Area Chair, Cyrus Ramezani

The Finance Area’s mission is threefold: First, to provide all Business students with an understanding of the financial principles which are essential to their success in the business world. Second, to provide students concentrating in Finance a rigorous, coherent, real-world-based, and upto date curriculum which prepares them for rewarding careers in Finance. Third, the Finance Area provide coursework in support of other majors and concentrations both within and outside the Orfalea College of Business. Many of the classes are taught in the Financial Analysis Resource Center, a special-purpose classroom with Bloomberg and Reuters data terminals, scrolling ticker tape and DataWall display of prices of selected stocks. Each workstation is equipped with software which permits students to work on real-world problems, individually and in teams.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT CONCENTRATION
This concentration has four required courses, which provide Finance students with fundamentals of asset valuation, and applies these principles to securities as well as business assets. These principles are applied in courses focused on financial markets and institutions, and on corporate finance. Within the Finance curriculum, students can further specialize in one of three tracks, depending upon their career goals: the Financial Services track, including insurance, retirement, and estate planning; the Corporate Finance track; or the Financial Analyst track, working for investment banks, brokerage industry, or the asset management industry. The following are the required course that should be taken in sequence:

BUS 431 Security Analysis and Portfolio Mgmt......... 4
BUS 438 Advanced Corporate Finance..................... 4
BUS 439 Fixed Income Securities and Markets.......... 4
BUS 443 Case Studies in Finance .............................. 4
Advisor approved electives ......................................... 12