Finance

FIN 5024 Principles of Finance

Instructor: Dr. Sattar A. Mansi

This course explores the basic concepts underlying the finance function, relevant to finance and non-finance majors. It provides an understanding of the firm's decision-making framework in the context of the economic environment (financial markets) in which the decisions are made. The specific topics covered, at a basic level, include investment decision making under uncertainty, valuation, risk and return, market efficiency, portfolio theory, asset pricing, cost of capital, capital investment decisions, and futures and options markets.

FIN 5104 Corporate Finance

Instructor: Dr. Abon Mozumdar

This course provides a broad coverage of the major policy-making areas of a corporation. The course covers topics in capital investment policy, financing and capital structure policies, dividend policy, financial statement analysis, financial forecasting, and the basics of working capital management.

FIN 5114 Interest Rates and Fixed Income Securities

Instructor: Dr. Sattar A. Mansi

This course analyzes the macroeconomic environment of interest rate determination and monetary policy. The course covers a description and analysis of several classes of fixed income securities, the measurement and management of interest rate risk, arbitrage-free term structure modeling, and applications to the pricing and hedging of debt securities.

FIN 5124 Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management

Instructor: Dr. Sattar A. Mansi

This course examines the role and functioning of securities markets. Specific topics include the equity market, fixed-income securities market, and mutual funds. The course presents portfolio and capital market theory, the efficient markets hypothesis, institutional organization, and security valuation techniques.

FIN 5134 Investment Banking in a Global Environment

Instructor: Dr. Abon Mozumdar

This course examines advanced topics confronting investment banks as intermediaries in capital raising and corporate restructuring. The topics include the domestic and international structure and regulation of investment banking, global market strategies, intermediation theories, taking a company public and raising capital in a global market, corporate restructuring transactions, investment banking innovations, municipal financing, and ethics. The course contains a strong analytical component and uses case studies.

FIN 5164 Advanced Corporate Finance

Instructor: Dr. Abon Mozumdar

This course covers advanced topics in the basic policy-making areas of corporations and special topics in corporate finance. Advanced topics are presented in the framework of more current theories of corporate finance. The course also has a strong applied component in the form of case studies and computer applications.

FIN 5184 International Finance

Instructor: Dr. Abon Mozumdar

This course examines the process of financial decision making in international financial markets. It includes extensive treatment of spot, forward, futures, and options markets for foreign currencies, international monetary systems, and money and capital markets. The course also covers development of the theories of interest rate and purchasing power parity, as well as of international portfolio theory and asset pricing theory. Students learn about corporate financial decision making of multinational firms and investment analysis in world financial markets.

FIN 5084 Analytical Framework for Business Manager

Instructor: Dr. Robert Krell

The course provides the student with an understanding of how economic theory applies to business problems and business behavior. Subjects covered include demand analysis, production, cost, pricing policies, market structure, and government policies toward business.