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Every course on the program page is covered.

The corporate and markets strand starts with FIN 330 Corporate Finance: the time value of money, bond and stock valuation, the cost of capital, capital budgeting with NPV, IRR and payback, capital structure and dividend policy. FIN 335 Financial Markets covers money and capital markets, interest rate determination, the yield curve, the Federal Reserve and financial institutions. FIN 336 Multinational Corporate Finance covers exchange rates, interest rate parity, currency hedging with forwards and options, and international capital budgeting. FIN 340 Fundamentals of Investments covers asset classes, risk and return, the capital asset pricing model, bond duration and equity valuation. FIN 341 Financial Regulations and Ethics covers securities law, the SEC and FINRA, fiduciary duty and case studies in misconduct. FIN 450 Investment Portfolio Analysis builds and evaluates portfolios with mean-variance optimization, performance measures such as the Sharpe ratio and asset allocation. FIN 470 Undergraduate Finance Capstone draws the strand together.

The personal planning strand maps to the financial planning process. ACC 330 Federal Taxation I covers individual income tax. FIN 350 Advanced Personal Financial Planning covers cash flow, education funding and retirement planning. FIN 355 Risk Management and Insurance Planning covers life, disability, health, long-term care and property and casualty insurance. FIN 460 Estate Planning and Taxation covers wills, trusts, gifting and the estate tax. FIN 485 Financial Plan Development produces a comprehensive plan for a client case.

Each course has four help pages, linked from the table below.

Finance students tend to know which side of the industry they want, and the plan starts there: corporate finance and investments, personal planning, or both. Your degree audit and the terms you plan to enroll in set the calendar.

Courses go to specialists from the matching seat. A corporate finance manager takes FIN 330 and FIN 336; a fixed income trader takes FIN 335; a portfolio manager with the CFA charter takes FIN 340 and FIN 450; a broker-dealer compliance officer takes FIN 341; a CFP professional takes FIN 350, FIN 355, FIN 460 and FIN 485; an enrolled agent takes ACC 330.

Case continuity helps in both strands. On the corporate side, one company, perhaps a mid-size solar panel maker deciding whether to build a plant in Mexico, can carry from FIN 330 capital budgeting to FIN 336 currency hedging and the FIN 470 capstone. On the planning side, one client household, say a married couple in their forties with two children, a mortgage and a small business, can carry from FIN 350 cash flow and retirement analysis through FIN 355 insurance needs and FIN 460 estate plans to the full FIN 485 plan.

In each 8-week course, posts are ready before the module opens, problem sets and plans arrive with days to review and a study sheet precedes any timed quiz you take.

The household's or company's figures travel with you from course to course.

The Finance bench works in the industry: a corporate finance manager who builds capital budgets for a manufacturer, a fixed income trader, a portfolio manager who holds the CFA charter, a compliance officer at a broker-dealer, two CFP professionals who build plans for clients every week and an enrolled agent.

Their figures follow current rules: contribution limits, tax brackets, estate exemptions and Social Security claiming ages are taken from the current year, and models use realistic market inputs.

Plans read like documents a client would receive, and corporate memos like analyst reports.

Every spreadsheet and plan is rechecked by a second finance professional before it is released.

Time value of money is the first hurdle. FIN 330 and FIN 340 rest on it, and a wrong compounding period or sign convention spoils every answer that follows.

Valuation and portfolio math come next. Weighted average cost of capital, duration, CAPM and mean-variance optimization in FIN 450 each require careful setup in Excel.

Currency and markets are the third. FIN 336 hedging problems and FIN 335 yield curve questions ask students to reason about markets they have rarely watched closely.

The planning strand brings its own load. FIN 355, FIN 460 and FIN 485 require current rules for insurance, retirement accounts, trusts and taxes, and a comprehensive plan must keep every recommendation consistent.

Most students also work in banking, insurance or financial services, where quarter-ends, sales targets and licensing exams compete with 8-week terms.

Each Finance course is priced from its syllabus. FIN 450, FIN 470 and FIN 485 carry the most graded work, FIN 330, FIN 336, FIN 340 and FIN 460 sit in the middle, and FIN 335 and FIN 341 are usually lighter.

You choose the scope. Students already working in insurance often keep FIN 355, those in banking often keep FIN 335, and many hand over the quantitative courses and the capstones.

Syllabi sent about ten days ahead let each specialist read the course before it opens; if a course has begun, its remaining modules are priced.

Timed and publisher platform quizzes, proctored exams, licensing exams and anything requiring real client financial data stay with you.