Course Number: FINA 201
Course Name: Principles of Finance
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
This course emphasizes the financing and investment decisions of the financial manager. Topics include financial analysis, planning and control, working capital management, time value of money, risk and return, valuation of bonds and stocks, capital budgeting, and cost of capital.
Course Number: FINA 300
Course Name: Entrepreneurial Finance
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
The course provides students with the necessary knowledge about the vital role of finance for new ventures and the contribution of financing methods in enhancing the new ventures growth and survival rates. The course covers a variety of topics including access to finance for entrepreneurs and different financing methods such as equity finance and banking finance. Moreover, students will be able to prepare the financial plan for new ventures and evaluate the investment projects.
Course Number: FINA 301
Course Name: Corporate Finance
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
This course provides an in-depth analysis of financial decisions involving investment in capital assets and the selection of internal and external sources of long-term funds. Topics include capital budgeting techniques, risk analysis, capital structure, dividend policies, mergers and acquisitions.
Course Number: FINA 302
Course Name: Investments
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
This course examines alternative investment instruments and environments. This course provides an introduction to risk and return; asset pricing models; portfolio choice; analysis and valuation of bonds, stocks, options, and futures; and, the workings of exchanges and regulations.
Course Number: FINA 303
Course Name: Financial Markets and Institutions
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
This course examines the operations, mechanics and structure of the financial system. Topics include commercial banking, non-bank financial institutions, money and capital markets, and the impact of monetary policy on financial institutions. An introduction to the international financial system is also provided.
Course Number: FINA 304
Course Name: International Finance
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
This course surveys techniques of investment analysis and portfolio management within an international context. Topics include International monetary environment and institutions, determinants of foreign exchange rates and risk management, valuation and portfolio analysis of international stocks and bonds, and foreign investment analysis.
Course Number: FINA 401
Course Name: Portfolio Management
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
This course covers various topics related to portfolio management. Topics include diversification and portfolio theory, capital market theory, security selection and bond selection; portfolio management: revision of equity portfolio and fixed-income portfolio, risk management with derivative securities, performance evaluation, and portfolio manager’s duties and responsibilities; integrating derivative assets and portfolio management.
Course Number: FINA 402
Course Name: Personal Finance
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
This course provides an overview of fundamental concepts of personal finance. Topics include types of investment securities, retirement and real estate planning, insurance planning, budgeting, credit, home ownership, and savings.
Course Number: FINA 403
Course Name: Insurance and Risk Management
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
This course addresses and examines the basic risk theory and elementary risk management principles and techniques. Topics include life insurance and annuity products, property/liability insurance, life/health insurance, and selected social insurance programs, insurers and their operations, guidelines for efficient purchase and use of insurance products. Special attention is given to the attitudes of consumers towards life and general insurance in GCC countries and the role of insurance companies as non-banking financial institutions.
Course Number: FINA 404
Course Name: Islamic Banking and Finance
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
This course introduces the concept of economic behavior of a society that adheres to the Islamic doctrine; economic properties of an Islamic economy, general equilibrium and macroeconomic policies in Islamic economies, Islamic banks and finance and the role of the stock exchange in an Islamic economy. Other topics include basic differences between Islamic banks and conventional banks; financial instruments of Islamic banks; profit/loss sharing method of finance is compared with fixed interest charges. The relationship between Islamic financial institutions and the Central Bank is analyzed.
Course Number: FINA 405
Course Name: Financial Derivatives
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
This course focuses on options and futures markets, investment and risk management strategies using these derivative products, and pricing of options and futures contracts. Additional coverage includes basic swap agreements and exotic options.
Course Number: FINA 406
Course Name: Management of financial intermediaries
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
The course covers financial management of deposit and non-deposit-taking financial institutions. Topics include the role and the activities of depository financial institutions, performance measurement and evaluation; asset/liability management for liquidity risk, credit risk, interest rate risk; and regulation of depository institutions.
Course Number: FINA 410
Course Name: Financing for Entrepreneurial Ventures
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
The focus of this course is to analyze the unique financial issues which face entrepreneurial firms and to develop a set of skills that has wide applications for such situations. The course covers venture capital industry and its players, sources of financing, legal aspects of venture capital, cost of capital and valuation, investment feasibility and comparable analysis, real options, and game theory.
Course Number: FINA 420
Course Name: Real Estate Finance
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
This course introduces the main tools and methods employed to make investment and finance decisions in residential and commercial real estate assets. This course aims to value real estate and determine the financial viability of decisions related to income properties such as disposition and renovation.
Course Number: FINA 425
Course Name: Financial Modeling
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
This course builds upon the theoretical background gained in FINA 201, FINA 301, and FINA 302 and equips the students with the required tools to solve real-world finance problems. The course introduces advanced statistical and risk analysis tools for the purpose of financial planning and decision-making. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to: "What-if" analysis; Goal Seek; Statistical Solver; Scenario Manager; Data Tables; Portfolio Optimization; Monte Carlo Simulations; Break-Even Analysis; Sensitivity Analysis; and Risk Analysis.
Course Number: FINA 430
Course Name: Financial Analytics
Credit Hours: (3 hours)
This course equips the students with the required tools to solve real-world finance problems using analytical tools and software(s) like Stata and Excel. The course introduces advanced statistical tools and risk analysis pre-built packages for the purpose of financial planning and decision-making. Topics to be covered include, but not limited to: “What-if” analysis; Statistical Analysis, Time-Series Analysis; Univariate and Multivariate Models of Volatility; Monte Carlo Simulations; Break-Even Analysis; Sensitivity Analysis; Inference on Risk Analysis and Measures of Contagion.