2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin - NMU Bulletin

FIN 495 Variable Topics in Finance 1-4 cr.

• Offered: Contact Department
• Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor's permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Variable topics of current interest. Notes:

May be taken more than once for credit.

FIN 491 Internship in Finance 1-4 cr.

• Offered: Fall Winter Summer
• Graded: S/U
• Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor's permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Professional experience for qualified accounting or finance majors. Working with accounting or other business firms. Written paper required; students evaluated by faculty supervisor in consultation with employer.

FIN 463 Portfolio Management 4 cr.

• Offered: Contact Department
• Prerequisites: FIN 462, junior standing or instructor's permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

A theoretical and empirical discussion of the effect of information and investor preference on investment decisions.

FIN 462 Investment Analysis 4 cr.

• Offered: Fall
• Prerequisites: FIN 351, junior standing or instructor’s permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Types of investment securities, bonds, stocks, valuation of common stocks, valuation and grading of bonds and preferred stocks; risks associated with each form of investment. Policies in construction and management of investment portfolio. Current trends and timing of investments.

FIN 460 Employee Benefits and Retirement Planning 4 cr.

• Offered: Contact department for information.
• Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor’s permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Overview of the types of employee benefits program available to employers for their employees with special emphasis on retirement planning. The course also explores retirement planning for individuals with problems, cases, lectures and discussions.

FIN 458 International Financial Management 4 cr.

• Offered: Contact Department
• Prerequisites: FIN 351 and junior standing or instructor’s permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Financial management of multinational firms including management of international sources of funds, dealing with international exchange, international expansion and investment.

FIN 450 Estate Planning 4 cr.

• Offered: Contact department for information.
• Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor's permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Estate planning principles and techniques as they relate to financial planning. Includes methods of property transfer, estate planning documentation, principles of estate, gift and trust taxation, features and classification of trusts, the use of life insurance in the estate planning process and tools and techniques for general estate planning.

FIN 413 New Venture Finance: Capital Formation and Legal Issues 4 cr.

• Offered: Every other winter
• Prerequisites: FIN 351 or instructor's permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Summarizes and ties together the materials presented in the entrepreneurship core of classes. Extends the student’s knowledge in this area through the incorporation of cases based on creating and managing new business ventures; this includes various methods of raising capital for new and growing ventures and a thorough examination of the legal issues involved in such an undertaking.

FIN 369 Introduction to Technical Analysis 4 cr.

• Offered: Winter
• Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Technical analysis is used by banks, brokerage houses, investment companies and investors all over the world. This class introduces the student to the history and current state of technical analysis. Students develop a foundation of technical analysis tools that will allow them to analyze financial investments from a perspective of risk, return and timing. Course time is divided between classroom instruction and laboratory experience in the College of Business trading room.

FIN 354 Money and Capital Markets 4 cr.

• Offered: Fall
• Prerequisites: Junior standing.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Analysis of money market instruments in conjunction with monetary policy influences. The markets and their role in channeling liquid and investment funds to the private and public sectors. The roles of major financial institutions (pension funds, insurance companies, banks) as both suppliers and users of market capital.