FIN 625 - Finance in Professional Accounting

4.5 units (fi 9)(EITHER, 4.5-0-0)

Intended for students pursuing the CPA designation, this course looks at derivatives, hedging, risk management, financial statement analysis and valuation. Open to students enrolled in the MAcc program only.

MMA 612 - Financial Analytics

3 units (fi 6)(SPR/SUM, 3-0-0)

This course integrates financial skills with data science for enterprise decision-making, structured into four key sections. It covers core financial modeling skills, including interest rate discounting and uncertainty modeling, and explores Real Optionality to understand how management decisions and uncertainties affect valuation, focusing on NPV@Risk. The section on Decision Quality (DQ) delves into its relevance in business, biases, risk definition differences in finance and enterprise, and practical implementation strategies. Lastly, the course emphasizes creating interactive Data Science applications, teaching students to develop apps for engaging senior management, with all content exclusively using R programming. Restricted to students registered in the MMA Program. Non-MMA students require consent of home dept and the Masters Programs Office.