27 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 235Personal Finance3
Study of individual and family financial decisions. Designed to prepare the student to exercise intelligent control over income, expenditures, borrowing, savings and investments. Recommended elective for non-business majors. Course is open to all majors.
An introduction to the financial and economic environment within which a firm must operate. Analysis of the sources and the cost and availability of funds in a domestic and international setting; analysis of international monetary flows; financial decision making in an integrated world economy.
An introduction to alternative investments, with major emphasis on financial instruments. Practical descriptive material and relevant theoretical applications. Topics include stocks, bonds, and other financial alternatives.
An introduction to the risk management function and to the basic methods used to handle risks facing the business enterprise, families and individuals. Emphasis is on the insurance method of handling risk with study of the concepts underlying insurance, the fundamentals of insurance contracts, and a broad selection of policy coverage in the property and liability, and life and health fields.
The study of the theory and practice of corporate finance with special emphasis on the evaluation and financing of capital expenditures. Topics include cash flow determination, firm valuation, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, and an introduction to option pricing.
Students engage in applied learning opportunities in the form of student competitions This high impact practice course, allows students to gain real-world experience by competing in student competitions, such as CFA Challenge.
An analytical approach to the valuation of stocks, bonds and options and the placement of those securities in Markowitz-efficient portfolios. Technical and fundamental analysis, market efficiency and valuation methods are examined. Both application and theory are emphasized.
The decision-making process in real estate investment analysis including risk and return, financing alternatives, tax implications, and pricing and development alternatives.
Valuation of financial derivatives, including forwards, futures, options, and swaps. Application of the Black-Scholes-Merton model, the binomial option pricing model, and the cost of carry model. Use of financial derivatives for hedging, speculation, and arbirtrage and risk management.
This course investigates fixed income securities (i.e. bonds) and their derivatives. The course will describe the major players in fixed income markets, the key institutions, broad empirical regularities and analytical tools that are used for pricing and risk management. Some parts of this course are analytical while others are institutional.
Financial analysis and decision making in the modern business organization. Theoretical foundations of financial decision-making are emphasized, including both working capital and fixed capital requirements.
A study of commercial bank operations and the regulatory environment of banking. Topics will include the evolution of regulation in the United States, industry structure, analysis of bank financial statements, asset/liability management, and capital requirements.
This course focuses on the analysis of financial statments. Topics covered include credit analysis, profitability analysis, revenue recognition, asset recognition, liability recognition, and equity recognition. Specific attention is given to where managers have flexibility in accounting standards and how this might impact the analysis of the firm. Students are required to synthesize material from lecture to the analysis of real companies.
An examination of the issues affecting the financial managers of multinational corporations. Topics include managing foreign exchange risk, international financial decisions, and factors affecting foreign direct investment.
Students develop skills to analyze individual securities and then focus on investment portfolio design. These skills will ultimately be applied to UNCW’s real-dollar student-managed investment fund.
Adoption of big data techniques in large US business soared from 17% in 2015 to 59% in 2018, according to a recent article in the Forbes magazine. Building on this motivation, this course will be designed to introduce statistical and machine learning methods developed in the recent literature and discuss their applications in financial markets as well as industries such as banking and insurance. We start from basic regression analysis and build on to discuss advanced methods such as decision tree and neural networks. Throughout the course, the emphasis will be on practical uses rather than statistical details; however, a fair amount of background information on the fundamentals of the methods used will still be provided.
This course advances the students’ knowledge by exploring the ways in which new technologies are disrupting the financial services industry—driving material change in business models, products, applications and customer user interfaces and the resultant disintermediation. Amongst the significant technological trends affecting financial services into the 2020’s, the class will explore AI, smart contracts, blockchain technology, and big data. We will then turn to four sectors of specific opportunities: payments, credit, trading and risk management. We will explore the competitive and strategic landscape amongst FinTech start-ups, incumbents from big finance and big tech in the U.S., China, India, and Europe. Students will learn about technological advances in data and analytics that are enabling these innovations.
The purpose of this course is to provide a sound working knowledge of cryptocurrency, blockchain and their derivatives. This course is designed for students wishing to explore blockchain technology’s potential use—by entrepreneurs, investors and commercial concerns adapting to a changing world of money and finance. Starting with the basics of Bitcoin, students will gain an understanding of the fundamentals of blockchain technology, distributed ledgers and smart ledgers. The class will examine current and potential blockchain applications in the financial, commercial and even military sectors. This will include reviews of potential use cases for payment systems, central banking, venture capital, secondary market trading, trade finance, commercial banking, post trade possessing and digital ID as well as applications in data management. This course will examine not only the markets but also the regulatory landscape for cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings, other tokens and crypto derivatives. By examining competing influences and the analytical tools that are used for tracking, pricing and risk management. Some parts of the course will be fairly technical while others will be largely conceptual. Each session will be organized around one or two key topics. In addition, class notes, current articles and handouts will be used to supplement and clarify issues.
This course is a covers numerous topics in the area of Healthcare Finance. You will learn to apply tools of Financial Management to the management of Healthcare entities. Ask anyone who works in the field of Healthcare why you need to have a special course in the topic, and they will unanimously say “because healthcare is different.” To this end, we will cover topics such as the evolution the healthcare payment system in the United States (with some comparison to other countries). We will cover Revenue models and the Revenue cycle, as well as cost models. We will discuss how to measure community benefit, and we will do a deep dive into financial statements of hospitals and look at topics such as working capital management and cash management (critical issues in healthcare, but applicable to any firm). My goal is that you will leave the course with a better understanding of how healthcare is paid for in the US and the financial skills you will need to step into any healthcare entity and be able to make sound decisions regarding the financial aspects of the firm.
This course is a consulting engagement with an international client. In this course, you will use and apply your business skills to a problem that the client firm is facing in an international setting. The course focuses on development of skills needed in the consulting profession such as client-facing skills, teamwork, presentation skills, etc.
This class involves the application of financial concepts in a “real world” setting. The participant receives hands-on experience under the joint guidance of a manager from a business or not-for-profit organization and a faculty supervisor.
