Finance careers vary widely in today's complex, global economy. The finance curriculum equips graduates with the modern analytic principles of the discipline that prepare them to function in a wide variety of institutional settings. The finance graduates may have careers in banking, investments, corporate finance, and federal contract management. Graduates may find themselves helping investment clients develop and monitor investment portfolios for retirement, managing a bank office and all its personnel, making multi-million dollar loans to corporations, taking a private firm public so its stock can be traded on stock exchanges, or managing the budget of a multi-billion dollar federal project.