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Wharton
FNCE 1000 is the foundation for every finance elective at Wharton, and it moves quickly. If one idea early in the semester didn't fully land, it follows you into every problem set after it.
ECON 1745 · Finance I and Finance IIHarvard
At Harvard College, corporate finance lives in the economics department and assumes you're comfortable with math, statistics, and Excel. At HBS, Finance I and II are taught through cases, so you need the numbers ready before class starts.
ECON 140 · Finance, base and accelerated levelsStanford
Stanford GSB places students into base, accelerated, or advanced finance based on background. Undergrads usually meet finance through ECON 140, which leans hard on calculus. Either way, the pace assumes the foundations are already solid.
ECON GU4280 · B6300Columbia
Columbia Business School's core Corporate Finance is half lecture and half case discussion, and it goes deep on DCF and WACC. Undergrads in Financial Economics meet the same valuation ideas in ECON GU4280.
FINC-UB 2 · FINC-UB 7 · COR1-GB 2311NYU Stern
Foundations of Finance is a rigorous, quantitative course, and it's required of every Stern finance concentrator. It covers a lot of ground quickly, with Excel-based problem sets along the way.
BUSN 35000 · Corporation Finance and Introductory FinanceChicago Booth
Booth lets you choose your finance requirement, and many students pick Investments, a course that's quantitative and demanding by design. Whatever you choose, Booth expects you to keep up with the math.
FINC 430 · FINC 440Kellogg
Finance I at Kellogg asks the most basic finance question there is: what is a project or an asset worth? It answers with DCF and multiples, through lectures and cases, and it's the base for every finance course after it.
FINC 2101 · FINC 3101Georgetown
Business Financial Management is the foundation course for McDonough undergrads, and finance majors go on to Corporate Valuation, which is hands-on and detailed. The first course has to be solid for the second to make sense.
Top undergraduate business and finance programs
Michigan Ross
FIN 300 is where every Ross BBA meets corporate finance, and FIN 302, Making Financial Decisions, builds a similar foundation. Both lean on examples, problems, and cases. If you understood the lecture and still missed points on the midterm, or present value didn't fully land in the first weeks, the next exam is very recoverable.
Integrated Core finance · Corporate finance and investments electivesUVA McIntire
McIntire's Integrated Core puts finance next to accounting, marketing, and strategy in one demanding block. Finance is usually the piece that needs the most practice.
BUSI 408UNC Kenan-Flagler
BUSI 408 is UNC's introduction to corporate finance, and it gates the consulting and real estate tracks with a minimum grade of C. It's the course students most want to get right the first time.
BUS-F 370Indiana Kelley
I-Core is Kelley's famous crunch semester, and BUS-F 370 is its finance piece. Time value of money, risk and return, bonds, and capital budgeting all arrive while the other three components are running at full speed.
FIN 340WashU Olin
FIN 340 covers a lot of ground fast: time value of money, bonds and stocks, risk and return, cost of capital, and capital budgeting. It's the course the rest of Olin's finance curriculum builds on.
FIN 320Emory Goizueta
FIN 320 Corporate Finance is part of the Goizueta BBA core, so every business student takes it. It's also where finance majors first find out how deep the subject goes.
FIN 20150 · FIN 30210Notre Dame Mendoza
FIN 20150 is the gateway to Notre Dame's finance major: you need a C or better to continue. It's quantitative, fast, and covers the math of finance, security valuation, and capital investment decisions.
AEM 2241Cornell Dyson
AEM 2241 is Dyson's core finance course. It covers the math of annuities, loans, bonds, and stocks, then moves into NPV, IRR, project analysis, and the security market line, with some financial modeling along the way.
ECO 362 · ECO 363Princeton
Princeton has no business school, so finance lives in the Economics department and the Finance minor. ECO 362 and ECO 363 are the minor's two core courses, usually taken junior year, and neither has a substitute.
ECON 1710 · ECON 1720Brown
At Brown, finance runs through Economics. ECON 1710 Investments and ECON 1720 Corporate Finance are the foundation that every advanced finance course builds on.
ECON 36 · Corporate FinanceDartmouth
ECON 36 Theory of Finance is Dartmouth's advanced undergraduate finance course: risk, capital budgeting, portfolio theory, market efficiency, and option pricing, all through the lens of time and uncertainty. At Tuck, Corporate Finance is part of the MBA core.
MFIN 1021 · MFIN 1127Boston College
MFIN 1021 Fundamentals of Finance, formerly Basic Finance, is the Carroll School's first finance course and the prerequisite for everything after it, including MFIN 1127 Corporate Finance. BC also requires it before any finance elective taken abroad.
FE 323Boston University
FE 323 is the finance piece of Questrom's Cross Functional Core, a required junior fall course. It runs a semester-long business plan project where finance has to fit with marketing, operations, and information systems.
BUAD 306 · BUAD 308USC Marshall
Every Marshall student takes core finance: BUAD 306 Business Finance, or the faster BUAD 308 for students heading into the Finance emphasis. You need one of them done before you can declare that emphasis.
FINA 3320SMU Cox
FINA 3320 Financial Management is a BBA core at Cox, so marketing, management, and finance majors all take it. If you understood the lecture and still missed points on the midterm, the problem is usually the setup, the calculator, or what the question is really asking.
FINA 30153TCU Neeley
FINA 30153 Financial Management is required across Neeley majors, from finance to marketing to supply chain. It focuses on how companies acquire and manage funds, and how finance connects to accounting, economics, and law.
FINE 3010Tulane Freeman
FINE 3010 Financial Management is part of the Freeman BSM core. It covers time value of money and valuing stocks, bonds, and real investment projects.
ECON 372 · ECON 373Duke
Duke undergrads study finance through Economics and the Financial Economics program. ECON 372 covers asset pricing and risk, and ECON 373 covers corporate finance, both with real math prerequisites.
ECON 251 · MBA financeYale
Yale College has no undergraduate business major, so finance lives in Economics. ECON 251 Financial Theory is rigorous, and Yale SOM teaches finance in its MBA core.
UGBA 103Berkeley Haas
UGBA 103 Introduction to Finance is required for every Haas undergrad. It moves from decisions under certainty to pricing risk, then valuation, then financing decisions.
BA 321Pepperdine Seaver
BA 321 Financial Management is required for every major in Seaver's Business Administration Division, and finance majors need a B or better in it to be fully admitted to the major. If you understood the lectures and still lost points on the midterm, that grade is the one to protect.
VSB 2009 · FIN 2114Villanova
VSB 2009 Principles of Finance is the first finance course for Villanova School of Business students, and it carries prerequisites in economics, math or statistics, and other business courses. If the early topics did not land, FIN 2114 Intermediate Corporate Finance asks you to apply them, with computer applications and case studies.
FIN 221Washington & Lee
Managerial Finance is a core course for the Business Administration major at the Williams School, and the catalog lists it as FIN 221 while the registrar's pages now show FIN 2000. Advising suggests finishing it by the end of sophomore year, which puts the course right before majors declare.
ACFM 124 · ACFM 272Bucknell Freeman
ACFM 124 Corporate Finance is part of the core that every Freeman College BSBA candidate completes, whatever the major. At Bucknell it counts as one course credit, and it builds on ACFM 104 Foundations of Accounting.
FIN 231 · FIN 232 and FIN 203Wake Forest
FIN 231 Principles of Finance is part of the Wake Forest business core, and the finance major builds on it with FIN 232 Intermediate Finance and FIN 203 Applied Quantitative Analysis for Finance. If you plan to major in finance, this course sets the pace for everything after it.
FIN 125 · FIN 328Lehigh
FIN 125 Introduction to Finance is the first finance course in Lehigh's College of Business, and it leads to FIN 323 and FIN 328 Corporate Financial Policy, which add accounting, statistics, and calculus prerequisites. A shaky start in FIN 125 gets expensive later.
FIN2000Babson
FIN2000 Principles of Finance at Babson covers stock and bond valuation, capital budgeting, risk and return, and the cost of capital, and it builds on accounting and quantitative methods. It moves fast, and each topic leans on the one before.
FIN 301Penn State Smeal
FIN 301 Corporation Finance is one of the biggest courses at Smeal, with hundreds of students at a time. In a class that size it is easy to nod along in lecture and still miss what the exam wants, and that is the gap we close.
BMGT340Maryland Smith
BMGT340 Business Finance is known for tough exams, and students on PlanetTerp describe averages that surprised them. If you left the first exam unsure what happened, bring it to a session and we will find where the points went.
FINANCE 300Wisconsin School of Business
FINANCE 300 Introduction to Finance is one of the most heavily enrolled courses on campus, including over the summer. That many students means a wide range of backgrounds, and a private session starts from where you are rather than the middle of the class.
FIN 221Illinois Gies
FIN 221 Corporate Finance is a course Gies supports with free drop-in peer tutoring, which says plenty about how many students look for help. When drop-in hours are full or your exam is close, a private session is the faster route.
FIN 3104Virginia Tech Pamplin
FIN 3104 Introduction to Finance is the first finance course for many Pamplin students, and student tutors already advertise exam prep for it. If you want someone to go through your own exams instead of a group review, that is what these sessions are.
33:390:300Rutgers Business School
33:390:300 Financial Management is the finance course Rutgers business students take, and finance majors need a B in it to move on. When a single exam can decide that, it is worth fixing the setup problems before the next one.
FIN 301Miami University Farmer
FIN 301 Introduction to Business Finance is the finance course in the Farmer School's business core. It is the first time many students see time value of money and valuation with real exam pressure, and the first midterm often shows the gaps.
FI 311Michigan State Broad
FI 311 Financial Management is the finance course for Broad business students. Do not confuse it with FI 320, which is for non-business majors. If your first FI 311 midterm did not match what you studied, we start from your own exam.
BUSFIN 3220Ohio State Fisher
BUSFIN 3220 Business Finance sits in the Fisher business core, and a C- or better is needed for the finance specialization. With a large core class and a grade gate behind it, a bad first exam is worth fixing early.
FIN 256Syracuse Whitman
FIN 256 Principles of Finance is in the Whitman introductory core. It arrives early in the program, often before students feel settled in the math, so the first midterm can be a surprise.
BCOR 340West Virginia
BCOR 340 Principles of Finance is in the Chambers business core, and a B- or better is needed to move on to the finance courses. With a grade gate behind it, one rough midterm is worth fixing right away.
FIN 300Arizona State
FIN 300 Fundamentals of Finance is in the W. P. Carey business core, with a C or better required. It is a huge school with big sections, so there is little time in class to ask what you missed.
FIN:3000Iowa Tippie
FIN:3000 Introductory Financial Management is in the Tippie business core and is the gate to every upper-level finance course. If the first exam went badly, it is worth fixing before the rest of the term builds on it.
FIN 3113Oklahoma State Spears
FIN 3113 Principles of Finance is in the common business block for Spears majors. It is often the first finance exam students sit, and the first one can surprise you.
FINA 361Nebraska
FINA 361 Finance is required of all students in the College of Business, and a C or higher is needed before the upper-level finance courses. When the whole college takes one course, a rough exam is very common.
FIN 350Washington Foster
FIN 350 Business Finance is one of the Foster upper-division business core courses, all of which are required. It is a four-credit course at a fast quarter pace, so one weak midterm leaves little time to recover.
FINA 2201 · FINA 3301Northeastern
FINA 2201 Financial Management is a four-hour course that the catalog says requires a financial calculator and builds spreadsheet skills, and FINA 3301 Corporate Finance sits on top of it. If the calculator steps or the first midterm slowed you down, that is a setup habit we can fix.
ECON 106F · MGMT 130AUCLA
UCLA students meet intro finance in ECON 106F Finance, which comes with a lab (106FB) taken at the same time, or in MGMT 130A Basic Managerial Finance. The registrar says only one of the two can count toward the Economics and Business Economics majors. Time value of money, discounted cash flow, and CAPM are where most of the points sit.
BADM 3501 · FINA 3001George Washington
At GW the first finance course is BADM 3501 Financial Management and Markets, which needs economics, calculus, and statistics before you can enroll. FINA 3001 Intermediate Finance builds on it. If the pace of 3501 caught you out, it is usually the setups, not the algebra.
70-391Carnegie Mellon
70-391 Finance is the introductory finance course in the Tepper undergraduate business program, worth 9 units, and it asks you to build the cash flows in a spreadsheet and make a decision. If the valuation problems feel open-ended compared with the lecture examples, you are not alone.
FNBU 3221 · FNBU 3440Fordham
Gabelli students take FNBU 3221 Financial Management after ACBU 2222, then FNBU 3440 Corporate Financial Policy. FNBU 3221 is the prerequisite for FNBU 3440, so a shaky first midterm is worth fixing early.
BUSI 343 · ECON 343Rice
Rice lists the same finance content two ways: BUSI 343 Financial Management and ECON 343 Corporate Finance, and you cannot get credit for both. Both need an economics course, a statistics course, and BUSI 305 Financial Accounting first. Sections of BUSI 343 have listed a maximum enrollment of 65.
AS.180.263Johns Hopkins
At Hopkins the corporate finance course is taught by the Economics department. AS.180.263 Corporate Finance asks for Elements of Macroeconomics and Elements of Microeconomics first, and it is a required course in the Financial Economics minor.
MGT 3062 · MGT 3078Georgia Tech
MGT 3062 Financial Management is the three-credit introduction to finance at Scheller, with ACCT 2101 or MGT 3000 as the prerequisite. MGT 3078 Finance and Investments is the other option, and you cannot take credit for both.
FNCE 121 · FNCE 125Santa Clara
FNCE 121 Financial Management is a five-unit course with OMIS 40 and ACTG 11 as prerequisites. FNCE 125 Corporate Financial Policy comes later and requires FNCE 121 and FNCE 124. A missed concept early tends to carry into the later courses.
FIN 205 · FIN 213University of Rochester
FIN 205 Financial Management needs ECON 108 and one statistics course, and FIN 213 Corporate Finance requires FIN 205. The course description says FIN 213 covers the FIN 205 topics in more depth and more rigorously, so a weak FIN 205 shows up fast.
FI 118 · FI 305 · FI 307Bentley
Bentley has a three-step path: FI 118 Introduction to Finance, then FI 305 Principles of Accounting and Finance, which the catalog calls the gateway to the Finance, Economics and Finance, and Corporate Finance and Accounting majors, then FI 307 Advanced Managerial Finance. FI 305 also needs a math course.
BUSFIN 1030 · BUSFIN 1311Pitt
BUSFIN 1030 Introduction to Finance needs an accounting course and a statistics course first, and BUSFIN 1311 Corporate Finance lists a minimum grade of C in BUSFIN 1030 as its prerequisite. That makes the first course one to get right the first time.
FINA 3001University of Minnesota
FINA 3001 Finance Fundamentals is a three-credit Carlson course offered every fall and spring, with accounting (ACCT 2050 or 2051) and statistics as prerequisites.
BCOR 2204 · FNCE 3010CU Boulder
Leeds splits the early finance work in two: BCOR 2204 Principles of Financial Management is a 1.5-credit business core course, and FNCE 3010 Corporate Finance is the three-credit follow-up for Business majors with 36 or more units. A half-credit course moves quickly, so there is little time to recover from a bad first exam.
FIN 3000 · FIN 3610Baruch
FIN 3000 Principles of Finance is a business base requirement for all BBA students and the prerequisite to every other finance course, according to the Baruch degree map. FIN 3610 Corporate Finance is a required course for the finance major.
FIN 311Binghamton
FIN 311 Financial Management is a junior-year J-Core course taken alongside MKTG 311, MGMT 311, and OPM 311, and it is a prerequisite for every other finance course. The finance concentration also requires a B- or better in FIN 311.
BUAD 323William & Mary
BUAD 323 Financial Management lists BUAD 300, BUAD 311 Principles of Marketing, BUAD 330, and BUAD 350 Business Analytics as corequisites. You are learning finance alongside several other new subjects, so the pace is high from the first week.
FIN 3309 · FIN 3310Baylor
Baylor offers two entry courses: FIN 3309 Introduction to Finance and FIN 3310 Introduction to Corporate Finance, each needing a minimum grade of C in accounting and economics. To earn a finance major you need a B- as the first grade you earn in FIN 3310, and Economics majors must take FIN 3310 too.
MGMT 31000 · MGMT 41300Purdue
MGMT 31000 Financial Management is the gateway course for finance majors at Daniels, and the program page says it should be taken soon after admission to Upper Division because it is a prerequisite for all major selectives. MGMT 41300 Corporate Finance is a required major course.
FINANCE 301 · FINANCE 402UMass Amherst
FINANCE 301 Fundamentals of Finance has ACCOUNTG 221 or 233 as its prerequisite, and Isenberg's Financial Modeling, Investments, and Advanced Corporate Finance courses all list FINANCE 301 as a prerequisite.
FNCE 3101UConn
FNCE 3101 Financial Management is listed in the School of Business Common Body of Knowledge, which the catalog says is required of all undergraduate business majors. It needs accounting, economics, math, and statistics first, plus 40 credits and a Business major.
BAFI 355Case Western
BAFI 355 Corporate Finance is a three-unit Weatherhead course with ACCT 100 or ACCT 101 as the prerequisite. BAFI 356 Investments lists BAFI 355 as its own prerequisite.
FIN 3101Temple
Fox students meet finance in FIN 3101 Financial Management, a survey of financial analysis, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and sources of funds. The bulletin sets a minimum grade of C- in the economics, accounting, and statistics courses that come first. If the setups in lecture make sense and the midterm still goes wrong, that is the pattern I work on.
FIN3080CCincinnati
Lindner students take FIN3080C Business Finance in the upper core. The catalog calls it a tools course built around two ideas: the time value of money and the trade off between risk and return. If the tools click in class but the exam questions hide the unknown, we practice exactly that.
BFIN 2201 · BFIN 3211Seton Hall
Stillman runs finance through BFIN 2201 Business Finance and then BFIN 3211 Financial Strategy, which extends the basics into capital budgeting, capital structure, and cost of capital. The catalog says declared Finance students need at least a C in BFIN 2201 to move on to higher BFIN courses, so that first grade carries weight.
FIN 310 · FIN 311DePaul
DePaul is on quarters, so finance moves fast. FIN 310 Introduction to Finance comes first, and FIN 311 Corporate Finance follows with a required C- or higher in FIN 310. Each is four quarter hours.
FNCE 2101 · FNCE 3215Fairfield
Dolan students take FNCE 2101 Introduction to Finance in the business core, with sophomore standing as a prerequisite. The catalog describes it as covering financial markets, investments, and business finance. FNCE 3215 Financial Management follows it for students who continue. If you are comfortable with the ideas and the numbers still trip you up, we work on exactly that.
KSB-221 · FIN-368American
Kogod puts KSB-221 Business Finance in its business core, with KSB-122 Economic Analysis for Business Decisions (C or better) as a prerequisite or corequisite. Finance majors then take FIN-368 Intermediate Corporate Finance, which needs a C or better in KSB-221. The numbering is unusual, so it is worth checking which course your syllabus is.
FIN 207 · FIN 308Providence College
Providence starts finance with FIN 207 Managerial Finance I, which the catalog describes as the basic tools of financial analysis, valuation, capital budgeting, long-term financing, and risk and return. Finance majors continue to FIN 308 Managerial Finance II. FIN 207 usually lands in the second semester of freshman year, which is early to meet this much math.
MGMT 109UC Irvine
At UC Irvine the finance course is taught by the Paul Merage School of Business, not by economics. MGMT 109 Introduction to Managerial Finance lists MATH 2B and MGMT 30A as prerequisites. It overlaps with ECON 134A, so check which one your plan names.
ECON 134A · ECON 134BUC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara has no undergraduate business school. Finance is taught by the Economics department as ECON 134A Financial Management, then ECON 134B. The catalog lists ECON 100B or 104B and ECON 140A as prerequisites, so this is a course for students deep in the economics sequence.
ECON 173A · ECON 173BUC San Diego
At UC San Diego these finance courses are offered by the Economics department. ECON 173A Financial Markets comes first, then ECON 173B Corporate Finance, which covers capital budgeting, capital structure, dividend policy, taxes, and mergers. Both sit behind a probability and calculus sequence, so they are not a light elective.
15.401 · 15.402MIT
Finance at MIT is taught by MIT Sloan as Course 15. 15.401 Managerial Finance has no prerequisite, and 15.402 Corporate Finance follows it, built mostly on case studies. Undergraduates in 15-3 Finance can also take the lab versions, 15.417 and 15.418.
FIN 3060 · FIN 3110Clemson
Clemson has two entry paths. FIN 3060 Corporation Finance is the one most non-finance majors take, and FIN 3110 Financial Management I is the finance and accounting route, with FIN 3120 Financial Management II after it. You cannot take credit for both FIN 3060 and FIN 3110, so check which one your degree worksheet names.
FIN 310 · FIN 415Kansas
KU's FIN 310 Finance has these prerequisites: ACCT 200 and ECON 142, plus statistics (BSAN 202) taken before or at the same time. Finance majors continue to FIN 415 Corporate Finance, which requires FIN 310 or the honors FIN 311 and has restricted enrollment.
FIN 301 · FIN 302Louisville
Louisville has two intro finance courses. FIN 301 Corporate Finance is for BSBA majors and finance minors; FIN 302 Business Finance is for BBA students and counts only for them. The catalog allows credit for FIN 301 or FIN 302, not both. FIN 304 Intermediate Corporate Finance follows FIN 301.
BUS 320NC State
Poole students meet finance in BUS 320 Financial Management. The catalog lists ACC 210 as the prerequisite. The course covers capital structure, dividend decisions, capital budgeting, working capital, risk and return, portfolio theory, and the time value of money, and it is offered in fall, spring, and summer.
FIN 316Oregon
Lundquist's gateway is FIN 316 Financial Management, a four-credit course. Its listed prerequisites are BA 101Z, BA 169Z, BA 213Z, EC 201Z, and MATH 241. The finance concentration page says a completed FIN 316, or a transferred equivalent, is mandatory for any further finance coursework.
FIN 3320 · FIN 3322Texas Tech
The Rawls finance sheet requires a B or better in FIN 3320 Financial Management, along with a B in ACCT 2300, ACCT 2301, and MATH 2345, and a minimum 2.75 Texas Tech GPA to take any business course. FIN 3320 is meant for the second semester of sophomore year. Finance majors then go to FIN 3322 Corporation Finance I, which also requires a B in FIN 3320.
FIN 3403UCF
UCF puts FIN 3403 Business Finance in the Primary Business Core, which is part of what you complete before admission to a restricted-access BSBA program. The college's rules say finance majors need a B or better in FIN 3403 and in ACG 3173, and that a core course gets only one attempt.
FIN 311 · FIN 360Arizona
Eller has two entry finance courses, FIN 311 Introduction to Finance and FIN 360 Quantitative Financial Management. The finance certificate page says students take one or the other depending on their major.
FINC 311 · FINC 312Delaware
Lerner's FINC 311 Principles of Finance covers the time value of money, valuation, capital budgeting, working capital, cost of capital, and capital structure. The catalog lists ACCT 207 and a statistics course (STAT 200, MATH 350, or STAT 470) as prerequisites. Finance majors follow it with FINC 312 Intermediate Financial Management.
FIN 3010 · FIN 3100Iowa State
Iowa State's intro course is FIN 3010 Principles of Finance, with ECON 1010 and ACCT 2840 as prerequisites. Finance majors then take FIN 3100 Corporate Finance, which requires FIN 3010 or MATH 2400, STAT 2260, and a math course before or alongside.
FINA 311 · FINA 313Howard
Howard's School of Business uses FINA 311 Finance Principles in the business core, with FINA 312 Business Finance listed as its alternate. The prerequisites include Applied Calculus or Calculus I, both economics courses, and ACCT 202. Finance majors then take FINA 313 Financial Management.
ECON 0315Middlebury
Middlebury has no undergraduate business school, so finance lives in the economics department. The course most students mean is ECON 0315 Financial Economics, which covers risk and return, CAPM, forwards, futures, and options pricing. If the midterm felt like a different class from the lectures, we can sort out where the setup went wrong.
ECON 384Williams
Williams has no business school, so the finance course is ECON 384 Corporate Finance in the economics department. It looks at capital budgeting, capital structure, dividend policy, and firm valuation through economic models. If the models make sense in class but the problem sets and exams do not, that gap is what we work on.
ECON 228Amherst
Amherst has no business school, and the main finance course is ECON 228 Introduction to Financial Economics in the economics department. The catalog limits it to 30 students and lists ECON 111 as the requisite. It covers the time value of money, risk and return, and stock and bond valuation, which is where a lot of first exams go sideways.
ECON 387 · ECON 105Colgate
Colgate has no business school. Finance is ECON 387 Financial Economics, which focuses on corporate finance, and accounting is a separate course, ECON 105 Principles of Accounting. ECON 387 builds on ECON 251, 252, and 375, so the statistics and theory behind it matter as much as the finance.
ECON-220 · ECON-230Hamilton
Hamilton has no business school, so finance and accounting sit in the economics department. ECON-220 Corporate Finance covers the time value of money, NPV and IRR, capital budgeting, capital structure, and payout policy, and ECON-230 Accounting covers the four basic financial statements. Both are one-credit courses, and the catalog says they do not count toward the economics concentration or minor.
ECO 214 · ECO 211Davidson
Davidson has no business school, so finance is ECO 214 Finance in the economics department, with ECO 211 Introduction to Accounting as the listed prerequisite. ECO 214 covers financial analysis, the time value of money, capital budgeting, and capital structure. We can work through where the accounting ends and the finance begins.
ECON 3401Bowdoin
Bowdoin has no business school. Finance is ECON 3401 Financial Economics in the economics department, and it is the central course in the economics and finance minor. The catalog caps it at 25 students and asks for a C- or better in ECON 2555 Microeconomics first. It covers choice under uncertainty, the time value of money, portfolio optimization, CAPM, and options.
ECON 134 CM · ECON 086 CMClaremont McKenna
Claremont McKenna has no undergraduate business school, so finance is taught in the economics department. ECON 134 CM Corporate Finance is the core finance course, and ECON 086 CM Accounting for Decision Making is a listed prerequisite for the financial economics sequence. The catalog says ECON 134 CM needs a college statistics course first.
ECO 324 · ECO 248Connecticut College
Connecticut College has no business school, so finance is ECO 324 Corporate Finance in the economics department, a four-credit course limited to 28 students. The catalog asks for ECO 205, ECO 230 (or STA 207), and ECO 248 Introduction to Financial Institutions and Markets first. It covers net present value, debt versus equity, options, and long-term valuation.
ECON 309Trinity College
Trinity has no business school, and the finance course is ECON 309 Corporate Finance in the economics department. The course listing shows an enrollment limit of 25 and a prerequisite of C+ or better in Economics 301 or 302. It covers valuation, portfolio theory, capital budgeting, and cost of capital.
ECON 329Wesleyan
Wesleyan has no business school. Finance is ECON 329 Corporate Finance in the economics department, which applies economic principles to financial markets, instruments, and regulation. The catalog asks for ECON 300 or 303 and ECON 301 first.
ECON 022 · ECON 033Swarthmore
Swarthmore has no business school, so finance is ECON 022 Financial Economics in the economics department, and accounting is ECON 033 Financial Accounting. ECON 022 needs ECON 001 and ECON 031 or the equivalent. It covers how firms finance operations, asset pricing, and options and futures.
ECON 157 POPomona
Pomona has no business school, and its finance course is ECON 157 PO Corporate Finance in the economics department. The catalog lists ECON 057 PO and ECON 102 PO as prerequisites and recommends ECON 117 PO. It covers NPV, risk, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, and mergers.
FIN 360 · FIN 361Richmond
Richmond's undergraduate business school is the Robins School of Business, and its finance sequence runs through FIN 360 Principles of Financial Management and FIN 361 Corporate Finance. FIN 361 puts special weight on Excel modeling. The two courses are linked, so a weak FIN 360 shows up again in FIN 361.
EC 50 · EC 150 · EC 3Tufts
At Tufts the undergraduate finance courses sit in the economics department. EC 50 Introduction to Finance covers the core ideas of corporate finance with theory, cases, and applications, and EC 150 Financial Economics goes further. The department also suggests EC 3 Financial Accounting for students with a strong finance interest.
ACCT 275 · ACCT 181 · ECON 230Holy Cross
Holy Cross has no business school. Finance and accounting sit in the Economics and Accounting department, and the corporate finance course is ACCT 275 Corporation Finance. It covers stock and bond valuation, risk and return, project analysis, and dividend and debt policy. ECON 230 Financial Markets and Institutions is a separate, more descriptive course.
ECON 240 · ECON 140Lafayette
Lafayette has no business school, so finance is ECON 240 Corporate Finance in the economics department. The catalog lists ECON 101, ECON 140 Financial Accounting and Analysis, and MATH 186 as prerequisites, with MATH 335 allowed at the same time. The course focuses on investment and financing decisions, risk management, and dividends.
FINC 334Loyola Chicago
Quinlan School of Business students meet finance in FINC 334 Principles of Corporate Finance. It covers discounted cash flows, firm valuation, capital budgeting, risk and return, capital structure, and financing, and students also complete the Bloomberg Market Concepts course. The prerequisites span economics, statistics, accounting, and math, so gaps from those courses often show up here.
FIN 3430 · FIN 4130 · ACC 2010Elon
Elon's Love School of Business teaches finance through FIN 3430 Principles of Finance, which the catalog says might be subtitled what every business major needs to know about finance. FIN 4130 Advanced Managerial Finance follows. The prerequisites include BUS 2110 and ACC 2010 Principles of Accounting, with ECO 2300 before or alongside.
FIN 201 · FIN 401 · ACC 200BYU
At BYU the Marriott School teaches FIN 201 Principles of Finance, which looks at finance from a business manager's view, and FIN 401 Advanced Financial Management covers capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, and mergers. The finance program has an application, and the program flowchart lists FIN 201 and ACC 200 Principles of Accounting as prerequisites to finish before the deadline.
FIN 3403 · FIN 4414South Florida Muma
FIN 3403 Principles of Finance is where USF business students study how a firm acquires and uses funds, with the asset and liability structure under certain and risky situations. FIN 4414 Advanced Corporation Finance is a course in the finance major's corporate finance concentration.
FIN 3403FIU Business
FIN 3403 Financial Management is the corporate finance course for FIU business students. The catalog describes working capital management, capital budgeting, short and long term financing, and capital structure, which is a lot of ground for one term.
FIN 317 · FIN 327Chapman Argyros
FIN 317 Financial Management is the first finance course at the Argyros College, and FIN 327 Intermediate Financial Management follows it. Chapman lists a C- minimum in prerequisites and required courses, so one weak exam in FIN 317 can matter more than it first seems.
FINA 300 · FINA 404University of San Diego
FINA 300 Financial Management sits in the Business Component of the finance major at USD. FINA 404 Advanced Corporate Finance is the case-based follow up, with valuation, capital budgeting, capital structure, and mergers.
FIN 320 · FIN 321Cal State Fullerton
FIN 320 Financial Management I covers financial statement analysis, valuing cash flows, capital budgeting, risk and return, and the cost of capital. FIN 321 Financial Management II continues into long term financing, capital structure, and firm valuation.
FRL 3000 · FRL 3671Cal Poly Pomona
FRL 3000 Managerial Finance is in the required major courses of the business administration degree at Cal Poly Pomona,. FRL 3671 Corporate Finance Theory is the deeper corporate course in the finance subplan.
FIN 200 · FIN 300Saint Joseph's Haub
The catalog calls FIN 200 Intro to Finance required for all business students and a prerequisite for the other 200 to 400 level finance courses. FIN 300 Intermediate Finance follows with capital budgeting, capital structure, dividend policy, and valuation.
FIN 103a · FIN 104a · FIN 105aBrandeis
I studied finance at Brandeis myself, so I know how these courses are taught and where students get stuck. I tutor Brandeis students online, one on one, in the core finance sequence from Financial Management through Corporate Finance and Investments.
FIN 301Drexel
I tutor Drexel students online, one on one, in FIN 301 Introduction to Finance. The C you need for FIN 302 is the goal we work backward from.
SEC and Florida
Florida
FIN 3403 is the finance course most Warrington students have to get through. It's a 4-credit course built around the balance sheet, and it covers a lot of ground between the first exam and the last.
FIN 3403Florida State
I taught MBA finance at Florida State, so I know the College of Business well. FIN 3403 covers time value of money, security valuation, and the investment, financing, and dividend decisions a firm makes, and every later finance course builds on it.
FIN 302 · FIN 303Miami
FIN 302 is the core finance class at Miami Herbert, and it's also the gate to the finance major: you need a B or better to declare. That makes the grade matter more than it does in most intro courses.
FI 302Alabama
FI 302 is Culverhouse's business finance course, and students get a limited number of attempts at it. That's a good reason to fix a weak spot early instead of hoping the next exam goes better.
FINA 3000Georgia
FINA 3000 packs corporate finance and investments into one course: risk and return, valuation, capital budgeting, portfolio theory, cost of capital, and international finance. That's a lot for a single semester.
FIN 357Texas
FIN 357 is the foundation for every other finance course at McCombs. It focuses on cost of capital, investment decisions, managing assets, and raising funds, and McCombs expects you to carry those tools into everything after it.
FINC 341Texas A&M
FINC 341 covers how modern corporations manage money: cash flow, planning, raising funds, long-term funds, and working capital. Most Mays students take it once they reach upper division.
FIN 3715 · FIN 3716LSU
LSU has two intro finance courses with similar names. FIN 3715 Business Finance covers capital structure, dividend policy, working capital, and capital budgeting, and the catalog says it is not open to E. J. Ourso College students. FIN 3716 Principles of Finance covers risk and return, time value of money, valuation, and market efficiency.
FINA 3000Ole Miss
FINA 3000 Business Finance I, numbered FIN 331 until the catalog moved to four digits, covers financial analysis, investment decisions, cost of capital, and how companies raise money. Most upper-level finance courses at Ole Miss build straight on top of it.
FINC 3610 · FINC 3810Auburn
FINC 3610 is Harbert's principles course, and it covers corporate finance from the financial manager's side: time value of money, valuation, and capital budgeting. You need a C or better to move on to FINC 3630.
FINC 301 · FINC 300Tennessee
FINC 301 is Haslam's financial management course for business majors: how a firm invests, finances itself, and manages its assets. Non-business students usually take FINC 300, a survey of the same basic ideas.
FINA 363South Carolina
FINA 363 teaches you to value bonds, stocks, and corporate projects, measure investment risk, and build a diversified portfolio. It's also required before you can apply to the Finance Scholars program.
FIN 300Kentucky
FIN 300 is Gatton's introduction to finance. It covers where a company's money comes from and where it goes, budgeting, present value, and how those drive investment, financing, and dividend decisions.
FINANC 3000Missouri
FINANC 3000 covers financial decisions inside a corporation: time value of money, capital budgeting, cost of capital, working capital, and the securities a firm issues. It's required for the Finance and Banking emphasis and leads into the upper-level finance courses.
FINN 20403 · FINN 36003Arkansas
FINN 20403 introduces Walton students to the whole financial system: banks and markets, how interest rates are set, how assets are valued, and how firms create value. Finance students then go deeper in FINN 36003 Corporate Finance.
FIN 3123 · FIN 3113Mississippi State
FIN 3123 is required of every Mississippi State business major. It covers financial analysis, planning, sources and uses of funds, capital budgeting, and working capital. FIN 3113 adds interest rates, security valuation, and markets.
FIN 2303 · FIN 4303Oklahoma
FIN 2303 Business Finance is the prerequisite for nearly every upper-level finance course at Price College, including FIN 4303 Advanced Business Finance. There's also an honors section that moves faster.
BUS 1300 · MGT 6331Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt doesn't have an undergraduate business major, so most undergrads meet finance through the business minor's Principles of Finance or through Financial Economics courses. At Owen, Managerial Finance is part of the MBA core.
Big state universities
Houston
Every business major at Bauer takes FINA 3332 Principles of Finance, whatever they plan to study. It covers the time value of money, corporate financial management, and investments, and finance majors go straight from it into FINA 4320 and FINA 4330.
FIN 305Colorado State
FIN 305 Fundamentals of Finance is where Colorado State students meet the role of finance in managing a firm, how financial markets and institutions are built, and how basic securities are valued. It sits behind an accounting course, and the catalog won't give you credit for both FIN 300 and FIN 305.
FNAN 303George Mason
FNAN 303 Financial Management is the finance course in the Costello College of Business, and the catalog attaches a real condition to it: students get no more than three attempts at a C or higher, and the third attempt needs advisor approval. That makes passing it well worth getting right early.
FINA 3313UT Arlington
FINA 3313 Business Finance at UT Arlington is built around the decisions a corporate manager makes about financing and investing. The catalog's topic list is long, running from financial statement analysis to how diversity affects firm valuations and access to financing.
FIN 3013 · PrerequisitesUTSA
FIN 3013 Principles of Business Finance is UTSA's introduction to financial management techniques. It lists four prerequisites, and the catalog allows ACC 2033 and ECO 2013 to be taken at the same time, so students often arrive with uneven preparation.
FIN 3403 · Grade requirementUCF
FIN 3403 Business Finance is in the primary core of the business degrees at UCF, which is why so many students take it, and the finance major adds a hard line: a B or higher in FIN 3403 and ACG 3173, or a C or higher in ACG 3131.
FIRE 311VCU
FIRE 311 Financial Management is the introduction to finance in VCU's School of Business core. The catalog says you learn to value financial assets, evaluate investment opportunities, weigh risk against return, and work out a firm's cost of capital.
FINAN 3020Utah
FINAN 3020 Principles of Finance is the course for students in the Eccles School of Business, covering financial analysis, the time value of money, capital budgeting, risk and return, and the cost of capital. FINAN 3000 is the separate version for business minors and non-business majors.
B A 323San Diego State
B A 323 Fundamentals of Finance is the San Diego State course that covers the objectives of financial management, financing the business, cost of capital, valuation, dividend policy, and the present value techniques behind all of it. You may still hear it called FIN 323, its old number.
FIN 3100Kennesaw State
FIN 3100 Principles of Finance is the managerial finance course in the Coles College of Business. The catalog's list runs from the time value of money and valuation of bonds and stocks to financial analysis, working capital, capital budgeting, and capital structure.
FINA 3770North Texas
FINA 3770 Finance is the University of North Texas course that opens with money and the banking system, then moves to interest and present value, financial information, analysis and financial decision making, and security markets.
FIN 301UNLV
FIN 301 Principles of Managerial Finance is the Lee Business School course covering financial mathematics, valuation of securities, financial analysis, capital budgeting, capital structure and dividend policy, and working capital. The catalog caps you at three attempts.
FIN 303Cal State Northridge
FIN 303 Financial Management is the Cal State Northridge course that analyzes a firm's financial decisions from inside and outside the company, covering valuation, working capital, capital budgeting, forecasting, capital structure, and dividend policy at home and abroad.
FINAN 450Kansas State
FINAN 450 Principles of Finance is the Kansas State introduction to finance: discounted cash flow, the risk and return trade-off, asset pricing models, and valuation of financial and real assets, applied to a firm's investment and financing decisions.
FIN 3403Florida Atlantic
FIN 3403 Principles of Financial Management is Florida Atlantic's survey of financial management, covering capital budgeting, cost of capital, and financial analysis. It requires ACG 2021, ACG 2071, and junior standing.
FIN 325Washington State
FIN 325 Introduction to Financial Management is the Washington State course covering the time value of money, financial securities and markets, financial decision making, valuation techniques, and the cost of capital.
BA 240Oregon State
BA 240 Finance is the four-credit Oregon State course on the basic tools of finance: rates of return, the time value of money, capital budgeting, and the logic of financial statements. It's available through Ecampus, and the finance major requires a C or higher.
FI 3300Georgia State
FI 3300 Corporation Finance is the Robinson College of Business course in the financial management of nonfinancial corporations, including the role of interest rates and capital markets, financial statements, time value of money on financial calculators, stock and bond valuation, forecasting, and cost of capital.
Intro finance and beyondCSULB
I tutor finance for Cal State Long Beach students online, one on one, from the intro corporate finance course through investments and valuation. Bring your syllabus and your last exam, and we work from the actual course.
Intro finance and beyondBoise State
I tutor finance for Boise State students online, one on one, from the intro corporate finance course through investments and valuation. Bring your syllabus and your last exam, and we work from the actual course.
Intro finance and beyondTexas State
I tutor finance for Texas State students online, one on one, from the intro corporate finance course through investments and valuation. Bring your syllabus and your last exam, and we work from the actual course.
FIN 36053Kent State
I tutor Kent State business students online, one on one, in FIN 36053 Business Finance. Bring your syllabus and your last exam, and we work from what your course actually tests.
FIN 3290Wayne State
I tutor Wayne State students online, one on one, in FIN 3290 Business Finance, from the first TVM problem through the final exam.
FIN 325West Chester
I tutor West Chester students online, one on one, in FIN 325 Corporate Finance, with exam prep built around your own practice problems.
FIL 240Illinois State
I tutor Illinois State students online, one on one, in FIL 240 Business Finance. Yes, the prefix is FIL, and yes, it is the finance course.
FIN 300UIC
I tutor UIC students online, one on one, in FIN 300 Introduction to Finance. If you are aiming for the finance major, the grade bar is a B, so we plan for that.
BA 303Portland State
I tutor Portland State students online, one on one, in BA 303 Business Finance. It is the only finance course most business majors take, so it has a lot to cover.
FIN 3100Utah Valley
I tutor Utah Valley students online, one on one, in FIN 3100 Principles of Finance, with practice built around your syllabus.
BUS ADM 350UW-Milwaukee
I tutor UW-Milwaukee students online, one on one, in BUS ADM 350 Principles of Finance. A C or better opens the door to the finance major.
FINA 3724East Carolina
I tutor East Carolina students online, one on one, in FINA 3724 Financial Management, from TVM to the final.
BUS 106UC Riverside
I tutor UC Riverside students online, one on one, in BUS 106 Introduction to Financial Management, with BUS 108 help available too.
BUS1 170San Jose State
I tutor San Jose State students online, one on one, in BUS1 170 Fundamentals of Finance. Yes, that is BUS1 with a one.
FIN 320Grand Valley State
I tutor Grand Valley State students online, one on one, in FIN 320 Managerial Finance, built around your own syllabus and old exams.
FIN 3320UT Dallas
I tutor UT Dallas students online, one on one, in FIN 3320 Business Finance, from the first TVM problem to the final.
FIN 3200Western Michigan
I tutor Western Michigan students online, one on one, in FIN 3200 Business Finance, using your syllabus as the plan.
FIN 3030Cal State LA
I tutor Cal State LA students online, one on one, in FIN 3030 Business Finance, from the first problem set to the final.
MGF 301Buffalo
I tutor University at Buffalo students online, one on one, in MGF 301 Corporation Finance. Bring your syllabus and we start there.
Online and large private universities
Canada
University of Toronto
Rotman Commerce runs its finance sequence through RSM230 Financial Markets, RSM332 Capital Market Theory, and RSM333 Corporate Finance, all graded on a mid-term test and a heavy final. If the formulas made sense in lecture and the test still went sideways, that is the pattern I work on.
MGCR 341 · FINE 342McGill
Desautels students meet finance in MGCR 341 Introduction to Finance and go deeper in FINE 342 Corporate Finance. If the first midterm in either one surprised you, you are not alone, and it is usually a setup problem rather than a math problem.
COMM 298 · COMM 370UBC Sauder
COMM 298 Introduction to Finance is where most Sauder students first meet finance, and COMM 370 Corporate Finance follows. Plenty of students call 298 one of the harder BCom courses, which is why a session on your first midterm can change how the rest of the term goes.
COMM 121 · COMM 122Queen's Commerce
Commerce students at Queen's meet finance in COMM 121 Introduction To Finance and go further in COMM 122 Finance II. The calendar describes COMM 121 as a framework for valuing stocks, bonds, and corporate investments, and the first midterm is where many students find out how much of that framework they can use under time pressure.
3303KWestern Ivey HBA
The Ivey HBA lists 3303K Finance as a required course. A finance concept you did not fully absorb early in the term can still be costing you later, so I work from your own cases and exams.
FINE 2000 · FINE 3100York Schulich
Schulich's BBA starts finance with FINE 2000 Introduction to Finance, which the course page calls a core course, and continues in FINE 3100 Financial Management. FINE 3100 mixes theory with business cases, which is a different skill from the problem sets in FINE 2000.
COMMERCE 2FA3 · COMMERCE 2FB3McMaster DeGroote
DeGroote lists COMMERCE 2FA3 Introduction to Finance and COMMERCE 2FB3 Managerial Finance among its Level II courses. They come back to back, and 2FB3 moves quickly into capital structure, dividend policy, and leasing, so a weak start in 2FA3 tends to follow you.
FIN 300 · FIN 401Toronto Metropolitan
At Toronto Metropolitan, the school many people still call Ryerson, students outside the School of Accounting and Finance take finance through FIN 300 Managerial Finance I and then FIN 401 Managerial Finance II. FIN 300 moves from the time value of money to valuation and capital budgeting in one term, and FIN 401 adds capital structure, the cost of capital, and derivatives.
COMM 309 · COMM 221Concordia John Molson
COMM 309 Business Finance is part of the 48-credit JMSB Core for both the BComm and the BAdmin, so most John Molson students take it whatever their major. COMM 221 Financial Markets sits in the same core, and the two together carry the finance load before any major courses.
BUS 312 · BUS 313SFU Beedie
Beedie students start with BUS 312 Introduction to Finance, which the calendar describes as financial statements, time value of money, capital budgeting, and risk and return. BUS 313 Corporate Finance follows with investment and financing decisions, capital structure, and payout policy.
FIN 201 · FIN 322Alberta School of Business
FIN 201 Introduction to Finance covers securities, valuation, risk, and the choice between debt and equity. The calendar lists a seminar hour with the lectures, and FIN 322 Capital Investment picks up capital budgeting and the cost of capital afterward.
FNCE 317 · FNCE 451Calgary Haskayne
FNCE 317 Financial Management is the entry course at Haskayne, and it needs admission to the school. FNCE 451 Corporate Finance is the deeper course that follows, with capital budgeting, capital structure, valuation, and payout policy.
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