20-21 Bacone College Academic Catalog
24. 2020-2021 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
24.21. FIN - FINANCE
FIN 3113 |
Business Finance |
3 Hours |
Theory and practice of capital management. Topics include evaluation of risks, determination of capital structures, measures of costs and returns, allocation of capital, financial planning and models, and a survey of working capital issues. Prerequisite: ACC 2113
FIN 3313 |
Financial Markets and Institutions |
3 Hours |
Participants, structure, and functions of the major domestic and international financial markets. Furthermore, the course will be a hands-on survey class structured around the techniques needed to understand the investment process in the economic and financial environments. Prerequisite: FIN 3113.
FIN 3413 |
Management of Financial Institutions |
3 Hours |
Financial institutions as business firms, with emphasis on depository institutions: industry structure, regulation, asset and liability management strategies. Prerequisite: FIN 3113.
FIN 3513 |
Introduction to Risk and Insurance |
3 Hours |
Fundamental issues of risk management and insurance in property, liability, life and health areas. Principles of marketing, underwriting, rate making and loss adjustment. Prerequisite: FIN 3113 and FIN 3213.
FIN 3553 |
Money and Banking |
3 Hours |
Financial institutions as business firms, with emphasis on depository institutions: industry structure, regulation, asset and liability management strategies. Prerequisite: FIN 3113 and ECN 2113.
FIN 3613 |
Short-Term Financial Management |
3 Hours |
Analysis of working capital management; cash budgeting; financial analysis and planning; short-term financing decisions. Prerequisite: FIN 3113 and FIN 3213.
FIN 3713 |
Security Analysis and Portfolio Management |
3 Hours |
Characteristics of financial assets and markets; evaluation of securities; selecting and combining securities into portfolios; portfolio models and measurements of portfolio performance. Prerequisite: FIN 3113 and FIN 3213 and FIN 3313.
FIN 3813 |
Financial Planning |
3 Hours |
Principles and concepts of integrated financial planning, including legal, tax and financial aspects, business planning, retirement planning, estate planning and the use of information technology. Prerequisite: FIN 3113, FIN 3213, ACC 2113, ACC 2123, ACC 4213, and MIS 2413.
FIN 3913 |
Real Estate Principles |
3 Hours |
Principles of real estate, including legal aspects of real estate, appraisal, investment, mortgage financing, home-ownership, and brokerage industry functions. Prerequisite: FIN 3113 and FIN 3213.
FIN 4113 |
Educational Investment Fund |
3 Hours |
Management of real-money investment funds. Application of investment theory to an actual portfolio, including development and presentation of recommendations to board of investment professionals. Prerequisite: FIN 3113, FIN3 213, ACC 2113, ACC 2123, ACC 4213, and MIS 2413.
FIN 4413 |
Risk Management |
3 Hours |
Management’s role in treating non-speculative risks to which business is exposed. Emphasis on recognition, evaluation, and treatment of risks. Prerequisite: FIN 3113, FIN 3213, ACC 2113, and ACC 2123.
FIN 4513 |
Comprehensive Insurance |
3 Hours |
This course is an overview of property insurance (identify and measure property direct and indirect loss exposure and insurance coverage used to transfer such exposure), life and health insurance (personal an business risks relating to principles of life and health insurance), and liability insurance (identify and measure liability loss exposures and insurance coverage used to transfer such exposures, including concepts of negligence and liability). Prerequisite: FIN 4413.
FIN 4913 |
Financial Derivatives |
3 Hours |
This course involves financial contracts (i.e. forwards, futures, options, and swaps) whose values are “derived” from the values of other underlying instruments. The course material will utilize foreign exchanges, bonds, equities and indexes. Prerequisite: FIN 3113, FIN 3213, FIN 3313, and FIN 3713.
FIN 4996 |
Professional Practice Internship in Finance |
6 Hours |
Professional experience in a business environment for qualified students. Senior classification with a cumulative GPA of 2.40 or above.