Overview:

• The finance major is designed to prepare students for careers in financial management in all types of businesses, firms and financial institutions.
• Students studying the field of finance take course work in corporate finance in which they study the effects of projects and financial policy on stockholder wealth. They study capital budgeting, project cost of capital, dividend policy, debt policy, leasing policy and option pricing. Students examine different types of investments and their relative merits and the role of financial institutions, including the study of asset and liability management in commercial banks and saving institutions

Curriculum

Principles courses 

• Accounting Principles 
• Economics Principles 
• Statistics 

Core courses 

• Business Law
• Finance
• International Business
• Logistics
• Management Sciences
• Management and Human Resources
• Marketing
• Strategic Management

Required major courses 

• Corporate Finance
• Investments
• Financial Institutions
• Financial Data
• Global Finance
• Options and Futures I
• Selected courses in finance

Program objectives

At graduation, Fisher College of Business graduates: 

• will have a working knowledge of accounting theories, concepts and methods and be able to explain how and why accounting is done
• will be able to solve problems by applying fundamental principles to a variety of issues 
• will exhibit the oral and written communication skills needed by successful accounting professionals
• will be able to research issues and business decision problems by finding, analyzing and interpreting accounting, tax and other financial data
• will recognize ethical dimensions in accounting issues and practice in order to become responsible professionals and citizens