Program Requirements

Program Requirements [30-39 credits]

(Effective June 2023)

Up to 10.5 credits of foundation coursework may be waived based on prior coursework.

Course No.	Title	Credits
ACCT 505	Introduction to Accounting	1.5
FIN 505	Essentials of Finance	1.5
FIN 605	Financial Management Prerequisite: FIN 505	1.5
FIN 625	Corporate Finance Prerequisite: FIN 605	1.5
OPM 505	Introduction to Operations Management	1.5
OPRE 505	Fundamentals of Statistics	1.5
OPRE 506	Managerial Statistics Prerequisite: OPRE 505	1.5

Course No.	Title	Credits
FIN 624	Finance and Accounting Analytcs Prerequisite: FIN 605	3
FIN 715	Investment Analysis Prerequisite: FIN 605	3
FIN 724	Applications of Business Analytics and Machine Learning	1.5
INSS 611	Data Science Toolkit I	1.5
INSS 612	Data Science Toolkit II	1.5
INSS 722	Visual Business Intelligence	3
OPM 615	Innovation and Project Management Prerequisite: OPM 505	3
OPRE 605	Business Analytics Prerequisite: OPRE 506	1.5

Select four courses from the list below.

Course No.	Title	Credits
FIN 700	Financial Reporting Prerequisites: FIN 605; ACCT 505	3
FIN 720	Global Finance Prerequisites: FIN 605	3
FIN 725	Risk Management Prerequisites: FIN 605	3
FIN 780	Business Valuation Prerequisites: FIN 605	3
Note: Additionally, finance electives may be selected from other FIN and ACCT classes where the faculty explicitly dedicates a substantial amount of the course to financial analytics (e.g. through a project or an assignment).

Competency 1: Managing Performance and Risk 

Learning Objective 1.1: Students will use accounting-based and operational information to assess and forecast firm and portfolio performance.

Learning Objective 1.2: Students will be able to evaluate the ESG practices of a company and assess how these practices impact its performance and valuation.
Competency 2: Research Skills 

Learning Objective 2.1: Students are able to use financial concepts, tools, and models to estimate a firm’s cost of capital and value.
Competency 3: Leveraging Technology and Business Intelligence 

Learning Objective 3.1: Students will evaluate and apply selected analytics techniques to assess an entity’s financial performance and valuation.
Competency 4: Manage Foreign Exchange Risk and Interest Rate Risk 

Learning Objective 4.1: Students are able to identify and measure the source of exchange rate risk and interest rate risk and use derivative securities to manage and hedge those risks.