The finance curriculum is designed to prepare students for (1) careers in government services, corporate financial management, commercial banking, security analysis, insurance, real estate, and other finance fields, and (2) graduate study. Students are encouraged to meet with faculty advisors as early as possible to plan a program which will fulfill their goals.

Learning Objectives for the Finance Concentration

Upon completion of a concentration in finance, students will be able to do the following:

• Demonstrate an understanding of interest rate determination and monetary policy.
• Demonstrate an understanding of agency issues in finance.
• Calculate and apply present value concepts to financial decisions.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the risk-return tradeoff and of insurable risk.
• Analyze accounting information to support financial decisions.

Concentration Requirements

The following courses are required for the finance concentration:

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
BU 483	Investments	3
BU 488	Financial Management	3
EC 485	Money & Banking	3
Select three hours from the following:		3
BU 374	Principles of Risk and Insurance
BU 477	International Finance 1
BU 484	Applied Portfolio Management
Graded upper-division elective hours in accounting, business, business data analytics, or economics		12
Total Hours		24

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BU 477 International Finance cannot be used to meet both the finance elective requirement and the Global Dynamics Requirement (GDR). If BU 477 International Finance is used as a finance elective, the BU 355 International Business or EC 410 International Economics must be used for the GDR.