Finance

The role of people trained in finance is expanding rapidly within the business world. Changes on the financial scene—rising securities prices, fluctuating inflation, currency values and interest rates, and globalization of markets—have created an awareness that financial knowledge is essential to the effective management of business firms and many other types of organizations.

Finance is the management of real and monetary assets for businesses, financial institutions, nonprofit organizations, governments, and individuals. Finance courses draw on accounting principles, economic theory, and quantitative methods. These courses develop methods to direct the way capital is acquired and managed. Students are exposed to economic and financial systems and how they operate. They also are given an opportunity to analyze economic trends and indicators and to apply this analysis to financial decision making.

Students may specialize in one or more of the following areas: corporate finance, investment management and analysis, risk management, and real estate. The program is designed to prepare students for careers in corporate financial management, security analysis, investment management, security or insurance brokerage, credit management, and risk management with corporations, banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions.

Concentration in Finance

Note: Students may double count up to one course in another business concentration.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Required Course
FINA 3301	Corporate Finance	4
or FINA 3303	Investments
Electives
Complete three of the following:		12
FINA 2720	Sustainability in the Business Environment
or INNO 3520	Impact Investing and Social Finance
or INNO 3309	Funding and Measuring Social Impact
FINA 2730	Fintech and Financial Innovation
FINA 3301	Corporate Finance (if not selected as a required course)
FINA 3303	Investments (if not selected as a required course)
FINA 3305	Real Estate Principles
FINA 3401	Responsible Investing
FINA 4219	Portfolio Management
FINA 4220	Behavioral Finance
FINA 4320	International Financial Management
FINA 4335	Computational Methods and Their Applications in Finance
FINA 4340	Blockchain Applications in Finance
FINA 4350	Applied Financial Econometrics and Data Modeling
FINA 4370	Financial Modeling
FINA 4390	Machine Learning in Finance
FINA 4410	Valuation and Value Creation
FINA 4412	Personal Financial Planning
FINA 4420	Mergers and Acquisitions
FINA 4460	Algorithmic and Robo-Trading
FINA 4512	Financial Risk Management
FINA 4514	Investment Banking
FINA 4516	Real Estate Finance
FINA 4524	Credit Analysis
FINA 4526	Core Topics in Alternative Investments
FINA 4604	Fixed-Income Securities
FINA 4610	Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity
FINA 4983	Special Topics in Finance
The following courses may not be used toward a Finance concentration elective: FINA3740, FINA3750