Jay Mannadiar has more than 25 years of experience teaching business courses at Concordia and McGill University in Montreal, specializing in Real Estate and Finance. He is the academic director of the Finance Co-op program at Concordia.

Jay works with financial organizations to develop and deliver customized courses for bankers who need both theoretical and practical knowledge for their work with international business clients. Since 2007, Jay has been offering an online course titled Introduction to Real Estate (FINA 210), which is quickly becoming one of the most popular courses at Concordia. He also launched another course, Introduction to Financial Management (COMM 299F), specifically for non-business students.

Jay's future development projects will include online courses in Financial Entrepreneurship, International Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions, as well as a series of skills development tutorials specifically designed for the real estate brokerage industry.

Jay offers a series of tailored seminars for business executives seeking to learn more about trade and finance in today's global economy. He offers financial consulting services to a wide variety of corporate clients. In response to a growing need for business skills, Jay is developing online business skills development programs designed for real-world application.

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Related programs @ JMSB

• Co-op Program
• B.COMM
• Kenneth Woods Portfolio Management Program
• MBA
• Investment Management
• M.Sc. in Administration
• Ph.D in Business Administration

COMM 308 (Commerce)

Introduction To Finance

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Prerequisites: COMM 217 & COMM 220 previously or concurrently.

This course provides a general understanding of the fundamental concepts of finance theory as they apply to the firm's long-run and short-run financing, and investment decisions. Building on the objective of firm value maximization, students will become familiar with the conceptual issues underlying risk and return relationships and their measurements, as well as the valuation of financial securities. They will also learn the concept of cost of capital, its measurement, and the techniques of capital budgeting as practised by today's managers. Students will be introduced to the basic issues surrounding the firm's short-term and long-term funding decisions and its ability to pay dividends.

FINA 210 (Finance)

Introduction to Real Estate

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This course introduces the concepts, principles, analytical methods and tools used for investment, development, and evaluation of real estate assets. The course focuses on issues such as market and feasibility analysis, investment property analysis, forms of ownership, valuation by alternate approaches, mortgages, borrower-lender relationships, investing in income property, commercial property financing, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and legal and property rights among co-owners.

FINA 405 (Finance)

Cases in Finance

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Prerequisite: FINA 380 or 385; FINA 390 or 395.

This course uses case discussions to focus on the application of the principles of finance learned in FINA 385 and 395 in real-world contexts. Cases will cover topics in corporate finance, investments, and financial markets and institutions.

NOTE: Students who have received credit for FINA 490 may not take this course for credit.

FINA 450 (Finance)

Real Estate Investment and Finance

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Prerequisite: FINA 380 or 385; FINA 390 or 395.

This course deals with the central issues in real estate finance and investment, and with recent advances in the field. Students will be introduced to basic topics such as the organization of real estate markets, pricing, inflation, taxation, valuation methods, brokerage, ownership forms, and real estate law. In addition, they will study recent advances in finance as they apply to the concept of real estate valuation. Principles learned in FINA 385 and 395, and in academic journals will serve as the basis for this aspect of the course.

NOTE: This course is offered for Finance Majors and Minors only. Non-Finance Majors and Minors must register for FINA 210.

MBA 614

Financial Management

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Prerequisite: MBA 607; Co-requisite: MBA 608.

This course focuses on the investment and financing decisions of financial managers in the framework of identifying and undertaking business opportunities that maximize the value of the enterprise. The objective is to develop an appreciation of the interplay of expected returns and risk in determining the value contribution of business activities and in the pricing of financial instruments. The core lecture topics include capital budgeting, the valuation of stocks and bonds, portfolio theory, asset pricing models, and capital structure and dividend policy issues. Valuation concepts are also applied to other topics such as options, futures, mergers and acquisitions, leasing, and pensions.

FINA 691 (Finance)

Seminar in Real Estate Finance

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Prerequisite: MBA 614

This course deals with the central issues in real estate finance and investment. Students will be introduced to basic topics such as the organization of real estate markets, pricing, inflation, taxation, valuation methods, brokerage, ownership forms, and real estate law. In addition, students will conduct a project feasibility study based on the investment and financing criteria. Students will evaluate a project and calculate the payback period, discounted payback period, net present value, internal rate of return, profitability index and discount rate.

The main topics of this course are:

• The real estate investment process
• Participants in the real estate investment process
• The real estate income and cash flow statement
• The real estate pricing puzzle
• Should “companies” own real estate
• Traditional investment criteria
• Traditional appraisal methods
• The financing environment
• Tax reforms and real estate investments

EMBA 671 (Executive MBA)

Financial Management

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This course provides the foundations for the management of an organization's financial resources. It begins with a discussion of the time value of money, theories of interest rates, risk-return relationships and asset pricing in competitive markets, and then introduces the principles of capital budgeting, financing decisions of firms, and financial derivatives. It focuses on two of the major entrepreneurial decision making, initial public offerings and the practical aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

EMBA 681 (Executive MBA)

Corporate Finance

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This course first focuses on the principles of investments, raising funds in domestic and international markets, and hedging financial risks (interest exchange rates) in markets and then introduces students to complex financial issues like corporate reorganization, including acquisitions.