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Finance
The world of finance is fascinating and a non-stop global force — every business operation involves a financial decision
Curriculum & learning outcomes
All students earning their OSU undergraduate degree (180 credits) in a business discipline from the OSU College of Business complete a common business core. This core, consisting of about 100 credits across all four years, provides students with a strong business foundation. Additionally, finance coursework for the major and minor and a sample four-year academic plan are listed below.
Major required courses
Minor required courses
Four-year plan
Learning outcomes
The following learning goals and objectives are in addition to those in the business core learning goals and objectives.
The finance program will allow graduates to:
- Apply the fundamental concepts and tools of finance.
- Apply financial management concepts and tools to the decisions faced by a manager in investment decisions.
- Apply financial management concepts and tools to the financing decisions and dividend decisions faced by the firm.
- Evaluate the corporate governance structure of firms and examine the interactions, from a governance perspective, between firm management, financial markets and stakeholders.
- Appraise the risk profile of firms; specifically, estimate the costs of capital, including debt and equity capital using financial data.
- Discuss the operations of three distinct capital markets: the equity market, the bond market and the derivatives market, and the financial assets traded in each of these markets.
- Explain the global financial environment and the globalization process experienced by multinational corporations.