Finance Courses*
FINC 320 • Personal Financial Management (3 units)
Personal management of budgets, bank accounts, loans, credit buying, insurance, real estate, security buying, and investments, providing students with effective management guidelines to manage their own personal financial affairs.
FINC 332 • Money and Banking (3 units)
Prerequisite: FINC 335. Nature and functions of money and its relation to prices; the monetary system of the United States; and functions of banks, bank credit, foreign exchange, and monetary control.
FINCn 335 • Corporate Finance (3 units)
Prerequisite: ACCT 221. This course is designed to provide the student with an overview of the financial principles and techniques related to financial management within a business enterprise. The course will introduce tools for financial decision making, policy making, and analysis. Areas studied will include financial statement analysis, asset valuation methods, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and capital asset pricing model.
FINC 340 • Real Estate Finance (3 units)
Prerequisite: FINC 335. Overview of real estate principles, practices, and investment decisions. Topics include equity investment, finance, legal aspects, property development, real estate market analysis, and valuation.
FINC 405 • Investments (3 units)
Prerequisite: FINC 335. This course is designed to provided an overview of security valuation and trading methods; technological and fundamental analysis; portfolio theory, analysis, and allocation; and real estate principles and investment decisions.
FINC 421 • International Finance (3 units)
Prerequisite: FINC 335. Integrates various aspects of the financial control system of the international firm utilizing case study analysis. Attention will be given to the application of complex problem solving and model building in dealing with financial and economic forecasting for the firm and the global economy.
FINC 440 • Entrepreneurship: Formation of New Ventures (3 units)
Prerequisites: FINC 335 and MRKT 360. The theory and practice of new venture development. Studies business opportunities from the point of view of the entrepreneur/manager rather than passive investor. Topics include strategic management, venture capital, and writing business plans.
FINC 490 • Seminar (1-3 units)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and Chair may be required. Mutual investigation of one topic in finance of particular relevance to upper division majors. May be repeated for credit provided topics are dissimilar.
* This information is provided for ease of use, however it is not the official record. See the academic catalog for official course descriptions and requirements.