Finance Curriculum
Finance is the study and art of creating, managing, and investing a company’s capital to increase a company’s competitiveness.
Learn how businesses raise the capital they need to start and sustain themselves. Understand how people invest in companies and how financial markets work. Professors share firsthand knowledge and real-world perspectives on how an economy allocates money to where it will have the most value — giving you the strategic advantage.
Core Course
MGT 6504 - Principles of Finance (1.5 credit hours)
The objective of this course is to introduce students to the basic concepts used in financial management. Students will learn to make basic decisions regarding which project to undertake and when, and how to finance a project. This course lays the foundation for more advanced investment and corporate finance courses.
Electives
MGT 6066 - Corporate Restructuring (3 credit hours)
Understand economic underpinnings of corporate acquisitions. Address sources of acquisitional value and managerial incentives. Take an interdisciplinary approach, looking at legal, economic, and strategic issues. Explore types of transactions including mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, leveraged buyouts, and more.
MGT 6067 - Financial Aspects of Commercial Real Estate (3 credit hours)
This course will examine commercial real estate assets from two perspectives: the unique nature of the financing and ownership structures and their role as an asset class in investment portfolios.
MGT 6070 - International Finance (3 credit hours)
Learn how to deal with exchange rate risk and market imperfections. Maximize benefit of expanded global opportunities. Explore foreign exchange risk management, international corporate governance, and cross-border M&A. Explore management of multinational firms.
MGT 6076 - Valuing Technology Firms (3 credit hours)
This course builds on the basic foundational course in Finance and addresses the core issues in Corporate Finance in further depth. It would be an important course for anyone interested in pursuing a finance career in financial as well as non-financial corporations (including consulting). The course helps you build rigorous valuation models, understand capital raising (e.g., issuing equity or debt in the markets), working capital management, etc.
MGT 6080 - Investments (3 credit hours)
Acquire analytical tools for sound investment decisions. Explore concepts of risk, return, asset allocation, portfolio theory, and more. Material is mostly quantitative. Examine the changing landscape of investment management and the causes and impacts of the financial crisis. Includes discussion on ethics in investing.
MGT 6081 - Derivative Securities (3 credit hours)
Acquire basic working knowledge of how derivatives markets function. Learn various types of derivatives, including swaps, options, forwards, etc. Discuss basic numerical methods and risk management. Discuss why derivatives are used, how they are used, and how they are priced.
MGT 6082 - Fundamentals of Real Estate Development (3 credit hours)
Provides a multidisciplinary overview/survey of the development process — from conception of the idea/vision through project completion and ongoing management. Understand the main drivers of change, critical issues, nature of a development team in the future, and the essential leadership characteristics of a developer and development team. Explore emerging technologies and the role they will play in the future world of real estate development.
MGT 6086 - Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity (3 credit hours)
Current and future managers and entrepreneurs learn to use financial perspectives in value creation. Learn effective entrepreneurial practices from the perspectives of users and suppliers of capital and other stakeholders. Focus on financial management within entrepreneurial firms. Cover all phases of the life cycle from idea generation to harvesting.
MGT 6090 - Management of Financial Institutions (3 credit hours)
Introduction to the financial intermediation sector and the various risks that the financial institutions face. Many tools and topics in the course may be relevant to non-financial firms, such as credit risk. Understand tools to manage financial risks within the firm.
MGT 6769 - Fixed Income Securities (3 credit hours)
Understand the basic risk-free term structure models and sensitivity measures as well as standard techniques for valuing fixed income securities and credit risk derivatives as well as their shortcomings. Understand the mathematics of bond market: yield, duration, and convexity.
Core Course
MGT 6504 - Principles of Finance (1.5 credit hours)
The objective of this course is to introduce students to the basic concepts used in financial management. Students will learn to make basic decisions regarding which project to undertake and when, and how to finance a project. This course lays the foundation for more advanced investment and corporate finance courses.
Electives
MGT 6066 - Corporate Restructuring (3 credit hours)
Understand economic underpinnings of corporate acquisitions. Address sources of acquisitional value and managerial incentives. Take an interdisciplinary approach, looking at legal, economic, and strategic issues. Explore types of transactions including mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, leveraged buyouts, and more.
MGT 6067 - Financial Aspects of Commercial Real Estate (3 credit hours)
This course will examine commercial real estate assets from two perspectives: the unique nature of the financing and ownership structures and their role as an asset class in investment portfolios.
MGT 6070 - International Finance (3 credit hours)
Learn how to deal with exchange rate risk and market imperfections. Maximize benefit of expanded global opportunities. Explore foreign exchange risk management, international corporate governance, and cross-border M&A. Explore management of multinational firms.
MGT 6076 - Valuing Technology Firms (3 credit hours)
This course builds on the basic foundational course in Finance and addresses the core issues in Corporate Finance in further depth. It would be an important course for anyone interested in pursuing a finance career in financial as well as non-financial corporations (including consulting). The course helps you build rigorous valuation models, understand capital raising (e.g., issuing equity or debt in the markets), working capital management, etc.
MGT 6078 - Finance & Investments (3 credit hours)
Acquire analytical tools for sound investment decisions. Explore concepts of risk, return, asset allocation, portfolio theory, and more. Material is mostly quantitative. Examine the changing landscape of investment management and the causes and impacts of the financial crisis. Includes discussion on ethics in investing.
MGT 6080 - Investments (3 credit hours)
Acquire analytical tools for sound investment decisions. Explore concepts of risk, return, asset allocation, portfolio theory, and more. Material is mostly quantitative. Examine the changing landscape of investment management and the causes and impacts of the financial crisis. Includes discussion on ethics in investing.
MGT 6081 - Derivative Securities (3 credit hours)
Acquire basic working knowledge of how derivatives markets function. Learn various types of derivatives, including swaps, options, forwards, etc. Discuss basic numerical methods and risk management. Discuss why derivatives are used, how they are used, and how they are priced.
MGT 6082 - Fundamentals of Real Estate Development (3 credit hours)
Provides a multidisciplinary overview/survey of the development process — from conception of the idea/vision through project completion and ongoing management. Understand the main drivers of change, critical issues, nature of a development team in the future, and the essential leadership characteristics of a developer and development team. Explore emerging technologies and the role they will play in the future world of real estate development.
MGT 6083 - Real Estate Practicum (3 credit hours)
Learn where real estate-related opportunities are in a gradually improving economy/market. Understand the future nature of work, the environment where work will occur, and the links with productivity. Work with external organizations such as CBRichardEllis and the Corporate Real Estate - Innovation Council sponsored by American Express Company.
MGT 6086 - Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity (3 credit hours)
Current and future managers and entrepreneurs learn to use financial perspectives in value creation. Learn effective entrepreneurial practices from the perspectives of users and suppliers of capital and other stakeholders. Focus on financial management within entrepreneurial firms. Cover all phases of the life cycle from idea generation to harvesting.
MGT 6090 - Management of Financial Institutions (3 credit hours)
Introduction to the financial intermediation sector and the various risks that the financial institutions face. Many tools and topics in the course may be relevant to non-financial firms, such as credit risk. Understand tools to manage financial risks within the firm.
MGT 6769 - Fixed Income Securities (3 credit hours)
Understand the basic risk-free term structure models and sensitivity measures as well as standard techniques for valuing fixed income securities and credit risk derivatives as well as their shortcomings. Understand the mathematics of bond market: yield, duration, and convexity.
MGT 6785 - Practice of Quantitative and Computational Finance (QCF) (3 credit hours)
The course will consist of case studies, visiting lecturers from financial institutions, and student group projects of an advanced nature — all centered around quantitative and computational finance. The group projects deal with applicable problems in areas such as asset management, credit risk, and pricing of derivatives. The course involves significant data analysis using big data sets. The groups will be required to formulate and analyze the project problem, and implement and present their solutions to the problems.
Financial Management (Core Course)
An introduction to finance. Topics include time value of money, capital budgeting, risk and return, capital structure, dividend policy, and working capital management.
Venture Financing (MoT)
Teaches various methods for raising capital to fund the development and launch of new technology products and services.
International Business and Finance (MoT)
Develops students’ understanding of global business and finance.
International Finance (GB)
Focuses on foreign exchange transactions, management of exposure, international bond and equity markets, and international banking.