Finance (FIN)
This course prepares students for the Series 7 exam that entitles the holder to sell all types of securities products with the exception of commodities and futures.
This course focuses on principles and current law of income taxation and its impact on financial planning for individuals, couples and families as investors, employees and business owners.
Pre-req: FIN 551.
Estate Planning focuses on the efficient conservation and transfer of wealth, consistent with the client's goals such as trusts, wills, probate, advanced directives, charitable giving, wealth transfers and related taxes.
Pre-req: FIN 551.
An examination of business corporations practicing at the level of the individual firm with emphasis on quantitative analysis of the variables which affect liquidity and profit- ability.
Pre-req: MGT 601.
A study of fundamental investment principles, modern portfolio theory, and portfolio formation process and the evaluation of portfolio performance.
Pre-req: FIN 501G or FIN 501.
Recognizing and solving financial problems through the use of case presentations and/or corporate annual and interim reports.
Pre-req: FIN 620.
Analytical procedures used by institutional portfolio mana- gers to measure both past performance of holdings and anti- cipated market performance of current offerings. Emphasis in this course may be expected to be more centralized in the area of fundamental analysis.
Pre-req: FIN 620.
An in-depth study of the flow of funds in the aggregate fin- ancial systems, with emphasis on those in the United States. Because interest rates, and bank reserve requirements of Federal Reserve System are all dynamic in character, the content of this course may be expected to vary as financial events of the future dictate.
Pre-req: FIN 620.
This course analyzes the challenges of multinational corporations' financial management. It covers three areas: foreign exchange market transactions, exchange rate risk and hedging, and corporate financial decisions of an MNC.
(Permission of the division head, full M.B.A. admission, and permission of GSM academic advisor)
Pre-req: FIN 501G or FIN 510.
Pre-req: FIN 620.
(PR: Permission of the division head and full M.B.A. admission)
Study of administrative decisions making under conditions of uncertainty. Policy construction at top administrative level with emphasis on strategy with consideration of major funct- ions of the business organization.