To gain significant insights into corporate finance, M&A, valuation, risk management and investor relations topics

Corporate Valuation

• Modelling, core & advanced valuation techniques

Mergers, Corporate Control and Governance

• Process, M&A strategy, M&A transaction management; post merger integration)

Risk Management

• Theory and tools: Managing financial risk arising from equity, debt, currencies andcommodities (FICC)
• Preferred and recommended combinations involve the study focus “Management Control”,“European Tax and Corporate Law”, “European Integration” or “International Accounting”
• The module provides a solid basis for our Master programme “International Business andFinance” which expands and goes into greater detail on the respective topics in lectures such as “Advanced Risk Management”, “Advanced M&A” and others.

Investor Relations

• Institutional aspects of investor relations
• Financial aspects of investor relations
• Legal aspects of investor relations
• Organisational aspects of investor relations
• Strategic aspects of investor relations
• Marketing aspects of investor relations
• Investor relations in special situations

• Recent scientific publications tbd each term
• Feix, T. (2020). End-to-End M&A Process Design - Resilient Business Model Innovation. Wiesbaden: Springer Science.
• Koller: Corporate Valuation
• Brealey/Myers: Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
• Eiteman/Stonehill/Moffett: Multinational Business Finance
• Hull: Options, Futures and Other Derivative Securities
• Bekaert/Hodrick: International Financial Management
• Kirchhoff/Piwinger: Praxishandbuch Investor Relations
• Kuhnle/Banzhaf: Finanzkommunikation unter IFRS
• Picot: Mergers & Acquisitions
• Bing: Due Diligence Techniques and Analysis
• Berens/Brauner/Strauch: Due Diligence bei Unternehmensakquisitionen
• Jansen: Mergers & Acquisitions
• Steven M Bragg: Running an Effective Investor Relations Department, New Jersey, 2010.
• Katie Frankel; Bill Lumley; Martin Hennessey: Investor Relations Handbook, 2004.
• Alexander V. Laskin: Managing Investor Relations – Strategies for Effective Communication,New York, 2010.

12 ECTS x 30 hours = 360 hours,  combined out of the following:

• Course attendance: 120 hours
• Preparation / homework / self-study : 120 hours
• Semester project / presentation: 60 hours
• Exam preparation: 60 hours
• Exam time: 120 minutes

• Interactive lectures with integrated exercises
• Discussion on case studies
• Real-life cases, guest lectures by top experts and executives
• Self-study beyond lectures
• Presentations (worked out by students) to class and top experts
• Establishing working papers