BS in Finance
(64 hours*)

This is a limited-enrollment program requiring departmental admissions approval. Please see the college advisement center for information regarding requirements for admission to this major.

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1. No more than 12 semester hours of upper-division transfer credit will be accepted toward the major and only 6 hours beyond the Integrated Management Core. No transfer courses will be accepted for the Finance Junior Core or Integrated Management Core courses.
2. Complete the following prerequisite courses:
   ACC 200 : Principles of Accounting. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ACC 200 : Principles of Accounting. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Independent Study also.
   DESCRIPTION:	Financial and managerial accounting principles. Basic accounting statements, processes, and management applications. Open to all students.
   
   
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   BUS M 201 : Financial Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 201 : Financial Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	Acc 200 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Financial statement analysis, financial planning, sources of financing, working capital management, risk and return, and valuation.
   
   
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   BUS M 241 : Marketing Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 241 : Marketing Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Independent Study also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   DESCRIPTION:	Marketing's role in society and the firm, marketing opportunities, the consumer market, and management of marketing mix.
   
   
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   ECON 110 : Economic Principles and Problems. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ECON 110 : Economic Principles and Problems. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Honors also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   DESCRIPTION:	Strengths and weaknesses of markets and governments for solving problems of social organization or conflict, including policy response to inflation, unemployment, pollution, poverty, growth, etc.
   NOTE:	This course is part of a GE Mosaic. See ge.byu.edu/mosaic-list for more information.
   
             : Honors Economic Principles and Problems.
   
   
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   I SYS 100 : Computer Spreadsheet Skills. (.5:0:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   I SYS 100 : Computer Spreadsheet Skills. (.5:0:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall Blk 1; Winter Blk 1; Spring; Summer
   DESCRIPTION:	Basic computer skills, focusing on spreadsheet and database programs. No technical background necessary.
   
   
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   I SYS 102 : Business Analysis Using Spreadsheets. (.5:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   I SYS 102 : Business Analysis Using Spreadsheets. (.5:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall Blk 2; Winter Blk 2; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	I SYS 100
   DESCRIPTION:	Basic computer skills focusing on features in MS Excel such as Scenario Manager, Solver, Pivot Tables, and Macros to solve complex business problems.
   
   
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   MATH 118 : Finite Mathematics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   MATH 118 : Finite Mathematics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	MATH 110
   DESCRIPTION:	Language of set theory, counting and combinations. Probability theory, elementary stochastic processes, conditional probabilities. Repeated experiments, random variables, expectation, variance, linear equations, matrix algebra, application to economics or similar. Linear programming. Markov chains including applications.
   
   
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   Note: Based on student performance to date, permission may be granted to take some restricted major-only courses.

3. Apply and be formally accepted into the program.
4. Complete the following required courses before the finance junior core:
   MATH 116 : Essentials of Calculus. (1:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   MATH 116 : Essentials of Calculus. (1:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall Blk 1, Blk 2; Winter Blk 1, Blk 2; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	MATH 110
   DESCRIPTION:	Review of algebra, graph of line, slope. Limits and derivatives (standard functions, compositions of such functions), derivative for polynomials, exponentials, logarithms. Product, quotient and chain rule. Optimization (extrema), application to business problems. Newton's method.
   
   
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   STAT 121 : Principles of Statistics. (3:3:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   STAT 121 : Principles of Statistics. (3:3:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Independent Study also; Honors also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   RECOMMENDED:	MATH 110 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Stemplots, boxplots, histograms, scatterplots; central tendency, variability; confidence intervals and hypothesis testing involving one and two means and proportions; contingency tables, simple linear regression.
   
             : Honors Principles of Statistics.
   
   
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5. Complete the following courses during your first semester admitted to the Marriott School of Management:
   BUS M 320 : Career Orientation and Preparation. (.5:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 320 : Career Orientation and Preparation. (.5:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
   PREREQUISITE:	Acceptance into Marriott School.
   DESCRIPTION:	Student orientation and preparation for careers in management.
   NOTE:	Must be taken first semester in Marriott School.
   
   
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   BUS M 321 : Mentor Program. (.5:0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 321 : Mentor Program. (.5:0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
   PREREQUISITE:	Acceptance into Marriott School.
   DESCRIPTION:	Discussions with outside mentor about career opportunities.
   NOTE:	Must be taken first semester in Marriott School.
   
   
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6. Complete the following finance junior core courses in the junior year:
   ACC 440 : Corporate Financial Reporting. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ACC 440 : Corporate Financial Reporting. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	ACC 200 & BUS M 301
   DESCRIPTION:	Accounting principles of corporate financial reporting. Judgments managers make preparing financial statement information. How complexities, alternatives, and impacts affect completed financial statements.
   NOTE:	For nonaccounting majors.
   
   
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   BUS M 401 : Advanced Financial Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 401 : Advanced Financial Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	Major status; B+ or better in Bus M 301.
   DESCRIPTION:	Capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure/dividends, mergers and acquisitions, and current financial problems.
   
   
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   BUS M 410 : Investments. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 410 : Investments. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 301; Major status.
   DESCRIPTION:	Security markets, security analysis, and portfolio management.
   
   
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   BUS M 411 : Advanced Investments. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 411 : Advanced Investments. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 301 & BUS M 410; Major status.
   DESCRIPTION:	Current investment literature, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, capital assets pricing, options pricing theory.
   
   
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   MANEC 453 : Money, Banking, and Business. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   MANEC 453 : Money, Banking, and Business. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
   PREREQUISITE:	BusM 301 or accounting junior core.
   DESCRIPTION:	Economic analysis of effects of money, banking, and financial institutions on business decisions and aggregate economic activity.
   
   
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7. During the senior year, complete one additional finance elective course from the following:
   BUS M 413 : Real Estate Finance and Investment. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 413 : Real Estate Finance and Investment. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
   PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 301; Major status.
   DESCRIPTION:	Terminology, concepts, principles, and analytical techniques related to financing of and investment in real estate.
   
   
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   BUS M 415R : Portfolio Management. (1.5:1:2)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 415R : Portfolio Management. (1.5:1:2)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 409
   DESCRIPTION:	Team management of actual investment portfolio. Responsibility for economic forecasts, security selection, and portfolio strategy
   
   
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   BUS M 417 : Analysis for Investment Bankers. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 417 : Analysis for Investment Bankers. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 401
   DESCRIPTION:	Exploring the skills used by investment bankers including industry analysis, financial statement analysis, and valuation; the underwriting issues such as security characteristics, embedded options, swaps, convertibles, and other hybrid securities.
   
   
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   BUS M 432 : International Corporate Finance. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 432 : International Corporate Finance. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 301; Major status.
   RECOMMENDED:	Bus M 430.
   DESCRIPTION:	Financial aspects of multinational corporations operating within an international environment; direct foreign investment, foreign exchange regulations, capital markets, etc.
   
   
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   Note: If Bus M 415R is chosen, it must be taken for 1.5 credits in Fall and 1.5 credits in Winter.

8. Complete the following Integrated Management Core courses:
   BUS M 361 : Introduction to Supply Chain and Operations. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 361 : Introduction to Supply Chain and Operations. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	Acceptance into the Marriott School.
   DESCRIPTION:	Managing and designing processes and people along the value chain.
   
   
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   BUS M 390 : Ethics for Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 390 : Ethics for Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
   PREREQUISITE:	Premanagement and Management 1 cores and full acceptance into the Marriott School upper-division major.
   DESCRIPTION:	Analyzing ethical dilemmas and understanding ethical theories as they apply to decision making in management.
   
   
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   MANEC 387 : Economics of Strategy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   MANEC 387 : Economics of Strategy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	Major or strategy minor status.
   DESCRIPTION:	Economic tools influencing the success of strategy (creation and appropriation of value) emphasizing application of economic theory to management of practice.
   
   
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   ORG B 321 : Organizational Effectiveness. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ORG B 321 : Organizational Effectiveness. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring On Demand; Summer On Demand
   PREREQUISITE:	For Marriott School of Management majors only.
   DESCRIPTION:	Theories and concepts for creating effective organizations, e.g., individual, group, and organizational processes and human resource functions, including selection, compensation, and performance management.
   
   
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9. Complete the following courses:
   ACC 241 : Business Law in the Environment. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ACC 241 : Business Law in the Environment. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	Marriott School of Management major status.
   DESCRIPTION:	Introduction to legal principles and institutions affecting business.
   
   
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   I SYS 201 : Introduction to Management Information Systems. (3:3:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   I SYS 201 : Introduction to Management Information Systems. (3:3:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	I Sys 100 or concurrent enrollment during 1st block of I Sys 201 registration.
   RECOMMENDED:	I Sys 101.
   DESCRIPTION:	Using technology to solve business problems. Hands-on spreadsheet, database, and Internet software in a business context.
   
   
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   M COM 320 : Communication in Organizational Settings. (3:3:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   M COM 320 : Communication in Organizational Settings. (3:3:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Honors also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	GE First-Year Writing requirement. To be taken before senior year. Not for freshmen.
   DESCRIPTION:	Developing written and oral communications for professional organizations, including composing and designing employment communications. Incorporates oral presentations.
   NOTE:	Fulfills GE Advanced Written and Oral Communication requirement.
   
              : Honors Communication in Organizational Settings.
   
   
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10. Complete one course from the following:
    BUS M 371R : Entrepreneurship Lecture Series. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    
    BUS M 371R : Entrepreneurship Lecture Series. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    
    WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
    DESCRIPTION:	Lectures by successful entrepreneurs on subjects significant to entrepreneur-type opportunities.
    
    
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    BUS M 380 : Executive Lectures. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    
    BUS M 380 : Executive Lectures. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    
    WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
    DESCRIPTION:	Lectures by top executives on subjects significant to executive leadership.
    
    
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    BUS M 382 : Financial Services Lecture Series. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    
    BUS M 382 : Financial Services Lecture Series. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    
    WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
    DESCRIPTION:	Lectures by executives on financial services topics.
    
    
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11. Complete the following after the Integrated Management Core:
    BUS M 498 : Strategic Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    
    BUS M 498 : Strategic Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    
    WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
    PREREQUISITE:	Major status; Management Integrated Core.
    DESCRIPTION:	Concepts, tools, and approaches to understand competitive forces and to systematically and consistently develop sustainable competitive advantages.
    
    
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12. Complete Marriott School exit survey online.

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