Prerequisites: Non-business majors only. BAAC 301, ECON 205, and completion of the LAC math requirement (area 2). Examines the basic principles and concepts of financial management. Topics include valuation, risk, financial analysis and planning, working capital management, cost of capital, capital structure and capital budgeting.
Prerequisites: BACS 101, BAFN 291 and MATH 131 or MATH 176. Majors and minors only. Juniors and above. Topics include a review of statistical estimation and hypothesis testing, ANOVA, simple and multiple regression, forecasting and decision theory. Students will use Excel and a number of web-based databases.
Prerequisite: BAFN 231. Business majors only. Juniors or above. Provides an understanding of the law of business transactions as part of the decisionmaking process. Topics will include the law of contracts, sales, bailments and negotiable instruments.
Business majors only. Juniors or above. Theory of risk and risk bearing; arrangements; insurance industry, types of insurers, functions of insurers and government regulation of insurance; social insurance; and basic features of selected insurance contracts.
Prerequisites: BAAC 221 and BAFN 291; ECON 203 and ECON 205. Juniors or above. Examines the basic principles and concepts of financial management. Topics include valuation, risk, financial analysis and planning, working capital management, cost of capital, capital structure and capital budgeting.
Prerequisite: ECON 203. Business majors only. Juniors or above. Analyze characteristics and interrelations between money and capital markets and flow of funds. Stress financial institutions' role as intermediaries and effect on economic activity.
Juniors or above. Business majors only. Discover important concepts and principles of real estate, especially procedures for evaluating and appraising real estate investments, legal marketing and financing aspects of real estate.
Prerequisite: BAFN 370. Business majors only. Juniors or above. Addresses the financial characteristics and environment of the multinational corporation. Special attention is focused on how international risk factors and foreign securities markets affect financial decisions.
Prerequisite: BAFN 370. Business majors only. Juniors or above. The study of financial securities, their valuation and the markets where they are traded. Analyze economic and market factors affecting risk, returns, and timing of investment decisions.