Courses

Covers the theory and practices governing the management of capital in a business firm. Examines the determinants of capital requirements, methods of obtaining capital, problems of internal financial management, and methods of financial analysis. Prerequisites: Requires pre-requisite courses of BCOR 2000 and 2200. Restricted to Business Majors with 52-180 units completed.

Analyzes the structure, markets, and regulations of financial institutions. Studies problems and policies of internal management of funds, loan practices and procedures, investment behavior, deposit and capital adequacy, liquidity, and solvency. Prereq., FNCE 3010. Prerequisites: Requires pre-requisite course of FNCE 3010. Restricted to Business majors with 52-180 units completed.

Develops modern portfolio theory and applies it to pricing both individual assets and portfolios of assets. Topics include Markowitz portfolio selection model, capital asset pricing model, arbitrage pricing theory, options, futures, bonds, portfolio performance measurement, and issues of market efficiency. Prereq., FNCE 3010. Prerequisites: Requires pre-requisite course of FNCE 3010. Restricted to Business majors with 52-180 units completed.

Develops the modern theory of contingent claims in a mathematical framework oriented toward applications. Examines how to use derivatives for risk management and to tailor portfolio payoffs. Provides an in-depth analysis of the properties of options. Prereq., FNCE 3010. Prerequisites: Requires pre-requisite course of FNCE 3010. Restricted to Business majors with 52-180 units completed.

Focuses on capital budgeting and investment issues. Emphasizes issues relating to cash flows, capital rationing, the investment versus financing decision, leasing, fluctuating rates of output, investment timing, capital budgeting under uncertainty, and investment decisions with additional information. Prereq., FNCE 3010. Prerequisites: Restricted to Business majors with 52-180 units completed.

Presents new subject matter in finance. The summer offering is the London Seminar in International Finance and Business. Prereqs. vary depending upon course offering. See advising office.

Examines the economics of financial markets and the management of financial institutions, both domestic and international. Topics include an overview of U.S. and international financial markets, pricing and risk factors, interest rates, markets for securities and financial services, and markets for derivative financial instruments. Prereq., BCOR 2200. Restricted to students with 52 hours completed. Formerly FNCE 3020. Prerequisites: Requires pre-requisite course of BCOR 2200. Restricted to Business majors with 52-180 units completed.

Offered irregularly to provide opportunity for investigation into new frontiers in finance. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Restricted to 52 hours completed. Prerequisites: Restricted to Business majors with 52-180 units completed.

Offered irregularly to provide opportunity for investigation of new frontiers in Finance. Restricted to juniors/seniors. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

Introduces the student to a career in investment banking and provides specific modeling skills necessary and important during the first phase of such a career. Prereq., BCOR 2200. Recommended prereq., FNCE 3010. Restricted to students with 52 hours completed. Prerequisites: Requires pre-requisite course of BCOR 2200. Restricted to Business majors with 52-180 units completed.

The purpose of this course is for students to understand the investment management profession. The course is designed to be a blend of theory and practice. Extends the basic principles of security analysis, asset pricing theory, portfolio construction, and portfolio performance evaluation. Students will apply these principles in determining, over the semester, how to manage the CU investment fund. Prereqs., BCOR 2000, 2300, and FNCE 3010. Prerequisites: Restricted to Business majors with 52-180 units completed.

In the last two decades, microfinance initiatives have provided the primary worldwide impetus to promote economic independence for the poor (1.4 billion). Microfinance seminar links the financial markets with entrepreneurship to create a platform for building a microfinance institution that facilitates financial inclusion to the poor. The students in a semester long project build a hypothetical financial institution that provides access to credit, saving, insurance and more to a segmented poor population, somewhere in the world including the U.S. CESR 4010 and FNCE 4832 are the same course. Prerequisites: Requires pre-requisite course of BCOR 2200. Restricted to Business majors with 90-180 units completed.

Develops analytical and decision making skills necessary to address real-world business finance situations. Topics include financial analysis and forecasting, capital budgeting, valuation, capital structure policy, international finance, and financial ethics. Uses a combination of lecture and cases; team and individual work. Prereqs., ACCT 3220, FNCE 3010, 4030, and 102 hours completed. Restricted to graduating senior FNCE majors. Formerly BCOR 4002. Prerequisites: Requires pre-requisite course of FNCE 3010. Restricted to Finance majors with 102 to 180 units completed.

Intended only for exceptionally well qualified business seniors. Prereq., prior consent of dean andinstructor under whose direction study is taken, and departmental form.

Experimental seminar offered irregularly to provide opportunity for investigation of new frontiers in finance.

Requires consent of instructor under whose direction study is taken. Departmental form required.

Develops the foundations for the study of modern financial economics by analyzing individuals' consumption and portfolio decisions in the context of risk and then traces the implications to market valuation of traded securities. Topics include the meaning and measurement of risk, portfolio theory, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, and arbitrage pricing arguments like those employed in Modigliani and Miller's capital structure theory and the Black-Scholes option pricing model. Prerequisites: Restricted to Business Administration graduate students only.

Develops an understanding of current empirical methods used to examine research issues related to corporatefinance and the capital markets.

Develops and examines theories and issues in corporate finance. Topics may include corporate control, capital structure, financial signaling, and payout policy.

Closely examines areas of specific interest to academic research in finance. Subjects vary and may include game theory, stochastic processes in finance, continuous-time modeling, derivative security pricing, the microstructure of securities markets and financial institutions, innovation, and engineering.

Provides finance doctoral students with an orientation to the finance field; introduces contemporary research perspectives and priorities. Students discuss papers that illustrate academic researchers' use of various disciplinary theoretical and empirical tools to address finance problems.

Assists doctoral students in integrating courses and fields of study in order to apply their knowledge and skills to problems in finance. Gives special attention to development of thesis topics. Continuous enrollment required of all finance doctoral students while doing course work.

Experimental seminar offered irregularly to provide opportunity for investigation of new frontiers in finance.

Instructor consent and departmental form required.