EXPORT-ORIENTED MANAGEMENT - IMC Fachhochschule Krems

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Teaching Methods
This course emphasizes a mixture of presentation and discussion, additional group work
and utilization of the IMC eDesktop to support communication completes the concept.
In class, the students will have the chance to participate in class projects in order to
acquaint them with an academic (method and fact driven) elaboration of a topic.
Furthermore, they also have to provide a proposal for a paper meeting scientific
standards to familiarize them with process of writing and the guidelines applying at the
IMC as well as prepare one core article for discussion.
Evaluation:
Master thesis proposal and scientific article discussion
Structured Export and Project Financing (FT + PT)
Semester Hours per week Subject code ECTS
Spring 2 SEPF 3
Learning Outcomes / Course Objectives
Upon completion of the course students will be able to:
� discuss international parameters, under which export-oriented companies act with
special emphasis on commercial, financial and risk-related tools and foreign trade
techniques.
� understand and implement the different tools of risk mitigation including cost
calculations
� explain and apply payment terms
� plan the delivery of international projects
Prerequisites / Level
International Finance, Investment and Budgeting, Corporate Governance and
International Conduct, Advanced Foreign Trade Techniques
Course Description
The topics covered in the course include:
� consolidation and extension of: (structured) financing tools in foreign trade
(structured project- and export financing, structured trade financing inclusive of
commodity trade), export and internationalisation grants, underwriting of exports
and direct investments (e.g. „Export Credit Agencies―), international private
insurance market (e.g. Lloyds), countertrade
� project financing
� PPP (Public-Private-Partnership)-models
� risk analysis and (financial) risk management
� instruments and techniques used (syndicated loans, bonds and asset backed
securities)
� analysis and mitigation and hedging of risks involved in structured trade and
project finance
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