FIN 300 - Financial Management

Units: 3
Theory and practices that underlie the financial manager’s decision-making process. Capital investment analysis, cost of capital, risk and return, and market valuation of the financial assets. Formerly BUS 330.

Prerequisites: All of ACCT 210, ECON 200, ECON 205, STAT 110, and either MATH 110 or MATH 130 or MATH 180.
Equivalent Quarter Course: FIN 3300.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Explain corporate governance and some of the ethical issues financial managers face.
Explain time value of money and determine the present and future values of cash flows.
Describe the role of prices and interest rates in financial markets.
Define the components of risk, determine the level of each type of risk for a given financial asset, and explain the interplay of risk and return.
Compute the market value of financial assets such as bonds and stocks.
Calculate net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), profitability index (PI), and Payback Period (PP) of a single capital project and describe the capital budgeting process of a company.
Explain and compute the Weighted Average Cost of Capital of a company.