7 courses with the subject FIN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
FIN 3100Foundations of Finance4
Goals: To understand fundamentals of financial management and to analyze quantitative aspects of financial decisions. Content: Business organization, time value of money, sources of capital, financial markets, capital budgeting, valuation, risk, the risk-return tradeoff, and the cost of capital are examined.
ACCT 1310, ECON 1100, and QMBE 1320 (or concurrent enrollment in QMBE 1320), with grades of C- or higher Credits: 4
FIN 3700Financial Markets and Institutions4
Goals: This course is designed to provide students with an overview of financial markets and institutions, with an emphasis on markets and institutions in the United States. Content: Students will 1) learn the functions, goals, risks, and benefits of financial markets and institutions; 2) become familiar with the tools and concepts used by institutions to make financial mediation efficient and profitable, and; 3) acquire a basic understanding of finance-relevant public policy issues. Students will also be able read the financial press with improved understanding and insight so that they can make better decisions, personally and professionally.
Goals: To demonstrate the use of the theory of financial management as an integral part of making complex business decisions and to prepare students to present and defend their reasoning in a clear and concise manner. Content: Fixed asset management, capital structure management, and financial analysis and planning through case analysis.
Goals: To learn and apply basic concepts of investment management using risk/return analysis and empirical evidence to examine the efficient markets hypothesis, portfolio diversification strategies, securities valuation, and investment decision-making in changing global markets.
Goals: To understand and analyze corporate policies and the decision-making that drives financial decisions. Relevant for careers in finance, as well as consulting and strategic planning. Content: Financial ratios, capital structure and payout policy, short-term and long-term financial planning, risk management, options and other derivatives, mergers and acquisitions, and international corporate finance. Taught: Annually
Goals: Students will quantify the effects of different risk variables within the decision making process and understand their importance to a company. Content: Operational, cultural, currency, legislative, human and project risk will be analyzed in an attempt to educate the student on the variety and inconsistency of change in today’s world. The course takes a text and case study approach to managing the different risks that are prevalent in today’s business environment.
Crosslisted: Also listed as ECON 3760 Goals: Students will learn the fundamental concepts of both the business management and macroeconomic aspects of international finance. Content: The course weaves together two related topics: international financial management and international financial economics. After becoming familiar with national accounting and determination of exchange rates, students will learn about financial derivatives in the foreign exchange markets, and how they and other tools can be used to manage the various risks faced by businesses engaged in international transactions or facing international competition. We will then return to the topic of exchange rate determination, with special attention to how equilibria in the asset and money markets are simultaneously determined. Finally, we will build on this basis to develop a model of a whole economy, and use it to explore the effects of external factors on the economy; how economic events in one country can affect its trade partners; and how policy-setting is complicated by these international linkages.
