Finance
In addition to foundation and core courses, students intending to concentrate in finance should complete the following course work:
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Credits: 3
Category: MBA Elective/Finance concentration (elective)
Pre-requisites: MGT 561
Offered: Irregularly
Instructional Format: Traditional and NetPlus!
Description: Emphasis on application of tools of financial decision-making to actual business problems with a case study and discussion format. Traditional topic areas such as working capital management, capital budgeting, capital structure and leverage, dividend policy, techniques, mergers and acquisitions, as well as an introduction to new developments in corporate financing.
Credits: 3
Category: MBA elective/Finance concentration (elective)
Pre-requisites: MGT 561
Offered: Irregularly
Instructional Format: Traditional and NetPlus!
Description: Concepts of portfolio analysis in the general area of institutional investment management. Principles for managing financial assets such as corporate pension funds, bank-administered trust and other institutional funds, including many of the latest quantitative approaches. Students learn how to establish appropriate investment objectives, develop optimal portfolio strategies, estimate risk-return tradeoffs, and evaluate investment performance.
Credits: 3
Category: MBA elective/Finance concentration (elective)
Pre-requisites: MGT 561
Offered: Irregularly
Instructional Format: Traditional and NetPlus!
Description: Skills necessary to value and employ options, futures, and related financial contracts as risk management strategies. Valuation of futures contracts on stock indices, commodities and treasury instruments; valuation of options; empirical evidence; strategies with respect to these assets; dynamic asset allocation strategies including portfolio insurance; swaps; the use (and misuse) of derivatives in context of corporate applications.
Credits: 3
Category: MBA elective/Finance concentration (elective)
Pre-requisites: MGT 561
Offered: 1 NetPlus! section in Winter, 1 NetPlus! section in Summer, irregular traditional sections
Instructional Format: Traditional and NetPlus!
Description: Analysis of financial problems faced by corporations operating in an international environment. Corporate strategy and the decision to invest abroad; forecasting exchange rates; international portfolio diversification; managing currency risk; taxation issues; cost of capital and financial structure in the multinational firm; sources of funding.
Credits: 3
Category: MBA elective/Accounting concentration (elective)/Finance concentration (elective)
Pre-requisites: MGT 561
Offered: 1 NetPlus! section in Winter, irregular traditional sections
Instructional Format: Traditional and NetPlus!
Description: The course focuses on uses and interpretation of public financial statements and economic data from the markets. Quantitative methods to analyze, forecast, and examine market reactions to data are employed. The emphasis is on real world cases, research, and communication of results.
Credits: 3
Category: MBA elective/Finance concentration (elective)
Pre-requisites: MGT 561
Offered: Irregularly
Instructional Format: Traditional and NetPlus!
Description: Provides a framework for understanding our financial environment, including markets, institutions, and securities. Each type of market and how financial institutions use it, its internationalization, and recent events that have affected it.
