Courses
Finance Courses
FIN301 Managerial Finance
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course is concerned with the firm’s investment and financing decisions. Students learn how financial managers raise funds for their corporations and how they allocate these funds among the assets of the firm. Topics include: the goal of the financial managers, cash flow estimation, financial statement analysis, time value of money, risk and return, valuation of bonds and stocks, and capital budgeting.
Prerequisites: ACC203 Financial Accounting and a completion of 24 credits
FIN301H Managerial Finance
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course is concerned with the firm’s investment and financing decisions. Students learn how financial managers raise funds for their corporations and how they allocate these funds among the assets of the firm. Topics include: the goal of the financial managers, cash flow estimation, financial statement analysis, time value of money, risk and return, valuation of bonds and stocks, and capital budgeting.
Prerequisites: ACC203 Financial Accounting and a completion of 24 credits
FIN302 Financial Institutions and Markets
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course focuses on understanding the operations of financial institutions, markets, and instruments. Topics include central banks and other financial institutions, as well as the types of financial markets and instruments, and interest rates
Prerequisites: ACC203 Financial Accounting; ACC204 Managerial Accounting; ECO201 Microeconomics and ECO202 Macroeconomics
FIN311 Banking Operations
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course is concerned with the management of commercial bank operations. It provides students with a description and analysis of those operations. It also covers the techniques and tools commercial bank managers apply to perform their job. Topics include the structure and internal organization of banks, lending policies, asset and liability management, risk management, and capital adequacy.
Prerequisites: FIN301 Managerial Finance and FIN302 Financial Institutions and Markets
FIN321 Introduction to Insurance
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course covers the theory of risk management and insurance, the institutional aspects of the insurance industry, and the decision-making tools used in the insurance industry.
Prerequisites: FIN301 Managerial Finance and FIN302 Financial Institutions and Markets
FIN322 Global Financial Management
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course explores the global financial environment in which a multinational firm operates. The course covers foreign exchange markets, international financial markets, international capital flows, international investing, and international trade and risk management issues. In addition, the course will discuss financial tools used by managers of firms operating in a global market.
Prerequisites: FIN301 Managerial Finance and FIN302 Financial Institutions and Markets
FIN323 Islamic Banking and Finance
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course focuses on the principles and implications of Islamic Shariah (religious law) pertaining to economic and financial systems. It covers the operations of Islamic banks by examining various debt-based and profit-sharing financing instruments as well as liquidity and risk management techniques. It reviews different Islamic investment vehicles, including Shariah-compliant equities, Sukuk, and Takaful investments.
Prerequisites: FIN301 Managerial Finance and FIN302 Financial Institutions and Markets
FIN399 Internship / Practicum
[1–0, 1 cr.]
Students may earn one credit by working for a period of four weeks at an instructor-approved banking or finance position with a business not owned by a relative of the student.
Prerequisites: Senior standing and instructor’s approval.
FIN401 Senior Seminar in Finance
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course discusses contemporary issues in finance.
Prerequisites: FIN301 Managerial Finance, FIN302 Financial Institutions and Markets, and senior standing.
FIN405 Investment Analysis
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course is an introduction to the field of investments. It focuses on the examination and valuation of the various investment vehicles and strategies. Investment Analysis helps understand the investment process, analyze investments, construct efficient portfolios, evaluate financial securities, and assess investment performance. Topics covered will include stock and bond market indices, buying on margin, short selling, risk and return, efficient diversification, CAPM and other asset pricing models, efficient market hypothesis, macroeconomic and industry analysis, and derivatives.
Prerequisites: FIN301/FIN301H Managerial Finance and FIN302 Financial Institutions and Markets
FIN406 Portfolio Management
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course will focus on the application of financial theory in portfolio management. The course objective is to acquaint students with the major groups of investors and their investment objectives and constraints, and to master practical skills in investment management to justify major investment portfolio management strategies for equity and fixed-income instruments. Topics covered will include investment policy statement, behavioral finance, managing bond portfolios, portfolio performance evaluation, globalization and international investing, mutual funds and hedge funds. The course will build upon the analytical skills developed in the Investment Analysis course.
Prerequisite: FIN405 Investment Analysis or FIN411 Security Analysis & Portfolio Management
FIN408 Financial Modeling and Business Valuation
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to financial modeling and business valuation. Students will develop hands-on skills in building financial models to analyze companies and assess intrinsic value. The course covers essential valuation methodologies, including Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and Comparable Company Analysis (CCA). Students will learn to construct integrated financial statements, forecast key financial drivers, and apply sensitivity and scenario analyses to evaluate investment decisions. The course follows a project-based approach, ensuring that students gain real-world experience in valuation modeling.Prerequisite: FIN301 Managerial Finance
FIN408 Financial Modeling and Business Valuation
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to financial modeling and business valuation. Students will develop hands-on skills in building financial models to analyze companies and assess intrinsic value. The course covers essential valuation methodologies, including Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and Comparable Company Analysis (CCA). Students will learn to construct integrated financial statements, forecast key financial drivers, and apply sensitivity and scenario analyses to evaluate investment decisions. The course follows a project-based approach, ensuring that students gain real-world experience in valuation modeling.
Prerequisite: FIN301 Managerial Finance
FIN411 Security Analysis & Portfolio Management
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course is concerned with the analysis, evaluation, and trading of financial securities. It also covers bond and stock portfolio management, which includes the topics of: risk and return, diversification, efficient portfolios, market efficiency, and the Capital Asset Pricing Model. Students will gain hands-on experience by managing a portfolio of securities during the term.
Prerequisites: FIN301 Managerial Finance and FIN302 Financial Institutions and Markets
FIN413 Corporate Finance
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course is concerned with the following topics: short- and long-term financial management, including capital budgeting with uncertainty, capital structure, dividend policy, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions. It emphasizes the case study approach to learning.
Prerequisites: FIN301 Managerial Finance and FIN302 Financial Institutions and Markets
FIN421 Financial Derivatives
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course is concerned with derivative securities and markets. Topics include options, option markets, option strategies, option pricing models, futures, futures markets, futures’ strategies, futures’ pricing models, and swaps and financial risk management using derivatives.
Prerequisite: FIN405 Investment Analysis or FIN411 Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
FIN712 Executive Business Finance
[1.5–0, 1.5 cr.]
This course covers in-depth the main tools an executive use to make financial decisions. Topics include time value of money, capital budgeting, the valuation of stocks and bonds, risk and expected return.
FIN721 Corporate Financial Strategy
[1.5–0, 1.5 cr.]
This course deals with corporate financial decisions. Topics include capital structure, cost of capital, dividend and stock repurchase policy.
Prerequisite: ACC711 / Accounting for Executives [1.5 credits]
FIN723 Bank Capital Management
[1.5–0, 1.5 cr.]
This course deals with the management of bank capital. Topics include bank capital requirements, Basle Accords, and interest rate risk management.
Prerequisite: ACC711 / Accounting for Executives [1.5 credits]
FIN724 Bank Liquidity and Credit Management
[1.5–0, 1.5 cr.]
This course deals with bank liquidity problems and solutions. It also discusses credit analysis by addressing short and long-term loans to business firms, financial ratio analysis of a customer’s financial statements, and business loan applications.
Prerequisite: ACC711 Accounting for Executives [1.5 credits]
FIN740 Investment Analysis
[1.5–0, 1.5 cr.]
This course deals with various investment instruments existing in the financial markets, security selection and wealth allocation. It discusses the concepts of risk, return, diversification, and optimal portfolio selection. The course also discusses different investment strategies and performance evaluation models.
Prerequisite: FIN712 Executive Business Finance [1.5 credits]
FIN747 Financial Risk Management
[1.5–0, 1.5 cr.]
This course deals with options, futures, and forward contracts and markets. It also covers the mechanics of using options, futures and forward contracts in hedging investment portfolios.
Prerequisite: FIN712 Executive Business Finance [1.5 credits]
FIN781 Selected Topics in Finance
[1.5–0, 1.5 cr.]
This course discusses contemporary issues in Finance.
Prerequisite: FIN712 Executive Business Finance [1.5 credits]
FIN781E Financial Technology (FinTech)
[1.5–0, 1.5 cr.]
This course explores how financial technology and emerging innovations such as artificial intelligence are reshaping the delivery and management of financial services. It emphasizes practical insights into how digital tools enhance decision-making, efficiency, and customer engagement in the financial sector. Participants will examine real-world cases that illustrate how technology-driven transformation is redefining competitiveness and strategy in modern finance.FIN781N Cryptos and Digital Assets
[1.5–0, 1.5 cr.]
This course examines the rise of cryptocurrencies and digital assets as new instruments in modern finance. It explores how blockchain technology enables tokenization, decentralized finance, and new investment models while emphasizing business applications, regulation, and strategic opportunities. Participants gain practical insight into how digital assets are transforming markets, reshaping institutions, and redefining the future of financial innovation.FIN781T Investment Analysis
[1.5–0, 1.5 cr.]
This course examines various conventional investment instruments, such as stocks and bonds, as well as emerging asset classes like cryptocurrencies. It explores security selection and wealth allocation, and discusses the risk–return tradeoff, diversification, and optimal portfolio selection across different assets. The course also discusses different investment strategies and performance evaluation techniques.
Prerequisite: FIN712 Executive Business Finance [1.5 credits]
FIN810 Business Finance
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course introduces students to corporate finance principles and applications. It covers the following topics: (1) Financial Statements; (2) Cash Flow Estimation; (3) Time Value of Money; (4) Capital Budgeting Methods; (5) Valuation of Bonds and Stocks; (6) Risk and Return; and (7) Cost of Capital.FIN813 Econometrics
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course takes an empirical approach in covering statistical techniques that are commonly used to analyze financial data. The objectives of the course are to highlight the steps that must be taken when building a statistical model, and to develop the skills that are needed in conducting empirical research in finance and accounting. The topics of the course are: (1) classical linear regression models; (2) univariate and multivariate time series; (3) modelling prices, returns, and/or volatility.FIN815 Valuation Analysis
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course takes a practical approach in using methodologies to value and assess firms by means of financial statements and macroeconomic reports. The course covers aspects of strategic, accounting, financial, and prospective analysis. The course will include interactive lectures and short cases to illustrate the concepts and principles involved.FIN822 Advanced Corporate Finance
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course helps students develop a solid and systematic understanding of corporations’ financing and investment decisions. It covers the following topics: (1) Capital Budgeting and Investment Decisions; (2) Risk and the Cost of Capital; (3) Project Analysis and Real Options; (4) Corporate Governance; (5) Dividend Payout Policy; (6) Capital Structure; and (7) Mergers.FIN824 Derivatives
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course discusses the framework for understanding and pricing plain vanilla derivatives and their application to financial risk management. It covers the following topics: (1) Basic Properties of derivative securities; (2) Mechanics of Futures and Options Markets; (3) Speculating and Hedging strategies using derivative securities; (4) Pricing Forwards and Futures; (5) Stock Option properties; (6) Binomial Trees; (7) Black and Scholes Option Pricing Model; and (8) Greeks and Hedging.FIN826 Investments
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course covers the fundamentals of investments. Topics include: (1) Security Markets; (2) Financial Instruments; (3) Efficient Diversification; (4) Asset Pricing Models; (5) Market Efficiency; (6) Behavioral Finance; and (7) Introduction to Financial Derivatives.FIN828 Risk Management
[3–0, 3 cr.]
The course aims at developing the students’ ability to identify, assess, measure, monitor and control the risks associated with financial products and services. Designed as an intensive introduction for the understanding and implementation of procedures for credit, market, and operational risks, this course provides students with a deeper understanding of risk management.FIN830 Financial Modelling
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course provides sound knowledge of financial theory and models through quantitative techniques and simulations. The course concentrates on real-life applications of financial management and investments concepts. Topics covered include spreadsheet applications for (1) Financial Statement Analysis; (2) Time Value of Money; (3) Bonds and Equity Valuation; (4) Capital Budgeting; (5) Capital Asset Pricing; (6) Market Efficiency Tests; (7) Portfolio Evaluation; (8) Option Pricing Models; and (9) Factor Models.FIN835 Commercial Bank Management
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course covers commercial bank management policies and decisions. Analysis includes advanced treatment of asset–liability management, emphasizing risk management issues such as interest rates, liquidity, credit, capital, and off-balance sheet risk and activities. The analysis presents financial engineering techniques in risk management and evaluates bank performance.
FIN836 Modern Portfolio Management
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course applies concepts of efficient capital markets, modern portfolio theory, and asset pricing models to practical problems of security analysis, portfolio construction, optimization, and performance measurement. The analysis considers return and risk characteristics of various financial investment instruments and derivatives, including common stocks, bonds, futures, options, and forward contracts.
FIN837 International Business
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course is a field survey covering the cultural, economic, political and social environments of international business. The course emphasizes global finance and exchange rate determination, exports, imports, and country risk analysis.
FIN861 Financial Management
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course is a review of the concepts underlying the financing of a business, emphasizing the uses of capitalization and leverage for current operations and for future expansion. Topics include valuation theory, investment theory, financial planning and control, dividend policy and growth, alternative capitalization structures, appraisal of capital projects, and mergers and acquisitions.FIN861O Financial Management
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course introduces students to corporate finance principles and applications. It covers the following topics: (1) Financial Statements; (2) Cash Flow Estimation; (3) Time Value of Money; (4) Capital Budgeting Methods; (5) Valuation of Bonds and Stocks; (6) Risk and Return; and (7) Cost of Capital.FIN863 Financial Derivatives
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course deals with derivative securities. It focuses on the analysis of options, futures, option and futures’ markets, and option and futures’ strategies. In addition, it discusses option and futures’ pricing models, and how derivatives are used in financial risk management.