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: 67
Average GPA: 3.41 (A-)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 36.73%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%
| Raman Kumar | 2023 | 58.5% | 36.8% | 4.5% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 3.51 | 17 |
| Sattar A Mansi | 2024 | 44.5% | 45.8% | 9.1% | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.0% | 3.33 | 30 |
| Staff Mackinlay | 2024 | 49.1% | 50.6% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.44 | 7 |
| Charles R Sebuharara | 2014 | 45.4% | 54.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.42 | 7 |
| John M Pinkerton | 2004 | 51.7% | 48.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.57 | 5 |
| Dilip K Shome | 2013 | 37.4% | 53.1% | 9.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.26 | 1 |