M.B.A from UMass Boston

Finance Specialization (Pick Four):

• Financial Statement Analysis/Advanced Accounting (MBA AF 616) (online and on campus)
  Learn how financial statements are generated by focusing on FASB principles. You’ll research current changes within the accounting framework so you can understand how to use the framework to interpret company financial statements. Explore ethical issues in accounting and finance.
• Financial Modeling (MBA AF 623) (online and on campus)
  Explore the principles and techniques for building financial models, especially in an uncertainty framework. Learn about decision support systems, risk analysis, portfolio theory, and capital budgeting under uncertainty. You’ll study financial, accounting, and statistical concepts and techniques to construct financial models and to perform analyses using popular software applications. Identify and implement business solutions with an emphasis on the application of financial modeling techniques. The course is of special interest to students seeking more hands-on experience in constructing financial models and more in-depth knowledge in financial software.
• Portfolio Analysis and Investment Management (MBA AF 628) (online and on campus)
  Gain an understanding of capital market securities, operations, valuation, and investment techniques. Learn the definitions of various investment vehicles, operation of the NYSE and NASDAQ markets, portfolio theory (CAPM and APT), and capital allocation decisions including discussions of mutual fund selection.
• Mergers & Acquisitions (MBA AF 635) (on campus and online)
  Explore the challenging and dynamic world of mergers and acquisitions. Get a solid understanding of the concepts and issues that are central to the process of mergers and acquisitions with the intent of discovering the source(s) of value creation within mergers and acquisitions.
• Intermediate Accounting (MBA AF 611) (on campus) 
  Learn financial accounting theory. Explore the relationship between theory and practical problems such as the limitations of traditional financial statements and asset and current liability items. Acquire an understanding of issues unique to corporations and complete the study of the balance sheet by examining long-term debt and equity items.
• Advanced Corporate Finance (MBA AF 621) (on campus)
  This course builds on the Financial Management (MBA AF 620) course. You’ll build principles and concepts developed Financial Management, including time value of money, capital budgeting, financial statement analysis, and more while exploring new topics including real options, convertible securities, lending, mergers, and acquisitions.
• International Financial Management (MBA AF 626) (on campus)
  Explore the body of knowledge, attitudes, and skills required of financial decision-makers operation in a global setting. You’ll learn about the phenomenal rise in importance of multinational business finance and concomitant issues in light of recent theoretical and empirical research. Study foreign exchange, risk management, financing decisions in the long and short run, currency translation, accounting, and taxation.
• Health System Financial Management (MBA AF 627) (on campus)
  Study the financial management theory, techniques, and issues applicable to public and private health organizations. Get a deep understanding of budgeting, capital formation, cost finding, reimbursement alternatives, financial analysis, and performance evaluation. Evaluate contemporary policy issues affecting the health care administrator.
• Environmental Accounting and Finance (MBA AF 631) (on campus)
  Explore corporate environmental disclosure and reporting, environmental management accounting, carbon markets, green project analysis, corporate environmental risk assessment and valuation, socially responsible investing, and green banking. Environmental concerns and climate change are emerging as important business drivers and gaining the attention of accountants, financial managers, and investors. As investors and society require companies to become more socially and environmentally sustainable, the measurement, management, and external reporting of information about environmental risks and performance is of growing importance. 
• Global Portfolio Investment Management (MBA AF 622) (on campus)
  Explore portfolio investment management, i.e., the management of wealth in the form of readily marketable securities, in a global context with a focus on extensions of investment theory and practice to a multi-country field of portfolio choice. Study variables and constraints that modify concepts and practices useful in the domestic US market, including the problems of investing in a world of many currencies, differential economic growth, divergent institutional and legal environments, differing tuitional and legal environments, differing national accounting systems, and national valuation norms and practices. The course is of special interest to students preparing for possible careers in brokerage houses; in pension and mutual fund management; and as financial planners.
• Managing Mutual Funds (MBA AF 624) (on campus)
  Learn about and discuss issues related to the financial management of mutual funds. Explore unique aspects of mutual funds, including their role in the financial markets, the impact on mutual funds of technology and regulatory systems, different types of mutual funds, security valuation, portfolio models, international diversification related to funds, and asset valuation and custodial services. 
• Derivative Securities (MBA AF 625) (on campus)
  Derivative securities are securities such as futures contracts and call options whose value is determined by the value of some other underlying variable. Derivative securities have become an essential tool used in both corporate risk management and portfolio management. You’ll explore the institutional details of the various markets in which derivatives trade. Learn about the theories which govern the pricing of futures, options, and swap contracts. Study practical methods of implementing derivatives-related strategies for hedging risks, gaining specified portfolio exposures, and methods used to evaluate the outcomes of these strategies.
• Asset Management Practicum (MBA AF 632) (on campus)
  Get hands-on experience performing investment research, investing money, and managing a portfolio prior to entering the workforce. Generate investment ideas, research investment opportunities, and make buy/sell/hold recommendations based on your analysis. You’ll have the opportunity to work closely with money managers from Boston's financial services industry via the Student Manage Fund's advisory board.
• Risk Management (MBA AF 634) (on campus)
  Learn the fundamentals of corporate financial risk management. Explore statistical tools and techniques required to identify and measure different aspects of corporate financial risk. Use these measures to build, evaluate, and understand financial risk management solutions. You’ll focus on the role of financial engineering in developing business strategy and how do companies financially engineer to manage risk caused by variables over which it has little control, such as commodity prices, inflation, interest and exchange rates. 
• Quantitative Analysis of Business Data (MBA AF 636) (on campus)
  Study the analytical foundations of quantitative analysis of business data and data management techniques using statistical/data analysis software. Get hands-on experience with data analysis and the economic interpretation of empirical findings. Learn a number of quantitative techniques employed in finance, economics, and management, including linear regression analysis, panel data models, instrumental variables, time series analysis, and limited dependent variable models. You’ll use data and applications that are drawn from the finance and economics literature as well as consulting practice. This course also provides students with analytical tools for the development of a master’s thesis.