Finance Major
Requirements for the Major in Finance
The finance major utilizes foundational and elective courses from both accounting and economics to develop the tools and understandings essential to competent financial theory and practice. This knowledge base is extended and specialized to the finance discipline through study of international capital markets and financial institutions, financial planning and control, capital budgeting and development of capital resources, culminating in the senior-level ECB467 Advanced Corporate Finance. The two elective courses allow students to emphasize either corporate finance or financial markets/institutions.
Within the Department of Economics and Business the student will complete at least 60 credits. Required courses are:
| Foundations | |
| ECB201 | Principles of Microeconomics |
| ECB202 | Principles of Macroeconomics |
| ECB211 | Statistics for Business and Economics |
| ECB311 | Intermediate Microeconomics |
| One of the following courses: | |
| MAT134 | Survey of Calculus |
| MAT141 | Calculus I |
| Finance | |
| ECB217, 218 | Principles of Accounting I, II |
| ECB320 | Business Law |
| ECB330 | Financial Markets and Institutions |
| ECB347 | Financial Management |
| ECB366 | International Economics |
| ECB372 | Investment Analysis |
| ECB467 | Advanced Corporate Finance |
| ECB492 | Senior Seminar |
| An additional 8 credits of elective courses from the approved list below: | |
| ECB245 | Principles of Management |
| ECB277 | Principles of Marketing |
| ECB305 | Economic Development |
| ECB313 | Econometrics |
| ECB324 | Intermediate Macroeconomics |
| ECB335 | Not for Profit Accounting |
| ECB362 | Cost Accounting |
| ECB364 | Federal Income Taxes |
| ECB369 | International Capitalisms |
| ECB374 | Small Business Management |
| ECB440 | International Business |
Students interested in graduate work in finance should elect Calculus I, II and III (MAT141-142 and MAT223); plus either ECB313 Econometrics, or the calculus-based MAT318 Probability and MAT319 Statistics; MAT318-319 also waives ECB211. Students must continuously maintain a 2.0 GPA within the major.