APPLIED EQUITY MARKETS RESEARCH 1 is a capstone course focused on investments, research, sales, and trading.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026← Finance, Investment and Banking (FINANCE)
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FINANCE 700 introduces financial management and investment decision making, covering theory and practice in corporate finance.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026FINANCE 740 covers the analysis, pricing, and portfolio strategies for fixed income securities, including derivatives and asset-backed instruments.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026FINANCE 720 teaches the theory and practice of modern investment management, covering asset pricing, portfolio management, and derivatives.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025FINANCE 725 covers the theory and practice of corporate financial management, including capital budgeting, valuation, and capital structure.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026#6 ·FINANCE 765
Contemporary Topics
1–4 creditsFINANCE 765 explores advanced subject areas potentially for the business curriculum.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026#7 ·FINANCE 365
Contemporary Topics
1–3 creditsFINANCE 365 explores subject areas possibly to be introduced into the business curriculum.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026#8 ·FINANCE 650
Mergers and Acquisitions
2–3 creditsFINANCE 650 examines the market for corporate control, covering M&A motives, impacts, legal aspects, and strategic defenses.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026FINANCE 340 teaches analysis of fixed income and bond markets, including bond pricing, trading strategies, and risk management for government and corporate securities.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026FINANCE 305 analyzes the U.S. financial system, its impact on economic activity and policy, and risk pricing.
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Students must attend lectures as they are not recorded, but exam preparation is facilitated by direct alignment between lecture examples, homework, and tests.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026FINANCE 420 provides a broad overview of investment banking, covering valuation, IPOs, LBOs, and acquisitions.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Investment Theory covers securities markets, portfolio construction, and risk-return models.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026#13 ·FINANCE 325
Corporation Finance
3 creditsFINANCE 325 teaches financial management theory and techniques including capital budgeting, valuation, capital structure, dividend policy, and M&A.
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Reviewers describe the workload as relatively low and note that exams resemble practice questions, though one final was unexpected.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026#14 ·FINANCE 635
Business Valuation
3 creditsFINANCE 635 teaches the theory and practice of business valuation using financial statements, cash flow modeling, present value, and multiples.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026#15 ·FINANCE 410
Bank Management
3 creditsFINANCE 410 covers the management of commercial banks, focusing on regulation, liquidity, loan pricing, and asset-liability management.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Covers the pricing and uses of common derivatives including options, forwards, futures, and swaps.
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Historical reviews of Briana Chang: Students report that the concepts are intuitive, but success requires avoiding being bogged down by the extensive formulas and information presented in lecture slides.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Introduction to corporate finance and investment concepts including valuation, capital budgeting, and financial markets.
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The course is consistently described as tough with hard exams and significant reading, particularly because Laplante wrote the textbook. Success requires substantial effort and ownership of one's education.
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