Courses:
Master of Science in Finance

This course introduces fundamental concepts of financial tools and analysis for making effective managerial decisions. Topics include the role of the financial manager in the organization, decisions affecting the internal management of the firm, financial statement analysis, and operational planning and budgeting.

Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3

This course covers the management of the flow of funds in the firm. Topics include the optimal utilization of funds, and the behavior of financial institutions and markets.

Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3

This course covers the most pressing contemporary issues in international financial markets. The first emphasis of the course is on how international financial markets, including foreign exchange markets, international money markets and international equity markets operate and inter-relate to each other. The second focus of the course is on risk factors faced by a multinational firm in its global operations and defensive hedging strategies to protect the firm from such risk factors.

Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3

This course is designed as an introductory course to the Personal Financial Planning profession ay the graduate level. The course will focus on time value of money, personal financial statements, cash and debt management, education and retirement planning. The course will also provide learning activities that facilitate student growth and development in higher-level thinking, communication skills and peer networking.

Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3

This course covers the application of finance principles in the international environment, including the nature of the balance of payment mechanism, the factors affecting the foreign exchange market, defensive techniques to protect corporations against foreign exchange risk and the investing, financing, and working capital management within a multinational firm. Particular emphasis is placed on the foreign exchange market including hedging techniques and managing foreign exchange positions. The role of international treaties on trade and investments is also explored.

Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3

This course is a survey of selected topics in finance. This course may be repeated for credit.

Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3

This course provides an introduction to the essential tools and techniques of health care financial management, including health care accounting and financial statements, managing cash flow, billings and collections, making major capital investments, determining cost and using cost information in decision-making in a health care environment. The course also covers such fundamental concepts as time value of money, the evaluation of financial statements, and pricing of financial instruments with an emphasis on their application to the health care environment. Students will also get exposure to developments in health care laws and regulations such as the Affordable Care Act.

Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3

This course is designed to examine topics of retirement planning and retirement plans from both the employer/employee and individual client settings. A case study approach will be used to apply and integrate the material, and evaluation of financial alternatives will be emphasized. In addition, the course will provide learning activities that will facilitate student growth and development, communication skills, and critical thinking

Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3

This course is designed to introduce students to the wealth management aspects of financial planning. The course will provide an overview of the theory and practice of wealth management to include the investment process portfolio design and implementation, tax management, and fund selection and evaluation.

Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3

This course introduces students to techniques of charitable planning as viewed from the perspective of donors, financial planners, and fundraising professionals. The course focuses on the motivations of charitable giving with an emphasis on application within a professional context for fundraising professionals.

Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3

This course focuses on the application of the knowledge base acquired in the prerequisite courses as part of the financial planning concentration. The course will be case study based and emphasis will be on the analysis of data, critical thinking with regard to the client's circumstances, and the subsequent recommendations to a client.

Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3

This course provides students, entrepreneurs, small business managers, and financial advisors an in-depth coverage of the process of designing a business plan and financial plan for startup businesses and small businesses. Topics covered in this course include introduction to the entrepreneurship process, raising fund for startup businesses, short term as well as long term financial planning, cash management, and small business valuation and exit strategies.

Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3

Business research techniques and methodologies. Topics include scientific method, business information sources, research proposal development and evaluation, research design, scaling and instrument design, sampling design, statistical packages and applications, research reporting and writing and ethical considerations in business research.

Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3