Finance Course Offerings
Courses change each semester, so this list should not be considered a commitment to these individual topics. However, this does represent a list of many of our current and popular courses. The list is provided so that you can begin to imagine your academic career at Millikin.
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FI300. Personal Finance Planning |
Personal Finance is designed to provide students with the basic knowledge of how to successfully handle their personal finances at all stages of their life. This course covers financial planning, managing money and credit, insurance issues, investing topics, retirement and estate planning and dealing with financial life events. Open to all majors. Pre-requisite: Junior standing. (1 credit) |
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| FI340. Introduction to Financial Management | An introduction to the terms and concepts involved in financial management. This is a managerial decision-oriented course involving team and individual processes. Financial analysis, forecasting and planning, break-even analysis, sources of financing, analysis of capital project opportunities as well as short-term asset management, cash budgeting and credit policy, valuation. Pre-requisites: EC100 or EC110, AC240. (3 credits) |
| FI365. Corporate Finance | Analysis of financial problems of business enterprises and formulation of financial policies with emphasis on concepts such as Economic Value Added and Market Value Added. Short-term investment and financing decisions. Financial statement analysis. Development of long-term investment theory and financing decision making with emphasis on the valuation process. Financing choices and cost of capital, capital budgeting and dividend policy. Pre-requisites: FE340 or consent of instructor. (3 credits) |
| FI452. Security Analysis and Portfolio Management | Advanced evaluation of securities, determinants of their value, methods of combining securities in the construction of investment portfolios. Portfolio theory strategies. Extensive project analysis of an industry and company stock. Pre-requisite: FI340. (3 credits) |