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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Prerequisites: FIN 301, FIN 305, FIN 420. This course examines advanced topics in financial management of a profit-making firm, including capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy and working capital management. This course assumes a good background in the principles of financial management (especially the time-value-of-money) as contained in the prerequisite FIN 301. This course is the capstone course in the finance curriculum and should only be taken the last semester of the senior year since learning outcomes will be assessed in this course.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Prerequisites: FIN 420 or FIN 432. This course is designed to introduce and critically examine the key principles of selecting investments, financing them, extracting value and managing the investment portfolio. Portfolio management techniques and strategies will include the use and valuation of derivative securities. Students enrolled in this course will also serve as portfolio managers for the student managed investment portfolio. The J. E. Davis and A. D. Davis families provided this fund.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Prerequisite: FIN 301. This course will teach the student basic components of an insurance contract. Students will study actual policies, learn common insurance vocabulary and the interpretation given to language and phrases through actual practice and court cases. The course will examine Property, Liability, Marine and Health contracts including personal and commercial lines. Regulatory and social issues that impact policy development will be presented to gain understanding of how new products develop.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Prerequisite: FIN 301 The course examines legal issues arising from insurance operations and from the issuance of an insurance policy as a legal contract. The various legal exposures associated with the Insurer, the Agent/Broker and the Claims Handler as well as Insured are presented and management of the exposure examined. FIN 460. Risk Quantification & Financing (3) Three hours per week. Prerequisite: FIN 301. This course examines the process for identifying and quantifying insurable risk. Various models used for quantifying risks (catastrophic, high frequency/low severity) are examined along with the underwriting models for determining the cost and value of the risk to an insurer. Risk management tools and strategy are examined in context of reducing risk and minimizing cost.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Prerequisite: FIN 301. This course examines the process for identifying and quantifying insurable risk. Various models used for quantifying risks (catastrophic, high frequency/low severity) are examined along with the underwriting models for determining the cost and value of the risk to an insurer. Risk management tools and strategy are examined in context of reducing risk and minimizing cost.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Prerequisite: FIN 301 and approval of a full-time finance faculty member. This course examines selected topics of major interest in finance not covered in other course offerings.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Five to 15 hours per week. Prerequisites: Junior or senior status; an overall GPA of 2.5 or better, and 3.0 or better in the major. For additional information, see the introduction to the Davis College of Business section in this catalog.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ACCT 201 and ACCT 202, or ACCT 500 or equivalent. Designed specifically for MBA students needing a finance prerequisite for graduate course work, this is an accelerated, 8-week, MBA foundation course in financial management. This course examines the principles and analytical techniques applicable to the financial management of a firm. Topics include the time-value-of money, risk and return, valuation of debt and equity securities, capital budgeting, cost of capital and financial analysis.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: FIN 500 and ACCT 500 or equivalent. Examines the theory and practice of financial management. It is assumed that all students have taken the prerequisites, which provide a working knowledge of time-value-of-money, financial analysis, modern portfolio management, valuation of debt and equity securities, capital budgeting analysis and cost of capital. Students gain an understanding of the principles and analytical techniques used by a financial manager, including decision-making responsibilities in the areas of capital budgeting, capital structure, dividend policy and working capital management.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Offered in the Executive MBA Program only. This course offers an overview of finance from the perspective of the corporate financial manager. Beginning with the premise that the goal of management is to increase the value of the firm, students will walk through the key decisions facing the manager - the investment, financing and risk management functions that contribute to shareholder value. The investment side will include portfolio selection and management decisions, capital budgeting under risk and M&A. The financing side comprises decisions about capital structure - how much debt, relative to equity, is right for a particular firm - as well as decisions about the optimal mixture of debt and equity from a macro perspective. How companies return value to shareholders via the dividend and other "payback" strategies will also beexamined.
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