2007-09 - Graduate School - The University of Alabama

Graduate Catalog: Section 7.6.3http://graduate.ua.edu/catalog/18800.htmlFI 443 Property and Liability Insurance. Three hours.Current financial, legal, and social problems concerning the property-liability insurance industry. Role of governmentin providing insurance and topics in the management of property-liability insurance companies and agencies.FI 444 Life and Health Insurance. Three hours.Detailed analysis of life insurance and health insurance with emphasis on their role in employee-benefit planning.Specific provisions of qualified retirement plans. Current problems facing the life insurance industry and analysis ofthe distribution system for life and health insurance. Topics in management of life and health insurance companiesand agencies.FI 452 Economics of Regulated Industries (same as EC 452). Three hours.An examination of the form of regulation and its impact on American industries, encompassing both traditional publicutilityregulation and newer, social regulation (e.g., environmental and health-and-safety regulation).FI 491 Independent Study. Variable credit.FI 492 Internship. Three hours.FI 497 Special Topics in Finance. Three hours.FI 504 Financial Management. Variable hours.Prerequisite: Admission to the M.B.A. program.Corporate financial planning and decision making; working capital management, capital budgeting, financing, riskreturnanalysis, valuation, and dividend policy.FI 505 Corporate Valuation. Three hours.Prerequisite: FI 504 or equivalent.A case study course that focuses on the valuation of publicly held firms.FI 506 Mergers and Acquisitions. Three hours.Prerequisite: FI 504, FI 510, or equivalent.An examination of corporate acquisitions, including firm valuation, bidding contests, and defense managers, as wellas the corporate tax and legal environment.FI 510 Financial Management. Three hours.Prerequisite: FI 302 or permission of the instructor.A course concerned with the management of corporate capital. Emphasis is on analysis of problems.FI 512 Money and Capital Markets. Three hours.A detailed analysis of the role of money and capital markets in the financial process and of the influence outsideforces have on these markets.FI 514 Investments. Three hours.Prerequisites: FI 301 and FI 302 or equivalents.An overview of the investment decision process. Areas covered are financial statement analysis, risk measures,stock-price valuation models, and portfolio management.FI 515 Quantitative Investment Analysis. Three hours.Prerequisite: FI 514 or permission of the graduate advisor.Acquaints the student with the quantitative approaches used in modern portfolio theory and investment analysis.FI 516 Monetary Theory and Policy (same as EC 516). Three hours.Prerequisites: EC 510 and EC 511 or equivalents.Theoretical and empirical analysis of the money supply process, the demand for money, the impact of money on theeconomy, and the implementation of monetary policy.FI 519 Financial Engineering. Three hours.Prerequisite: FI 514 or equivalent.A study of options and futures markets, with emphasis on the nature of speculative transactions, pricing, and methodof trading.FI 520 Advanced Financial Engineering. Three hours.Prerequisite: FI 519.Advanced methodologies of valuing and managing structured notes and mortgage-backed securities are introduced,including lattice approaches, simulation and option-adjusted spreads. The C++ object-oriented framework isintroduced.FI 522 Bank Administration. Three hours.Prerequisites: FI 301 and FI 302.