19 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 150Financial Literacy4.0
Financial literacy is designed to help students understand their personal financial lives. Students will be exposed to how to make everyday decisions (e.g., rent/buy a house or lease/own a car) as well as understand credit cards, student loans, consumer purchasing decisions, insurance, and other financial decisions.
Covers financial structure of a corporation, short-and long-term financial policies, sources and uses of capital funds, asset valuation, capital budgeting, and corporate growth.
Provides an in-depth treatment of long-term financing decisions, including estimation of the cost of capital, financial leverage, dividend policy, and working capital analysis.
Provides a fundamental understanding of risk and return, modern portfolio theory, asset pricing models, performance evaluation, and the use of derivatives to hedge and manage risk.
Covers understanding of the financial system from the money-creation process to the functioning of the Federal Reserve System to the role and management of financial institutions.
The purpose of the course is to bring financial management decision, tools and techniques typically applied in corporate contexts into the realm of entrepreneurship. This course presents the importance of understanding and applying entrepreneurial finance methods and tools to help ensure a successful venture.
This course examines the growing FinTech industry, which is short-hand for Financial Technology. FinTech is defined as the set of new technologies and innovations in the delivery of financial services. The course will compare these innovations to their more traditional counterparts considering both the benefits of these FinTech innovations, as well as their limitations.
This course covers topics related to portfolio management. Students will learn how to analyze industries, select securities for inclusion in investment portfolios, and analyze portfolio performance. Students will participate in the management of a real investment portfolio for the duration of the course.
This course covers advanced topics related to portfolio management. Students will learn how to analyze industries and the investment potential of individual securities in depth. They will also learn advanced methods for analyzing portfolio performance and investment strategy. Students will participate in the management of a real investment portfolio for the duration of the course.
The purpose of this course is to guide students to a better understanding of mergers (forming a new company by combining with another firm) and acquisitions (purchasing another firm) from the perspective of a corporation. Students will analyze the process in which one firm identifies potential other firms to take over and how to calculate the value of these firms. Further, student will be exposed to additional issues that arise when corporations undertake mergers and acquisitions.
Examines the investment and financing strategies of multinational corporations. Covers topics including capital acquisition in the international environment, international investment borrowing, international corporate restructuring, currency swaps and recapitalizations, hedging techniques, and international risk-management instruments.
Financial literacy is designed to educate students within the parameters of their personal financial goals and objectives, establishing a path into financial independence. Students will be exposed to how to make everyday decisions (e.g., rent versus buy a house or lease versus own a car) as well as understand credit cards, student loans, consumer purchasing decisions, insurance, and other financial decisions.
This course covers the foundation, mechanics and strategies for Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital transactions. Private equity is a form of intermediation that takes investors’ capital and deploys it directly in a portfolio of private companies. Once the investment is made, the PE firm takes an active role in managing and monitoring the company prior to “exiting” that is, selling the firm at a premium to maximize returns of the initial shareholders (investors). The course covers the operations and organization of a PE firm from the fund formation to exit. It describes in considerable details the steps required for a successful implementation ofsourcing,funding,evaluating/investing and exiting a deal. The course outlines how private equity fits into the architecture of the financial/investment world.
The course focuses on the firm’s credit worthiness. It is designed to allow students to experience the responsibilities of a credit analyst. Students will learn to interpret financial statements, identify a firm’s financial vulnerabilities and complete a full credit risk analysis. Upon course completion, students should be able to evaluate financial statements, determine the credit strength of the firm and answer the question “do you feel comfortable lending the company money.”.
The focus of this course will be on the logic and principles underlying personal financial management as well as implementing tools and techniques for achieving sound financial goals. Topics include: investment decision analysis, consumer credit, tax planning, actuarial opportunities, financial investment strategies, and retirement planning.
