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Finance
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Bank Management I |
| Prerequisite |
FINC 340 |
| Course Outline |
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| Description |
This course applies traditional finance concepts to the management of commercial banks. It emphasizes the structure of the financial services industry and specifically the banking sector, financial analysis, decision-making, and specific problem-solving techniques. The course provides a basic understanding of the issues confronting bank managers today, fundamental financial models, and the risk/return impacts of various credit, investment, operational, and funding decisions. The course focuses on the drivers of bank financial performance and the principal risk influences bank executives face. |
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Bank Management II |
| Prerequisite |
FINC 425 |
| Course Outline |
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| Description |
This course extends the content of Bank Management FINC 425 and the management of commercial banks to a more advanced level. The course continues the concepts introduced and developed in FINC 425 associated with the analysis and bank performance drivers, balance sheet structure, and risk management/mitigation. It advances critical concepts that represent primary dimensions within most commercial banks within the present operating environment with more in depth and engaged analyses of loan (credit) underwriting (commercial and commercial real estate), secondary market residential mortgage lending, the role (structure, development, and analysis) of mortgage-backed securities in modern bank investment portfolios, and interest rate risk modeling. Students will participate in a mock loan committee as presenters of a loan proposal. The course introduces the impact of decision making on bank performance via a dynamic bank performance simulation exercise employed throughout the duration of the course, aimed to challenge the student to engage strategies in pursuit of growth, market position, and quite essentially, long-term profitability. Asset-liability management concepts are investigated as the determinants of risk and reward. The course focuses on the drivers of bank financial performance and the principal risk influences bank executives face every day within a setting where students realize the consequences of decisions. |
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International Financial Management |
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| Description |
International Financial Management is the sub-area of finance that studies the international investment decisions concerning real and financial assets. This course is intended for students who wish to learn the concepts and theories of modern multinational financial management. International Financial Management gives participants a solid theoretical and practical background that serves to better understand (1) the determinants of currency exchange rates, (2) the importance of risk management in a Multinational Corporation (MNC); (2) the particularities of corporate finance, and corporate governance in a global context. |
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Financial Decision Making |
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This course moves away from textbooks to learning the skills and issues involved in the financial management of a corporation through academic and professional articles. Several important concepts of financial management are applied to real-life situations through the use of case problems. These cases provide insights into some of the problems a firm faces and how they can be addressed. |
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Entrepreneurial Finance |
| Prerequisite |
FINC 441 or BUS 642 |
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| Description |
Entrepreneurs like the adrenaline generated by managing a new business opportunity. Examples of new business opportunities are (1) the development of a new product or service, (2) the management of a franchise, and (3) the optimization of an existing company with problems. However, one of the areas where entrepreneurs have fewer skills is financial management which includes basic accounting, fund raising and cash management. Entrepreneurial Finance is a comprehensive course that not only reviews finance specific concepts but also introduces new financial concepts that are important to the entrepreneur, including how to take into consideration in the valuation process the managerial flexibility that comes with the incremental uncertainty the entrepreneur faces. |
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Portfolio Analysis and Management |
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| Description |
This course involves analysis of techniques used in combining securities into portfolios. Students will examine various classes of securities and investments meeting a proper balance for investor needs. |
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Futures and Options |
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Advanced study of the pricing and use of derivative market instruments, current topics and issues. |
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