 | | Course ID: | FINA 3000. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Financial Management | Course
Description: | The basic concepts and analytical tools of finance in both corporate finance and investments. Topics include risk and return, financial institutions, efficient markets, valuation theory, capital budgeting, portfolio theory, cost of capital, and international finance. | | Oasis Title: | FINANCIAL MGMT | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 3000H | | Prerequisite: | ACCT 2101 and (MIST 2090 or CSCI 1100-1100L) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 3000H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Financial Management (Honors) | Course
Description: | The basic concepts and analytical tools of finance in both corporate finance and investments. Topics include risk and return, financial institutions, efficient markets, valuation theory, capital budgeting, portfolio theory, cost of capital, and international finance. Discussion and analysis of specific applications of these topics. | | Oasis Title: | FINANCIAL MGMT H | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 3000 | | Prerequisite: | ACCT 2101 and (MIST 2090 or CSCI 1100-1100L) and permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 4000. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Money and Capital Markets | Course
Description: | The operations and functions of domestic and international finance markets and institutions. The determinants of bond prices and the level and structure of interest rates. Techniques for measuring and managing risk in financial markets. | | Oasis Title: | MONEY & CAP MKTS | | Prerequisite: | FINA 3000 and (MSIT 3000 or STAT 3000) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 4150. 1.5 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Investment and Portfolio Management | Course
Description: | Portfolio management and security analysis. Emphasis is on risk,
return, valuation of securities, portfolio theory, and investment
performance analysis. Students will research stocks and manage a
stock portfolio. | | Oasis Title: | INVEST/PORT MGMT | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | | Pre or Corequisite: | FINA 3000 and MSIT 3000 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 4200. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Corporate Finance Theory | Course
Description: | Development of a framework that is useful for understanding a broad range of important corporate financial decisions. Substantial emphasis will be placed on discussion of the determinants of corporate financing and payout policies, alternative methods of security issuance, and mergers and acquisitions. | | Oasis Title: | CORP FIN THEORY | | Prerequisite: | FINA 3000 and (MSIT 3000 or STAT 3000) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 4210. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Applied Corporate Finance | Course
Description: | Corporate financial decision making by applying the tools, techniques, and theories of finance to actual business decisions. | | Oasis Title: | APPLIED CORP FIIN | | Prerequisite: | FINA 3000 and (MSIT 3000 or STAT 3000) and FINA 4200 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 4310. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Survey of Investments | Course
Description: | The securities markets, investor objectives, introduction to portfolio theory and the analytical tools of portfolio management, and an examination of investment alternatives. | | Oasis Title: | SURVEY OF INVESTMT | | Prerequisite: | FINA 3000 and (MSIT 3000 or STAT 3000) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 4320/6320. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Derivative Security Markets | Course
Description: | The markets for futures, options, and other derivative securities. The mechanics of trading, regulation, pricing, hedging, and risk management using derivatives. | | Oasis Title: | DERV SECURITY MKTS | | Prerequisite: | (FINA 4310 and MATH 2200) or MATH 2250 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 4420. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Management of Financial Institutions | Course
Description: | Asset, liability, and capital management for firms operating in the dynamic environment of the financial-services industry. The acceptance, measurement, and management of risk, both on and off the firm's balance sheet, arising from unexpected changes in interest rates, exchange rates, and commodity prices. Financial-firm simulation game. | | Oasis Title: | MGMT OF FIN INSTITU | | Prerequisite: | FINA 3000 and (MSIT 3000 or STAT 3000) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 4800. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Internship and/or Cooperative Education | Course
Description: | Students are permitted to enter business establishments or governmental agencies for the purpose of obtaining practical and applied business experience. An in-depth paper based on an approved banking or finance topic is required. | | Oasis Title: | INTERN/COOP ED | | Nontraditional Format: | Internship not involving formal lecture or laboratory. | | Prerequisite: | FINA 3000 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 4810/6810. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | International Finance | Course
Description: | International business decision making emphasizing the effects of internationalized financial and non-financial markets. Exchange rate analysis, hedged costs of funds, economic exposure and management, capital budgeting, financial and corporate strategy, and the evaluation of international risks and returns. | | Oasis Title: | INTL FINANCE | | Prerequisite: | FINA 3000 and (MSIT 3000 or STAT 3000) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AAEC(FINA) 4870/6870. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Futures and Option Markets | Course
Description: | Development, functions, and importance of futures and option markets. Futures and option contracts; issues such as speculation, the roles of commission houses, commodity exchanges, and clearinghouses; and the use of future contracts as instruments for financing business activities. Technical and fundamental trading theories. | | Oasis Title: | FUTURES & OPT MKTS | | Prerequisite: | (AAEC 2580 or ECON 2106) and (AAEC 3690 or FINA 3000) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 4920. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Computers in Finance | Course
Description: | Applying computers to business applications especially using
Excel in finance related work. | | Oasis Title: | COMPUTERS IN FINA | | Nontraditional Format: | Directed study not involving lecture or laboratory. | | Prerequisite: | FINA 3000 and (MSIT 3000 or STAT 3000) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | REAL(FINA) 5100. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Real Estate Finance | Course
Description: | The instruments, techniques, and institutions of real estate finance; sources of funds; mortgage risk analysis: emphasis on typical policies and procedures used in financing of residential, industrial, and commercial properties. | | Oasis Title: | REAL ESTATE FINANCE | | Prerequisite: | REAL 4000 or any 4000-level FINA course | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 5990. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Directed Study | Course
Description: | Individual, advanced study, reading, or projects under the
direction of a faculty project director. | | Oasis Title: | DIRECTED STUDY | | Nontraditional Format: | Directed study. | | Prerequisite: | FINA 3000 and (MSIT 3000 or STAT 3000) and permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7010. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Financial Management | Course
Description: | Intensive analysis of financial decision-making in the firm, emphasizing both investment and financing decisions. Analytical tools of finance are introduced. Valuation concepts, risk-return analysis, project valuation, capital structure, and corporate financing. | | Oasis Title: | FINANCIAL MGMT | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 7020 or FINA 8000 or FINA 8010 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7010E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Financial Management | Course
Description: | Intensive analysis of financial decision-making in the firm,
emphasizing both investment and financing decisions. Analytical
tools of finance are introduced. Valuation concepts, risk-
return analysis, project valuation, capital structure, and
corporate financing. | | Oasis Title: | FINANCIAL MGMT | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 7010 or FINA 7020 or FINA 8000 or FINA 8010 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7020. 1.5 hours. | | Course Title: | Financial Management | Course
Description: | Financial decision-making in the firm, emphasizing both investment and financing decisions. Analytical tools of finance are introduced. Valuation concepts, risk-return analysis, project valuation, capital structure, and corporate financing. | | Oasis Title: | FINANCIAL MGMT | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 7010 or FINA 8000 or FINA 8010 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7050. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Financial Analysis | Course
Description: | Application of basic principles of finance to a number of management activities, including cost management decisions. Topics include financial forecasting with an emphasis on cash flows and financial needs, valuation of ongoing business operations, evaluating production alternatives, cost accounting, and advanced topics in capital budgeting. | | Oasis Title: | FINANCIAL ANALYSIS | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 8050 | | Prerequisite: | FINA 7010 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7050E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Financial Analysis | Course
Description: | Application of basic principles of finance to a number of
management activities, including cost management decisions.
Topics include financial forecasting with an emphasis on cash
flows and financial needs, valuation of ongoing business
operations, evaluating production alternatives, cost
accounting, and advanced topics in capital budgeting. | | Oasis Title: | FINANCIAL ANALYSIS | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 8050 or FINA 7050 | | Prerequisite: | FINA 7010 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7100E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Corporate Financial Management | Course
Description: | Tools and concepts in corporate finance. Students are required
to analyze situations, make value maximizing decisions, and
communicate the basis of those decisions. Financial analysis
and planning, capital budgeting, evaluation of financing
alternatives, company valuation, dividend policy, mergers, and
capital structure decisions. | | Oasis Title: | CORPORATE FIN MGMT | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 7100 or FINA 8100 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7100. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Corporate Financial Management | Course
Description: | Tools and concepts in corporate finance. Students are required to analyze situations, make value maximizing decisions, and communicate the basis of those decisions. Financial analysis and planning, capital budgeting, evaluation of financing alternatives, company valuation, dividend policy, mergers, and capital structure decisions. | | Oasis Title: | CORPORATE FIN MGMT | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 8100 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7110. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Theory of Corporate Finance | Course
Description: | The co-determination of financial policy and business strategy.
The role of capital markets, government, product and factor
markets, and governance in financial decision making will be
discussed including theory and empirics. Topics include
security issuance, IPOs, mergers, and bankruptcy. | | Oasis Title: | THEORY OF CORP FIN | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 8110 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7140. 1.5 hours. | | Course Title: | Mergers, Restructuring, and Corporate Control | Course
Description: | The dynamics of control within corporations and the role of the market for corporate control in leading to economic restructuring and shifts in resource allocation by corporations. Mergers and acquisitions, asset sales, restructuring, leverage buyouts, and bankruptcy. | | Oasis Title: | CORPORATE CONTROL | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 8140 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7150. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Using Financial Markets | Course
Description: | Using financial markets in corporate decision making. Topics will vary but may include short-term financial planning, risk management, managerial compensation, and corporate restructuring. | | Oasis Title: | USING FIN MKTS | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 8150 | | Prerequisite: | FINA 7010 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7160. 1.5 hours. | | Course Title: | Venture Capital Financing | Course
Description: | Venture capital in financing entrepreneurial growth companies. How venture capital is raised, invested, and then harvested for reinvestment. How professional venture capitalists analyze and structure potential investments. How and when portfolio companies should execute initial public offerings. | | Oasis Title: | VENTURE CAPITAL | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 8160 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7300. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Master's Thesis | Course
Description: | Thesis writing under the direction of the major professor. | | Oasis Title: | MASTER'S THESIS | | Nontraditional Format: | Independent research and thesis preparation. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7310. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Investments | Course
Description: | Financial assets and markets including the efficient markets hypothesis. The role of risk in asset pricing, the implications of asset pricing models, the capital asset pricing model, the arbitrage pricing model, and theories of valuation for both stocks and fixed income securities. | | Oasis Title: | INVESTMENTS | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 8300 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7310E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Investments | Course
Description: | Financial assets and markets including the efficient markets
hypothesis. The role of risk in asset pricing, the implications
of asset pricing models, the capital asset pricing model, the
arbitrage pricing model, and theories of valuation for both
stocks and fixed income securities. | | Oasis Title: | INVESTMENTS | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 7310 or FINA 8300 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7320. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Financial Derivatives and Risk Management | Course
Description: | The economics of financial futures and options markets. Theory
and application of hedging with financial instruments. | | Oasis Title: | FINA DERIVATIVES | | Prerequisite: | FINA 7010 or FINA 7020 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7340. 1.5 hours. | | Course Title: | Portfolio Management | Course
Description: | The active management of portfolios consisting of domestic and international securities. The estimation of portfolio inputs, the construction of desirable portfolios, and the evaluation of portfolio performance. Selected cases are analyzed by the students. | | Oasis Title: | PORTFOLIO MGMT | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 8340 | | Prerequisite: | FINA 7310 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7360. 1.5 hours. | | Course Title: | Financial Engineering | Course
Description: | The use of derivative securities to achieve financial goals. Specific cases involve the use of derivatives and other financial innovations to reduce risk, lower the cost of financing, improve portfolio yields, or help the corporate firm achieve strategic goals. Students analyze, present, and critique cases. | | Oasis Title: | FIN ENGINEERING | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 8360 | | Prerequisite: | FINA 7310 and FINA 7320 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7430. 1.5 hours. | | Course Title: | Financial Markets | Course
Description: | The evolving roles of financial intermediaries, regulation, and capital markets in the financing of American businesses and the provision of savings and payments mechanisms for individuals. The securitization of traditional loan products and the determinants of the term structure of interest rates. | | Oasis Title: | FINANCIAL MARKETS | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 8430 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7450. 1.5 hours. | | Course Title: | Management of Financial Institutions | Course
Description: | Measurement and management of risk in financial services firms. Management of risks associated with interest rates, credit, liquidity, and exchange rates. Attention is devoted to commercial banks, pension funds, investment banks, and other firms. A financial institution decision game is typically included in the course. | | Oasis Title: | MGMT OF INSTITUTION | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 8450 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 7810. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | International Financial Management | Course
Description: | International business decision making with an emphasis on the relationship between decisions and markets. The determinants of exchange rates, hedged costs of funds, transaction and economic exposure management, capital budgeting, corporate strategy, and swaps. The course makes extensive use of cases. | | Oasis Title: | INTERNATL FIN MGMT | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FINA 8810 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 8900. 1-5 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Directed Study in Finance | Course
Description: | Intensive study relating to a central theme of special interest
in the field of Finance. | | Oasis Title: | DIR STUDY FINANCE | | Nontraditional Format: | Directed study. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 8990. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Directed Study in Finance | Course
Description: | The most recent professional contributions in the various special fields of finance. Student and instructor interests determine which particular field is brought under scrutiny. | | Oasis Title: | DIR STUDY IN FIN | | Nontraditional Format: | Directed study not involving formal lecture or lab. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 9000. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Doctoral Research | Course
Description: | Research while enrolled for a doctoral degree under the direction of faculty members. | | Oasis Title: | DOCTORAL RESEARCH | | Nontraditional Format: | Independent research under the direction of a faculty member. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 9100. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Mathematical Finance | Course
Description: | Selected tools from continuous time finance and fundamental concepts in the analysis of stochastic processes. These tools are applied to the pricing of derivative securities--especially forward, futures, and option contracts. Binomial and finite difference approximations to continuous time processes are also used to price derivatives. | | Oasis Title: | MATHEMATICAL FIN | | Pre or Corequisite: | ECON 7910 or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 9110. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Valuation and Capital Market Theory | Course
Description: | Theory emphasizing valuation and capital markets. A mathematical development of the major asset pricing theories: the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), arbitrage pricing theory, the pricing of contingent claims, and the intertemporal CAPM. Related topics include expected utility maximization, mean-variance analysis, and efficient markets. | | Oasis Title: | VAL & CAP MKT THRY | | Prerequisite: | FINA 9100 and ECON 8010 and ECON 8070 | | Pre or Corequisite: | ECON 8080 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 9120. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Empirical Research in Corporate Finance | Course
Description: | Empirical research in corporate finance. The modern theories of capital structure, dividend policy, corporate control, investment banking, and capital budgeting, emerging areas of research such as market microstructure, venture capital financing, and comparative international corporate finance. | | Oasis Title: | EMP RES IN CORP FIN | | Prerequisite: | FINA 9100 and ECON 8000 and ECON 8010 and ECON 8070 | | Pre or Corequisite: | FINA 9110 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 9130. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Financial Research Methodology | Course
Description: | The data bases and empirical methodologies used in performing financial research. Event study and regression methodologies in corporate finance research and investment-oriented methodologies such as factor and principal components analyses. Students gain experience in presentation of research and in refereeing papers. | | Oasis Title: | FIN RES METHODOLOGY | | Prerequisite: | FINA 9120 and ECON 8080 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 9200. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Corporate Finance Theory | Course
Description: | Theoretical constructs underlying corporate finance, illustrated with both theoretical seminal and current research. Theoretical topics will include optimization, non-cooperative game theory, information economics, and agency theory. Signaling, screening, incentive design, product market structure, research and development, security issuance, bankruptcy, and market microstructure. | | Oasis Title: | CORP FINANCE THEORY | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 9210. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Empirical Research in Investments | Course
Description: | The markets, trading systems, and properties of financial securities. Includes an investigation of market efficiency and the time series properties of securities. Empirical studies of asset pricing models, portfolio performance, term structure models, and capital market integration. | | Oasis Title: | EMP RESCH IN INVEST | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 9230. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Research Topics in Finance | Course
Description: | Advanced topics in finance. The content is flexible with the material based on recent advances in finance. Possible course topics include "Financial Markets and Institutions" and "Game Theory with Applications to Finance and Economics." | | Oasis Title: | RES TOPICS IN FIN | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FINA 9300. 1-12 hours. Repeatable for maximum 24 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Doctoral Dissertation | Course
Description: | Dissertation writing under the direction of the major professor. | | Oasis Title: | DOCT DISSERTATION | | Nontraditional Format: | Independent research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
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