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Undergraduate Program Goals and Learning Outcomes
B.S. IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION/FINANCE MAJOR PROGRAM
Goal 1: Learn to assess a firm’s financial condition.
Learning Outcomes:
- Create and interpret financial statements
- Create and interpret cash flow statements
Goal 2: Learn to value firms and projects
Learning Outcomes:
- Determine discount/hurdle rates
- Evaluate investments in working capital and long-term assets
- Apply valuation techniques, both DCF (discounted cash flow) and non-
DCF
- Apply the contingent claims approach to valuation
Goal 3: Learn to determine a firm’s financing needs.
Learning Outcomes:
- Design and analyze pro forma statements
- Determine composition of short and long term funds
- Identify and evaluate financing choices
Goal 4: Learn to evaluate securities and manage portfolios
Learning Outcomes:
- Apply models for pricing stocks, bonds, and derivative instruments
- Construct optimal portfolios
- Design hedging strategies to manage market risks (e.g. currency,
commodity, economic and political)
Goal 5: Learn to evaluate the economic, legal, regulatory, and industry
environment, domestic and international, in which firms operate
Learning Outcomes
- Perform competitive and comparative analyses of industries
- Describe global capital markets
B.S. IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION/FINANCIAL SERVICES MAJOR PROGRAM
Goal 1: Acquire the skills necessary to manage a financial services company.
Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the dimensions of performance and risk relevant to financial services companies.
- Calculate contemporary measures of financial measures of performance and risk.
- Describe contemporary managerial risk management oversight processes.
- Explain how the financial services component industries (insurance, banking, securities, real estate and financial planning) interact.
Goal 2: Assess consumer financial needs and the mechanisms available for
fulfilling these needs..
Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the various financial products, services and strategies offered by the variety of financial services institutions.
- Evaluate financial products and strategies offered by the variety of financial services institutions for suitability and appropriateness in meeting consumer needs.
- Prepare a plan for efficient wealth creation and management including planning for cash and debt management, investing, insurance, retirement, educations needs, incapacity, and efficient wealth transfer.
Goal 3: Describe and apply financial concepts, theories, and tools.
Learning Outcomes:
- Describe measures of risk and approaches to managing risk.
- Apply valuation techniques.
- Explain the structure of the financial markets.
Goal 4: Evaluate the role of technology and the legal, ethical and economic
environment as it relates to financial services..
Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze the impact of tax and pension law on various financial decisions
including accumulation and transfer of wealth.
- Identify conflicts of interest between market participants and between
principal and agent.
- Design hedging strategies to manage market risks (e.g., currency,
commodity, economic and political)
- Evaluate the economic environment and the impact of governmental
economic policies on consumers and financial services firms.
- Be aware of law and regulations governing the operation of financial
service firms and of the financial planning profession.
- Describe the impact that financial innovation, advances in technology, and
changes in regulations has had on the structure of the financial services
industry.
Goal 5: Allow student who choose electives which would qualify them to earn the SDSU Certificate in Personal Financial Planning to gain the above knowledge and skills at a level that promotes entry into the personal financial planning profession.
Learning Outcomes:
- Evaluate an individual’s assets for efficient distribution to heirs or through charitable gifts. Accreditation by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards every five years; the major goals reflect the accreditation requirements of the CFP Board of Standards.
- Design and evaluate employee benefits plans and aid individuals in making choices among current plan elections.
- Design and evaluate portfolios of securities and asset classes aimed at achieving personal goals.
B.S. IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION/REAL ESTATE MAJOR PROGRAM
Goal 1: Prepare graduates to become well-rounded professionals with a specialty in real estate and land market analysis.
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate the broad knowledge required to become professionally certified.
- Demonstrate ability to develop a solution to a real estate problem by applying the major disciplines in real estate in an integrated fashion.
Goal 2: Educate students to make a wide variety of management and financial decisions concerning real estate and related resources.
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate the ability to analyze and select from alternative real estate financial instruments.
- Demonstrate ability to analyze and value parcels of real estate via application of different appraisal techniques.
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Declaring an Upper Division Major in Business
General Catalog
Class Schedules
Descriptions of Undergraduate Courses
Blackboard Courses
Information on Careers in Finance
Information on the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) Program
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards
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