Walsh University’s online BBA in Finance gives adult learners the knowledge and skills to advance in roles like financial analyst, budget manager, or business advisor. Learn to evaluate risk, manage budgets, and support smart financial decisions in corporate, nonprofit, or government settings—all through a flexible, career-focused format.
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This course provides students with a focus on financial management in the global economy including international financial instruments, markets, and institutions. Students will analyze financial management challenges facing multinational organizations such as: financing foreign investment, financial control of foreign operations, evolving international payment systems, country-risk analysis, and the impact of interest rate and inflation fluctuation on an international scale. Prerequisite: BUS 209.
A business internship is a supervised work experience which permits the student to link theory with current business practices. The experience must be an extension of the classroom. The skills learned must be transferable to other employer settings. Student interns receive practical learning experience outside the academic setting by becoming involved in day-to-day operations of a business. An on-the-job supervisor and a faculty member monitor and assess intern performance. The internship may be paid or unpaid. Students may obtain this experience through national organizations and various internship abroad programs. Prerequisites: Junior Status and permission of internship instructor
The topics of this course include the nature, mechanism, and risks of investments; stock markets; analysis of securities with an emphasis on those of corporations; formulation of investment policies for individuals, institutions, and trust funds; portfolio theory; pension fund management; risk management; option valuation; and future contracts. Prerequisite: BUS 209 and BUS 350
This course is a continuation of BUS 363: Corporate Financial Management in a Global Environment I. Topics for the course include advanced time value of money; advanced bond and stock valuation; advanced capital budgeting; cost of capital; capital structure and leverage; working capital management; dividend policy; investment banking; IPOs; financing; leasing; bankruptcy; and an introduction to external growth through mergers and acquisitions. Prerequisite: BUS 209 and BUS 350
This course provides students with a comprehensive overview of advanced financial analytics and how to effectively value business units. Students will learn how to integrate Excel into the analysis and solution stages of financial problems. Topics for the course include spreadsheet financial modeling; corporate valuation; relative valuation; private firm valuation; project analysis using discounted cash flow; terminal value; cost of capital; forecasting; enterprise valuation; real options; and strategic options. Prerequisite: BUS 452
This course provides students with practical experience in portfolio construction, management, and evaluation. Students will learn how diversification and asset allocations impacts returns and risk for investors; explore the theories and concepts of professional money management; identify investment objectives; evaluate information for security selection; and evaluate fund performance. Prerequisite: BUS 451 and BUS 452
This course studies the nature of money and monetary systems, monetary theory, and its function and relationship between money, prices, and level of income; recent monetary developments in the United States; nature of banking and credit; and the structure and operations of commercial banks and the Federal Reserve System. Offered spring semester. Prerequisite: ECON 204.
