MBAO 435 Finance
Finance provides students with a set of analytical tools to use in financial decision making, and for a better understanding of an organizations interaction with the financial markets. Topics include return and risk relationships in the capital markets, time value of money and capital budgeting techniques, capital structure and cost of capital, leasing, mergers and acquisitions, duration, asset allocation, and options and futures pricing. This course provides a rigorous treatment of key financial concepts and analytical approaches, and thus builds the students appreciation of the role of financial theory and models in business.