Tim Bian is an associate professor at China School of Banking and Finance, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE). He has extensive teaching experience, having taught courses such as Intermediate Macroeconomics, International Finance, Money and Banking, Central Banking, and Financial Programming and Policies. His research focuses on macroeconomics, real estate, local government debt, and outbound investment. Professor Bian obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University in 2013, where he also taught International Finance and Principles of Macroeconomics at the undergraduate level.
Professor Bian served as a visiting scholar at the Ministry of Commerce of China in 2019. He also taught at Shihezi University in Xinjiang from 2020 to 2022.
This course is designed to give students a deeper understanding of the issues managers must consider when making financial decisions. The course discusses time value of money, cost of capital, the theory of capital budgeting, capital budgeting in practice, options, derivatives application, agency theory, capital market efficiency and capital structure management, as well as special topics on corporate finance.
This course should help prepare students for careers in commercial and investment banking, corporate financial management, as well as more general areas.
Lectures, readings, excursions, assignments, and discussions are designed to help you develop the skills to:
