FIN-5024: Principles of Finance
Description: Explores the basic concepts underlying the finance function, relevant to finance and non-finance majors. It provides an understanding of the firms decision-making framework in the context of the economic environment (financial markets) in which the decisions are made. The specific topics covered, at a basic level, include investment decision under uncertainty, valuation, risk and return, market efficiency, portfolio theory, asset pricing, cost of capital, capital investment decisions, and futures and options markets.
Pathways: N/A
Course Hours: 3 credits
Corequisites: N/A
Crosslist: N/A
Repeatability: N/A
Sections Taught: 17
Average GPA: 3.47 (B+)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 35.41%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%
| Sattar A Mansi | 2024 | 48.9% | 42.7% | 8.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.39 | 8 |
| Staff Mackinlay | 2024 | 52.8% | 46.7% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.47 | 5 |
| Raman Kumar | 2023 | 62.6% | 36.6% | 0.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.61 | 4 |