Modeling App's Finan Plan credit:

2 Hours

Improves ability to make effective financial plans and decisions. Involves development of decision tools that are applied to "real world" financial data sets and planning/decision-making circumstances. Topics include applied data management techniques (designing queries/storable forms), financial statement analysis, numeric optimization tools, leverage assessment, incorporating risk in decisions, capital budgeting and time value of money, term structure of interest rates, and currency exchange. 2 undergraduate hours. 2 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One of ACE 240 , ACE 345 , FIN 221 or FIN 232; or consent of instructor and knowledge of spreadsheet software equivalent to the coverage of ACE 360 .