This course provides students with the knowledge and concepts of financial communication and investor relations in both theoretical and practical aspects.  Throughout the course, various key dimensions of financial communication and investor relations are explored, including methodologies, market practice, main stakeholders (media, investment community, shareholders, analysts, brokers, employees, rating agencies and consumers of financial products), activities (corporate reporting, shareholder meeting, roadshow and press release), critical situations (initial public offering, corporate spin-off, profit warning, merger and acquisition, fund raising, restructuring and financial crisis) and legal/regulatory requirements.  The students are expected to acquire an understanding of how financial and related information is created, packaged and disseminated by a company's management team as well as the impact of the management team's decisions on external users' interpretation of such information.