do back testing. To take this course, students are required to have some basic background in computer programming.
Check DetailsFINM2043 Financial Engineering
金融工程
Financial engineering is the use of sophisticated mathematical modelling techniques to design, price, and hedge securities and portfolios. The aim and objective of this course is to learn applications of financial engineering, which includes development of derivative pricing techniques, use of derivative securities to reduce or eliminate risk, creation of new financial instruments to meet the changing needs of investors, and estimation of the risk of complex portfolios. Although traditionally concerned with derivative securities, financial engineering techniques are increasingly applied to fundamental securities.
Check DetailsFINM4005 Final Year Project II (FM)
毕业论文 II
This is an advanced individual project on an interdisciplinary and applied topic related to the field of financial mathematics for utilizing theories, knowledge and skills acquired in the program. The course is to guide students in developing appropriate research methodology to solve or study a problem of financial mathematics with real-world significant. This course is open to Financial Mathematics students only.
Check DetailsFINM4013 Design and Analysis of Financial Algorithms
金融算法设计与分析
The primary objective of this course is to introduce the topic of algorithms as a precise mathematical concept, and study how to design algorithms, establish their correctness, study their efficiency and memory needs. The course consists of a financial modelling component in addition to the design of various algorithms.
Check DetailsFINM4023 Investment Banking
投资银行学
This course aims to introduce students to the business of investment banking, including IPO, mergers and acquisitions, asset liability management, and new financial services; and financial institutions from the perspectives of both the consumer and the financial institution manager, including commercial banking, and investment banking. The student will become familiar with the financial services offered to the public and also with the financial, operational, and organisational aspects of the institution.
Check DetailsFINM4043 Exotic Options and Structured Products
奇异期权和结构性产品
This course aims to provide students with an introduction to the major structured products, their design, pricing and their uses and risks. The key features of each exotic option that can be used to develop such structured products will also be covered. The course will discuss the process of Financial Engineering in the construction of these financial instruments by using the building blocks of bonds, forwards, swaps and standard options and exotic options. Emphasis will be on the Equity-linked, FX-linked and Interest-rate linked structured products.
Check DetailsMATH3013 Discrete Mathematics
离散数学
This course aims to introduce basic ideas of discrete mathematics such as formal mathematical reasoning techniques, basic counting techniques and their applications for computer science students. The emphasis is on understanding the concepts and the ability to solve problems. The objective is for students to understand the basic theory and some applications of discrete mathematics. The course gives students training in the ability to think quantitatively and analyse problems critically.
Check DetailsMATH3023 The Art of Counting
计数的艺术
This course, with the aid of elementary combinatorics, introduces some counting tools, such as pigeon-hole principle, permutations and combinations, inclusion-exclusion principle, recurrence relations, and generating functions, which would help students understand and appreciates various simple but aesthetic techniques for counting as well as their applications in real lives.
Check DetailsMATH4073 Real Analysis (for FM students)
实变分析
Real analysis plays a crucial role in various disciplines, stochastic calculus and financial mathematics, in particular, as it is the mathematical machinery for handling convergence issues. This course aims at introducing the fundamentals of real analysis, including the topological background for analysis, as well as techniques exemplified by proofs of theorems in mathematical analysis. An understanding of these concepts will enable deeper appreciation of the logic.
Check DetailsOR2003 Dynamic Programming
动态规划
This course introduces dynamic programming ideas, including calculus of variations, variable-endpoint problems, maximum principle in control theory, and dynamic optimization. Students would learn the theory of dynamic programming, as well as its rich applications in science and economics. After studying this course students will have a better mastery of techniques in dynamic programming.
Check DetailsPSY2043 Introduction to Psychology
心理学导论
This is an introductory level course designed to provide an understanding of the basic scientific principles supporting the discipline of psychology. The course begins with the historic roots of psychology and the fundamentals of empirical research which will provide the basis of the bio-psycho-social model used throughout the course. The course will cover a wide range of topics beginning with the study of human development which will lead to further discussion of cognition, personality, learning perception, psychopathology and principles of socialisation, etc.
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生物心理学
The study of biological psychology has its roots in two disciplines: biology and psychology. The course attempts to link the two and provides an understanding of the methods by which biology is able to clarify and assist the student in understanding human behaviours and processes in our mental lives. Biological psychology will provide immediate, causal explanations for the role of the human brain in guiding and directing behaviour; this, taken in a greater context considers the role of the nervous system, hormones and immediate environment.
Check DetailsPSY2013 Research Methods in Psychology
心理学研究方法
To cultivate critical thinking, and how it can be applied to a wide range of research topics in Psychology. This course will take a practical, skill-building approach to examining the nature of psychological research, the formulation of research questions, research design and methods, and the analysis, interpretation, and presentation of research data and results. The course will enable the student to become competent in exploring, evaluating, and applying research findings to the wide range of problems in Psychology. It is also designed to help students become more sophisticated consumers of the increasing flood of scientific news, to help them discriminate between junk and serious science. It will also provide a solid methodological foundation for students to undertake their final year projects. At the end of the course, each student should decide on a topic for his/her final year project and develop a preliminary research project proposal. This proposal would form part of the course assessment.
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