Courses
MFIN 454
Topics will be announced when offered.
MFIN 451
Topics will be announced when offered.
MFIN 402
Special financial problems of corporations operating in more than one country, including corporate strategy, decision to invest abroad, forecasting exchange rates, measuring and managing exchange risk, international portfolio diversification, international structure of interest rates, taxation, and financial structure in a multi-national firm.
MFIN 302
Banks as financial intermediaries; risk measurement and management: interest rate risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, foreign exchange risk, and off-balance sheet risk; emphasis on analysis of interest rate risk (including duration and gap analyses) and hedging techniques using derivative instruments (forwards, swaps, caps, floors, etc.); capital adequacy and deposit insurance. Sovereign lending, credit rationing, and securitization of bank loans.
HPBA 492
Available to students with a GPA equal to or greater than 3.00 and with consent of the instructor.
MFIN 452
Topics will be announced when offered.
MFIN 403
Structure of financial markets and financial intermediaries; interest rates and security valuation; central banking system and monetary policy; securities markets including money, capital, foreign exchange, and derivatives markets; commercial banking and other depository institutions; institutional investors, including investment banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, and pension funds; introduction to financial risk management.
MFIN 304
Introduction to the process of investing in financial securities; overview of the investment decision-making process; analysis of securities markets and trading practices; asset pricing under the capital asset pricing and the arbitrage pricing models; principles of modern portfolio theory; performance measurement techniques; asset allocation strategies; introduction to fixed income and derivative securites, risk management strategies.
MFIN 202
The time value of money; discounted cash flow analysis; valuing financial assets; capital budgeting; risk and return; cost of capital; corporate financing decisions; and capital structure.
EFIN 490
MFIN 453
Topics will be announced when offered.
MFIN 450
Topics will be announced when offered.
MFIN 401
Procedures for valuing derivative securities, such as options and futures contracts, and swaps; costs and benefits of using derivative securities to change the risk exposure of corporations and financial intermediaries, including static and dynamic portfolio policies; applications from commodity, equity, and bond markets.
MFIN 301
Analysis of special corporate finance topics including dividend policy, capital structure, leasing, option valuation, risk management, mergers, and acquisitions.
HPBA 491
Available to students with a GPA equal to or greater than 3.00 and with consent of the instructor.
