Basics of buying, selling, and leasing real estates. Overview of real estate law, commercial and residential brokerage, real estate financing, and real estate administration
Not open to business majors or prebusiness majors with junior standing
Fin 281
Personal Finance
Overview of lifetime personal financial strategies. Topics include financial goals and building net worth, major purchasing decisions, credit use, tax planning, retirement, and estate planning.
Not open to business majors or prebusiness majors with junior standing
Fin 283
The Stock Market and Investing
Investments and the stock market, securities and approaches to securities selection, portfolio composition and structure.
Not open to business majors or prebusiness majors with junior standing, or students who have credit for Fin 380
Fin 311
Economics foundations of Competitive Analysis
Analysis of market competition and its relation to product cost and pricing decisions by the firm.
Students may receive credit for only one of EC 311, FIN 311, or FIN 311H
BA 315
Economy, Industry, and Competitive Analysis
Free enterprise, capitalism and market competition. Economic value added, product cost, and product pricing. Organizational arrangements and the control of economic activity.
For business minor students. Prereq: BA 101
Fin 316
Financial Management
Corporate financial planning, selection among alternative investment opportunities, analysis of risk, funds acquisition, and long term financing.
Students cannot receive credit for both FIN 316 and FIN 316H
BA 318
Finance: Creating Value through Capital
Finance statement analysis, pro forma statements and capital budgeting, time value of money, net present value analysis and cost of capital.
For business minor students. Prereq: BA 215 or ACCT 211
Fin 380
Financial Markets and Investments
Financial markets and security investment decisions, analysis of risk and return, portfolio policies for individual and institutional investors, financial instruments.
Prereq: FIN 316
Fin 462
Derivative Markets and Financial Institutions
Valuation of financial derivatives, methodologies for identifying firm’s risk exposures, the role of risk management and financial derivatives in corporate strategy, and analysis of financial institutions
Prereq: FIN 380
Fin 463
International Finance
Analysis of currency exchange rates, balance of payments; management of foreign exchange risk; risk and return in international investment.
Prereq: FIN 316
Fin 473
Financial Analysis and Valuation
Topics include working capital management, advanced capital budgeting, dividend policy, financing policy, lease financing, business valuation, and corporate acquisitions
Prereq: FIN 380
Graduate Classes
Number
Title
Description
Comments
Fin 607
Seminar
This Ph.D. course covers advanced topics in finance theory and empirical reasearch.
Restricted to Ph.D. students
BA 610
Foundations of Competitive Analysis
The subject of this course is competition between businesses operating in typical U.S. product markets. This course has three objectives: (1) to solidify understanding of fundamental tools of economic analysis so that these tools can be used; (2) to develop the role of industry structure and the impact structure tends to have on competitive strategy and profitability; (3) to begin to build skill in competitive analysis, which entails formation of marketing, production, channel, investment and pricing strategies based on the way competitive forces appear to work themselves out in the market.
Fall term first-year core class for MBA students
Fin 610
Corporate Finance
This MBA core course examines the basic principles of finance theory, and applies the principles to important decisions facing a corporate manager. The focus of the course is on valuation and how various types of decisions potentially affect the value of a company. The course covers the fundamentals of evaluating investment opportunities, the relation between risk and required return, and the notion of market efficiency. Basic principles regarding a corporation's financing mix are also explored.
Winter term first-year core class for MBA students
Fin 610
Financial Instruments
This MBA core course examines the basic principles of finance theory, and applies the principles to important decisions facing a corporate manager. The focus of the course is on valuation and how various types of decisions potentially affect the value of a company. The course covers the fundamentals of evaluating investment opportunities, the relation between risk and required return, and the notion of market efficiency. Basic principles regarding a corporation's financing mix are also explored.
Spring term fitrst-year core class for MBA students
Fin 663
International Finance and Investment
International monetary system and its implications for exchange rate determination. Determinants of foreign investments, characteristics of international financial institutions, and the relationship between international and domestic markets
Prereq: completion of first-year MBA core
Fin 667
Corporate Risk Management
Analysis of tools for corporate risk management. Includes options, futures, swaps, and value-at-risk; theoretical rationales of corporate risk management; and management of asset and liability exposures by financial institutions
Prereq: FIN 683
Fin 671
Advanced Financial Management
Application of financial principles to problems of valuation, capital budgeting, and financial policy
Prereq: completion of first-year MBA core
Fin 673
Problems in Finance
Cases dealing with financial analysis, working capital management, valuation, and firm investment and financing decisions
Prereq: completion of first-year MBA core
Fin 683
Concepts of Investments
Securities markets; risk-return characteristics of investment media; concepts of security analysis; investment and portfolio strategies of individual and institutional investors
