Bachelor of Science in Finance

Program Overview

This Finance program provides a comprehensive foundation in business principles and financial concepts. Students develop analytical and decision-making skills through coursework in accounting, economics, finance, and management. The program prepares graduates for careers in financial analysis, investment management, and other finance-related fields.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Required General Education
• Choose 3 Credit(s)
• ECON 201: Principles of Macroeconomics (3 credits)
• Emphasis on forces influencing employment and inflation.
Current problems of the economy are stressed along with tools government has to cope with them.
• MATH 130: Finite Mathematics and Introductory Calculus (4 credits)
• This course develops concepts and skills in algebra and introductory calculus needed to model applications in business, economics, social sciences and life sciences, using polynomials, exponentials, logarithms, linear systems, linear programming, sequences, series, derivatives and integrals.
• Ethics Requirement - Choose 3 Credit(s)
• PHIL 120W: Introduction to Ethics (3 credits)
• Discussion of theories of value and obligation.
• PHIL 205W: Culture, Identity, and Diversity (3 credits)
• Discussion of the ways that a culture both creates human community and shapes self-identity.
Exploration of similarities and differences between and interdependence among cultural traditions, and of vocabularies for assessing traditions.
• PHIL 222W: Medical Ethics (3 credits)
• Ethical perspectives relevant to issues such as euthanasia, genetic engineering, organ transplant, patients' rights, abortion, etc.
• PHIL 224W: Business Ethics (3 credits)
• Introduction to ethical theories and concepts and their application to specific cases in the world of business.
• PHIL 226W: Environmental Ethics (3 credits)
• Questions about human responsibilities to other animals and the environment gain urgency as environmental crises become more prevalent, and animal species continue to be eliminated.
Learn about, critique, and apply the principles underlying evaluations of human environmental conduct.
• PHIL 240W: Law, Justice & Society (3 credits)
• Consideration of the basic philosophical approaches to the idea of justice and how this idea relates to other fundamental ideas in political philosophy, ethics, and law.
• Prerequisites to the Major
• ACCT 200: Financial Accounting (3 credits)
• The accounting process, financial statement preparation, and analysis.
Includes the accounting cycle, asset, liability, and equity accounting. Emphasis on the use of accounting data.
• BUS 295: Professional Preparation for Business Careers (2 credits)
• This course is required for admission to the College of Business for all business majors.
The purpose of the course is to provide students with an overview of COB majors, allow students to create an academic plan for graduation, and develop professional skills needed for future job placement. Topics include cover letter and resume writing, interviewing skills, the process of networking, the internship program, etiquette skills, and requirements for graduation.
• CIS 101: Introduction to Information Systems (3 credits)
• Introduction to the personal computer as a productivity tool for business majors.
Using Microsoft Office suite, students learn to be productive with document processing, spreadsheets, electronic presentations, and databases. Cannot be used toward any major or minor in Computer Information Science.
• Major Common Core
• Required of all College of Business majors - Choose 34 Credit(s)
• ACCT 210: Managerial Accounting (3 credits)
• Preparation and analysis of cost-based management reports: use of cost information to make short-term operating decisions and long-term capital decisions.
• BLAW 200: Legal Environment of Business (3 credits)
• Application of law to business settings; the American court system; alternative dispute resolution; ethics and the social responsibility of business; fundamentals of legal reasoning; sources of law; constitutional, criminal, tort, and contract law; business associations.
• ECON 202: Principles of Microeconomics (3 credits)
• Examines decision making by the individual firm, the determination of prices and wages, and current problems facing business firms.
• ECON 207: Business Statistics (4 credits)
• Basic statistical methods including measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability, probability distributions, sampling, problems of estimation and hypothesis testing in the case of one and two sample meaans and proportions.
Chi-Square, one-way analysis of variance, simple regression and correlation analysis, and brief introduction to multiple regression analysis. Use of computer statistical packages required.
• An introduction to finance relating to problems, methods, and policies in financing business enterprise.
• IBUS 380: Principles of International Business (3 credits)
• International dimensions of business: global business environment (economic, cultural, legal, political) and international business functions (management, marketing, finance, exporting, importing).
• MGMT 230: Principles of Management (3 credits)
• This course examines basic management concepts and principles, their historical development, and their application to modern organizations.
Topics covered include planning, organizing, decision making, leadership, control, and organizational change. In addition, the course includes an introduction to business ethics and social responsibility, human resource management, organizational design and organizational behavior.
• MGMT 300: Introduction to MIS (3 credits)
• This course is designed to introduce students to the Management Information Systems and its application in organizations.
The course will present to the students the information systems role to support the various managerial activities, and to help the students identify and evaluate various options in Management Information Systems.
• MGMT 346: Operations Management for the Supply Chain (3 credits)
• This course engages students in the study of the operations management function in manufacturing and service organizations.
Students learn how to apply the basic analytical models to operation decisions involving topics such as scheduling, production technology, inventory management, quality assurance, just-in-time production, and others.
• MGMT 481: Business Policy & Strategy (3 credits)
• MGMT 481 is an integrative course for COB majors.
Its emphasis is on understanding the role of a general manager, which should include an operations and international component.
• MRKT 210: Principles of Marketing (3 credits)
• This course provides a basic understanding of marketing concepts with emphasis on the pricing, promotion, and distribution of need satisfying products and services in domestic and international markets.
In particular, the course will use Microsoft Excel to cover topics such as time value of money, stock and bond valuation, cost of capital, capital budgeting, financial statement and ratio analysis, and option pricing and strategies.
• Formulation of investment policy of individuals and institutions, factors influencing the values of securities, and techniques of portfolio selection and management.
• Applications of financial principles and analytical tools through the use of case studies and problems from local businesses.
• Introduction to money and capital markets, instruments and institutions.
Consideration of the management problems of financial institutions.