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July 06, 2006 1 Finance & Business Economics Department MBA Concentrations 2006-2007 The Marshall School's top-ranked Finance and Business Economics (FBE) Department faculty members are leading authorities in corporate finance, investments, financial institutions, financial markets, and real estate finance. These academic disciplines are important for business planning and consulting, evaluation of capital projects and corporate strategies, and securities investment analysis, advising, and trading. Professors from FBE, augmented by leading practitioners in industry, offer a range of elective courses preparing Marshall graduates for a variety of careers. The department offers four concentrations: General Financial Management allows you the most flexibility in course selection, suitable if you have a strong interest in finance but have not identified a particular career path in the field. The concentration prepares you for careers in corporate project analysis and budgeting, business consulting, marketing financial services to corporations, employment in small business or start-up entrepreneurial firms, and general management in financial areas of all manufacturing and service industries. If you are seeking positions in corporations or consultants to business having a general financial management focus and/or organize work in interdisciplinary teams to solve general business or strategic problems, this will be a suitable concentration for you. The format of the concentration allows you to select course offerings in response to your developing interests or perceived career preparation needs. The Corporate Finance concentration trains you for positions in the financial management of corporations, usually in the office of the chief financial officer or the financial strategy group of a company. This concentration is excellent preparation for careers in firms advising or implementing corporate financial strategies, like commercial and investment banks or management consultants. The training is also appropriate if you anticipate having a wide-range of responsibilities in the finance function of smaller firms or start-ups. The concentration emphasizes a thorough grounding in corporate financial strategy and valuation. Investments and Financial Markets prepares you for careers in investment management and securities trading. The insights that you will learn in these courses will help you obtain highly rewarding jobs as security analysts, portfolio managers, dealers, buy-side traders, brokers, and financial advisors. You also will learn how to manage firms engaged in trading and/or investment management. You may select specific courses to advance a single career objective (e.g. portfolio management) or your may choose a broad range of courses to obtain a balanced exposure to the principles that practitioners must master to succeed in modern investment markets. A special 20-week course (see footnote in table following) is also available in the department to prepare students for the chartered financial analyst (CFA) examination (the CFA is a widely-used industry credential). The Real Estate Finance concentration prepares you for the wide range of careers associated with real estate: real estate development, valuation and financing of real estate projects, and securitization of real estate assets. This training is relevant if you plan on a corporate career with a financial institution (bank, insurance company, or investment bank) that provides real estate financing, or if you will be working with or for real estate developers or corporations with major real estate holdings or activities. It is also excellent training for students anticipating entrepreneurial careers involving real estate investment.July 06, 2006 2 FINANCE & BUSINESS ECONOMICS MBA CONCENTRATIONS OVERVIEW CONCENTRATIONS General Financial Management Corporate Finance Investments and Financial Markets Real Estate Finance Choose At Least Two FBE 529 FBE 531 FBE 589 FBE 532 FBE 555 Required Courses FBE 556 FBE 555 FBE 591 Choose Up To Two Choose Four Choose Three Choose Two FBE 516 FBE 558 FBE 525 FBE 524 FBE 565 FBE 524 FBE 559 FBE 527 FBE 529 FBE 570 FBE 525 FBE 562 FBE 529 FBE 535 FBE 588 FBE 527 FBE 563 FBE 531 FBE 543 FBE 595 FBE 529 FBE 564 FBE 532 FBE 554 FBE 531 FBE 565 FBE 533 FBE 556 FBE 532 FBE 570 FBE 558 FBE 562 FBE 533 FBE 588 FBE 564 FBE 589 FBE 535 FBE 589 FBE 570 FBE 525 FBE 543 FBE 591 ACCT 572 FBE 552 FBE 595 FBE 554 FBE 557 FBE 555 Elective Courses FBE 556 i. All FBE elective courses, with the exceptions of FBE 516, FBE 562 and FBE 563, have either GSBA 521 or GSBA 548 as their prerequisite. ii. Other Finance and Business Economic Electives not included in any of the finance concentrations: FBE 571, 572, 573 (CFA review courses)July 06, 2006 3 FBE/CIS Graduate Certificate Program in Financial Analysis and Valuation The FBE/CIS Graduate Certificate Program in Financial Analysis and Valuation will offer Marshall MBA students intensive instruction and training to successfully compete in the global financial markets. In a joint effort between the USC Marshall Finance and Business Economics Department, the Leventhal School, and the Center for Investment Studies (CIS), they seek to sponsor the Graduate Certificate Program in Financial Analysis and Valuation curriculum so as to draw in areas of concentration through courses in financial accounting, financial analysis, valuation, credit analysis, and financial instruments and markets. The Certificate Program is open to USC Marshall MBA students in good academic standing with a minimum GPA of 3.00. There are two different options, depending on whether students elect to emphasize Investments, or Corporate Finance, and whether a student is admitted to the Student Investment Fund Program. The courses from which students may select five are the following: I. Investments students are required to complete the following courses: (*required for students who are admitted to the Student Investment Fund Program) REQUIRED COURSE UNITS FBE 529 Financial Analysis and Valuation 3 FBE 555 Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management 3 AT LEAST (1) FROM: ACCT 572 Corporate Accounting and Reporting 3 ACCT 581 Financial Statement Analysis 3 AT LEAST (2) FROM: FBE 535* Applied Finance in Fixed Income Securities 3 FBE 543 Forecasting and Risk


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