Finance Courses

Requirements

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 the study of international capital markets and financial institutions, financial planning and control, capital budgeting and development of capital resources. The two elective courses allow students to emphasize either corporate finance or financial markets/institutions.

Completing the finance major requires at most 64 credits in total. Required courses in addition to the Foundations are:

• ECB 117 - Principles of Accounting I
• ECB 118 - Principles of Accounting II
• ECB 247 - Financial Management
• ECB 320 - Business Law
• ECB 330 - Financial Markets and Institutions
• ECB 355 - Risk Management and Insurance
• ECB 356 - Personal Financial Planning
• ECB 372 - Investments
• ECB 492 - Senior Seminar: Management, Strategy and Ethics

An additional 8 credits of elective courses from the approved list below:

• ECB 245 - Principles of Management
• ECB 277 - Principles of Marketing
• ECB 305 - Economic Development
• ECB 313 - Econometrics
• ECB 324 - Intermediate Macroeconomics
• ECB 356 - Personal Financial Planning
• ECB 362 - Cost Accounting
• ECB 364 - Federal Income Taxation
• ECB 366 - International Economics
• ECB 374 - Small Business Management
• ECB 471 - Research I

Graduate Studies

Students interested in graduate work in finance should elect:

• MAT 121 - Calculus I
• ECB 313 - Econometrics

or

• MAT 318 - Probability

and

• MAT 319 - Statistics

Taking MAT 318 and MAT 319 also waives ECB 211.