FIN 4950 Finance Foundation for MBA
This course provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts and techniques of finance and might be subtitled “what every graduate business student needs to know about finance.” It is designed to provide students a foundation with regard to the key concepts from each of three major areas of finance — investments, financial markets and corporate or managerial finance. In the class, we will discuss issues relating to the financial markets, the time value of money, capital budgeting, the tradeoff between risk and return, stock and bond valuations, and other topics. Taught online, asynchronously (self-paced).