FINN 52403: Digital Innovation in Financial Markets - The evolving role and operations of financial markets and institutions in an increasingly digital-oriented economy. The impact of technological innovations such as blockchain, nonbank financial technology firms, and machine learning on markets as it relates to investors, firms raising capital, and financial entrepreneurs.

FINN 53203: Financial Data Analytics I - Introduction to Python with a focus on structured financial data. Topics include basic syntax, data types, control flow, and practical skills for importing, cleaning, transforming, visualizing, and analyzing tabular data using libraries such as pandas and NumPy.

FINN 54503: Advanced Financial Modeling - Design and construction of financial models in Microsoft Excel. Students build integrated three-statement projection models and extend them to valuation and transaction cases: comparable company analysis, precedent transaction analysis, discounted cash flow (DCF), mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and leveraged buyouts (LBO). Topics include model structure, scenario and sensitivity analysis, and documentation.

FINN 5100V: Special Topics in Finance - Explore current events, concepts and new developments relevant to practitioners of Finance not available in other courses. Topics vary depending on the instructor.

FINN 51203: Valuing New Ventures - This course is for students who wish to begin careers in valuing new ventures with VCs and Angel funds, for investors interested in new ventures as an asset class, for members of startup teams who focus on acquiring and managing capital, and for R&D and innovation teams within existing large firms. The course will also add valuable techniques to those performing private equity valuations of growing firms or firms facing large strategic options, even if those firms are not technically startups.

FINN 51303: Financial Derivatives - Survey of options, futures, forwards, and swaps with emphasis on no-arbitrage pricing, hedging, and market mechanics. Students analyze strategies for speculation, risk transfer, and arbitrage across major asset classes.

FINN 51703: Energy Finance and Risk Management - This course provides an advanced introduction to energy finance, defined as the application of finance principles to energy, energy service, and related industries, concerning all aspects of the energy value chain. Topics include: (1) physical fossil fuel markets; (2) physical electricity markets; (3) financially traded energy products; and (4) credit, counterpart, country, and enterprise risk. It also introduces students to business valuation and investment banking applications in the energy industry vertical.

FINN 52203: Financial Markets & Valuation - Analysis of financial information by capital markets in the determination of security values with specific applications to retail and logistics companies. This course views these and other companies from the point of view of the capital markets.

FINN 53003: Advanced Corporate Financial Management - Focus on financial policy issues using real situational cases. Topics include cost of capital, capital budgeting and long-term planning, value-based management, real options, as well as project financing and valuation.

FINN 53103: Advanced Commercial Banking - This course focuses on advanced risk management strategies commonly implemented at regional and large commercial banks. Topics include financial statement analysis of banks and holding companies, credit analysis of global cash flow, Basel III capital requirements and stress testing, interest rate risk measurement and management, and interest rate hedging with derivatives.

FINN 53303: Investment Theory and Management - Integration of theory, practice of investments with solution of individual and institutional portfolio management problems; risk management; Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts' Problems.

FINN 5410V: Shollmier Investment Project - Provide students with the opportunity to design and apply complex investment strategies used in institutional portfolio management on the Shollmier MBA Fund that can involve fixed income and equity securities as well as derivatives. Students will use top down asset allocation models, bottom up security selection, and hedge fund strategies.

FINN 54303: Real Estate Finance and Investment - Consideration of professional aspects of the real estate field. Emphasis is placed upon finance techniques and investment analysis. The focus is on commercial real estate. Brokerage, property management, appraisal, property development and current problems are also addressed. Students prepare a feasibly study on a commercial development project. Graduate degree credit will not be given for both FINN 44303 and FINN 54303.