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Finance (FIN)

FIN 325      Financial Management View Details
This course provides an overview of the relationship between business decisions and the value of the firm, as determined by the marketplace. Students will study the composition of capital structure, capital budgeting, and cost of capital theory, including incremental analysis of investment situations.
Credits: 3 hours
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FIN 340      Global Financial Markets and Institutions View Details
Students are introduced to global financial markets and institutions as well as the regulators. Topics include financial instruments, past and current global financial crises, financial restructuring and reforms, and the interrelationships between financial and real economies.
Credits: 3 hours
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FIN 345      Investments View Details
The course develops the theoretical framework necessary for a systematic approach to portfolio management. Content includes consideration of investment objectives, measurement of risk and returns, alternative uses of invested funds, analysis of securities markets, and the techniques of security analysis. Students will have an opportunity for the creation and management of an investment portfolio.
Credits: 3 hours
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FIN 350      Introduciton to Risk Management and Insurance View Details
This course introduces students to the principles of personal and corporate risk management. Personal risk management topics include: personal insurance planning, annuity investing and personal liability management. Corporate risk management topics include: Managing corporate risk, reducing risk through hedging, and legal liability risk.
Credits: 3 hours
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FIN 351      International Financial Management View Details
The world's business activities and economics are becoming more integrated. This course provides an introduction, appreciation and understanding of how this process impacts financial decisions for global business. Students should expect to develop an integrated analytical and decision making perspective that will enable them to extend financial concepts such as capital budgeting and risk management, and instruments such as forwards, swaps, fixed income analysis, arbitrage, etc. to their international analogs.
Credits: 3 hours
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FIN 419      Financial Statement Analysis View Details
Students will take an in-depth look at the external financial statements that are prepared by corporations, including the tools needed to organize, summarize, and understand corporate financial data for use in decision making. Ratio analysis, trend analysis, earnings forecasting, bankruptcy predictors, statistical methods important to finance, and financial data bases are among the topics that will be covered.
Credits: 3 hours
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FIN 427      Debt Instruments And Markets View Details
An overall view of the financing process and the role of financial markets. The course will cover the characteristics of instruments traded in money and capital markets; determinants of and the relationships between different asset prices; and international aspects of financial markets. In particular, topics that will be covered include: Interest rate theory, valuing fixed income securities, managing interest rate risk, derivative financial instruments, capital market equilibrium, managing currency risk and applications of structured fixed income products.
Credits: 3 hours
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FIN 428      Commercial Bank Management View Details
This course presents an overview of financial management of the interest spreads, credit risk, liquidity, and capital positions of commercial banks. Topics to be covered include analysis of bank profitability, lending functions and policy, securities investment strategies, fund attraction, regulatory examination, capital adequacy, and integrated asset/liability management. Instructional media includes cases and computerized bank management simulation. Prerequisites: ECON 202 and FIN 325.
Credits: 3 hours
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FIN 435      Advanced Corporate Finance View Details
The course focuses on the finance function of the firm from the managerial perspective. Topics include working capital management, capital budgeting, financial structure, merger and reorganization, capital rationing, and analysis of risk. Students will use cases and computer techniques.
Credits: 3 hours
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FIN 496      Internship: Finance View Details
An opportunity for students to integrate their academic studies via employment with a business/organization in the community. Note: Internship coursework is evaluated on a credit/no credit basis.
Credits: 1-3 hours
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FIN 497      Special Topics: Finance View Details
Study and research in areas of special interest under individual faculty direction.
Credits: 1-3 hours
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FINE-ART 3HB      Upper Level Fine Arts/ Humanities View Details
Upper Level Transfer Credit
Credits: 0,99 hours
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FINE-ART 3SE      Upper Level Fine Arts Studio View Details
Upper Level Transfer Credit
Credits: 0,99 hours
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