2024-2025 Course List

This course encompasses advanced principles and concepts concerning the nature and types of debt financing, the valuation and use of leases, the process and tools of risk management, the calculation and estimation of financial ratios, the financial planning and forecasting processes, and the understanding of working capital.

Prerequisites:

FINA 362

Applications of financial principles and analytical tools through the use of case studies and problems from local businesses.

Prerequisites:

FINA 362

Tools and techniques to aid in individual and institutional portfolio management.

Prerequisites:

FINA 362 and FINA 460

Introduction to money and capital markets, instruments and institutions. Consideration of the management problems of financial institutions.

Prerequisites:

FINA 362

Fundamental concepts of employee benefits in relation to pertinent legislation, modern management techniques, and financial constraints that affect the formulation and implementaion of a benefit plan.

Prerequisites:

FINA 100 or FINA 362

Examination of the fundamentals of the insurance industry; the risk management process; and commercial insurance exposures and policies including commercial property, general liability, and workers' compensation.

Examination of personal insurance exposures and policies including auto, health, home and life.

This course introduces concepts and skills in unsupervised data mining, prescriptive analytics, and an introduction to unstructured data analytics (text). Students will learn basic coding in R, Python, database management using SQL, and visualization with Tableau.

Prerequisites:

FINA 375

Fundamental principles: valuation, brokerage, financing, law, property management, land descriptions and basic investment.

Prerequisites:

FINA 100 or FINA 362

Trading practices and procedures utilizing these contracts in hedging and risk management policies for business.

Prerequisites:

FINA 362

Fundamental concepts of commercial bank management, financial regulations, and risk management in financial institutions. Coverage includes the financial statements of commercial banks and their use in evaluating a bank¿s financial performance; bank¿s assets, liabilities, and off-balance sheet items management and different risk management approaches applied in financial institutions.

Prerequisites:

FINA 362

The course provides a comprehensive discussion of debt securities. It discusses salient features of different debt securities, techniques used to value different types of bonds, measures of interest rate risk, asset-backed securities, fundamentals of credit analysis, modeling credit risk, the term structure of interest rates, the arbitrage-free valuation framework for debt securities, and the role of debt securities in a portfolio.

Prerequisites:

FINA 362

Study tours are led by Minnesota State University, Mankato faculty and provide students with opportunities to visit companies and attend lectures by renowned experts from key sectors of economy, government, and business.

Prerequisites:

Permission Required

<p>Students are responsible for generating investment ideas consistent with the Maverick Fund Investment Policy Statement.</p>

Prerequisites:

FINA 362 and FINA 460

Supervised experience in business, industry, state or federal institutions.

Prerequisites:

Permission Required

Supervised experience in business, industry, state or federal institutions.

Prerequisites:

Permission Required

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Prerequisites:

Permission Required

An introduction, within a cultural context, to the basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Goal Areas:

GE-08

An introduction, within a cultural context, to the basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Prereq: FREN 101 or equivalent

Prerequisites:

FREN 101 or equivalent

Goal Areas:

GE-08

Grammar review, oral practice, written composition and development of reading and listening skills within a cultural context. Prereq: One year university French or equivalent

Prerequisites:

One year university French or equivalent

Goal Areas:

GE-08

Grammar review, oral practice, written composition and development of reading and listening skills within a cultural context. Prereq: FREN 201 or equivalent

Prerequisites:

FREN 201 or equivalent

Goal Areas:

GE-08

Visits to the major churches, cathedrals, castles, monuments, museums and neighborhoods in and around Paris. Prereq: FREN 101, 102, or equivalent

Prerequisites:

FREN 101, FREN 102, or equivalent

Practice in intermediate-level conversational skills. Prereq: FREN 101, 102, or equivalent

Prerequisites:

FREN 101, FREN 102, or equivalent

Introduction to contemporary French civilization. Prereq: FREN 101, 102, or equivalent

Prerequisites:

FREN 101, FREN 102, or equivalent