Introduction to Finance DSBA 2025/2026

Teachers and Assistants

Group	1	2	3
Lecturer	Irina Kestner
Class teacher	Irina Kestner	Yulia Komarova
Consultations	-	-	-

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Course Description

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Grading system

During the course, the student will be formally graded on the following:

• in-class attendance and activity (A);
• several lecture quizzes (Q, where Q is the average grade of all the quizzes in the course);
• several homework assignments (H, where H is the average grade of all the homework assignments in the course);
• one written Fall mid-term test (F)
• one written Winter exam (W).

All grades (namely, A, Q, H, F, and E) are real numbers from 0 to 100.

The cumulative grade, C, is obtained without rounding by the following formula:

C = 0.10*A + 0.05*Q + 0.15*H + 0.25*F + 0.45*W.

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 0 (03.09.2025) Intro, Grades, Reading list.
• Lecture 1 (03.09.2025) Financial system: functions, institutions, markets, securities.

Problem Sets for classes

• Problem Set 1 (03.09.2025) Financial system: functions, institutions, markets, securities.