30 courses with the subject FIRE, 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.
Managing personal wealth. Making the most of available financial resources through informed decisions about saving, investing, borrowing, and use of insurance to manage risks.
Participation in a part-time paid position with a cooperating business, governmental, or civic organization.
Basic concepts in finance: Time value of money, financial ratio analysis, and security valuation. Corporate financial decisions: capital budgeting, choice of capital structure, and working capital management.
Financial issues affecting start-up companies; venture capital markets; private equity and debt financing; valuing small companies; harvesting methods. Pre-Requisite(s): FIRE371
Types of investment securities; security market operations; investment policies; security analysis and valuation principles: risk, return, and portfolio analysis; personal investment principles. Pre-Requisite(s): FIRE371
Management of risk in a business setting; control of property, liability, and personnel risks; risk financing including self insurance, group retention and insurance, decision-making: introduction to the insurance industry.
Introductory real estate: contracts, finance, investment, appraisal, owning vs. renting, taxation and closings. Approved for pre-license education under Ch. 82, MN Real Estate License Law.
Using spreadsheet software to perform time value of money, internal rate of return and net present value for capital budgeting, and cost of capital calculations. Analysis and presentation of financial data along with report creation. Pre-Requisite(s): FIRE371
How to utilize various financial data analysis systems for decision making. Pre-Requisite(s): FIRE371
High level computer languages and basic coding for analysis of financial data. Functional programming design. Languages covered may include Python, R, SAS. Pre-Requisite(s): FIRE371
Techniques and scope for property management. Owner relations, record keeping, marketing and leasing, tenant administration, maintenance, and staffing, management of residential, commercial and office properties. Pre-Requisite(s): FIRE378
Credit for off-campus professional experience with industry partners, non-profit organizations or government agencies.
Corporate financial decision making; adjustments to changing conditions; market structure and corporate capital instruments; capital market movements and financial decisions. Pre-Requisite(s): FIRE371
Role in the economy; current issues/controversies in banking and intermediation; international aspects of financial intermediation. Pre- Requisite(s): FIRE371 186
Foreign exchange, currency and derivative markets, currency risk management, international investment and financing decisions, multinational corporate financial decisions. Pre-Requisite(s): FIRE371
Equity valuation application, process, and analysis, discount rate estimate, capital asset pricing model, multifactor models. Introduction of valuation models such as discounted dividend valuation model, free cash flow valuation model, and relative valuation technique. Pre- Requisite(s): FIRE371
Individual life and health insurance and employee benefits; estate and financial planning; insurance company management and operations; regulation; public policy issues.
Property and liability risks; contracts, insurance law and regulation; company management and operations.
Economic security; public and worker's compensation programs designed to alleviate the perils of premature death, poor health, retirement, unemployment, and poverty. Program structure, financing, policy.
Employee benefit plan design, group insurance contract provisions, group life and health coverage, pension plans, costs containment, and taxation.
Characteristics and functions of financial derivatives. Corporate risk management applications of financial derivatives. Pricing models of derivatives and trading strategies using derivatives to hedge financial risks. Pre-Requisite(s): FIRE371
Cash flows generated by commercial investment real property, from both the lender's and investor's viewpoint. Ratio and return analysis. Primary and secondary mortgage markets. Pre-Requisite(s): FIRE378
Cost, income, and market approaches to value of real property assets. Professional narrative appraisal employing comparable sales analysis, depreciated cost analysis and discounted cash flow analysis. Professional ethics and uniform standards of professional appraisal practice.
Decision making in commercial banks and other depository institutions. Asset, liability, and capital management issues. Lending, depository and trust functions. Pre-Requisite(s): FIRE371
Students manage an actual investment fund for the University Foundation, acting as security analysts, investment advisers, and portfolio managers. Pre-Requisite(s): FIRE373
Experimental, temporary or trial course for groups of students all engaged in the same topic. Topic varies from semester to semester or section to section. A specific content offering may be offered under a topics course number up to three times, after which departments must file for a permanent course number.
Teams of students work as consultants to area businesses and non- profit organizations to diagnose and solve actual business problems. Written and oral report required. Lab. Pre-Requisite(s): FIRE371, ACCT292, MKTG220 or MKTG320, IS242 or STAT242, MGMT201 or MGMT301
Credit for independent work by a single student arranged and supervised by a faculty member.
Characteristics and functions of financial derivatives. Corporate risk management applications of financial derivatives. Pricing models of derivatives and trading strategies using derivatives to hedge financial risks. Pre-Requisite(s): FIRE371
Teams of students work as consultants to area businesses and non- profit organizations to diagnose and solve actual business problems. Written and oral report required. Lab. Pre-Requisite(s): FIRE371, MKTG220 or MKTG320, ACCT292, MGMT201 or MGMT301, IS242 or STAT242
Source: Saint Cloud State University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
