Course Level: Continuing Education

Course Level: Continuing Education

This executive development education program provides business skills and knowledge to physicians. These skills include understanding and analyzing financial statements; evaluating investment proposals; dealing with management issues including hiring and firing and collective bargaining; regulatory compliance such as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Medicare, and Stark Regulations; medical record issues and information technology (PMS/EMR); insurer and reimbursement practices; and working in a practice versus being an employee.

Course Level: Study Abroad

Course Level: Continuing Education

Course Level: Graduate

Course Level: Undergraduate

Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Provides the background for making personal financial decisions within a social and institutional context and developing future financial plans. Shows how to set financial goals, devise strategies to attain them, and understand the tradeoffs inherent in the decision-making process. Includes cash flow control, banking, credit, taxes, financing houses and automobiles, insurance, investments, and estate planning. Prerequisite for General Education credit: COMM-100 or ECON-100 or GOVT-110 or SOCY-150.

Course Level: Undergraduate

This course adds to the knowledge base introduced in FIN-200 and adds a strong focus on applying this knowledge through comprehensive financial planning techniques. Students use software to gain experience in debt management and reduction; marriage and educational expenses; insurance; purchase of a car or house; retirement planning; investing for financial independence; and protecting heirs. Prerequisite: FIN-200.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Focuses on the key institutions and markets, both domestic and global, that are important in making sound investment and saving decisions. The course familiarizes students with key investment concepts and develops basic frameworks for analyzing individual and investment portfolios. Note: students may not receive credit for both FIN-312 and FIN-469.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Introduction to business finance, including global aspects, overview of money, and capital markets; financial analysis and time value of money; corporate securities, stock and bond pricing; acquisition and use of funds and cost of capital; capital budgeting. Also includes an introduction to portfolio diversification and asset pricing models. Prerequisite: ACCT-240, ECON-200, ITEC-200, and STAT-202.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Principles and practices of listing real property, agreement of sale, and the transfer of title or ownership and interests. Drawing documents, contracts, deeds, leases, financing and other instruments. Private and public property rights, liens, taxes, assessments, and other claims on real estate. Mathematical problems in investment real estate. Approved for the real estate salesperson examination. Prerequisite: FIN-365 or FIN-200 and upper-division standing.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Provides students with the opportunity to blend practical business work experience with academic study. The academic workload varies depending on the internship credit to be earned. Prerequisite: FIN-365 and upper-division standing, 9 additional credit hours in business courses, and permission of instructor and department chair.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Prerequisite: FIN-365, upper-division standing, 9 additional credit hours in business courses, and permission of department chair and Cooperative Education office.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.

Course Level: Undergraduate

This course provides students with decision-making skills derived from the ability to understand, perform, and interpret complex financial calculations and models used in finance. Prerequisite: FIN-365.

Course Level: Undergraduate

This course focuses on methods of sound money management in preparation for Certified Financial Planner (CFP) certification. Students learn to prepare personal financial plans, evaluate and select management investments, analyze insurance, and use credit effectively; including mortgages. The course also covers financial strategies for tax minimization and retirement planning. The methodology is that of life-cycle planning and personal risk management. Prerequisite: FIN-365.

Course Level: Undergraduate

The structure and nature of the international monetary system and the operation of exchange markets, foreign exchange exposure, and foreign capital markets. The cost of capital in an international context is also studied, as well as some of the major issues in international accounting, taxation, and banking. Prerequisite: IBUS-300, FIN-365 and upper-division standing.

Course Level: Undergraduate

The history, purposes, functions, and organizations of the short-term money market and long-term capital market. An integrated view of the participating institutions and the markets in which they operate, their investment constraints, and resulting portfolios. Prerequisite: FIN-365 and upper-division standing.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Analysis of debt and equity-based futures and options contracts and their underlying cash market instruments. Characteristics of derivative instruments markets. Pricing of derivative instruments. Speculative, hedging, and arbitrage uses of derivative instruments. Risk-return tradeoffs in speculation and hedging. Limited coverage of currency futures and options and exotic derivative instruments. Prerequisite: FIN-365 and senior standing.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Investment, financing, and dividend-policy decisions of the financial manager. Case studies and problems are some of the tools used to enable the student to make and see the effects of financial decisions. Prerequisite: FIN-365 and senior standing.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Investment objectives. Methods of appraising corporate equity, debt, and other securities. Portfolio theory and management, technical analysis, random walk theory, and the role of institutional investors. Case studies and computer simulation are used. Prerequisite: FIN-365 and upper-division standing. Note: students may not receive credit for both FIN-469 and FIN-312.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Capstone seminar dealing with current issues and recent developments in corporate financial management, investments and financial institutions. Integrates previous courses in finance and real estate and extends into new areas as appropriate. Provides students with extensive literature review and the opportunity to conduct formal research in finance. Prerequisite: senior standing with at least 9 credit hours of finance/real estate in addition to FIN-365 or permission of department chair.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Impact of the national economy on real estate; application of macroeconomics (GNP, consumer spending, inflation, interest rates, and other data) to housing and commercial property; mortgage market analysis, including ARMs and creative financing, secondary mortgage markets, MBSs, CMOs, and other new developments in real estate finance. Prerequisite: FIN-365 and upper-division standing.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Property management, development, operation, and construction of physical real estate, including residential, industrial, office, hotel, and retail. Development investment strategies including land-use planning, zoning, entitlement, and coordination of construction, and valuation of land, including real options. Operation and management of property, including issues of agency and self-selection, tenant selection, retention, and management. Prerequisite: FIN-365 and upper-division standing.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Prerequisite: FIN-365, upper-division standing, and permission of instructor, department chair, and associate dean.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Course Level: Undergraduate

Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.

Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate

The nature and scope of this course is to give students a basic understanding and knowledge of the history and philosophy of real estate law, its concepts and principles, and the relationships and functions of real estate law. Specific concepts and areas of real property law are covered. Prerequisite: senior or graduate standing.

Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate

This course provides students with decision-making skills derived from the ability to understand, perform, and interpret complex financial calculations and models used in finance. Prerequisite: FIN-365 and an additional advanced finance course beyond FIN-365, or FIN-614.

Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate

This course provides an intensive review to help students prepare for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level I examination. Includes ethical and professional standards, quantitative methods, economics, financial statement analysis, corporate finance, portfolio management, equity, fixed income, derivative, and alternative investments. Prerequisite: senior or graduate standing.

Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate

Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate

Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.

Course Level: Graduate

Application of economic theory to management problems, using basic economic tools and techniques of economic analysis to analyze decision-making problems faced in private business, government agencies, and non-profit organizations.

Course Level: Graduate

This course covers fundamental components of market structure and related concepts and tools that managers use for the economic analysis of a firm's strategic decisions. Aspects of competitive, monopolist, monopolistically competitive, and oligopolistic markets, as well as pricing strategies in these markets are considered. Prerequisite: enrollment in MBA program or permission of instructor.

Course Level: Graduate

Financial theory and techniques of analysis, including valuation theory, theories of risk measurement, managing the firm's investment decisions and capital structure, sources of financing for the firm and financial planning and analysis. Prerequisite: ACCT-607, FIN-605 or FIN-606, and ITEC-610 or ITEC-615.

Course Level: Graduate

The use of accounting and finance as a management tool in financial analysis, planning, and decision making. Underlying concepts of accounting, the role of accounting in management planning and control, and financial statement analysis. Financial theory and techniques involving time value of money, valuation, risk measurement, and managing the firm's investment decisions, financing, and dividend policy decisions.

Course Level: Graduate

Particular emphasis on legal concepts related to the financial sales transaction. The law of sales, commercial paper (negotiable instruments) and secured transactions with emphasis on the Uniform Commercial Codes, Articles 2,3,4 and 9. Students study the particular substantive legal areas related to the sale of goods and the secured financing necessary for that sale and simultaneously explore generic legal issues related to the drafting and interpretation of all statutory materials. Prerequisite: ACCT-623.

Course Level: Graduate

Course Level: Graduate

Course Level: Graduate

Course Level: Graduate

Course Level: Graduate

Course Level: Graduate

This course provides students with decision-making skills derived from the ability to understand, perform, and interpret complex financial calculations and models used in finance. Prerequisite: FIN-614.

Course Level: Graduate

Course Level: Graduate

Course Level: Graduate

In this course students gain an understanding of applied econometric models typically used in finance to become familiar with techniques for analyzing real-world financial and economic research. Prerequisite: FIN-614.

Course Level: Graduate

This course examines at an intermediate level the problems of managing short term assets including cash, marketable securities accounts receivable and inventory, managing the acquisition and disposal of long-term assets, and financing decisions including leverage, leasing, mergers and international issues. Students become familiar with both the basic theory in each of these areas and various strategies for integrating the theory with practice. Prerequisite: ACCT-607 and FIN-614.

Course Level: Graduate

The purpose and operations of security markets; investment instruments and their characteristics; introduction to portfolio and capital market theory; theory of valuation, bonds and the term structure of interest rates; options, commodity and financial futures; investment companies; and international investments. Prerequisite: FIN-614.

Course Level: Graduate

Examines ways to increase firm value through corporate restructuring. Includes the theoretical background on restructuring, valuation techniques, mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, divestiture activities, LBOs, and financial distress. Reviews theory and practice through case analysis and emphasizes valuation analysis and the role of financial markets in each area. Prerequisite: FIN-614.

Course Level: Graduate

A comprehensive study of equity and debt-based futures with other derivative instruments given secondary consideration. Characteristics of exchanges and market participants. Pricing of derivative instruments. Hedging, speculative, and arbitrage applications of derivative instruments are analyzed. Prerequisite: FIN-614.

Course Level: Graduate

This course explores the use of financial statement information by investors and analysts as a basis for understanding a firm's current performance, assessing its future prospect and valuing ownership and other claims. The focus is on use of accounting information for equity valuation, but other applications are also considered. Meets with ACCT-677. Prerequisite: ACCT-607 and FIN-614.

Course Level: Graduate

Investment banks became the most visible financial institutions operating in the global financial markets of the 1980s and 1990s. This course examines the function of investment banks and the development of the industry. Prerequisite: FIN-614 and FIN-672.

Course Level: Graduate

Nations are increasingly turning to free capital markets to intermediate resources to finance their development. This course examines the specific contributions that financial markets and institutions can make in reaching their goals of economic growth and development. Prerequisite: FIN-614.

Course Level: Graduate

This course introduces the institutions and markets that form the worldwide economic system of trading financial and real assets. Students cover concepts of financial theory; institutional detail; regulations; and the history of the financial markets. The course provides an overview of the financial world and the markets' primary participants. Prerequisite: FIN-614.

Course Level: Graduate

This course provides an introduction to the analysis of bonds and other fixed-income assets. Students study liquidity management, risk measurement and management, and portfolio analysis and management. Prerequisite: FIN-614.

Course Level: Graduate

Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics of special interest in finance, real estate, and related interdisciplinary topics.

Course Level: Graduate

In this course students gain an understanding of applied econometric models typically used in finance to become familiar with techniques for analyzing real-world financial and economic research. Prerequisite: FIN-614.

Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate

This course examines the relationship between managers and shareholders, and the processes and systems that investors use to ensure that managers act in the best interests of the firm's owners. The course covers issues including boards of directors, executive compensation, ownership structure, etc., and uses a combination of readings and case studies. Prerequisite: FIN-614.

Course Level: Graduate

Prerequisite: permission of instructor and department chair.

Course Level: Graduate

Prerequisite: permission of instructor and department chair. Note: may be taken pass/fail only.

Course Level: Graduate

Prerequisite: permission of department chair and Cooperative Education office.

Course Level: Graduate

Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.

Course Level: Graduate

Financial operation of the multinational firm, including the sources of funds, foreign investment decisions, and international transactions and taxation. Also included is a study of the related aspects of the international monetary system, foreign exchange markets, and international banking. Meets with IBUS-700. Prerequisite: FIN-614; and IBUS-610 or IBUS-618.

Course Level: Graduate

This course provides a comprehensive overview of fundamental real estate principles and the laws and economic factors that impact real estate markets. Focusing on critical real estate concepts, tools, and practices, the course is relevant for students seeking to acquire a real estate license or improve their real estate management skills. Includes legal descriptions of real estate; estates, encumbrances, liens, and homesteads; agency and contracts; real estate mathematics and finance; lenders, appraisal, escrow, and title insurance; leases and the landlord-tenant relationship; urban economics and planning; taxation; and careers in real estate.

Course Level: Graduate

A study of the analysis and structure of investing in income-producing properties. The efficiency of the real estate market and legal structures of organizations. Appraisal procedures, financing, and acquisition. Cash flow and financial statement analysis, and risk and return. Project analysis.

Course Level: Graduate

Examination of residential markets for single-family housing and apartments and investment analysis of these markets, including low-income housing and land development. Includes housing markets, condos, urban redevelopment, residential mortgages including adjustable and fixed rates, as well as mortgage-backed securities including prepayment.

Course Level: Graduate

This course emphasizes the entrepreneurial side of real estate finance and investment. Students carry out a project, including selecting a property, organizing the venture, developing marketing and leasing, performing an appraisal, obtaining financing, and developing a spreadsheet structure to analyze the risks and returns. Classroom material is fully integrated with the project at each stage.

Course Level: Graduate

The first part of this course examines real estate development, including the pricing and assembly of land and focusing on carrying out a real estate development project. The second considers secondary mortgage markets including securitization, with emphasis on the current state of secondary mortgage markets.