Master of Business Administration: Finance
Master of Business Administration: Finance
Finance Concentration in Rowan's MBA
Join one of the most flexible and customizable MBA programs in the country to hone your skills in specific targeted areas of business – or explore building knowledge across sectors – to expand your insights and set yourself apart from the competition.
For MBA students who have strong quantitative and analytical skills and enjoy working with numbers, an MBA with a finance concentration can offer a wide range of jobs across various industries.
For example, in the corporate finance area, potential jobs might include chief financial officer, financial manager, corporate controller, accounting manager, or risk manager; it is also possible to pursue a career path in financial service industries in roles such as managers or VPs in banking, mutual fund, or insurance companies.
MBA Curriculum Requirements and Options
All Rowan MBA students pursue the same 18 credits to satisfy core requirements of the 36-credit curriculum. Rowan MBA students also enjoy the freedom of customizing 18 credits to meet career pursuits. The flexible, customized 18 credits are pursued via six 3-credit courses: two areas of concentration or one area of concentration and three elective courses.
Rowan MBA students can choose two related Concentrations to build significant depth, two distinct Concentrations to build breadth, or even choose one concentration and three elective courses across disciplines to gain a wide view from varying perspectives.
Finance Concentration Coursework
To pursue concentration courses in a theme, consider courses organized in these categories:
- Corporate Finance: Financial Statement Analysis, Derivative Securities and Financial Risk Management, Financial Modeling, and Multinational Finance Management
- Investment/Asset Management Companies: Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Fixed Income Securities, Derivative Securities and Financial Risk Management, and Financial Statement Analysis
- Commercial Banking: Financial Institutions Management, Multinational Finance Management, Derivative Securities and Financial Risk Management, Financial Statement Analysis (for Credit Analysts)
- Personal Finance and Retirement Planning: Advanced Financial Planning and Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
Rowan MBA students select 3 courses, or 9 credits, from the below courses to satisfy pursuit of a Finance Concentration:
FIN 04511 - Quantitative Methods in Finance
FIN 04511 - Quantitative Methods in Finance (3 credits)
- The objective of this course is to teach students the fundamentals of quantitative finance. The topics covered in the course include asset returns and time value of money, probability and statistics in their applications to financial analysis, portfolio theory and asset pricing models, regression and econometrics for financial data analysis, structure and pricing of financial derivatives, risk quantification and management.
ACC 03510 - Financial Statement Analysis
ACC 03510 - Financial Statement Analysis (3 credits)
- This course will take an expanded study of financial statement analysis from the point of view of the primary users of financial statements: equity and credit analysts. The analysis and use of financial statements will also emphasize the properties of numbers derived from these statements, and the features of the environment in which key decisions are made in using financial statement information. Research and empirical evidence will be emphasized.
FIN 04600 - Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
FIN 04600 - Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (3 credits)
- In this course students will analyze and develop an ability to deal with the following topics: investment values and market price with regard to risk, return, portfolio diversification, taxes and inflation. Students will also examine the role of fixed income securities versus common stock prices, yields, returns and valuations, warrants, options and future contracts, U.S. and foreign securities markets, and the rapidly developing science of portfolio management as it applies to both the firm and the individual.
FIN 04530 - Multinational Finance Management
FIN 04530 - Multinational Finance Management (3 credits)
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The objective of this course is to examine the managerial implications pertaining to the financial operations of the multinational firms of the investments in the international arena. The standard topics in international finance, such as exchange rate determination, foreign exchange risk (exposure), hedging techniques (using derivatives), international corporate valuation and capital budgeting, and sources of funds and the cost of capital in the international bond, stock, and money markets, are examined from a managerial point of view.
FIN 04518 - Derivative Securities and Financial Risk Management
FIN 04518 - Derivative Securities and Financial Risk Management (3 credits)
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In this course students will learn forward, future, option and swap contracts, and hedging, arbitrage, and derivatives-pricing models. In addition, securitization and risk management concepts will be covered. Students will learn how to model and evaluate derivative instruments and their applications to corporate strategy and risk management.
FIN 04560 - Fixed Income Securities
FIN 04560 - Fixed income Securities (3 credits)
- The objective of this course is to teach students the fundamentals of fixed income markets, covering different fixed income security types, and the mathematics of their evaluation and risk management. The topics covered in the course include fixed income security valuation, term structure of interest rates and the yield curve, fixed income risk quantification and management, securities with embedded options, credit derivatives, interest rate derivatives, and portfolio management.
FIN 04520 - Financial Modeling
FIN 04520 - Financial Modeling (3 credits)
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The objective of this course is to teach students the fundamentals and practice of building financial models by using Microsoft Excel. Students become familiar with the built-in-functions of Excel and learn how to use them in financial model building with a hands-on-approach. The topics covered in the course include financial statement modeling, cost of capital, capital budgeting modeling, leasing, valuation analysis, portfolio modeling, capital-asset pricing models, option-pricing models, real options modeling, bonds, and term structure modeling.
FIN 04505 - Advanced Financial Planning
FIN 04505 - Advanced Financial Planning (3 credits)
- Financial planning is the process of meeting life goals through the proper management of finances. Life goals can include buying a home, saving for your child's education or planning for retirement. Through sound financial planning individuals can make decisions that will produce their desired results. In this course, students will learn foundations of financial planning, managing basic assets, managing credit, managing insurance needs, managing investments and preparing for retirement and estate planning.
FIN 04540 - Financial Institutions Management
FIN 04540 - Financial Institutions Management (3 credits)
- In the course, students will learn about the many roles financial service-providers play in the economy today. Students will examine how and why the financial services marketplace as a whole is rapidly changing, becoming new and different as we move forward into the future. Students will also learn the techniques on how to measure and manage various financial risks the modern financial institutions face in today’s globally competitive financial environment, such as interest rate, market, credit, liquidity, off balance sheet, foreign exchange, sovereign, technology and other operational risks.
FIN 04512 - Capital Budgeting
FIN 04512 - Capital Budgeting (3 credits)
- This course includes the following topics: estimation of project cash flows, interest, annuity, and present value calculations, evaluation of projects under conditions of certainty and risk, strategic planning in capital budgeting, and leasing.
FIN 04516 - Issues in Finance
FIN 04516 - Issues in Finance (3 credits)
- This course includes the following topics: mergers and acquisitions, financial structure analysis, cost of capital analysis, capital budgeting, portfolio management, financial institutions, money and capital markets, and international finance.
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