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The Master of Science in Finance (MSF)

Program Requirements

 

Tools (prerequisite) Courses--Course Descriptions

 

ACG 6025 Financial Accounting for Managers (2) Not available for credit for graduate students in the Master of Accountancy program. Study of (1) accounting concepts and standards applicable to presentation of financial information to interested users, (2) structure and interpretation of financial statements, especially issues of income determination and assessment measurement. (Return to MSF Curriculum)

ACG 6075 Management Accounting and Control (2) Not available for credit for Graduate students in the Master of Accountancy program. Deals with management accounting systems for different types of entities, cost behavior patterns, cost-volume-profit analysis, relevant information for decision making, and budgets and standard costs for planning and control. (Return to MSF Curriculum)

ECO 6114 MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS (2) Theory of economic behavior of households and firms, consumer behavior, demand analysis, production and cost, factor markets. (Not for economics graduate students.) (Return to MSF Curriculum)
 

ECO 6204 GLOBAL ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS (2) Determination of prices, employment, and output in domestic and international settings. (Not for economics graduate students.) (Return to MSF Curriculum)

FIN 6406 Financial Management (2) The study of processes, decision structures, and institutional arrangements concerned with the acquisition and utilization of funds by a firm. The course includes the management of the asset and liability structures of the firm under both certainty and uncertainty. (PR: ACG 6025 and ECO 6114) (Return to MSF Curriculum)
 

QMB 6305 Managerial Decision Analysis (2) A study of the general concepts of interval estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation and multiple regression with an emphasis on applications, concepts and interpretation of results. (Return to MSF Curriculum)