Topic 1: Sustainable Finance Investing. Assess the actions of investors and corporations with regard to environmental, social, and governance policies, including the potential motivations and resulting consequences. Only one of the following may be counted: Finance 372 (Topic 1), 372T (Topic 1), 372T (Topic 3). Additional prerequisite: Credit or registration for Finance 367.

Topic 2: Valuation of Energy Investment. 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. Finance 372 (Topic 2) and 372T (Topic 2) may not both be counted. Additional prerequisite: Finance 374C. Restrictions: Restricted to students in a business major.

Topic 3: Sustainable Finance. 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. Only one of the following may be counted: Finance 372 (Topic 1), 372T (Topic 1), 372T (Topic 3). Additional prerequisite: Credit or registration for Finance 367.

Topic 10: Economic Principles of Managerial Decisions. 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). Only one of the following may be counted: Economics 350K (Topic: Econ Prins of Decisions), 351N, Finance 372 (Topic 10), 372T (Topic 10). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: ECO 351N Additional prerequisite: Economics 420K, 420S, 421K, or Finance 321K with a grade of at least C-.

Topic 11: Financial Planning for Wealth Management. 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. Only one of the following may be counted: Accounting 372T (Topic 11), 378 (Topic 3), Finance 372 (Topic 3), 372T (Topic 11). Same as: ACC 372T.11 Additional prerequisite: Accounting 311 or 311H, and 312 or 312H; credit or registration for Finance 357 or 357H; credit or registration for Accounting 364 is recommended. Restrictions: Restricted to students in a business major.

Topic 14: Quantitative Investment Management. 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. Only one of the following may be counted: Business Analytics 372 (Topic 14), 372T (Topic 14), Finance 372 (Topic: Quant Investment Management), 372 (Topic 4), 372T (Topic 14). Same as: BAX 372T.14 Additional prerequisite: Finance 367. Restrictions: Restricted to students in a business major.

Topic 15: Financial Technology. 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. Only one of the following may be counted: Business Analytics 372 (Topic 5), 372T (Topic 15), Finance 372 (Topic: Financial Technology), 372 (Topic 5), 372T (Topic 12). Same as: BAX 372T.15 Restrictions: Restricted to students in a business major.

Topic 16: Optimization Method in Finance. 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. Only one of the following may be counted: Business Analytics 372 (Topic 6), 372T (Topic 16), Decision Science 372 (Topic 6), 372T (Topic 16), Finance 372 (Topic: Optimization Method Finance), 372 (Topic 6), 372T (Topic 16), Statistics 372 (Topic 6), 372T (Topic 16). Same as: BAX 372T.16, D S 372T.16, STA 372T.16