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Finance Courses

When you earn your bachelor's degree in Business Administration (BA) with a specialization in Finance, your curriculum may include these career-enhancing finance courses:

• Investment Fundamentals and Security Analysis - Introducing security analysis and valuation, this investment course focuses on how to make investment decisions by exploring the nature of securities, mechanics and costs of trading, the way in which securities markets operate, the relationship between risk and return, equity securities, fixed income securities, portfolio diversification, and concepts of valuation.
• Money and Banking - In this finance course, students delve into the global financial system, exploring the role of financial services companies in money and capital markets. Topics include the nature of money and credit, U.S. banking systems, central bank policies and controls, funds acquisitions, investments, and credit extension.
• Financial Statement Analysis - This finance course focuses on techniques used to analyze and interpret financial statements, and how to use the statements to understand and evaluate a firm's financial strength, income potential, working capital requirements, and debt-paying ability.
• Fixed Income Securities and Credit Analysis - Topics in this investment course include debt securities characteristics, provisions for paying off bonds, debt market structure, bond investment risk, global bond sectors and instruments, yield spreads and measures, valuation, spot and forward rates, interest rate risk, term structure and volatility of interest rates, bonds with embedded options, mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, trading strategies, and credit analysis.
• International Financial Management - Exploring specific issues facing international business firms and banks, this finance course covers the evolution of the international monetary system. Topic include balance of payments, the function of foreign exchange markets, foreign exchange rate determination, operation of foreign currency and global capital markets, and the use of international debt and equity markets to optimize firms' financial structure.

Finance Course Requirements

To earn a Bachelor of Business Administration at DeVry with a specialization in Finance, you'll be required to complete 8 full-time semesters or 124 credit hours:

• 94 credit hours (about 30 courses) in your core curriculum
• 30 credit hours (about 8 courses) specific to the business information systems specialization

Although a few finance courses or investment courses are worth 1 or 2 credit hours, most are equal to 3 or 4 credit hours. Here's the course load you will carry, depending on whether you attend DeVry as a full- or part-time student:

• Full-time student schedule = 15 credit hours (4 to 5 courses) per semester
• Part-time student schedule = 1 to 14 credit hours (1 to 4 courses) per semester

At DeVry, you choose the pace that best fits your life and your schedule.

To learn more about business administration, finance courses, and investment courses, as well as requirements for completing your bachelor's degree program, contact a DeVry representative or see the academic calendar.