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FINANCE (FIN)
FIN 1000Managing Your Personal Finances(3)
This course provides an examination of the financial situations students
confront during their college years and thereafter. The emphasis is on
applying relatively simple concepts to managing one's own financial
resources. Topics include: budgeting, banking services, credit card use,
consumer loans, insurance concepts, and savings plan.
FIN 3000Financial Management(3)
Financial management deals with the theory and practice of financing
the business firm under uncertainty. This course covers financial markets,
risk valuation, financial analysis and forecasting, capital budgeting,
working capital management, and capital structure. This course also
includes statistical and financial analysis of problem sets, as well as
computer applications with an emphasis on spreadsheets. Completion of
business administration lower core or graduate conditionally classified.
Requisite(s): Completion of Business Administration Lower Core (BALC)
or Grad Conditionally Classified.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
FIN 3220Introduction to Personal Financial Planning(3)
This course introduces student to personal financial planning. Topics
in financial planning include the financial planning process, client
interaction, time value of money applications, personal financial
statements, cash flow and debt management, asset acquisition,
education planning, overview of investment planning and retirement
planning, plan integration, ethics, and business aspects of financial
planning.
FIN 3260Investment Management(3)
This course involves the analysis of various types of securities, security
markets, investment strategies, and methods of evaluating portfolio
performance. It also includes assessing the overall quality of portfolio
management in the context of the financial plan. Case analysis and
student investment presentations are required. Prerequisite: FIN3000.
Requisite(s): Prerequisite: FIN3000
FIN 3400Principles of Insurance(3)
This course covers the principles of life, casualty, and liability insurance.
It also covers individual and group insurance programs, as well as
methods of establishing risks and rates of return.
Requisite(s): Prerequisite: FIN3000
Typically Offered: Fall Even Year
FIN 3600Entrepreneurial and Small Business Finance(3)
This course covers financial issues, problems and situations frequently
encountered in small businesses. The course will address analytical
techniques appropriate for small business situations including working
capital management, financing alternatives, financial distress, and
valuing the business. In addition, it will address issues of financial
strategy for small business. Students will develop problem solving skills
by analyzing weekly case study assignments. Assignments will include
empirical articles dealing with current topics in small business finance.
Prerequisite: FIN3000.
Requisite(s): Prerequisite: FIN3000
Typically Offered: Fall Odd Year
FIN 3800Introduction to Real Estate(3)
This course introduces students to real estate principles, practices,
and investment decisions. It covers, equity investments, finance,
legal aspects, practices, principles, property development, real estate
administration in the public sector, real estate market analysis, and
valuation. Prerequisite: FIN3000
Requisite(s): Prerequisite: FIN3000
FIN 4000Advanced Financial Management(3)
This course provides students with the opportunity both to recognize
and to test the relevance of modern financial concepts in the context
of real managerial decisions in the private sector, including ethical
problems facing financial managers. A case method utilizing statistical
and financial analysis techniques and computer applications will be used
to show real world applications. Student presentations are required.
Prerequisite: FIN3000.
Requisite(s): Prerequisite: FIN3000
Typically Offered: Spring
FIN 4500International Business Finance(3)
This course investigates the problems facing financial managers
in international operations. Topics include: foreign exchange, the
international monetary system, managing exchange rate risk exposure,
capital budgeting, international banking, and import/export financing.
Financial analysis using spreadsheets as well as student presentations
may be required. Prerequisite: FIN3000.
Requisite(s): Prerequisite: FIN3000
Typically Offered: Spring Odd Year
FIN 4600Financial Institutions Management(3)
This course gives students a broad introduction to the operation,
structure and regulatory environment of the U.S. financial system. Special
attention will be given to the theories of interest rate determination,
financial risk management, and asset/liability management in depository
and non-depository institutions. The course also investigates e-Business
and changes in commercial banking, non-bank financial institutions and
financial markets. Computer models and cases are used to show real
world applications. Student presentations are required. Cross listed with
ECON 4600. Prerequisite: FIN3000.
Requisite(s): Prerequisite: FIN3000
Typically Offered: Spring
FIN 4770Special Topics in Finance(1-3)
Special topics course in Finance provides students with the opportunity
to take an in-depth study of an area not covered in regular courses. When
offered, prerequisites and course requirements will be announced for
each course. Prerequisite: FIN3000
Requisite(s): Prerequisite: FIN3000
Repeatable for Credit: Yes, up to 20 units
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
FIN 4850Individual Study(1-3)
Individual supervised projects or directed reading projects for students
qualified to carry on independent work. Prerequisite: Permission of the
instructor and department chair. Up to 3 units may be used to satisfy
elective degree requirements. Department determines application and
number of units. Note: To count for graduate elective credit and maintain
graduate course standards, 400-level courses must be augmented with
additional work.
Requisite(s): Prerequisite: sophomore standing or higher.
Repeatable for Credit: Yes, up to 20 units
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
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FIN 4860Internship in Finance(3)
This course provides an integrated academic experience in a work
setting. Units may not be used to satisfy the requirements of the
Business Administration major. Students may earn a maximum of 3
units through internships. It is offered on a credit, no-credit basis only.
Prerequisite: FIN3000 and one additional upper division Finance course
or permission of the Department Chair.
Requisite(s): Prerequisite: FIN3000 and one additional upper division
Finance course or permission of the Department Chair.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
FIN 6000Financial Management and Policy(3)
This course addresses the formulation of financial policies for obtaining
and using financial resources for the purpose of value creation. Heavy
emphasis is placed on the analysis of real-world cases that focus on
the decisions confronting the financial manager. Statistical analysis,
financial analysis, and advanced spreadsheet applications are required.
Students will be challenged with both theoretical and practical problems
in the following areas: performance analysis, long-term planning, working
capital management, capital budgeting, long-term financing, acquisitions,
and international financial management. Student presentations are
required.
FIN 6200Investments(3)
This course includes discussion and analysis of security investments.
Emphasis directed toward understanding financial investment theories
and concepts from both a qualitative and quantitative perspective. Topics
include: securities markets, risk and return, portfolio theory, asset pricing
theory, valuation, fundamental analysis, and portfolio management.
Case analysis, statistical analysis, and other computer applications are
required.
FIN 6300Real Estate Investments(3)
This course investigates methods of analyzing real estate investments. It
includes an examination of appraisal methods, capitalization approaches,
and cash flow models. Consideration is also given to legal, tax, and
financing issues. Specific project analysis techniques are part of the
course, i.e., analysis of residential properties, commercial properties and
shopping centers. A term project and oral presentation are required along
with computer applications.
FIN 6400Short Term Financial Management(3)
This is an in-depth exploration of subjects essential to an enterprise's
financial success. Topics covered include management of the firm's
working capital accounts (i.e. receivables, inventories, and payables),
short term financing alternatives, cash management systems, short term
investments choices, financial institution relationships, and electronic
payment and information management systems.
Typically Offered: Spring
FIN 6500International Financial Management(3)
This course looks at the international financial environment, including
balance of payments, the international monetary system, foreign
exchange and financial markets. Specific topics include managing
foreign exchange exposure, domestic versus foreign financing, cash
management, political risk, and international legal constraints. A term
project and oral presentation will be a part of the course.
Typically Offered: Spring Even Year
FIN 6770Selected Topics in Finance(3)
Special topic courses provide each department with the opportunity to
present an in-depth study of a selected subject not covered in regular
courses. When offered, prerequisites and course requirements will be
announced for each course.
Repeatable for Credit: Yes, up to 15 units
FIN 6850Individual Graduate Study in Finance(1-3)
Individual study is offered to give the student experience in planning
and outlining a course of study on the student's own initiative under
departmental supervision. Independent study should deal with a special
interest not covered in a regular course or with the exploration in greater
depth of a subject presented in a regular course. Instructor consent is
required. No more than 3 semester units may be used to satisfy degree
requirements.
Repeatable for Credit: Yes, up to 20 units
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
