FIN Finance Courses at Global Campus

This course provides an introduction to the field of personal financial management and planning, focusing on the tools individuals and families employ to manage their financial affairs.

This course introduces students to the essential role of spreadsheets and technology in the finance industry. Focusing on Excel, students will learn to execute organizational tasks, implement data analysis, conduct financial analysis using formulas and functions, and create charts from data. The course covers foundational finance concepts, enabling students to analyze financial statements, model financial scenarios, and visualize data effectively. Additionally, this course will cover technology tools that are useful for financial professionals. Through hands-on assignments and discussions, students will gain practical skills to enhance their financial decision-making and reporting capabilities. This course is ideal for beginners in finance, equipping them with the tools and knowledge needed for professional success.

In this course, students will examine some of the most recent and classical organizational ethics cases using the framework from managing business ethical procedures and practices. This course will provide a sound ethical decisions making guideline for students to use when making business ethical decisions and encourage ethical conduct and discourage unethical conduct in the workplace. Student will also explore how business ethics impact the global business environment and the current thinking on business –society and the business-environment relationships.

This course will introduce students to the important principles of financial management of an entrepreneurial business and the ethical challenges of running a small business. The course will enable students to describe the key components and creation of a business plan. The course will cover financial statements and key financial ratios that guide business owners. Students will learn how to develop a financial forecast for a new business, including evaluating its financing needs and alternatives. Finally, the course will explore the importance of working capital management within the context of small business.

This course provides an introduction to the security investment process and portfolio management. It further examines individual financial instruments and investment strategies associated with various financial instruments. The study and analysis of securities and other forms of investments is a key part of this course. Emphasis is on investment principles from the manager’s point of view. Prerequisites: BUS 401.

An examination of the international aspects of corporate finance and investing, the course covers balance of payments, foreign exchange with emphasis on exchange rate determination, exchange risk, hedging, and interest arbitrage, international money and capital markets, international financing, and international banking. 

This course provides a study of advanced corporate finance and selected topics in corporate financial planning and analysis (FP&A). Course content will include corporate FP&A information needs, corporate function, alignment with corporate strategy and goals, and key performance indicators (KPIs). Students analyze capital budgeting projects and effective working capital management strategies. Finally, students will implement discounted cash flow analysis and evaluate how this analysis can be applied in different settings. Prerequisite: BUS 401.

This capstone course will enable students to synthesize prior learning and develop an advanced understanding of key financial concepts and theories, and the firm as a mechanism to build shareholder wealth. Course content includes evaluating projects using capital budgeting techniques, analyzing a firm’s cost of capital, and assessing key components of dividend policy. Finally, in the summative assignment, students will implement capital budgeting techniques within the framework of corporate mergers and acquisitions. Prerequisite: GEN 499. This course must be taken last in the program. 

This course is intended for graduate students who expect at some point in their careers to use financial statements to evaluate earnings quality, performance, prospects, and value of a business. The primary emphasis will be on the analysis of public companies, but most of the tools and techniques utilized are also relevant to private firms’ financial analysis. This course focuses on the fundamental analysis of valuation, with a focus on developing and applying methods for valuing firms using financial statement analysis.

This course covers the major classes of derivative securities: forward contracts, futures contracts, options, and swaps. A derivative security is a financial security whose value depends on (or derives from) other more fundamental underlying financial variables, such as the price of a stock, an interest rate, an index level, a commodity price, or an exchange rate. Derivatives can be used to hedge or obtain insurance against existing risk exposures; however, derivatives do not offer a panacea in managing risk. Prerequisite: FIN 678.