Finance (6400)
Finance (6400)
| 200 | FOUNDATNS OF PERSONAL FINANCE | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 3250:200; 3450:145. Explores application of finance concepts in personal finance with emphasis on the personal financial planning process. | ||
| 220 | LEGAL & SOC ENVIRON BUSINESS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: completion of 32 credits. Explores the legal and social environment in which modern business must function. The legal system, public and private law, and contemporary social and ethical issues are addressed. | ||
| 301 | PRINCIPLES OF FINANCE | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 3250:200; 3450:145; 6200:201 and 250. An overview of the financial system and the major decision areas of the financial manager such as capital budgeting, financing, and working captial management. | ||
| 310 | CORPORATE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 6200:250, 6200:201. The objective of this course is to build on the foundation of your initial business finance course, expanding your financial analysis skills and deepening your knowledge of finance theory. | ||
| 321 | BUSINESS LAW I | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: completion of 64 credits. Discussions designed to develop legal reasoning within substantive areas of contractual obligation, agency relationships, partnerships, corporations, accountant's legal responsibility, federal securities regulation and antitrust law. | ||
| 322 | BUSINESS LAW II | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: completion of 64 credits. Applications of Uniform Commercial Code in sales, commercial paper and secured transactions. Additional discussions include property, wills, estates, trusts, bailments, insurance, suretyship, bankruptcy, and labor law. | ||
| 323 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW | 3 credits |
| The law and international commercial transactions. Among the subjects covered are sovereignty; treaties; agreements; antitrust practices; property rights; international arbitration. | ||
| 338 | FINANCIAL MARKETS & INSTITUTNS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 200; 301 or 310 or 6140:370; or permission of instructor. Studies the flows of funds. Analyzes major financial intermediaries. Money and capital markets reviewed with emphasis on interest rates and their impact upon administration of specific financial intermediaries. | ||
| 343 | INVESTMENTS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 200, 6500:221 or 6500:304; 6400:301 or 6400:310 or 6140:300; or permission of instructor. Range of security investment media explored, alternative investment programs considered and role of securities markets through which goals can be achieved studied. | ||
| 389 | ADVANCED FINANCIAL ANALYTICS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 200, 301, 6500:221 or 6500:304. Analysis of financial models using advanced spreadsheet techniques. Models from personal finance, corporate finance and investments are incorporated, with applications in financial planning, forecasting, portfolio theory and security valuation, option valuation, capital investment and cost of capital. | ||
| 390 | REAL EST PRINC: VALUE APPROACH | 3 credits |
| A study of real estate: the profession, the process, and the product. Emphasis is on real estate as a product and the valuation process. The measurement of value requires tool abilities in accounting, statistics and finance. | ||
| 402 | INCOME PROPERTY APPRAISAL | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four year degree granting college; 200 and 301 or 310 or 6140:300; or permission of instructor. Advanced course in real property appraisal and valuation. Techniques and concepts will be covered along with the theory underlying such techniques. | ||
| 403 | REAL ESTATE FINANCE | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four year degree granting college; 200 and 301 or 310 or 6140:300; or permission of instructor. Advanced course in real estate covering financing of and investment in real property. Included are investment techniques, methods, institutions, instruments, valuation, appraisal and policy issues. | ||
| 414 | RISK MGMT: PROPERTY & CASUALTY | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four year degree granting college; 301 or 310 or permission of instructor. Addresses tools for managing risk, legal concepts of insurance contracts, personal insurance and commercial property and casualty insurance policies as well as other risk issues. | ||
| 415 | RISK MGT:LIFE & HLTH INSURANCE | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four year degree granting college; 200 and 301 or 310 or 6410:300; or permission of instructor. Concepts of life and health insurance and risk management are addressed. | ||
| 416 | ENTERPRISE RISK: DERIVATIVES | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four year degree granting college; 301 or 310 or permission. Explores risk issues at the firm level with emphasis upon identification and management of risk to enhance firm value. | ||
| 417 | RETIREMENT PLANNING | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four year degree granting college; 200 and 301 or 310 or 6140:300; or permission of instructor. An in-depth examination of retirement and estate planning objectives, methods, and strategies including the study of employee benefits plans, public and private pension funds, and lifetime strategies for maximization of estate assets. | ||
| 424 | LEGAL CONCEPTS OF REAL ESTATE | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four year degree granting college. Study of concepts of law governing the many interests in real estate including acquisition, encumbrance, transfer, rights and obligations of parties, and the various state and federal regulations. The legal concepts of the business of real estate are likewise examined. Emphasis is on a managerial approach utilizing the case method. | ||
| 432 | SEM: FINANCIAL PLANNING | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four year degree granting college; 200 and 301 or 310 or 6140:300; or permission of instructor. Corerquisites: 6200:410 and 430; 6400:343 and 415. Explores financial planning function, including contact, data acquisition, plan development and implementation; addresses planning techniques and financial planning ethical issues. | ||
| 436 | COMMERCIAL BANK MANAGEMENT | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four year degree granting college; 6200:250 and 200 and 301 or 310 or 6140:300; or permission of instructor. Study of administrative policy determination and decision making within the commercial bank. Analysis of policy making in areas of liquidity, loan and security investment and sources of funds. | ||
| 438 | INTERNATIONAL BANKING | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four year degree granting college; 301 or 310; or permission of instructor. Examination of recent trends in the expansion of international banking activities and associated revenue maximizing strategies. | ||
| 447 | SECURITY & PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four year degree granting college; 343 and 6200:250; or permission of instructor. Application of quantitative and qualitative techniques of analysis to fixed income and equity securities, and their composition weights in portfolios during different time periods. | ||
| 448 | ADVANCED PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: 343. Advanced Portfolio Management is a semester long case course. The case is the management of the UA Student-Managed Investment Fund. This course's primary activity will be the active management of the Fund. Current and selected topics relating to investments and financial markets will be discussed as needed in the rapidly changing world economy. The course will give the student practical experience in portfolio construction, management and evaluation by managing real money on a real time basis. | ||
| 473 | FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four year degree granting college; 200 and 301 or 310 or 6140:300; or permission of instructor. Analysis and interpretation of the financial position and performance of the business firm from the perspective of the credit and financial analyst. Emphasizes mechanics and art of financial analysis. | ||
| 478 | TREASURY MANAGEMENT | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four-year degree granting college; 6400:200 and 301 and 6200:250 or permission of instructor. Material covered includes developing a conceptual framework upon which to base decisions in treasury and working capital management and provide advanced knowledge of techniques for analyzing financial data. | ||
| 481 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS FINANCE | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four year degree granting college; 301 or 310 or 6410:300; or permission of instructor. Theory and practice of financial wealth maximization in the international business enterprise. | ||
| 485 | FINANCIAL STRATEGY | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four year degree granting college; senior standing; 343, 338 and 473. Capstone course with applications of financial management theories and tools to make decisions in capital budgeting, capital structure, and working capital management. | ||
| 490 | SEL T: FINANCE | 1-3 credits |
| Prerequisites: at a minimum must have been admitted to a four year degree granting college; 200 and 6200:250 and 301 or 310; or permission of instructor. Provides opportuinty for study of special topics not covered in current finance courses. | ||
| 499 | INDP STUDY: FINANCE | 1-3 credits |
| Prerequisite: permission of department head. Provides means for individualized in-depth study of finance problem or problems from which student can derive significant benefit. | ||
| 538 | INTERNATIONAL BANKING | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: 602 or permission of instructor. Examination of recent trends in the expansion of international banking activities and associated revenue maximizing strategies. | ||
| 602 | MANAGERIAL FINANCE | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: 6200:601 or equivalent. 6400:602 may be taken concurrently with 6200:601. Emphasis on financial decision making related to goal of firm; specifically, the investment decision, the financial decision and the dividend decision. | ||
| 603 | BUS SYSTEMS W/ PROCESSING APPL | 3 credits |
| See department for course description. | ||
| 623 | LEGAL ASPECTS-BUS TRANSACTIONS | 3 credits |
| (Not open to students with six credits of undergraduate business law.) Advanced legal analysis of contracts, UCC, debtor-creditor relationships, business organizations, property, and government regulation. | ||
| 631 | FINANCIAL MRKTS & INSTITUTIONS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: 602 or equivalent. A study of major financial markets and financial institutions with an emphasis on the decision making processes within a rapidly changing, but regulated operating environment. | ||
| 645 | INVESTMENT ANALYSIS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: 602 or equivalent. Study of the economic and market forces that influence security prices. Techniques of analysis used in evaluating limited income and equity securities. | ||
| 650 | TECHNIQUES-FINANCIAL MODELLING | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 3250:600 and 6400:602. Current techniques and methods of financial analysis are examined, including the use of financial models for short and long run profitability decisions. | ||
| 655 | GOVERNMENT & BUSINESS | 3 credits |
| Public policy with regard to business institutions and issues are considered from an economic, legal, ethical, political framework. | ||
| 674 | STRATEGIC FIN DECISION MAKING | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: 602. Examines the role of financial decision makers as strategic consultants to other business units/functions with integrative risk management as a unifying theme. | ||
| 678 | CAPITAL BUDGETING | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: 602 or equivalent. Attempt to integrate various theories of capital budgeting into comprehensive conceptual scheme. Theoretical concepts and practical applications blended for better understanding of capital problems. | ||
| 681 | MULTINATIONL CORPORATE FINANCE | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: 602 or equivalent. Financial policies and practices of companies involved in multinational operations. Considers management of working capital and permanent assets, return on investment and capital budgeting for the global firm. | ||
| 685 | E-BUSINESS: LEGAL ISSUES | 3 credits |
| Study of the application of law to emerging e-commerce form of business with concentration on emerging law and policy. | ||
| 690 | SEL T: FINANCE | 3 credits |
| (May be repeated for a total of six credits) Prerequisite: 602 or equivalent. Provides study of contemporary issues and areas not covered in current finance graduate courses. | ||
| 691 | INTL FIN MRKTS & INVESTMENTS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 602 or equivalent. A study of international financial markets with an emphasis on international investments and risks in a rapidly changing global economy. | ||
| 697 | INDP STUDY: FINANCE | 1-3 credits |
| (May be repeated for a total of six credits) Focus on special topics of study and research in finance on an independent basis. | ||
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