This course examines the distinctive circumstances of management arising from the conduct of business in more than one country. It presents a broad survey of different facets of international business environment including international trading system, the world trade organization, international monetary system, regional trading blocs such as the European Union, and home and host country policies in international investments. Additionally, students learn theoretical and practical aspects of multinational corporations operating in an international environment, problems and risks that may be encountered, and various bases for profitable operations.Prerequisite: 29:620:301.

This course focuses on specific concepts and critical skills that individuals need to know and possess in order to successfully work with and lead teams and organizations. Skill-building and emotional intelligence are focal objectives of this course and are developed through class exercises, role plays, assessments, and teamwork. Topics include team development and dynamics, emotional intelligence, personality types, motivation, problem solving, communication, conflict, and negotiations.

$15.00 course materials fee.

Detailed overview of the theory and institutional features of the U.S. financial system; comprehensive review of the U.S. financial markets.Prerequisite: 29:320:329.

Issues relating to the financing of capital investments. How financial risk affects the cost of capital and helps determine the capital structure of the corporation. Interactions between investment and financing decisions. The uses of various securities to finance an investment, as well as methods such as lease financing.Prerequisite: 29:390:329.

Financial concepts and methods of analysis. The time value of money and its relation to such concepts as net present value and internal rate of return; principles of valuation and financial markets. The use of capital budgeting, management of cash flow, and working capital management

Financial concepts and methods of analysis. The time value of money and its relation to such concepts as net present value and internal rate of return; principles of valuation and financial markets. The use of capital budgeting, management of cash flow, and working capital management.Prerequisites: 29:010:204 and (21:220:231 or 21:640:211) and (21:640:119 or 21:640:135 or 21:640:155).

Introduction and analysis of the dimensions of risk and return. Portfolio theory and its application in the management and performance evaluation of investment portfolios. Equilibrium theories of risk and return-capital asset pricing model and the arbitrage pricing model. Interest rate theory, yield curve, linkage between short-term and long-term rates, credit risk, and interest rate risk. Analysis of individual securities: money market securities, bonds and mortgage-backed securities, common and preferred stocks, and derivatives-futures and options.CFP requirement. Prerequisite: 29:390:329.

All finance majors must take Financial Econometrics. Economics majors who are also finance majors may use Introduction to Econometrics (21:220:322).Prerequisites: 21:220:231 or 21:640:211 or 01:960:285 and 29:623:340.

Explores trees, paths, linear lists, strings, arrays, stacks, queues, linked structures, and algorithms for searching, sorting, and merging.Prerequisite: 21:198:102 (with a grade of C or better).

Recursion and object-oriented programming in Java. Recursion, object-oriented design, inheritance, polymorphism, exception handling, collections.
Prerequisite: 21:198:101 (with a grade of C or better).