00675 - Financial Mathematics

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Docente: Dario Spelta
  • Credits: 8
  • SSD: SECS-S/06
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Dario Spelta (Modulo 1) Dario Spelta (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Business Administration (cod. 8871)

    Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Management and Marketing (cod. 8406)

Learning outcomes

A the end of the course the studente will be able to manage mathematical tools to solve basic financial problems.

Course contents

Financial functions.

Annuities.

Funds.

Loans.

Readings/Bibliography

Written exam

SPELTA D., Esercizi di matematica finanziaria, Bologna 2023.

Oral exam

SPELTA D., Matematica finanziaria, Esculapio, Bologna 2020.

Teaching methods

Lectures ex-cathedra.

Assessment methods

The exam is divided in two parts.

The first one is a written test on a financial problem with three questions.

The second one is an interview; the candidate has to answer three questions on topics taught during the course. The student has access to the interview after the written test.

The test assessment grid will be as follows:

<18 insufficient

18-23 sufficient

24-27 average/good

28-30 very good

30 cum laude excellent/outstanding.

 

Teaching tools

Blackboard and white chalk.

Office hours

See the website of Dario Spelta