General Finance (FIN)

2010 Personal Financial Planning. Three credits. Includes budgeting and saving techniques, tax planning, insurance principles, consumer credit, housing, investment alternatives, and retirement and estate issues.

3910 Computer Applications in Economics and Finance. Three credits. (Same as ECON 3910.) Prerequisites: INFS 3100; ECON 2420; FIN 3010 or 3000. Employing a computer in economics and financial decision making. Covers spreadsheets, object-relational database management systems, and data warehousing.

3970, 3980 Cooperative Education. Three credits. (Same as ECON 3970 and 3980.) Prerequisite: Junior standing. Cooperative Education experiences provide students with opportunities for on-the-job training in conjunction with on-campus academics. These courses will not satisfy major or minor requirements. Interested students should contact the MTSU Cooperative Education Office. Students will be selected for participation and opportunities may be limited.

4310 Problems in Government Finance. Three credits. (Same as ECON 4310). Prerequisites: ECON 2410, 2420. Current issues in taxation, theory of income taxation, consumption taxes, property and wealth taxes. Advanced treatment of tax incidence, tax efficiency, income distribution, fiscal federalism, and state and local budget issues.

4890 Internship in Finance. One to three credits. Prerequisites: Junior status and recommendation of advisor. Supervised work experience in cooperating business firms or government agencies together with specialized academic study relating to the work experience.

4910 Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives. Three credits. Pre-requisite: FIN 3010 or equivalent. Valuation and hedging of options, forward contracts, futures contracts, swaps, and other derivatives. Examines fundamental tools commonly used for pricing and hedging and options and futures contracts. For undergraduate and graduate students with little mathematics beyond algebra.

4990 Problems in Finance. One to three credits. Prerequisite: Junior standing. Problems for intensive study are chosen in joint consultation between student and instructor.

5310 Public Finance II. Three credits. (Same as ECON 5310.) Prerequisites: ECON 2410 and 2420. Current issues in taxation, theory of income taxation, consumption taxes, property and wealth taxes. Advanced treatment of tax incidence, tax efficiency, in-come distribution, fiscal federalism, and state and local budget issues. Students are required to complete a term project resulting in a paper available for peer review and a class presentation.

5840 Study Abroad. Three credits. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and completion of core courses in respective field as determined by graduate business studies. A short-term international business education experience designed to expose the student to the economic, political, cultural, and social environments of a foreign country(ies), with specific emphasis directed toward the international state/status of the subject matter pertinent to the discipline.

5890 Internship in Finance. Three credits. Prerequisite: Graduate status and recommendation of advisor. Supervised work experience in cooperating business firms or government agencies together with specialized academic study relating to the work experience.

5990 Problems in Finance. Three credits. Chosen in joint consultation between student and instructor.

6000 Survey of Financial Management. Three credits. Principles and tools of financial management including time value of money, security valuation, funds acquisition and capital budgeting, and cost of capital. May not be used for elective credit in graduate business degree programs.

6430 Seminar on Public Finance. Three credits. (Same as ECON 6430.) Examines the role of government in the allocation and distribution of society's resources. Topics include theories of government sector growth, public and quasi-public goods, externalities and agency theory, transitivity and completeness of voting preferences, income redistribution and economic justice, social insurance, health care programs, tax shifting and incidence analysis, efficiency and equity in taxation, and efficiency and redistributive aspects of deficit financing. Topics may involve case studies such as budget formulation, environmental policies, payroll taxes, and alternative tax structures.

6440 Readings in Finance. One to three credits. Independent readings-based study of a particular topic in finance selected by the student and approved by the instructor. Provides an opportunity to study special areas of interest for which regular courses are not offered.

6620 Econometrics I. Three credits. (Same as ECON 6620.) Prerequisite: ECON 4620 or equivalent. Focuses on the use of regression analysis in economics. Emphasis on using econometric soft-ware packages to investigate actual economic problems. A pre-requisite for ECON 6630.

6710 Financial Analysis. Three credits. Prerequisite: FIN 3010 or 6000. Theory of corporate finance with applications. Techniques and problems for maximizing wealth through the application of discounted cash flow analysis. Emphasis on risk, capital budgeting, and capital structure.

6720 Cases in Financial Management. Three credits. Prerequisite: FIN 6710. Applications-oriented approach to managerial problem-solving. Topics may include working capital management, capital budgeting, cost of capital estimation, lease/purchase decisions, bond refunding, and international issues.

6740 Security Analysis. Three credits. Prerequisite: FIN 3810 or con-sent of instructor. Interpretation of financial statements, valuation and selection of securities, security risk, legal and regulatory issues, and agency problems.

6860 International Financial Management. Three credits. Prerequisite: FIN 3010 or 6000. International capital markets, exchange rate exposure, risk management, and other multinational finance issues. Essential not only for United States exporters, but also for those facing competition from abroad.

6999 Comprehensive Examination and Preparation. One credit. Open only to students who are not enrolled in any other graduate course and who will take the master's comprehensive examination during the term. The student must contact the graduate advisor during the first two weeks of the term for specifics regarding the details of this comprehensive examination preparatory course. Credit may not be applied to degree requirements.

7710 Topics in Advanced Financial Economics. Three credits. (Same as ECON 7710.) Prerequisites: ECON/FIN 7460, ECON 7121, and ECON 7630. Major topics in financial economics including applied interest rate analysis, choice under uncertainty, the capital asset pricing model, consumption-based asset pricing model, factor models, the efficient markets hypothesis, and models of time-varying market volatility with an emphasis on empirical applications of theoretical concepts using Microsoft Excel. Cultivation of practical programming skills is designed to complement application of economic theory to financial markets.

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