FINANCE FIN 1750 (3.0 Cr) Personal Finance This course is for all those who spend money or plan to spend money. Students with a finance, business, or family and consumer science major may be particularly interested. The course will introduce personal financial decision-making concepts including financial and career planning, spending, saving, borrowing, insurance, consumer product purchases, and investment and retirement decisions which will help students meet the growing complexities of personal budgeting and consumer decision-making. Completers should be capable of making informed decisions relating to personal finance and consumer issues. This is an elective course. 3 lecture hours per week. FIN 3150 (3.0 Cr) Managerial Finance I Teaches fundamentals necessary to analyze financial statements, identify management problems, determine causes, and make sound decisions. Covers cash flow, vertical, horizontal and ratio analysis, break even, and profit volume. Discusses tools of financial management, operating leverage and projections. Requires a written financial analysis paper. Prerequisite: ACCT 2020, ECON 2020, STAT 2040, and advanced standing in the business baccalaurate program. FIN 3180 (3.0 Cr) Credit Management Explores all aspects of consumer and commercial credit management with the intent of acquainting the student with the various types and proper uses of credit so that his/her personal and business experiences with credit will be positive ones. Attention will be given to such personal/consumer areas as loans, mortgages, credit cards, etc. Commercial credit topics will include business credit, factoring, financial analysis and reporting agencies, the management of consumer credit by businesses, and credit issuance and collection policies. Completers should be able to properly manage their own personal credit or their business¹s consumer or commercial credit. Prerequisite: ACCT 2020 and advanced standing in the business baccalaurate program. FIN 3200 (3.0 Cr) Money, Banking and Credit A basic course, including consideration of monetary standards, organization and functioning of the credit system and the Federal Reserve System, problems of money, prices, and credit control. Recent monetary and banking trends are emphasized. 3 lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: FIN 3150 FIN 3400 (3.0 Cr) Real Estate Finance Mechanism of real estate financing, sources of funds and financial institutions, governmental agencies. The framework for urban real estate investment decisions by individuals and institutions. Use of financing techniques, leverage, risk analysis and control, and taxation. 3 lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: FIN 3150 FIN 3750 (3.0 Cr) Introduction to Investments Highlights investment markets, transactions, return and risk measures, stock and preferred stock analysis and valuation, bond analysis and valuation, speculation vehicles, mutual funds, real estate investments, and portfolio building and management. Students will learn to follow the markets through the Wall Street Journal and other sources. This is a good course for the novice investor to learn the principles of practical investment management. Prerequisite: Advanced standing in the business baccalaureate program. FIN 4150 (3.0 Cr) Managerial Finance II In-depth treatment of capital structure, dividend policy, corporate incentive problems, and implications for organization structure and features of securities, agency theory, and signaling theory. 3 lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: FIN 3150 FIN 4400 (3.0 Cr) International Finance A study of the international monetary system in its theoretical and institutional setting. The position of an individual business firm in conducting international trade; procedures in financing international transactions. 3 lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: FIN 3150 Back to Top | Back to Courses Copyright © 2004, Dixie State College of Utah For more information contact: webmaster@dixie.edu