• Finance is an important field within business administration and management. It focuses on valuation and the optimal allocation of capital.
  • Advances in modern financial theory and practice make the field exciting and offer many opportunities for a well-prepared student. Furthermore, the field of finance incorporates an international outlook, which is one of the hallmarks of the McLaren School of Management.
  • The approach to teaching finance at the University of San Francisco emphasizes analytical (quantitative and qualitative) proficiency and the use of “hands-on” applied cases and exercises.
  • The multidimensional nature of finance as well as the background, diversity, and quality of our faculty and students, makes our Finance major an intellectually challenging experience.
  • It is expected that Finance majors upon graduation will be able to: 
    • Use discounted cash flow (DCF) to value a proposed project
    • Analyze a company's financial statements and perform ratio analysis in order to interpret its performance
    • Construct an optimized investment portfolio
    • Calculate and interpret portfolio performance measurements.
    • Use derivatives to immunize against foreign exchange transaction risk.
    • Evaluate an international capital budgeting project.