Finance and Managerial Economics

Graduate Classes

MGT 511, Managerial Finance for Engineers, 3.0 credits. This course is part of the Engineering Management Minor. Financing problems facing a business: managing working capital and long-term assets; financing capital and long-term assets; financing capital requirements in the short and long term; techniques of financial analysis and planning; identifying and valuation cash flows; cost of capital; capital budgeting, structure, and markets; raising corporate capital.

MBA 520, Business Finance, 3.0 credits. Short-term financing of a business operation. Developing techniques for financial planning, such as analysis of ratios, profitability, and liquidity.

MBA 526, Money & Banking, 1.5 credits. The process whereby financial institutions, the public, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury interact in the macro-economy to create money and influence interest rates.

MBA 528. Managerial Finance. (3) Prerequisite: first-year core MBA finance course. Elaboration on MBA 520 topics (i.e., capital budgetary, cost of capital, and capital structure). Concepts such as real options, valuation, and mergers introduced.

MBA 617, Risk Management, 3.0 credits. Management of risk exposures in a business setting. Identifying, measuring, and dealing with both traditional insurable risks and financial risks.

MBA 620, Personal Financial Planning, 3.0 credits. Financial decision making for households: income tax, retirement and estate planning, investment strategy, portfolio management, and personal risk management. Business interest affecting personal finances.

MBA 621, Advanced Corporate Finance, 3.0 credits. Issues such as mergers/acquisitions, valuation, financial restructurings, leveraged buyouts, capital structure, international portfolio analysis, tax-driven decisions, leasing, recapitalizations, industry restructurings.

MBA 622, Investments, 3.0 credits. Basic principles and techniques of investment analysis and portfolio selection and management. Portfolio policies available to investors.

MBA 623, Investment Theory and Evidence, 3.0 credits. Modern investment theory and evidence, including asset pricing models, options pricing, the efficient markets hypothesis, portfolio diversification, and performance measures.

MBA 624, Capital and Security Markets, 3.0 credits. Functions and instruments of capital markets: relationships to money markets, historical background, structures, and analysis of significant economic problems and trends in the markets.

MBA 625. Management of Financial Institutions. (3) Problems and policies of financial institutions, including competition for funds, asset liability management, capital management, strategic diversification, and shaping of competitive strategy.

MBA 626, Derivatives and Fixed Income, 3.0 credits. Valuing and using derivative and fixed income securities. Key concepts include: equilibrium pricing. Arbitrary pricing and shaping of competitive strategy.

MBA 627, International Finance, 3.0 credits. Impact that currency, tax, and capital market variations between countries have on sourcing of funds, management of working capital, investment of funds, and protection of assets. Understanding the foreign exchange market.

MBA 628, Issues in Global Trade and Finance. 3.0 credits. Global market issues for public and private sectors. Impacts of trade and economic integration, global rule of financial markets and institutions.

MBA 629, Silver Fund, 3.0 credits. Team management of actual investment portfolios for a full year. Responsibility for economic forecasts, security selection, and portfolio strategy. Students apply for a position of management in the spring for the following year. Selections for participation made by faculty committee.

MBA 664. Venture Capital/Private Equity Fundamentals. (3) Academic and applied experience opportunities focusing on venture capital and private equity industries, capital acquisition, due diligence, management, governance issues, and best-practice decision making.

MBA 665. Advanced Venture Capital/Private Equity Strategies. (3)

Prerequisite: MBA 664 and application to program. Applied experience in venture capital and private equity, conducting due diligence on clients, industry, competition; observing and participating in deal structure; tracking progress of funded client companies. Yearlong course.

MBA 686. Real Estate Analysis: Finance and Investment. (3) Applying principles and techniques of property investments, including determining value, financing arrangements, and marketing and management problems.

MBA 691. Real Estate Development. (3) Prerequisite: MBA 520. Applying financial and real estate principles to practical property investments. Insights into the real estate profession emphasizing development.