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FIN 19. Real Estate Principles. 3 Units
Examination of real estate principles and practices necessary for the acquisition, financing, management, and disposition of real estate. Incidents of ownership, the brokerage business, state regulation and transactional ethics are emphasized.
FIN 101. Business Finance. 3 Units
Study of principles of finance and their application to typical financial problems of business enterprises. Special emphasis on financial analysis, management of working capital, cost of capital, capital budgeting, long-term financing, dividend policy, and internal financing.
FIN 134. Financial Management. 3 Units
Trends in the development of financial policy are analyzed and reports on specific aspects are presented in class. The student is placed in the position of the financial manager who must make decisions and implement them.
FIN 135. Investments. 3 Units
Significant characteristics of numerous types of investments; securities markets and financial institutions; principles of investment analysis; investment management.
FIN 136. Modern Portfolio Management. 3 Units
Asset management utilizing the major aspects of modern portfolio theory, portfolio construction and selection, portfolio performance evaluation, capital asset pricing models, and recent theoretical developments in asset pricing behavior.
FIN 137. Financial Institutions and Markets. 3 Units
Designed to broaden understanding of the financial system to include the network of institutions which bring into existence the increasingly important substitutes for money in the traditional sense. Emphasis is given to flow of funds analysis within the context of emerging financial theories.
FIN 138. Principles of Risk Management and Insurance. 3 Units
Study of the concept of pure risk and its implications for decision making. Provides business students the basics of risk theory and its application to risk management or insurance purchasing using a personal consumer's viewpoint. Practical personalized examples and cases will be used to illustrate risk decision making, primarily on a personal basis, but also in selected business decisions. Topics include risk theory and applications, life insurance, medical coverage, property insurances, and liability insurances.
FIN 139. Business Property and Liability Insurance. 3 Units
Concentrated and analytical approach to the study of property and liability loss exposures for the business enterprise. While the emphasis is on the different types of business insurance coverage's, a risk management approach and examples are used. Topics include business property insurances; liability, especially workers' compensation; the SMP and CGL contracts; business auto, crime coverage's; bonds; transportation insurance; consequential coverage's; and capacity and other related marketplace problems. Case studies and problems, as well as a computer analysis are used. The course is an excellent supplement for insurance, finance, real estate and pre-law majors, small business owners, and anyone who will be making business financial decisions, or providing insurance products in the insurance industry. Successfully completing FIN 138 and 139 substitutes for the one-year experience requirement for those interested in taking the Insurance Broker's Licensing Exam.
FIN 140. Employee Benefits. 3 Units
Intensive and analytical examination of the employee benefit planning environment and its risk exposures. Using a risk management approach, the topical areas studied include mandatory programs, especially OASDHI and ERISA; health care; group life and disability; retirement income and capital accumulation plans; paid time off; family-centered benefits; flexible benefits and cafeteria plans; and benefit cost information. Case studies and extensive contact with the business community as well as team projects are required. This is an important class for specialists in human resources management, especially personnel, pre-law, and health care or those who will be providing insurance products to fulfill employment benefit needs.
FIN 141. Managerial Real Estate Law. 3 Units
Examination of the decision making process in land utilization transactions relative to the minimization of risks of legal confrontation. Traditional conflicts underlying real estate transactions are examined and principles of preventive law are derived. The management of litigation and transaction attorneys is considered. Court remedies that are pertinent to land utilization transactions are analyzed and compared to nonjudicial alternatives.
FIN 142. Real Estate Finance. 3 Units
Examination of the mechanisms of real estate finance, sources of funds, loan contracts, principles of mortgage risk analysis, and the role of group equity investment. The evolution of secondary mortgage markets, government policy, and market interference will be investigated from a risk management standpoint.
FIN 143. Real Estate Investment. 3 Units
Analyzes non-financial and financial factors influencing investment decision making in income producing property. Topics include: location and its linkages; methods of estimating demand for real estate; methods for evaluating competing supply; use of market analysis in decision making; development of cash flow statements, alternative investment criteria, risk, legal, financing, and tax analysis, operating, financing investment and reversion decisions.
FIN 144. Real Estate Market Analysis. 3 Units
Introduction to real estate markets, economic analysis of property markets, and impact of local governments on real estate markets. Topics include space and asset markets; location, land use and competitive bidding; land markets, housing markets, and site selection; economic growth and real estate markets, office, retail, and industrial markets; impact of local governments on real estate markets; tools of market analysis, computer applications and geographic information systems.
FIN 145. Real Estate Development and Land Use. 3 Units
Process of real estate development and the federal and state laws that regulate development. Topics may include creating industrial real estate, office space, shopping centers, and hotel/recreation facilities, strategy, market and feasibility analysis; site planning/design; capital cost analysis; construction; financial structuring; federal and state laws that regulate environment impact; land use and real estate development. Emphasis on case studies and a project analysis.
FIN 149. Real Estate Analytics. 3 Units
Examines contemporary and emerging issues in real estate trends, space and asset market equilibrium, land use controls and regulation, market analysis, mortgage markets, property markets, real estate cycles, real estate development, real estate finance and investments, real estate securities, and/or real estate taxation. Use of computer software and applications are emphasized to understand real estate analytics and geographic information systems applications to real estate data.
FIN 150. Capstone in Professional Financial Planning. 3 Units
This course will engage the student in critical thinking and decision-making about personal financial management topics in the context of the financial planning process. The purpose of this course is to refine and develop skills needed for personal financial planners when working with individuals, families, and business owners in meeting financial needs and objectives.
FIN 160. Student Investment Fund Management. 3 Units
Students will manage a real investment portfolio by applying theories of investment analysis and portfolio management. Topics include economic analysis, valuation theories, risk measurement and management, performance measurement, and benchmarking.
FIN 190. Multinational Business Finance. 3 Units
Principles of international financial management. Issues covered include the international environment of financial management, uses of foreign exchange spot, forward, futures, options, and swap markets, foreign exchange risk management, international investment and financing decisions.
FIN 194. Cooperative Education Experiences in Real Estate. 6 - 12 Units
In-depth supervised work experience in Real Estate and Land Use Affairs. This supervised work experience allows the student to become familiar with the practices of the real estate industry and/or governmental agencies.
FIN 195. Internship In Finance. 3 Units
Supervised work experience in business, governmental or service agencies for the purpose of increasing student understanding of the nature and scope of their operations. Supervision is provided by the faculty and the cooperating agencies.
FIN 195A. Internship in Real Estate and Land Use Affairs. 3 - 6 Units
Supervised work experience in business, governmental or service agencies for the purpose of increasing student understanding of the nature and scope of their operations. Supervision is provided by the faculty and the cooperating agencies. Open to upper division students, subject to permission. Petitions can be obtained from the Student Affairs Office, Tahoe 2065.
FIN 196A. Exper Offer Finance. 3 Units
Students will manage a real investment portfolio by applying theories of investment analysis and portfolio management. Topics include economic analysis, valuation theories, risk measurement and management, performance measurement, and benchmarking.
FIN 199. Special Problems in Finance. 1 - 3 Units
Individual projects or directed reading for students qualified to carry on independent work.
FIN 200. Financial Reporting and Analysis. 3 Units
Designed for business students with prior knowledge of accounting who intend to use corporate financial statements intensively in valuation, credit or equity analysis, or strategic competitor analysis. Topics include inventory, pensions, business combination, income tax and other current issues for their impacts on financial statement. Emphasis on financial statement analysis and interpretation of financial disclosures for improving risk assessment, forecasting, and decision-making.
FIN 210. Financial Institution Management. 3 Units
Develop an understanding of the theory and practice of the management of financial institutions. Emphasis is placed on risk measurement and management. Financial institutions include commercial banks, investment banks, savings banks, credit unions insurance companies and financial companies such as mutual funds.
FIN 220. Corporate Finance. 3 Units
Investigate the principles that corporations use in their investing, financing, and day-to-day management decisions. Topics include financial statement analysis, capital investment decision, capital structure, dividend policy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and its impact on valuation.
FIN 230. Equity Analyses. 3 Units
Covers advanced concepts and techniques essential to asset valuation. Key topics include, but not limited to, free cash flow, price multiples, asset-based and contingent claim valuations. Applications of various valuation techniques are emphasized. Provides a framework for selecting the most appropriate model for specific circumstances.
FIN 240. Fixed Income. 3 Units
Discuss a wide range of fixed income products. Topics include trading concepts and mechanics, pricing, duration, convexity, term structure of interest rates, and options embedded fixed income securities.
FIN 250. Derivatives. 3 Units
Discuss major types of financial derivatives and derivative markets. Topics include forward contracts, futures, options, SWAP's and credit derivatives. Emphasis on characteristics, trading process, pricing, parity conditions, risk involved, and investment strategies for different financial derivatives.
FIN 260. Alternative Investments. 3 Units
Discuss major types of alternative investments including real estate, hedge funds, commodities, private equity, and venture capital. Emphasis on the technical aspects and the performance analyses of alternative investments, their advantages and disadvantages, role of alternative investments, and strategies of selection.
FIN 270. Portfolio Management. 3 Units
Cover topics of asset management utilizing the major aspects of Markowitz portfolio theory, Capital ASSET Pricing Model, and Arbitrage Pricing theory. Discuss the comprehensive approach, starting with portfolio construction and asset selection, following with portfolio performance evaluation, and concluding with rebalancing strategies. Introduce and utilize worksheet modeling techniques which are useful for portfolio management.
FIN 280. Global Financial Markets. 3 Units
Cover advanced concepts and applied techniques essential to understand the mechanism of the global financial markets. Key topics include global capital allocation, international tax management, foreign exchange markets, derivatives, parity relationships, and others. Focuses on the core concepts and techniques are applied in the global financial markets using different case studies. Integrate the key principles of finance and extends them to a multinational setting. Topics follow the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level 1 and 2 Exam on equity valuation.
FIN 299. Special Problems in Finance. 3 Units
Individual projects or directed reading for students qualified to carry on independent work.
FIN 500. Culminating Experience Project in Finance and Ethics. 3 Units
Each student conducts an individual project to fulfill the culminating experience graduation requirement of the MS in Finance program as required in Title V of the CA Educational Code. The course also covers the ethical conducts and professional standards as outlined in CFA institute standards.