Mays Business School
Curriculum in Finance
The business enterprise must raise capital, use it to maximum advantage, and reward investors. Finance is the set of management challenges (and career opportunities) concerned with succeeding at these tasks.
The finance major involves both required and elective courses in three areas. The area of Managerial Finance encompasses tools and techniques for valuing productive assets, choosing ways of funding them, and gauging financial success. In the area of Investments, theoretical and practical models help assess risks and rewards of stocks, bonds, derivatives, and other "financial assets" (individually and in portfolios), as well as the financial health of firms and institutions offering them to the investing public. The area of Markets and Institutions explores the ways in which bankers, brokers, and other financial institutions convert savings into productive capital.
Mays finance graduates with good academic records place well in all these areas, as well as in graduate and professional schools. They work in industry, on Wall Street, in major banking and consulting firms, and as wealth managers. Accordingly, the Department of Finance emphasizes scholarship in its faculty, professionalism in its programs, and innovation in its relationships with employers and mentors.
(See Freshman and Sophomore Years)
JUNIOR YEAR*
| First Semester | (Th-Pr) | Cr | Second Semester | (Th-Pr) | Cr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACCT electiveA | 3 | ACCT electiveB | 3 | |||
| FINC 341 Business Finance | (3-0) | 3 | FINC 434 Managerial Finance I | (3-0) | 3 | |
| INFO 303 Statistical Methods | (3-0) | 3 | FINC 460 Money and Capital Markets 16 | (3-0) | 3 | |
| MGMT 363 The Management Process | (3-0) | 3 | INFO 364 Operations Management | (3-0) | 3 | |
| General elective 7 | 3 | International elective 8 | 3 | |||
| 15 | 15 |
SENIOR YEAR*
| First Semester | (Th-Pr) | Cr | Second Semester | (Th-Pr) | Cr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACCT or FINC elective 9,10 | 3 | BUSN 467 Ethics in Business | (1-0) | 1 | ||
| FINC elective 10 | 3 | FINC electives 10 | 6 | |||
| FINC 421 Investment Analysis | (3-0) | 3 | MGMT 466 Strategic Management | (3-0) | 3 | |
| MKTG 321 Marketing | (3-0) | 3 | International elective 8 | 3 | ||
| General elective 7 | 3 | General elective 7 | 1 | |||
| 15 | 14 |
NOTES:
- ACCT 315, Intermediate Accounting for Non-Accounting Majors I or ACCT 327, Financial Reporting I. Students interested in a double major (Finance and Accounting) must elect ACCT 327 and 328. Students must have a C or better in ACCT 327 before taking ACCT 328.
- ACCT 316, Intermediate Accounting for Non-Accounting Majors II or ACCT 328, Financial Reporting II or ACCT 329, Cost Accounting. Students must have completed ACCT 327 to elect ACCT 328. Students must have a C or better in ACCT 327 before taking ACCT 328.
* See Upper-Level Entry into accounting, finance, information and operations management, management and marketing (B.B.A.).
See footnotes.