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Finance Major
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Students who graduate with a finance major are prepared to enter positions in corporations, financial institutions, brokerage firms, investment banks, and government. They also are prepared for post-graduate study in all areas of business.

Learning goals

  • Identify the functions of financial markets and institutions and examine their impact on the level of interest rates and interest rate differentials.
  • Investigate advanced time value of money concepts and extend these concepts to mortgage mathematics, commercial mathematics, and capital budgeting.
  • Explore the international integration of financial markets and analyze implications for financial managers.
  • Examine the nature of the commercial banking business. Ascertain the measures of bank return and risk performance and how they are applied to bank valuation decisions and management performance assessment.
  • Identify and analyze derivative instruments and strategies used by investors and corporations to hedge financial risks. Emphasis will be placed on identification of financial risk and designing optimal risk management strategies.
  • Determine and analyze the appropriate measures of risk and return for various financial instruments. Understand the mechanics and regulation of financial securities exchanges and determine how the value of stocks, bonds, and securities are calculated.

Degree requirements

  • 60 credits of lower division course work including business pre-core courses.
  • 60 credits of upper division course work, including business core courses, finance major courses, and upper division business electives.
  • Finance major courses require a grade of "C" or higher.

Finance major courses

FIN 3424 Intermediate Finance
 
FIN 4324 Commercial Bank Management
 
FIN 4303 Financial Markets and Institutions
 
FIN 4502 Securities Analysis
 
FIN 4604 International Financial Management or
FIN 4615 International Banking
 
FIN 4486 Financial Risk Management-Financial Engineering
 
FINXXXX Finance Elective or
REEXXXX Real Estate Elective
 
Electives
 
Three upper division business electives

Suggested two year plan of study

Third Year
Fall Semester Spring Semester
CGS 3300 Introduction to Information Systems 3 COM 3110 Business and Professional Communication 3
ECO 3202 Applied Macroeconomics 3 FIN 3424 Intermediate Finance 3
FIN 3403 Financial Management 3 FIN 4303 Financial Markets and Institutions 3
MAN 3025 Organization and Management 3 FIN/REE Major elective 3
QMB 3200 Applications of Quantitative Methods in Business 3   Upper division business elective 3
  TOTAL 15   TOTAL 15
Fourth Year
Fall Semester Spring Semester
BUL 4310 Legal Environment of Business 3 MAN 4722 Strategic Management 3
MAN 4504 Operations Management 3 FIN 4486 Financial Risk Management - Financial Engineering 3
MAR 3023 Marketing Management 3 FIN 4604  FIN 4615 International Financial Management or International Banking 3
FIN 4324 Commercial Bank Management 3   Upper division business elective 3
FIN 4502 Securities Analysis 3   Upper division business elective 3
  TOTAL 15   TOTAL 15

 

 
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