This course, which focuses on money and capital markets, has 
three objectives for student learning:
1.  Students will learn to interpret and assess the importance 
of money, credit, and interest rates in a financial system in 
terms of the functions of capital markets.
2.  Students will be able to evaluate firms' balance sheets and 
debt and equity concentrating on market value versus book value.
3.  Students will learn to evaluate the myriad of innovative 
financial instruments that exist between plain-vanilla debt 
(bonds) and equity (common stock).
The overall objective is for the student to be able to evaluate 
these important elements of the financial system.

Financial Systems
How Interest Rates are Determined
Financial Markets
Commercial Banking
Financial Institutions
Future of Financial Systems