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Fin 516 - Principles of Financial Management (3 credits)
Fundamentals of financial management divided into two segments: investment and corporation finance.
Fin 600 - Financial and Economic Environment (3 credits)
Intended for public and private organizations. Issues related to interest rates, extraordinary rates of inflation, fiscal and monetary policy, and regulatory policy are integrated with market structure, cost and production technology, pricing policy, cash flow, risk-return opportunities, capital budgeting techiques, and decision making in companies.
Fin 618 - Public and Private Financing of Urban Areas (3 credits)
Ties government's budget, tax policy, allocation of resources between public and private sectors, with the structure, development, and growth needs of urban metropolitan areas. Focuses on problems of poverty, transportation, land-use, economic base, relation between central cities and suburban areas, and alternative engineering and economic solutions. Same as MIP 618 and Tran 604.
Fin 624 - Financial Management (3 credits)
Prerequisite: Fin 516. The management of assets, liabilities and equity in a domestic framework. Includes: goals of the firm, time value of money, financial statement analysis, financial ratio analysis, financial planning and forecasting, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, working capital management, mergers and acquisitions, and pricing of options.
Fin 626 - Financial Investment Institutions (3 credits)
Prerequisite: Fin 516. Introduces the role of banking institutions and investment banks in the domestic and international money market and capital environment to the financial managers. Covers instruments and services of financial intermediaries that are crucial to business management. Discussions range from the financial services and facilities of regional banks to money-center banking institutions. Alternatives of project financing, lending requirements and regulations, project financing, and role of intermediaries in local and international transactions. Focuses on the private placement procedures of all types of securities in the capital market and the unique role undertaken by the investment banking firms. Provides an insight about the public offering process for existing and venture capitalized firms.
Fin 627 - International Finance (3 credits)
Prerequisite: Fin 516. Examines financing of exports and imports, managing multicurrency working capital, international aspects of capital budgeting, cost of capital and their relationship with political, economic, and financial risk. Explores financial innovations and their impact on the firm's financial strategy and performance of overall productivity. Discusses the tax consequences and principal-subsidiary relationship of the multinational enterprise. Introduces international money and capital markets, instruments, derivatives, and institutions.
Fin 630 - Applied Business Econometrics (3 credits)
Introduces methodological development of quantitative tools essential to modern managers. Includes sampling distribution, hypothesis testing, nonparametric statistics, and simultaneous regression models. Centers on application setting with statistical results providing insights into management decisions.
Fin 631 - Working Capital Management and Credit Analysis (3 credits)
Prerequisite: Fin 516. Optimal management of a firm's working capital, such as cash, marketable securities, receivables, and inventories with an emphasis on the institutional background and environmental modeling. Deals with cash flow analysis, the assessment of financial needs, and selecting the appropriate domestic and international sources for meeting a firm's credit needs.
Fin 632 - Financial Valuation of Technology-Based Companies (3 credits)
Prerequisite: Fin 516. Concentrates on techniques and procedures of assessing, managing, and forecasting value of alternative corporate and business level strategies of companies with emphasis on technology-based companies. These strategies include new product introduction, joint venture agreements, new market entries, and capital expenditures.
Fin 634 - Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructuring (3 credits)
Prerequisite: Fin 516. Focuses on identifying and evaluating potential and international companies for mergers and acquisitions as well as structuring of deals. The financial, social and managerial implications of these changes in corporate ownership will be examined. Topics are: financing M&As, deal structuring, tax implications, valuation, broker/finder agreements, merger negotiations, and post-merger integration.
Fin 660 - Financial Planning and Decision Making (3 credits)
Prerequisite: Fin 624. This course introduces the in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis of the short-term and long-term investment and financing decisions in an uncertain environment. The course emphasizes a quantitative analysis (simulation model) and case studies that deal with actual business decisions and challenges. Students are assigned to competing financial management teams in order to develop financial planning and decision making expertise.
Fin 700 - Seminar in Theory and Research in Financial Management (3 credits)
Prerequisites: Fin 624 or Fin 626. Only open to those students who do not do a thesis. The theory and applied tools of financial management. Presented in seminar format with several students working as a team to analyze and resolve an issue in financial management.
Fin 701 - Thesis in Financial Management (6 credits)
Prerequisites: Fin 624 or Fin 626; waived with approval of the assistant dean for graduate programs. Examines:What is research? Why do research? What are the objectives of research? Covers the need for research, criteria for good research and research design, concept of measurement, sampling design, primary data collection, experimentation and simulation, statistical and other types of analysis, and reporting of research findings.
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