FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS ACUMEN
This course is designed with a keen awareness for the needs of the non-financial student or professional. For this class, no previous financial training is required. The intent is to equip you with the essential concepts used to develop financial literacy. Content will cover basic financial terms and reports, analytical tools to help interpret financial data and using financial data in budgets and forecasts.
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Requisites: Graduate/professional standing. Not open to students declared in an MBA program Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply the language and foundational tools of finance to analyze how a company’s economic activity is reflected in its financial reports Audience: Graduate 2. Perform high-level financial statement analysis to identify important information from financial reports Audience: Graduate 3. Apply basic financial concepts of valuation, capital budgeting, and financial decision making Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply the language and foundational tools of finance to analyze how a company’s economic activity is reflected in its financial reports Audience: Graduate 2. Perform high-level financial statement analysis to identify important information from financial reports Audience: Graduate 3. Apply basic financial concepts of valuation, capital budgeting, and financial decision making Audience: Graduate
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