Learn the key strategies used by project managers to generate crucial funding for their projects. Are you involved in the development and execution of technical projects and eager to know what it takes to fund a project successfully? Would you like to be more in touch with the latest developments in...

You will learn how China’s financial markets really operate, how to find opportunities and how to avoid the pitfalls of investing in a market with distinctly Chinese characteristics. Over the past couple of years, the Chinese government has finally started to open China’s financial system and its equity...

How do investors, creditors, and other users analyze financial statements to assess corporate performance. Learn financial accounting, how to read financial statements, and input valuation models for better corporate finance decision-making. Accounting is the language of business. It is difficult to...

Learn the mathematical foundations essential for financial engineering and quantitative finance: linear algebra, optimization, probability, stochastic processes, statistics, and applied computational techniques in R. Modern finance is the science of decision making in an uncertain world, and its language...

Financial derivatives are ubiquitous in global capital markets. Students will obtain a sophisticated understanding of valuation methods; tools for quantifying, hedging, and speculating on risk; and a basic familiarity with major markets and instruments. Financial derivatives are ubiquitous in global...

Our 4-week advanced course considers how to design interactions between agents in order to achieve good social outcomes. The course -- which is free and open to the public -- considers three main topics: social choice theory (i.e., collective decision making), mechanism design, and auctions. More...

Теория игр занимается математическим моделированием конфликтных ситуаций, таких как конкуренция в экономике, политические конфликты, проблемы, связанные с голосованием и т.д. Строя математические модели этих явлений, можно предсказывать, каким будет результат конфликта, или находить решение, примени...

Discover how to use fundamental finance tools in both management and MBA learning contexts and understand common financial situations faced in everyday life. Want to study for an MBA but are unsure of basic financial concepts? This business and management course prepares you for studying finance in an...

Learn how corporate leaders make effective decisions to maximize profitability and achieve strategic organizational goals. Need a career boost? Every business depends on the acumen of its financial leaders. Learn to make profitable financial decisions from UMUC professors who have been distance educators...

S'équiper de la boîte à outils du financier pour prendre des décisions judicieuses d'investissement ou d'épargne. La finance est omniprésente et les décisions financières nous concernent tous. Tout individu est un jour ou l'autre amené à épargner ou emprunter. La sélection des projets d'investissements...

Learn the basics of microeconomics, including supply and demand of commodities and how equilibrium in the market affects price. A country’s economy consists of three major economic agents; consumers, firms and government. Analyzing the choices made by these economic agents is one of the main subjects...

Learn how to identify effective nonprofit organizations and apply course concepts by awarding grants to student-nominated nonprofits. About this Course *Note - This is an Archived course* This is a past/archived course. At this time, you can only explore this course in a self-paced fashion. Certain features...

Learn how to make better decisions about security and IT by using state-of-the-art economic tools, security metrics and data analytics. This economics course provides an introduction to the field of cybersecurity through the lens of economic principles. Delivered by four leading research teams, it will...

Introduction to the Black-Scholes-Merton model and other mathematical models for pricing financial derivatives and hedging risk in financial markets. This is an introductory course on options and other financial derivatives, and their applications to risk management. We will start with discrete-time...

Explore how entrepreneurship and innovation tackle complex health problems in emerging economies. Entrepreneurship and Healthcare in Emerging Economies aims to engage students in an inter-disciplinary approach to understanding the nature of complex health problems throughout the world, with an illustrative...

Learn how a national economy works, including the determination of equilibrium levels of national income and prices In this economics course, you will learn some of the major concepts of macroeconomics, such as gross domestic product, price level, inflation, unemployment, economic growth and the balance...

What is credit risk? Why is it so important, in modern economies, to correctly deal with it? This course combines theory with practice to answer these questions. Imagine that you are a bank and a main part of your daily business is to lend money. Unfortunately, lending money is a risky business - there...

Learn advanced topics in M&A; including financial accounting, financing the deal, and the all-important understanding of the seller’s viewpoint. If your goal is a career on a broker-dealer’s M&A; desk, this is the course for you! This course will dive deeper into advanced M&A; topics. We’ll look at the...

Is it possible to develop a thriving global economy in an equitable and environmentally-resilient way? Unemployment. Inflation. Protectionism. Trade barriers. Fiscal deficit. These are not just terms in an economics textbook or in newspaper headlines. These real-life challenges carry societal and environmental...

Improve critical thinking about healthcare entrepreneurship by reading, discussing, and analyzing case studies and writing a business plan. Problems with healthcare quality, access, and costs bedevil all countries. This course explores how to create successful global business innovations in health care...