Finance and Managerial Economics

Undergraduate Classes

Not all classes are offered each semester/term.

ManEc Classes

300. Economics of Market Systems. Prerequisite: Econ 110. Decision making, price formation, and economic organization of the firm in market environments.

301. Macroeconomics for Business Decisions. Prerequisite: Econ 110. Models of aggregate economic fluctuations, economic growth, inflation, and interest rates.

358. International Economics. Prerequisite: Econ 110. International trade theory and issues, economic integration, trade and development, contemporary trade problems.

375. Public Finance. Prerequisite: Econ 110. Analysis of interaction of governments and institutions of a market economy. Tax and revenue policy, evaluation of expenditure policy, and impact of public decisions on businesses and individuals.

376. Government and Business. Prerequisite: Econ 110. Interaction of political and economic forces in determining product and asset prices and the distribution of income and wealth.

387. Economics of Strategy. Prerequisite: major status. Economic tools influencing the success of strategy (creation and appropriation of value), emphasizing application of economic theory to management of practice.

388. Applied Econometrics. Prerequisite: intermediate economic theory and a calculus course. Using economic theory. Utilizing available data and econometric and quantitative models to address practical problems of management, finance, and economics.

453. Money, Banking, and Business. Prerequisite: Econ 110, BusM 301 or Accounting Junior Core. Economic analysis of effects of money, banking, and financial institutions on business decisions and aggregate economic activity.

BusM Classes

(Minors)

200. Personal Finance for Minors. Practical course in money management and utilizing savings.

201. Financial Management for Minors. Prerequisite: Acc 200 or equivalent. For nonmanagement majors; emphasizes financial statement analysis, financial planning, sources of financing, working capital management, risk and return, and valuation.

(Majors)

301. Financial Management (for Majors). Prerequisite: Premanagement and Management cores and full acceptance into the Marriott School upper-division major. Financial management from the viewpoint of the business manager emphasizing profitability, liquidity, and long-range financial planning.

401. Advanced Financial Management. (3:3:0) Prerequisite: Bus M 301; major status. Capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure/dividends, mergers and acquisitions, and current financial problems.

405. Management of Financial Institutions. (3:3:0) Prerequisite: Bus M 301; major status. Management problems of commercial banks and nonbank financial institutions, emphasizing balance sheet management, regulation, and the process of intermediation.

406. Insurance and Financial Services Academy. (3:3:0) Prerequisite: major status, Bus M 301. The process of identifying, measuring, and dealing with personal risk. Introduction to property/casualty as well as life and health insurance issues and products.

407. Risk Management. (3:3:0) F, W Prerequisite: Bus M 301; major status.

Management of risk exposures in a business setting. The process of identifying, measuring, and dealing with risk. Coverage includes both traditional insurable risks and financial risks.

408. Risk Management Academy. (3:3:0) Alt. sem. Prerequisite: Bus M 401, 410, Acc 440, ManEc 453. Applying risk management principles to practical business situations; insights into the risk management and insurance profession.

410. Investments. (3:3:0) Prerequisite: Bus M 301; major status. Security markets, security analysis, and portfolio management.

411. Advanced Investments. (3:3:0) Prerequisite: Bus M 301, 410; major status. Current investment literature, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, capital assets pricing, options pricing theory.

412. Investments Academy. (3:3:0) F Prerequisite: Bus M 301; major status.

Applying financial principles to practical investment problems; insights into the investment banking profession.

413. Real Estate Finance and Investment. (3:3:0) F, W Prerequisite: Bus M 301; major status. Terminology, concepts, principles, and analytical techniques related to financing of and investment in real estate.

414. Real Estate Academy. (3:3:0) F Prerequisite: major status, Bus M 301.

Applying financial and real estate principles to practical property investments; insights into the real estate profession.

415. Portfolio Management. (3:3:0) W Prerequisite: Bus M 401, 410, Acc 440, ManEc 453; by application only. Team management of actual investment portfolio. Responsibility for economic forecasts, security selection, and portfolio strategy.

418. Financial Planning. (3:3:0) Prerequisite: Bus M 301; major status.

Applying financial principles to household decision making, stressing integration between areas. Income tax and estate planning, retirement, investments, portfolio management, and risk management.

419. Advanced Real Estate Analysis. (3:3:0) Prerequisite: Bus M 301; major status.

432. International Corporate Finance. (3:3:0) Prerequisite: Bus M 301, 430; major status.

Financial aspects of multinational corporations operating within an international environment; direct foreign investment, foreign exchange regulations, capital markets, etc.

475. Financing New Ventures. (3:3:0) Prerequisite: Bus M 301, 341, 361, Org B 321; major status. Concepts and skills of entrepreneurship, emphasizing how new and emerging companies are financed. Applying functional tools to case situations.