FIN

500

Business Finance and Law

4

Law and finance for business organizations: forms of business, business law, capital markets, analysis of financial statements, securities law, security valuation, bankruptcy, and reorganization.  Some sections may be technologically mediated.

FIN

530

Seminar: Business Finance

4

Prerequisite:  FIN 500. Financial statements and cash flows, financial markets and net present value, risk and return, capital budgeting, capital structure, and divided policy.

FIN

531

Seminar: Financial Institutions

4

Prerequisite:  FIN 500.  Role of financial institutions in U.S.; financial management of various types of financial institutions against a background of national income, national policies, and flow of funds.

FIN

532

Seminar: Estate Planning

4

Prerequisite:  FIN 500.  Advanced planning for individual financial amangement; consideration given to legal, financial, and taxation problems, including insurance, investments, trusts, real estate, wills, and related laws.

FIN

533

Seminar:  International Finance

4

Prerequisite:  FIN 500. Analysis of institutions, instruments, and procedures used in financing exports and imports, international investments, and multinational business operations. 

FIN

534

Seminar: Portfolio Management

4

Prerequisite: FIN 500 or 303.  Portfolio theory, capital market equilibrium (capital asset pricing model and arbitrage pricing theory), asset allocation, capital allocation, fixed-income securities, options and futures, passive and active portfolio management.

FIN

535

Seminar: Speculative Securities and Markets

4

Prerequisites: FIN 500 or 303.  Economics and pricing of options and futures contracts and their applications to portfolio management; how proliferation of speculative markets affects efficiency and stability of financial system.

FIN

598

Graduate Directed Study

1

Investigation of an approved project leading to written report; project selected in conference with seminar professor, and arrangements mad for regular meetings during quarter.  May be repeated for credit.