This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Finance. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Principles of effective financial management, including planning, organization, and control; financial intermediaries; securities markets; evaluating alternative assets, debt, and capital structures.

Explore microeconomic analysis of consumer theory, producer theory, decision-making under uncertainty, and market equilibrium. Examine game theory, monopoly and oligopoly behavior, and the principal-agent problem. Consider the application of these ideas to decisions made by business leaders in real-world settings.

Explore an overview from the individual and family perspectives of financial planning tools, cash management, consumer credit, and basic tax preparation, insurance selection, investment and retirement planning. Includes application of knowledge to hypothetical situations and case studies.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Finance. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Through discussions and guest speakers, explore the most recent issues in the everchanging landscape of sustainability.

Examine investment banking with emphasis on mergers and acquisitions. Work in cross-level, team-based roles that simulate industry structures to develop and present a comprehensive investment banking pitch book for a live client. Discuss company, market, and industry analysis; strategic assessment; valuation and leveraged buyout modeling; and M&A strategy development. Explore collaboration with alumni practitioners and cross-disciplinary partners to integrate industry-specific research into client recommendations.

Apply economic analysis to sedimentary basin analysis to create exploration and development scenarios. Investigate first principles of sedimentation, stratigraphy, and basin formation as the drivers of economic accumulations of petroleum in many different types of environments of deposition and basins globally including conventional and unconventional petroleum resources. Examine mining, minerals, and other exhaustible resources.

Explore the role of sustainability in the corporate sector. Examine how businesses partner with others for sustainability goals, how to value sustainable business practices, and how to report on corporate sustainability.

Apply economic and financial analysis to energy projects and firms. Examine discounted cashflow, multiples valuation, NAV analysis, decision and risk analysis, real options, energy economics and risk management.

Analyze energy and power systems in regulated and competitive environments and implications on business decisions for firms in these industries. Examine mechanisms of energy markets; comparative market systems; determination of prices under different market structures; gas, oil, coal, and electricity market architecture; electricity market design; dispatch and new build decisions; smart grid and renewable energy in electricity markets; risk and risk management in energy including demand and price volatility and use of financial derivatives; and the impact of financial market trends and current and proposed policies on the energy industry.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. or the school's BBA Exchange Programs. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Finance. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence.

Principles of finance, with application to all aspects of the business firm; particular attention to cost of capital, investment decisions, management of assets, and procurement of funds.

An investigation of the principles of finance, with application to all aspects of the business firm; particular attention to cost of capital, investment decisions, management of assets, and procurement of funds.

Apply concepts and tools learned in other courses to practical projects solving sustainability challenges for companies or nonprofits.

Students apply skills in the energy industry and focus on additional project management skills through group projects conducted in a professional setting. Students may work with a private or a public enterprise.

Students apply skills in their major area and focus on additional project management skills through group projects conducted in a professional setting. Students may work with a private or a public enterprise.

Investment theory, alternatives, and decision making under differing uncertainties and constraints; formulation of objectives and strategies; development of conceptual managerial perspectives and philosophies for investment environments.

Integrates financial decision making in functional areas of finance; utilizes various concepts to promulgate strategies, policies, and procedures in managing funds to achieve objectives.

Integrates financial decision making in functional areas of finance; utilizes various concepts to promulgate strategies, policies, and procedures in managing funds to achieve objectives.

Development of modern financial markets, with emphasis on the factors that determine interest rates; institutional characteristics and pricing mechanisms of various interest-sensitive securities.

Assess the actions of investors and corporations with regard to environmental, social, and governance policies, including the potential motivations and resulting consequences.

Use of economic concepts and models to make strategic business decisions (adverse selection, game theory, price discrimination, strategic commitment, barriers to entry, network effects). Economics of strategic responses to the legal environment (regulations, antitrust policies, intellectual property, fiduciary duty, liability).

Introduction to basic concepts of personal wealth management and financial planning, including insurance and risk management, investment management, tax planning, estate planning, and retirement planning. Designed for upper-level finance and accounting majors interested in a career in financial services or students pursuing master in professional accounting with interest in this area of the accounting profession.

Examine the economic, statistical, and computing frameworks behind quantitative approaches to evaluating and implementing investment strategies, as well as the empirical evidence on their performance in multiple asset classes. Apply the quantitative big-data approach by developing, pitching, and backtesting an original trading strategy.

Explore an overview of the most recent technological advances that are changing the financial services industry and how these technological breakthroughs offer new ways for people to save, invest, borrow, and transact. Analyze how new technologies create value in the financial industry, from reducing unit cost, increasing transparency, increasing competition, creating network effects, leveraging economies of scales, and lowering asymmetric information. Examine the competitive landscape and the market opportunities and threats for incumbents and new entrants.

Explore quantitative methods and techniques in optimization and simulation, and their use in financial decision making. Discuss theory and application in portfolio selection, options and other derivative pricing, index tracking, risk measures, volatility estimating. Examine linear, quadratic, nonlinear, and integer programming; dynamic programming; robust optimization; Monte Carlo methods and variance reduction techniques. Emphasis will be placed on problem solving with advanced computational programming languages.

Explore the evaluation and financing of energy investments with a focus on upstream oil and gas projects. Develop financial modeling skills from detailed discounted cash flow models to advanced option pricing models using various computational approaches.

Focuses on using a financial economics perspective to understand how sustainability issues are considered by corporate managers, investors, and other participants in financial markets. Examine how environmental, social, governance, strategy and other issues affect manager and investor decisions from financial perspectives, particularly the risk and return aspects, including how to measure sustainability risk exposures. Discuss how these issues are considered from a nonfinancial perspective such as sustainable and responsible investing, ethical investing and impact investing.

Students work in small research groups to write academic papers on topics in international finance and business. Designed to develop critical thinking skills, writing skills, sophisticated use of technology, and experience working across different cultures.

An in-depth study of theory and practice of corporate financial management in establishing major financial and investment policies; techniques for analysis, evaluation, and control.

Development, implementation, and control of financial plans, strategies, and policies by owner-managers of small and medium-sized firms; analysis of alternatives and decision making.

Explore the international financial environment, with emphasis on the factors affecting exchange rates and how exchange rate changes affect the firm.

Second course in investments, with emphasis on quantitative applications and the underlying theory in the analysis and management of securities and portfolios.

Explore quantitative applications and the underlying theory in the analysis and management of securities and portfolios. Designed for students with career goals in investment.

Application of fundamental analysis and valuation techniques.

Explore the role of fixed income securities, and methods of economic and financial analysis relevant to their markets.

Analyze current developments in financial market innovation and regulation to understand their effects on capital creation, investor welfare, market efficiency, and financial stability. Explore new financial products, securities fraud and misconduct, shadow banking, technological disruptions, market failures, systemic risk, and policy trade-offs in securities markets regulation.

Analyze the effect technology has on the delivery of financial services and products in the areas of lending, clearing and trading.

Explore valuation theory, corporate finance theory, asset management, applied valuation and capital markets, and empirical finance. Examine theory, practice, and institutional applications.

Utilize traditional financial datasets (e.g., financial statements, ratio analysis, credit and fixed income information, stock returns) from a variety of data sources and platforms, including WRDS/Compustat/CRSP, Bloomberg, and Compustat. Explore more advanced techniques designed to yield insights from alternative and unstructured datasets (e.g., text and sentiment analysis of earnings conference calls; SEC filings like 10K's, 10Q's, and 8-Ks; message and discussion boards; marketing/customer feedback; and other big data sources).

Study of subjects such as financial modeling, derivatives in corporate finance, business valuation, and value-based management.

Explore debt and equity valuation, financial markets, firms' cost of capital, and capital structure decisions in greater detail.

How financial markets are organized and function. Includes debt equity and foreign exchange markets, primary and secondary market operations, and investment banking.

Study of issues and topics in the capital markets and financial institutions that are not covered in other courses.

Advanced corporate financial management in the global marketplace: valuation concepts, optimal capital structure, risk management, corporate control and restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions.

Explore the process to building a new venture from idea to liquidation event from the perspectives of both the founders as well as sophisticated venture investors. Develop a common financial framework to parse financial instruments through which we can demonstrate the salient points of a new venture's value proposition to its stakeholders. Use this framework to scale the model to express managerial controls, confidence, and ultimately the core values such that the founding team could reasonably expect to raise sophisticated capital.

An examination of the application of advanced corporate finance concepts in the private equity markets.

Introduction to the legal, engineering, business, and financial aspects of energy development and operations.

Covers the theory and practice of the evaluation and financing of energy investments with a focus on application to upstream oil and gas projects. Develop financial modeling skills, from detailed discounted cash flow models to advanced option pricing models utilizing a variety of computational approaches.

Construction and use of financial models for valuation and decision-making.

Study of how economic principles are used to think strategically about business decisions.

An integrated analysis of the interaction between the investment and operating policies of a corporation and its financial strategies.

Examine financial reporting, the application of various valuation techniques (to measure the fair value of intangible assets), contingent consideration, valuation of synergy, the impact of geography on value, and the effect of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies on company valuations.

Discuss financial modeling, derivatives in corporate finance, business valuation, and value-based management.

Participate in the investment banking practicum. Develop a team-based pitch book and mergers and acquisitions idea through project and speaker series. Discuss discounted cash flow, comparable, and leveraged buyouts and mergers and acquisitions analyses.

Analyzes the effect technology has on the delivery of financial services and products in the areas of lending, clearing and trading.

An analysis of the decision to raise capital, including sources of debt and equity, financial distress, restructuring, and financing acquisitions.

An integrated analysis of the interaction between the investment and operating policies of a corporation and its financial strategies, with special emphasis on firms in the energy industry.

Construction and use of financial models for valuation and decision-making, with applications to the energy industry.

Examine the application of advanced corporate finance concepts in the private equity markets.

An overview of finance theory and empirical evidence.

In-depth study of existing empirical work in corporate finance, including econometric and statistical methods.

Learn about static and dynamic problems with moral hazard and adverse selection using tools from game theory and contract theory.

The notions of risk, risk aversion, prudence, arbitrage, and equilibria in economies that include financial markets. The impact of adverse selection and moral hazard problems on the existence and properties of market equilibria.

Detailed introduction to asset pricing theory, focusing on absence of arbitrage, consumption-portfolio choice, and simple equilibrium models.

In-depth study of existing empirical work in asset pricing, including econometric and statistical methods.

Analysis of the theory of corporate finance and empirical evidence regarding corporate finance.

Provides an opportunity for students to develop and conduct original research projects.

Provides an opportunity for students to develop and conduct original research.

Analysis of the investment decision-making process, asset allocation, security analysis, risk and expected return measurement, asset-pricing models, and international investment.

A critical assessment of the actions of investors and corporations with regard to environmental, social, and governance policies, including the potential motivations and resulting consequences.

Examine statistical analyses that can be used in a variety of application areas, including energy trading, and provide a cutting edge perspective on technical trading and valuation.

Explore investment principles, encompassing portfolio management, asset valuation, and performance evaluation. Learn critical financial skills to make investment-related decisions. Analyze equity, fixed-income securities, and derivatives within the global financial landscape using a combination of theory and practice.

Focus on energy-related derivatives and different derivative products and how to apply them. Explore energy markets and learn how to measure and manage the financial risks created by volatile energy prices. Examine and evaluate energy finance.

Focus on financial economics perspective to understand sustainability issues considered by managers, investors and participants in financial markets. Learn environmental, social, governance, strategy and other issues that affect manager and investor decisions from financial perspectives, particularly risk return aspects and measure sustainability risk exposures. Discuss how these issues are considered from a nonfinancial perspective such as sustainable and responsible investing, ethical investing and impact investing.

Learn to use Artificial Intelligence tools to analyze and visualize data, financial statements, portfolios, and trading strategies.

Examine wisdom versus technical competence in leadership and decision making using readings from the most influential theorists and practitioners of 20th and 21st century investing, case studies and portfolio sector exercises in an institutional context, based on detailed assessment of global investment risks.

Explore how business leaders and managers can optimize the quality of decision-making and the cohesiveness of their organization. Analyze the problems through the lens of game theory, behavioral economics, and behavioral finance and find solutions to address them.

Modern practices in managing investment portfolios, portfolio optimization methods, asset management for individual and institutional investors, and valuation of equity securities.

Studies how firms manage their financial risk exposures and how they use derivative securities.

Comprehensive analysis of debt securities and the techniques used to value these instruments.

Issues and topics in the investment area that are not covered in other courses.

Analysis and pricing of derivative securities, including forwards, futures, and options.

Analysis and pricing of derivative securities, including forwards, futures, and options, with emphasis on derivatives related to the energy industry.

Overview of alternative investments, including hedge funds, private equity, and real estate.

Project-based study with a focus on the application of finance principles to practical investment problems.

Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option.