Program Overview
College of Business and Economics
Moscow
The College of Business and Economics is located at 875 Campus Drive, J.A. Albertson Building, Moscow, ID.
Applied Finance Certificate
Advance Your Career in Finance Today
The Applied Finance Certificate offers a solid foundation of core finance essentials, including using data and analysis to manage financial resources, as well as specialty topics in real estate, insurance, and financial planning.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop tools to use financial data for analysis and decision making.
- Discover business decision-making skills from small business to global perspectives.
- Identify insurable risks, and the products to manage them, across industries.
- Develop skills to raise capital for firms of all sizes not traded publicly.
- Explore the larger financial services industry while helping clients plan their financial future.
- Learn to price, market, sell, and buy real estate while exploring different types of properties, appraisal methods, and ownerships.
Career Opportunities
- Financial Risk Management and Analysis
- Investment and Corporate Banking
- Residential and Commercial Real Estate
Courses
- FIN 301: Financial Resources Management (3 credits): Develop tools to use financial data for analysis and decision making.
- ECON 340: Managerial Economics (3 credits): Analyze business decisions such as pricing, launching new projects, and motivating employees using perspectives and frameworks from economics.
- FIN 322: Insurance (2 credits): Learn to identify insurable risks in retail, healthcare, homes, and property, and the insurance products to manage those risks.
- FIN 323: Commercial Finance (1 credit): Develop skills to raise capital for firms of all sizes, with an emphasis on those not traded publicly.
- FIN 324: Real Estate (2 credits): Learn to price, market, sell, and buy both residential and commercial real estate and explore different types of properties, appraisal methods, and ownerships.
- FIN 325: Financial Planning (1 credit): Develop skills to help clients plan for financial security, education, retirement, and estate while exploring the larger financial services industry.
Accreditation
The College of Business and Economics is AACSB accredited, ranking among the top 5% of business schools worldwide.
Recognition
The University of Idaho is recognized as the #1 Best Value Public University in the West by USNWR for five consecutive years.
Availability
The Applied Finance Certificate is available online.
Faculty
- Elizabeth Bullers: Director of Recruitment
- Mark Groza: Director of Distance Education and Professor of Marketing
Contact
For more information, please contact the College of Business and Economics at the University of Idaho.