Financial Management

Financial Accounting: Foundations covers the basics of financial accounting information, including the main financial statements and accrual accounting. Learners will also analyze accounting for short-term assets such as accounts receivables and inventories.

Financial Accounting: Advanced Topics delves into accounting for assets with more than one-year life, financing of assets, accounting for liabilities, shareholders’ equity, and cash flows statements analysis.

Investments I: Fundamentals of Performance Evaluation focuses on risk-return models, portfolio optimization, security pricing, market efficiency, and firm valuation techniques. It emphasizes real-world examples and applications in Excel throughout.

Investments II: Lessons and Applications for Investors reviews investment fundamentals, stock returns, investment decisions, evidence regarding individual investors' performance, and actively-managed mutual funds.

Corporate Finance I: Measuring and Promoting Value Creation teaches the use of finance principles to measure business success, manage liquidity needs, make sound investment decisions, and evaluate existing investments' performance.

Corporate Finance II: Financing Investments and Managing Risk covers financing decisions, credit risk management, dividends, share repurchases, liquidity management, and financing merger and acquisition decisions. It also addresses leverage in standard valuation models.

Financial Management Capstone integrates learning from all courses within the specialization. Students will analyze a company's situation and develop a financial management plan, achieving both pedagogical and experiential goals.