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Fall 2013
Oct 09,2024
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FINC 100 - INDEPENDENT STUDY: FINANCE
Limited opportunities to enroll for course work on an Independent Study basis are available. A student interested in this option should obtain an Independent Study Registration Form from the Registrar, have it completed by the instructor and school dean involved, and return it to the Registrar's Office. Consult the current Schedule of Classes for policies concerning Independent Study.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Independent Study

Finance Department

FINC 198 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE
This course designation describes a transfer course from another institution where an equivalency to a Ramapo College course has not been determined. Upon convener evaluation, this course ID may be changed to an equivalent of a Ramapo College course or may fulfill a requirement.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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FINC 199 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE
This course designation is used to describe a transfer course from another institution which has been evaluated by the convener. A course with this course number has no equivalent Ramapo course. It may fulfill a requirement or may count as a free elective.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Finance Department

FINC 200 - INDEPENDENT STUDY: FINANCE
Limited opportunities to enroll for course work on an Independent Study basis are available. A student interested in this option should obtain an Independent Study Registration Form from the Registrar, have it completed by the instructor and school dean involved, and return it to the Registrar's Office. Consult the current Schedule of Classes for policies concerning Independent Study.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Independent Study

Finance Department

FINC 210 - PERSONAL FINANCE
This course is designed to help students develop a personal financial plan. Students will learn how to establish their short-term, intermediate and long-term goals. In addition, they will learn the components of budgeting and tax planning, managing liquidity, financing large purchases, spending their money wisely, investing money and protecting their wealth. For students who want to become financial planners, this course will provide them with the initial tools to further their professional development. This course does NOT count as finance elective credit.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Finance Department

FINC 298 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE
This course designation describes a transfer course from another institution where an equivalency to a Ramapo College course has not been determined. Upon convener evaluation, this course ID may be changed to an equivalent of a Ramapo College course or may fulfill a requirement.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Finance Department

FINC 299 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE
This course designation is used to describe a transfer course from another institution which has been evaluated by the convener. A course with this course number has no equivalent Ramapo course. It may fulfill a requirement or may count as a free elective.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Finance Department

FINC 300 - INDEPENDENT STUDY: FINANCE
Limited opportunities to enroll for course work on an Independent Study basis are available. A student interested in this option should obtain an Independent Study Registration Form from the Registrar, have it completed by the instructor and school dean involved, and return it to the Registrar's Office. Consult the current Schedule of Classes for policies concerning Independent Study.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Independent Study

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FINC 301 - CORPORATE FINANCE I
A study of corporate financing practices. This course will provide students with the financing framework of corporations, principles of financial returns, financial analysis, management of working capital, capital structures, dividend policies, and intermediate and longer term financing.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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FINC 302 - CORPORATE FINANCE II
This course presents the importance of quantitative tools, such as discounted cash flow techniques and analysis of variance, in the asset pricing, planning and evaluation process. The emphasis will be on the application of these tools in order to better understand the behavior of financial and capital assets. Topics include present and future values, sinking fund and capital recovery factors, measurement of risk and return, security characteristics and valuation, capital budgeting, and leasing.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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FINC 303 - FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS
This course provides an analysis and discussion of central banking, the financial markets and the various intermediaries which constitute the financial services industry. Our perspective is both macro- and micro-financial, covering topics such as: 1) the development of central banking; 2) the impact of monetary policy on interest rates; 3) the relationship between interest rates and bond prices; 4) the purpose and uniqueness of the various financial markets; 5) the historical development, importance and operating behavior of the specific institutions that comprise the financial system; and 6) how regulation and financial innovation have influenced the evolution of the system.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Finance Department

Course Attributes:
WRITING INTENSIVE

FINC 313 - COMMERICIAL BANK MANAGEMENT
Studies of the financial services industry and the allocation of funds from lenders to borrowers. Topics will include the role of banks and other institutions in supplying funds to the public; their operations in the money and capital markets; theories of bank financial management; interest rate and flow of funds forecasting; and the impact of regulatory and deregulatory actions on bank operations.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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FINC 318 - FINANCIAL PLANNING
Financial Planning focuses on four areas of financial planning: introduction to financial planning, federal income taxation, retirement planning, and estate planning. Students who complete Risk Management and Insurance, Securities and Investments, and this course will have a broad foundation in the area of financial planning.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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FINC 321 - SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS
A study of the analysis of risk and rate of return on various types of securities; forces affecting security values, financial statement analysis and valuation techniques; theory and practice of individual and institutional investment management; application of portfolio theory and valuation to investment analysis and portfolio management; investment strategy in view of taxation of capital gains and losses; mutual funds and real estate investment trusts; alternative instruments in both inflationary and deflationary economies, and evaluation of secondary markets.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Finance Department

Course Attributes:
WRITING INTENSIVE

FINC 322 - EQUITY MARKETS TRADING
In this course, we will learn a wide spectrum of topics that may enhance your trading performance and provide you with a good understanding of how the equity market operates. In the traditional approach financial economics, the price formation process is a "black box" in which there is no explicit role for financial market structure. Aspects such as dealers, transaction costs and the organizational structure of financial markets are largely ignored. Here, we take a real-world approach to the mechanics of financial markets by exploring how market imperfections generate trading costs and make the market protocol in which trading takes place a relevent factor. In the real world, trading stands on its own as an important operation, and as one that is distinct from investing. This course has two parallel dimensions. On the one hand, we provide a theoretical approach to the underlying dynamics of equity markets by exploring topics such as liquidity, intraday volatility, transaction costs, price effeciency and trading profits. On the other hand, we illustrate the topics presented in the course with the use of computer-based trading software (a practical approach). Suported by an intensive use of the newly built Global Financial Markets Trading Laboratory, this course will allow students to simulate a market where they will participate as traders and interact with other students, as well as computed-generated traders. Furthermore, this course will prepare students for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) trading electronic and open out-cry (held at the New York Mercantile Exchange) competitions.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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FINC 323 - RISK MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE
This course will provide students with a theoretical and practical understanding of the effects of risk on economic value, the purpose and objectives of risk management, and the structure, role, and financial analysis of insurance companies and the insurance industry. The first part of the course will develop the conceptual foundations for understanding the nature of risk, risk management, and insurance decisions to maximize shareholder value. Risk identification, measurement, and reduction through the pooling of risks will draw upon your knowledge of probability and statistics. You should review these topics from your statistics text and notes. The second part of the course will focus on the financial and structural aspects of insurance companies and the insurance industry. Particular emphasis will be placed on the financial analysis of property-casualty insurance companies, especially the importance and application of statutory accounting principles, profitability ratios, asset and liability valuation, income statement-balance sheet dynamics, leverage, and the implication of loss reserving, and pricing strategies. This part will also cover the structure, conduct, performance, and regulation of the insurance sector. The third part of the course will focus on applied topics in risk management and insurance including personal and commercial insurance policies, hedging with derivatives contracts, reinsurance, alternative risk transference, enterprise risk management, and current topics and issues related to corporate and personal liability, automobile insurance and social security. To that extent, students are responsible for any supplemental materials and articles that are handed out in class and/or are placed on electronic reserve.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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FINC 330 - CORPORATE VALUATION
This course consists of a comprehensive and practical review of corporate equity valuation. It covers a wide spectrum of equity valuation methodologies such as discounted cash flow models (e.g., enterprise discounted cash flow, adjusted present value, dividend discount model, etc.), economic-profit based models (e.g., residual income model and discounted economic profit), and multiples-based models. It equips students with a deep understanding of the models' underlying assumptions so that they can better understand what practitioners assume when calculating their valuation estimates. It offers useful guidelines to the most appropriate methodologies to use under different circumstances. It exposes the student to the complexity and subjectivity involved with estimating the value of a corporation. And it provides a practical step-by-step guide to corporate valuation. Furthermore, this course includes an Excel-based valuation modeling component. Students will develop a complete spreadsheet discounted cash flow (DCF) model and they will use it to (1) determine the intrinsic value of a U.S. public company operating in a mature industry, and (2) make an investment recommendation based on their valuation results.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Finance Department

FINC 360 - STOCHASTIC CALCULUS FOR FINANCE
This course will provide a friendly introduction to mathematical finance by focusing on the problem of pricing derivative securities within the relatively simple framework of the binomial asset-pricing model. It should provide the student with a solid understanding of fundamental concepts from math finance such as arbitrage, option pricing, risk-neutral measures, hedging, and utility optimization. At the same time, various concepts from probability will be developed, including martingales, Markov processes, and random walks. This course is recommended for any math or business/finance student who is considering work in quantitative finance, or who is simply curious about how rigorous mathematics can abe applied to real-world financial problems. This course is cross-listed as MATH 360.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Finance Department

FINC 398 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE
This course designation describes a transfer course from another institution where an equivalency to a Ramapo College course has not been determined. Upon convener evaluation, this course ID may be changed to an equivalent of a Ramapo College course or may fulfill a requirement.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Finance Department

FINC 399 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE
This course designation is used to describe a transfer course from another institution which has been evaluated by the convener. A course with this course number has no equivalent Ramapo course. It may fulfill a requirement or may count as a free elective.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Finance Department

FINC 400 - INDEPENDENT STUDY: FINANCE
Limited opportunities to enroll for course work on an Independent Study basis are available. A student interested in this option should obtain an Independent Study Registration Form from the Registrar, have it completed by the instructor and school dean involved, and return it to the Registrar's Office. Consult the current Schedule of Classes for policies concerning Independent Study.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Independent Study

Finance Department

FINC 406 - CAPITAL FORMATION
A course designed to principally cover financial structure analysis, corporate cash and stock distribution policies and working capital policies. Topics include leverage considerations, measuring capital costs, capital structure determination, dividend theory and policy, working capital management, refunding operations, derivative financing and corporate restructuring. The course integrates both theory and applications, highlighting how decisions should be made.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Finance Department

FINC 411 - FINANCIAL & ECONOMIC FORECASTING
The course will introduce students to the principles and practices of financial and economic forecasting. While qualitative approaches will be discussed, most of the course will emphasize quantitative models that involve the application of statistical and mathematical methods and techniques to a variety of forecasting problems. The initial part of the course will focus on methodological considerations including the forecast environment, process and objectives; data considerations; and forecast evaluation and model selection criteria. We will then introduce "univariate" or single-variable time series models including "naïve," moving average, and exponential smoothing models.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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FINC 415 - MULTINATIONAL FINANCE
A study of financial planning of multinational operations; sources and uses of corporate finance in a foreign environment; criteria for choice on alternative investments in foreign areas; foreign exchange risk and exposure; the cost of capital lending and investment criteria; governmental and inter-governmental controls in investment, capital, and managerial talent procurement, currency restrictions, inter-company pricing and transfer pricing, and profits repatriation; technology transfer and licensing; international financial ethics, bribery, and technology piracy.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Finance Department

FINC 426 - ADVANCED TOPICS IN FINANCE
The descriptions and topics of this course vary from semester-to-semester as well as from instructor-to-instructor. Prerequisites: varies with the topic offered.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Finance Department

FINC 498 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE
This course designation describes a transfer course from another institution where an equivalency to a Ramapo College course has not been determined. Upon convener evaluation, this course ID may be changed to an equivalent of a Ramapo College course or may fulfill a requirement.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Finance Department

FINC 499 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE
This course designation is used to describe a transfer course from another institution which has been evaluated by the convener. A course with this course number has no equivalent Ramapo course. It may fulfill a requirement or may count as a free elective.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Finance Department


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