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Undergraduate Courses
 
265. Real Estate Principles - Basic principles of real estate transfers with emphasis on contracts of sale, deeds, abstracts, leases, options, liens, taxes, financing, and market conditions.

268. Real Estate Appraisal - Functions, purposes, and techniques of appraising land and improvements. Prerequisite: FIN 265 or consent of instructor.

269. Personal Finance - Introduction to personal financial decision making.  Prepares individuals to deal with decisions about goals, spending, home buying, managing risk and insurance, investing and retirement.
 
333. Introduction to Financial Management - Role of finance in the modern business organization with emphasis on the decision process. Prerequisite: ACC 231.
357. Introduction to Investments - Examination of the operation and functions of the organized security markets with emphasis on the individual investor. Prerequisite: FIN 333 or consent of instructor.

358. International Financial Markets - Study of the operations in important debt, equity, derivative and swap markets around the world.  Focus on issues of valuation and market efficiency, with special attention on measuring and hedging foreign exchange rate risk and interest rate risk.  Prerequisite:  FIN 333

361. General Insurance - Introductory course in the principles of insurance: the place of insurance in the economy, the theory and principles of insurance, and comprehensive coverage of all lines of insurance. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
 
366. Real Estate Law - Same as BLW 366. Legal concepts of real estate, land description, real property rights, estates in land, conveyances, encumbrances, foreclosures, recording procedures, evidence of title, consumer protection, and landlord-tenant law.
 
367. Real Estate Financing - Financing of commercial and residential real estate with emphasis on the principles of mortgage and equity financing. Prerequisite: FIN 265 and 333 or consent of instructor.
 
370. Financial Institutions - Thorough study of financial institutions in terms of their characteristics, roles, functions, operations and importance. Prerequisite: FIN 333.
 
373. Intermediate Financial Management - Study of the conceptual and analytical framework guiding the investment, financing, and dividend decisions of the firm. Prerequisite: FIN 333.
 
401. Financial Statement Analysis - Current topics in financial analysis. Analytical approach to financial statements with integration of finance and accounting concepts and principles. Prerequisites: FIN 333.
 
410. Speculative Markets - Study of evolution of financial futures and options with emphasis on strategies and applications. Prerequisites: FIN 333.
 
415. Personal Financial Planning - Prepares students to assist others in their financial planning and strategies of investment and insurance.  Emphasis on retirement planning and needs, risk analysis, trusts, and tax planning and shelters.  Utilization of case studies.  Prerequisite: FIN 269 or 333 or consent of instructor.

433. International Financial Management - Basic money management for a corporation which operates in the world economy - exchange rate fluctuation, arbitrage, global strategic planning, from the corporate viewpoint.  Prerequisite: FIN 333

458. Security Analysis and Portfolio Management - Emphasizes recent theoretical and analytical developments in security selection and portfolio management. Includes a consideration of relevant asset valuation models. Prerequisite: FIN 357.
 
471. Commercial Bank Management - Designed to provide the student with an understanding of commercial bank operations and management. Prerequisite: FIN 370.
 
474. Financial Analysis and Policy - Comprehensive case study of problems of financial management. Prerequisite: FIN 373.
 
475. Special Problems in Finance - Individual instruction in special topics in finance. Prerequisites: Senior standing and approval of department chair.
 
485. Internship in Finance - Supervised on-the-job training in one or more facets of the field of finance.  This course cannot be used to satisfy any of the advanced finance courses required of finance majors or minors.   Prerequisites: Junior standing as a major or minor in finance; overall GPA of 2.5 or better; finance GPA of 2.8 or better; and consent of department chair. Pass/Fail.
 
490. Student Investment Roundtable - Supervised application of security analysis and portfolio management skills, including research techniques, asset allocation, security selection, proxy voting, performance reporting and analysis of current topics in the filed.  Prerequisites: Finance major and minor, FIN 357 and consent of director of Student Roundtable and department chair.
Graduate Courses

504. Financial Management - Devoted to the study of concepts, processes and institutions in financing business firms. Prerequisite: ACC 501; CSC 503; ECO 502 or equivalent.

510. International Finance - Selected topics in international financial financial management and international financial markets.   Prerequisite: FIN 504 or equivalent.

514. Advanced Financial Management - Employment of the case method to examine financial theories and concepts in practical situations and to develop analytical skills and judgment ability in solving financial problems of business firms. Prerequisite: FIN 504 or equivalent.

554. Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management - A thorough study of investment analysis techniques and problems of portfolio selection and management. Prerequisite: FIN 504 or equivalent.

575. Advanced Graduate Studies - Individual instruction based on the type of studies needed for the program pursued.   May be repeated for credit under different topics.

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Last Updated: April 2, 2008

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