Corporate Financial Management Graduate Certificate

The Corporate Financial Management Graduate Certificate prepares students for financial-decision-making roles within both large and small enterprises.  Topics covered include capital budgeting, raising capital, dividend policy, and foreign currency translation.    

Goal 1: Develop stakeholder value and functional understanding.

Outcome 1.1: Students will demonstrate understanding of financial concepts: the risk-return trade-off, the time value of money, cash flows vs. profits, efficient capital markets, and risk & diversification.

Goal 2: Develop problem solving and critical thinking skills. 

Outcome 2.1: Students will analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information and data as the basis for solving problems and making decisions.

Goal 3: Develop interpersonal and communication skills.

Outcome 3.1: Students will demonstrate the ability to correspond effectively and persuasively in a business format, communicate effectively with individuals and within teams, and present to both individuals and groups clearly and convincingly.

Goal 4: Students will develop an understanding of--and the ability to apply--the following Ignatian values: a commitment to rigorous education and lifelong learning; an insistence upon ethical decision making; a desire for social justice; and a care and concern for others.

Goal 5: Students will learn how to: measure risk and estimate expected returns; analyze and value fixed income, equity, and derivative securities; use derivative securities in risk management applications; and construct portfolios suitable for various investor characteristics and objectives.

FIN 550Shareholder Value Management (Must be completed before the upper-level courses) 13
FIN 600Fin Institutions & Capital Mkt3
FIN 608Advanced Financial Management3
FIN 609International Finance3
Total Hours12
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Students in an SJU 4+1 program who were waived out of FIN 550 based upon earning a grade of B or higher in FIN 300 must replace FIN 550 in this certificate with either FIN 575 or FIN 611.