Finance Major

The mission of the Department of Accounting, Finance, and Economics is to provide a quality education in accounting, finance, and economics, and to provide research and service.

The minimum number of hours required for the Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Finance is 123 semester hours. The distribution is shown below.

Semester Hours
College of Business and Technology Curriculum Components		47
Business Professional Component		40
Major		30
*Free Elective(s)		3-7
TOTAL		123

* UWA 101 is required for beginning freshmen at UWA and for transfer students who transfer fewer than 20 hours.

Finance Major Degree Component

Students are required to take 30 semester hours of course work from the following:

Required Courses: 21 hours

FI 310. Managerial Finance (3)
FI 320. Interest Theory and Fixed Income Analysis (3)
FI 340. Investments (3)
FI 380. Computerized Financial Modeling with VBA (3)
FI 401. Ethics for Financial Professionals (1)
FI 450. International Financial Statement Analysis (3)
FI 480. Financial Derivatives (3)
FI 491. Senior Thesis I (1)
FI 492. Senior Thesis II (1)

Select nine (9) hours from the following:

No more than six (6) hours of accounting (AC) courses can be chosen.

AC 311. Intermediate Accounting I (3)
AC 312. Intermediate Accounting II (3)
AC 321. Cost Accounting (3)
AC 331. Federal Income Tax I (3)
AC 332. Federal Income Tax II (3)
EC 401. Intermediate Microeconomics with Calculus (3)
EC 402. Intermediate Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics (3)
EC 410. Economic Forecasting and Analysis (3)
EC 450. International Trade (3)
EC 400. Mathematical Economics and Econometric Theory (3)
FI 350. Fundamentals of Risk Management and Insurance (3)
FI 407. Independent Study in Finance (1-3)
FI 410. Monetary Theory and Policy (3)
FI 420. Asset Pricing and Portfolio Analysis (3)
FI 440. Management of Financial Institutions (3)
FI 451. International Finance (3)
FI 460. Finance Internship (3)
FI 480. Financial Derivatives (3)
MH 441. Mathematical Statistics (3)