Financial Management – BUSI 685
CG • Section 8WK • 11/08/2019 to 04/16/2020 • Modified 02/01/2024
Course Description
This course focuses on the firm's opportunities and resulting potential impact on shareholder value based on the considered risk level. Topics include investments, capital structure and restructuring, budgeting, financial markets, policy, and portfolio management.
For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.
Rationale
Financial managers learn from experience how to make routine decisions. The best managers, however, are also able to adapt to the ever-changing business environment in which their firm operates. Managing change requires more than rules of thumb to be truly effective; financial managers must understand why companies and financial markets behave the way they do. In other words, financial managers need to understand the theory of finance in order to conduct sound and effective financial decisions.
Course Assignment
After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.
Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to submit a thread of at least 400 words in response to the provided prompt for each discussion. For each thread, the student must support his/her assertions with at least 2 scholarly/professional sources and 1 biblical integration in current APA format. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to 2 classmates’ threads. Each reply must be at least 250 words.
Each module, the student will be assigned homework and LearnSmart Activities to complete in Connect. Each module’s homework consists of 2 assignments: the chapter homework and the LearnSmart homework. At the end of each module, Connect will automatically grade all the assignments, and the instructor will then download the results and place the scores on Canvas.
The student will write a 1000-word (excluding title page and references) research paper using current APA format that examines one of the major topics in the course in light of the Bible. The focus of this paper will be to bridge the gap between Christianity and theory. The student must cite at least 3 scholarly sources (in addition to the Bible).
Each quiz will cover the Learn material for the assigned module: week. Each quiz contains 40 multiple-choice questions, true/false questions, and/or open-ended problems, and has a time limit of 1 hour and 30 minutes.
