Finance
For students seeking a specialized knowledge base in finance, the concentration in finance is specifically designed to meet this need. With courses in corporate finance, investments, international finance, and insurance & risk management, the student will be able to select courses that will enhance their ability to perform both in their current position and in future desired positions. The concentration in finance requires the student to take nine hours of electives from the following:
FIN 6470 Investment Challenge I
Prerequisites: MBA 6020 and permission of instructor. Advanced portfolio theory through actual management of a real investment portfolio.
FIN 6480 Investment Challenge II
Prerequisites: MBA 6020 and permission of instructor. Advanced portfolio theory through actual management of a real investment portfolio.
FIN 6710 Perspectives of Risk and Insurance
FIN 6710 examines the economic principles underpinning risk and insurance and introduces key risk and insurance concepts and practices. The causes of change in risk management and insurance are examined through exploration of relevant physical, technological, cultural, regulatory, and other environmental perspectives.
FIN 6720 Corporate Risk Management
Application of the risk management process, including risk control and risk financing techniques, to risk management problems in business. Emphasizes risk identification and evaluation, together with alternative methods of risk control and risk financing techniques.
FIN 6730 Risk Management Modeling
This course will introduce students to mathematical and simulation modeling of risk. The first part of the course reviews the basic mathematics of optimization, and then develops conceptual models of preference and choice. These models are then used to model uncertainty, risk aversion, and theories of information. The second part of the course reviews statistics, introduces students to simulation, and then provides hands-on experience with simulation modeling.
FIN 6740 Current Issues in Risk Management & Insurance
This course is an in-depth study of current topics in risk management and insurance. Topics will include, but are not limited to, insuring against and managing risks associated with natural and anthropogenic catastrophic events.
FIN 6910 International Finance
International markets and instruments, global financing strategies, global capital budgeting, global working capital management, international tax planning.
