Assignments

Course Assignments

All assignments are group projects (up to five students per group). Each week’s exercises are due on Tuesday at 11:59 pm. Upload your zip file to Canvas.

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Week 1: AI Fundamentals & Data Exploration (due March 24)

1A AI Use Cases in Finance
1B Interactive Bond Pricing App
1C AI as a Thinking Partner

Week 2: Portfolio Optimization and Company Valuation (due March 31)

2A Tangency Portfolio
2B Two-Stage DCF Model
2C Monte Carlo Valuation
2D Capital Budgeting with Option Value

Week 3: Data Tools & Skills (due April 7)

3A Financial Data with MCP
3B Stock Analysis in Colab
3C Build a Database Skill
3D Build a Finance Analysis Skill

Week 4: Automation & Financial Documents (due April 14)

4A Automated Reporting Pipeline
4B Loan Portfolio Risk Analysis
4C NotebookLM Financial Analysis

Week 5: Applications & Verification (due April 21)

5A Financial Chatbot
5B M&A Due Diligence
5C DCF Cross-Check with Red-Teaming

Week 6: AI in Trading and Markets (due April 28)

6A Headline Sentiment Classification
6B Earnings Call Analysis