Financing Sustainable New Ventures (Master's level)

The course aims to provide you with an understanding of the multiple aspects of financing for sustainable new ventures ranging from theoretical to practical standpoints. You are able to understand, explore, and analyze multiple aspects related to business operations, strategic decision-making, and investing of sustainable projects initiated by the publicly traded companies, start-ups and early stage enterprises in the global markets through the lenses diverse financial perspectives.

You will understand conceptual aspects and their practical applications from the point of view of investors and finance managers with respect to corporate risk, and return dynamics, quantitative financial analysis, investment analysis, corporate finance, international finance, corporate valuation, financial forecasting, financial institutions and markets. Furthermore, you will learn new developments taking place in the financial sector such as financial technology (FINTECH) and digitalization.

You will learn several analytical tools and techniques of fundamental and technical analysis and draw necessary inferences followed by the decision-making based thereon.

At the end of this course you be able to:
-critically evaluate relevance of various forms of financing sustainable ventures and their pros and cons.
- comprehend theoretical and practical dimensions cost of capital using relevant benchmarks and risk profiles of firms.
- make asset valuation of sustainable new ventures
- analyze investment and financing strategies of firms
- justify financing choices in the light of taxation, foreign exchange and bankruptcy costs
- understand multiple dynamics of capital markets and financial planning in the global context
-comprehend the key financial considerations and dynamics when launching a sustainable new venture;
-understand and apply various performance metrics/measures of sustainable new venture;
-develop the financial models that are compatible with the firm’s future growth and also incorporates firm-level characteristics;
-compare diverse financial sources that support a new venture in the light of risk exposures;
-understand the role of technological developments and governance issues

You are expected to acquire the following competencies in this course:

Learning to learn
• You recognize your strengths and needs for learning.
• You make use of learning methods and tools that support your learning best.
• You seek, acquire, and critically assess information from reliable sources.

Proactive development
• You identify development areas by anticipating the future of your field.
• You apply existing knowledge and utilize appropriate research methods in development projects.
• You develop the ability to think out of the box and challenge the limits to come up with creative and innovative solutions.

IBM competence:
Sustainable global business management
• You critically review and understand core concepts of global business management and sustainability from multidisciplinary perspectives of marketing, sales, strategy, finance, and management.
• You apply disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge to analyze global business challenges and propose sustainable business solutions to grow new ventures in global markets.