Bachelor of Science - Business - Finance
About Bachelor of Science - Business - Finance
Program Description
DePaul's Finance program will provide students with a solid foundation in financial management and an understanding of public and private financial processes, financial markets, analysis, and investments.
As a Finance major, students will take courses in:
- Corporate finance
- Financial statements analysis
- Investment theory and practice
- Money and banking
- Quantitative reasoning
- Risk management
Students will also take multiple elective courses. Depending on their career goals, students may take a series of courses that focus on one of the following areas:
- Banking and financial services
- Corporate financial management
- Investment analysis/ management
- Risk management
DePaul's Driehaus College of Business is located in downtown Chicago, in the heart of the city's financial district, providing students with countless opportunities to intern and work professionally with leading companies in the business industry. Students are encouraged to complete an internship with a Chicago-area business during the summer preceding either their junior or senior year.
Learning Outcomes
Core Outcomes
Students will be able to:
Students will be able to:
- Use analytical and reflective skills in decision-making.
- Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Recognize legal and ethical issues confronting them.
- Contribute to the performance of a group within a business setting.
- Know the differences among global economies, institutions, business practices and cultures.
- Acquire knowledge of the functional areas of business and the interrelationships among the functional areas within a business.
Program Specific Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Understand financial theory and how it can be applied to financial decision-making.
- Develop appropriate cash flows and discount rate analysis of projects, and financial instruments (e.g. bonds and stocks).
- Apply and interpret the appropriate risk measures (e.g. beta, standard deviation) to situations under uncertainty.
- Understand the role of agents and impact of governance.
- Understand the structure of the financial markets and the roles of institutions in those markets.
- Understand the flow of funds in the private and public markets.
- Know the determinants of the cost of funds.
- Understand how derivative instruments work and can be used for risk management.
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