16 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 360Principles of Corporate Finance
Principles of Corporate Finance: This course introduces the basic concepts, principles and analytical techniques of corporate financial management. Topics include financial ratio analysis, time value of money, valuation of stocks and bonds, the relationship between risk and return, cost of capital, capital budgeting, and long-term financing decisions. Emphasis is placed on understanding how financial decisions affect firm value in a risk-return framework. Prerequisites: ACC210,
Investment Analysis: This course relates the economic and investment environment to security investment decisions. It includes an introduction to the concepts and techniques relevant to the formulation of investment objectives, strategies and policies for individual and institutional investors and an elementary treatment of portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model.
Financial Markets and Institutions: This course describes the various financial markets and the financial institutions that serve those markets. The course will focus on the behavior of major financial institutions, including commercial banks, and their role in the intermediation process as suppliers of funds to the money and capital markets. Other topics include primary and secondary financial markets, treasury and agency securities markets, municipal securities markets, financial futures markets, and stock markets in the U.S. and worldwide.
Fundamentals of Banking: This course provides the foundation for understanding commercial banking in the financial services industry, primarily from a financial and performance perspective. Development of baseline skills in comparative financial analysis will be emphasized. Additional focus areas include: sources of funds, liquidity and investments, credit risk and the overall regulatory environment.
Topics: International Preparation: This course examines international aspects of a selected subject matter in preparation for international experience around the same topic. Open only to students enrolled in the corresponding international experience course. Students must earn a grade of C- or better (an average of 70) in order to participate in FIN 399. The total number of hours for FIN 398 and FIN 399 cannot exceed four total hours. Prerequisite: Junior standing and a 2.0 or better cumulative GPA. (Offered as needed.) Credit 1-4
International Experience: The international experience component of FIN 398. Students will have the opportunity to experience firsthand many of the topics studied in the prerequisite course. The total number of hours for FIN 398 and FIN 399 cannot exceed four total hours.
completion of FIN 398 with a grade of C- or better (an average of 70). (Offered as needed.)
FIN 473Commercial Lending Analysis
Commercial Lending Analysis: This course introduces the qualitative and quantitative analytic tools for commercial lending. Topics include debt financing rationale, operating cycle analysis, financial statement analysis, cash flow analysis, pricing/profitability models, negotiation and industry/market analysis. Students will learn tools to assess inherent risk and how to create structure/support to mitigate risk. To demonstrate proficiency, students will analyze a commercial loan request with presentation of their analysis and structuring 214
Intermediate Corporate Finance: This course provides an in- depth study of financial theory, analysis and application in selected areas. Topics include advanced valuation techniques, risk and return, cost of capital, capital structure theory and policy, dividend policy, capital budgeting, real options, mergers and acquisitions, and working capital management. term.)
Security and Fixed Income Analysis: This course examines the analysis of equity and fixed income securities. Equity security analysis topics include characteristics of equity markets, types of equity securities and their characteristics, fundamental analysis, and valuation of individual equity using dividend discount, free cash flow, and relative valuation techniques. Fixed income securities analysis topics include the types and characteristics of fixed-income securities, fixed income markets, yield spread analysis, analysis of credit risk and interest rate risk, fixed income valuation and return analysis, and valuing bonds with embedded options.
FIN 360 with a grade of C or higher and FIN 370. (Offered spring term.)
FIN 478International Finance3
International Finance: This course introduces students to international financial management including exchange rate determination, interest rate parity and purchasing power parity relationships, international Fisher Effect, transaction and operating exposure, hedging and speculation with derivatives, international financial markets, and international cost of capital capital structure, and capital budgeting techniques. term.)
Financial Policy: This capstone course uses a case approach to problem-solving in areas including corporate financial management, investments, portfolio management, international finance, financial institutions, and ethics. Student will write case reports, make formal presentations of findings and results, and prepare detailed financial analyses using spreadsheets. Students will frequently work together in groups on various projects and case assignments.
Portfolio Analysis and Management: This course covers topics related to managing investment portfolios including developing an investment policy statement, modern portfolio management concepts, asset allocation, behavioral finance, active versus passive investment strategies, equity styles, portfolio monitoring and rebalancing, selecting securities for inclusion in investment portfolios, analyzing portfolios performance, and managing individual/family investment portfolios, managing institutional portfolios, and ethical and professional standards. Modifying portfolio risk and return attributes using options and futures will also be explored.
FIN 360 with a grade of C or higher and FIN 370. (Offered spring term.)
FIN 483Bank Management3
Bank Management: This course is designed to provide extended banking coverage, including organizational constructs, risk management tools, acquisitions and mergers. It will serve as the capstone course for the banking curriculum, utilizing a web-based bank simulation to focus on decision- making using available information to achieve management and shareholders' performance objectives.
Topics in Finance: This course is designed to investigate and evaluate current topics or specialized areas in finance. Course topics area announced the term preceding the offering. offered. (Offered as needed.)
Independent Study in Finance: This course provides as opportunity for an individually designed program of directed readings or a research project. Each study or project requires , approval of the supervising professor and the undergraduate program chair. Prerequisite: Senior finance major with a 3.00 grade point average in the major. (Offered as needed.) Credit:
