Finance Track
Maximize your employability—and your global graduate opportunities—by adding a highly in-demand specialization to your degree. Focus on a career in finance with courses that expose you to the major areas of the financial industry.
Completion of this track means you will graduate with a Master's in Management with a Specialization in Finance.
Why specialize in finance?
The finance function is indispensable across every business, and a career in the field can reap great rewards. This specialization track will give you insight and skills into topics like funds and cost analysis, investments, the formulation of financial operating policies, and financial technology. You’ll be armed with the skillset to assist companies with budgeting and forecasting toward success using financial data.
Specialization skills include:
Accounting
Financial Management
Budgeting & Forecasting
Financial Analysis
Financial Reporting
Finance Track Course 1
Global Financial Markets
This course encompasses financial markets, their functions, and primary global actors. Prepare to work within the US financial markets and institutions, and then expand your view to international markets and their interrelationships. Throughout the course, you'll come to understand the different structures, practices, policies, and evolutions which are shaping financial systems across the world's global economy.
Finance Track Course 2
Budgeting & Forecasting with Excel
The finance function in a corporation often includes a financial planning and analysis department, which serves as an analytical support for the senior and line managers. This course will cover the primary functions of FP&A including operating planning and budgets, capital investment decisions, financial modeling, and risk assessment.
Finance Track Course 3
Corporate Finance
Here you’ll address major decisions and strategies faced by corporations. You’ll explore options, shareholder distributions, capital structure, and tactical financing.
Finance Track Course 4
Fintech
Fintech is disrupting existing financial systems and offering new products and services to the world. This course will bring you up to speed with some of the major technologies and innovations in fintech.
Finance Track Course 5
Investments
This course will introduce you to the field of investments. You’ll cover risk and returns for individual stocks and bonds, how to diversify risks through portfolios, active versus passive investments, fundamental versus technical analysis, and index and exchange traded funds.
Not all specializations or elective courses will be available at every campus
Specializations or elective courses are subject to change
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