FIN - Finance   

FIN 623 - Corporate Finance     (3 credits)
   The course provides students with a wide range of analytical tools to evaluate corporate financial decisions. The tools are used to analyze corporate financial performance, planning and forecasting, valuation methodologies, cost of capital and capital structure, dividend policy, capital budgeting, risk analysis, and working capital management.
   Prerequisite: FIN 599 or equivalent

FIN 648 - Investment & Portfolio Management   (3 credits)
   The course provides a rigorous introduction to the investment process and fundamental concepts of asset valuation and selection. The course analyzes the risk-return relationship and the valuation of various types of investment securities including bonds, stocks, and derivative securities. The course also analyzes investors' risk tolerance and prepares students to tailor risk-specific investment strategies.
   Prerequisites: FIN 623

FIN 654 - Fixed Income Securities   (3 credits)
   The course covers the valuation of different classes of fixed income securities, including pure discount bonds, coupon bonds, floating-rate notes and Treasury inflation protection securities (TIPS). The course also includes an analysis and valuation of fixed income derivatives. The course focuses on analytical tools used in fixed income portfolios, including bond portfolio yield curve, duration, volatility, convexity, term structure models, and credit risk.
   Prerequisite: FIN 623

FIN 660 - Entrepreneurship   (3 credits)
   The course examines the attributes and skills of entrepreneurs: their mindsets, strengths and weaknesses. The course also examines the process of evaluating an idea, marshalling the required resources to implement a successful idea, and managing a successful venture through different stages of growth. Students are expected to acquire the skills to prepare, analyze, and evaluate a business plan of a viable venture opportunity.
   Prerequisite: FIN 623

FIN 665 - Corporate Valuation   (3 credits)
    The course integrates an interdisciplinary set of analytical tools from the fields of accounting, finance and economics into a focused and practical framework to value enterprises, equity and debt. Going beyond the traditional static valuation models, the course builds students' skills to trace valuation under different market competitive conditions, grounding valuation models in market analysis.
   Prerequisites: FIN 623 and ECO 642

FIN 702 - Risk Analysis and Management   (3 credits)
   The course provides a thorough and rigorous conceptual, analytical, and applied framework to identify, analyze, and evaluate corporate and investing financial risk in domestic and international financial markets. The course identifies, analyzes and evaluates interest rate risk, exchange rate risk, and commodity price risk. The course also analyzes risk-mitigating tools that allow corporations and investors to formulate hedging strategies with coverage of options, forward contracts, future contracts, and interest rates and currency swaps.
   Prerequisite: FIN 623

FIN 715 - International Capital Budgeting   (3 credits)
   The course provides a rigorous conceptual, analytical, and applied framework to evaluate multi-currency investment projects, calculate cost of capital raised in multiple currencies, and assess project risk and its effects on corporate profitability. The course extends the traditional capital budgeting model to evaluate global investment projects and analyze their sensitivity to exchange rate fluctuations and changes in global risk.
   Prerequisite: FIN 623