10 courses with the subject FINA, 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.
Focuses on the history, seminal scholars, business models, professional certifications, education, career opportunities, and professional skills associated with the finance profession and personal financial planning profession.
Explores financial principles and practices necessary to manage the enterprise. Emphasizes the tools and techniques used for financial analysis and planning, valuation, financing, and investment decisions. Encompasses time value of money, risk and returns, valuation methods, calculation of cost of capital, and capital budgeting.
An intensive study of capital budgeting, capital structure, working capital management, leasing vs. buying, distribution in shareholders, mergers, bankruptcy, multinational finance and analysis of cases relating to financial decisions of firms.
Description and analysis of major financial institutions and money and capital markets. Determination and structure of interest rates, derivative security markets, major sources of uses of funds by major financial institutions and impact of government regulations are discussed.
This course addresses the financial aspects of entrepreneurship: the financial managerial skills and various financing strategies. Compare to well-established corporations, early stage ventures face higher level of operational uncertainty and greater financing difficulty. In this course, students are introduced to the financial analytical skills that are most needed for new entrepreneurial ventures, such as financial ratio analysis, cash management, and financial statement projection. They will also get to know various funding sources, for example: venture capital, crowdfunding (part of FinTech ecosystem), alternative financing etc.
Provide a broad coverage of various aspects of risk management used in financial industry. For each type of risk, it addresses its concept, usage, risk measurements, and its basic quantitative and/or qualitative skills. Topics include risk management industry, theories and measurement, types of risk, instruments used in risk, and regulations.
Covers the fundamental economic and financial issues faced by multinational corporations. Discusses the history of international monetary system, the structure and use of balance of payments, foreign exchange theories. Explores hedging tools such as currency futures and options and arbitrage opportunities in currency markets.
Emphasizes the investment environment, investment process, investment products and securities. Explores the decision-making procedures for acquiring and disposing of financial instruments in competitive financial markets. Examines the relationship of risk and expected return in the context of achieving stated investment goals.
Discusses various investment instruments accessible to investors, prepares students to pass Securities Industry Essential Exam, the entry level test and the prerequisite of licensing tests in financial industry. Encompasses securities markets, investment products, investment strategies, laws and regulations, and theories.
0 TO 12 The student is placed with a business firm, bank, government agency or nonprofit organization performing finance-related tasks. The internship experience offers a practical training ground for students that supplements academic training by permitting them to apply the theories, concepts and techniques learned through coursework.
Source: Pennsylvania Western University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
