Department of Finance

Chair:
Praveen Kumar

Professors:
Thomas George, Kris Jacobs, Praveen Kumar, R. Richardson Pettit (Emeritus), Craig Pirrong, Paul Povel, Ramon Rabinovitch, Latha Ramchand, Ronald Singer (Emeritus), Stuart Turnbull, Guojun Wu

Associate Professors:
Jeremy Berkowitz, Nisan Langberg, Raul Susmel, Vijay Yerramilli

Assistant Professors:
Swati Basu (Clinical), Donald Bellman (Clinical), Darla Chisholm (Clinical), Hitesh Doshi, Robert Gilmer (Clinical), Charles Guez (Clinical), John Lopez (Clinical), Olivia Miljanic (Clinical), Trenton Page, Natalia Piqueira (Clinical), Oliver Rogers (Clinical), Kevin Roshak, Christopher Ross (Clinical), Sang Seo, Seung Min Yae

The Department of Finance (FINA)

offers a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a major in finance. This major concentrates on an understanding of the financial decisions of corporations, individuals, and nonprofit organizations, offers the Global Energy Management - Professional Program and special tracks in Global Energy Management, Commercial Banking, Personal Financial Planning, and Risk Management and Insurance. The courses focus on analysis and management of risk, costs and benefits of capital budgeting decisions, portfolio management, security analysis, and energy management. The department offers courses dealing with corporate financial management, investment analysis, the operation of institutions, analysis of derivative securities, risk and insurance, real estate finance, and international securities markets.

Programs

• Finance, B.B.A.
• Finance, B.B.A. - Commercial Banking Track and Certificate
• Finance, B.B.A. - Global Energy Management Track and Certificate
• Finance, B.B.A. - Global Energy Management-Professional Program Track and Certificate
• Finance, B.B.A. - Personal Financial Planning Track and Certificate
• Finance, B.B.A. - Risk Management & Insurance Track and Certificate

• Finance Minor
• Personal Financial Planning Minor
• Risk Management and Insurance Minor