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Corporate Financial Management (FCFM)

Welcome to Corporate Financial Management:

91-94%

EMPLOYMENT RATE
2020-2024

$60K-$70K

STARTING
SALARY RANGE

WHAT IS CORPORATE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT?

Many of the major decisions in a business are driven by financial analysis.  These include how much capital needs to be raised and the sources to use, how to allocate it within a business, the optimal amount of leverage and liquidity, how to improve a business’ profitability and return on its capital, how to quantify and hedge financial and business risks, and whether to pursue large projects, contracts, acquisitions, mergers and/or divestitures.

WHY CORPORATE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT?

The object of the Corporate Financial Management Option is to equip students with the analytical tools and skills used in the various types of financial decisions made by businesses.  Students can also utilize those same skills in the public sector as well as with employers such as investment banks and consulting firms.

ACCOUNTING

  • Introduction to Business Analytics & Principles of Intelligence
  • Principles of Accounting
  • Introduction to Accounting Analytics
  • Intermediate Financial Accounting

BUSINESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

  • Introduction to Business Statistics, Analytics & Modeling
  • Operations & Supply Chain Management

ECONOMICS

  • Principles of Economics

FINANCE

  • Survey of Finance and Career Planning
  • Introduction to Finance
  • Financial Analytics
  • Investments: Debt, Equity, & Derivatives  
  • Corporate Finance
  • Credit Risk Analysis
  • Legal & Ethical Environment of Business
  • Asset Valuation & Corporate Governance
  • Bank Management & Financial Services
  • Fixed Income Securities
  • Python for Finance
  • Financial Modeling in Excel
  • Equity Securities
  • International Financial Management
  • Managing Risk with Derivatives
  • Venture Capital & Investment Banking

 

MANAGEMENT

  • Foundations of Business
  • Principles of Management
  • Introduction to International Business
  • Strategic Management

MARKETING

  • Marketing Management
  • Principles of Management

Mathematics

  • Business Calculus

STUDENT KNOWLEDGE OUTCOMES

Understand and apply the concepts of financial analysis and valuation Be able to utilize financial accounting data to analyze businesses and their cash flows Understand how business are financed and how to optimize the use of capital Understand how international issues impact financial decisions Understand how to use financial instruments to hedge financial risks to businesses Be able to use Excel to construct financial forecasts and model future financial results

TARGETED CURRICULUM

EXAMPLE CAREERS

  • Interest in becoming part of a businesses and contributing to its profitable growth
  • Strategic thinking combines with quantitative analysis
  • Ability to organize and analyze data to solve problems
  • Ability to make data-based decisions and apply them in a variety of real-world settings
  • Corporate and public-sector financial planning, budgeting and analysis
  • Corporate treasury (cash management, financing and lender relations)
  • Contract and project analysis
  • Corporate risk management and hedging
  • Consulting
  • Investment banking

CORPORATE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT EMPLOYERS

Our graduates have gone on to work for firms such as Accenture, Amazon, Bank of America, Caerus Commodities, Capital One, Citi, Clarabridge, Compass One Healthcare, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, EDF, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Geico, KBR, KPMG, L’Oréal, Microsoft, Northrup Grumman, SEI, Tios Capital, Tradeweb, and Wells Fargo, among many more!

INTERNSHIP PLACEMENTS

Current students have been placed in a vast array of companies for their internships encompassing investment banking, consulting, energy and commodity trading, government, investments, financial planning, and corporations.

Meet Your Corporate Financial Management Faculty Lead: MICHAEL KENDER

The faculty lead is available to all students in the major, providing academic advising, guidance, mentorship, and collaboration to support their academic and career decisions.