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BUFN Finance ( The Robert H. Smith School of Business)For weekend courses, students are responsible for checking their schedule for course conflicts. If a student is registered for weekend courses that conflict, the student should make adjustments to their schedule. If changes are not made, the department can drop the course that was last added to cause the conflict.
BUFN700
Investment Management;
(3 credits)
Grade Method: REG.
BUFN702 Applied Equity Analysis and Portfolio Management; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: BUSI 640. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 702 or BUFN 702. Formerly BMGT 702. Applications of finance concepts to definitions of investment objectives, equity analysis, portfolio analysis and management, and investment performance evaluation. Cases and studies of actual securities. Emphasis on fundamental analysis and stock recommendations. Non-majors should review their registration eligibility in the statement preceding the BUFN courses. BUFN714 Advanced Financial Management; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: BUSI 640. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 741 or BUFN 714. Formerly BMGT 741. Advanced corporate finance course that builds on the core course. Study of investment and financing decisions faced by firms at various stages in their life cycles. Topics include advanced capital budgeting and capital structure, real options and option-like features in securities, financial contracting, governance, financial distress, and capital-raising transactions ranging from IPOs for young firms to complex hedging strategies for large firms. Pedagogy uses mix of lectures and case studies. Non-majors should review their registration eligibility in the statement preceding the BUFN courses. BUFN716 Financial Restructuring and Strategy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: BUSI 640. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 742 or BUFN 716. Formerly BMGT 742. Integration and extension of financial theory and principles to analyze financial, asset and ownership restructuring decisions. A valuation framework is used to study strategic decisions such as mergers and acquisitions, share repurchases, exchange offers, leveraged recapitalization, joint ventures, employee stock option plans, divestitures and spin-offs. Non-majors should review their registration eligibility in the statement preceding the BUFN courses. BUFN724 International Financial Management; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: BUSI 640. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 746 or BUFN 724. Formerly BMGT 746. The role of financial management in the multinational firm. The financing and managing of foreign investments, assets, currencies, imports and exports. National and international financial institutions and markets. BUFN726 Futures and Options Contract; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: BUSI 640. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 744 or BUFN 726. Formerly BMGT 744. The institutional features and economic rationale underlying markets in futures and options. Valuation of futures and options. Hedging, speculation, structure of futures prices, interest rate futures, efficiency in futures markets, and stock and commodity options. Non-majors should review their registration eligibility in the statement preceding the BUFN courses. BUFN731 Fixed Income Securities; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Corequisite: BUFN 700. For BMGT majors only. Focuses on understanding financial instruments that have market values which are sensitive to interest rate movements. Develop tools to analyze interest rate sensitivity and value fixed income securities. Topics include a variety of fixed income assets and related securities, including: zero coupon government bonds; coupon bearing government bonds; exchange-traded bond options; bonds with embedded options; floating rate notes; caps, collars and floors; floating rate notes with embedded options; forward contracts; interest rate swaps; bond futures and options on bond futures. Non-majors should review their registration eligibility in the statement preceding the BUFN courses. BUFN758V Special Topics in Finance: Venture Capital and Private Equity; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. BUFN759 (PermReq) Independent Study in Finance; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
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