Finance (FINX)

Students will learn to communicate comfortably regarding financial data, cash management, planning, budgets, profitability, solvency, and liquidity. Accounting topics covered include accounting and the business environment, recording business transactions, the adjusting process, completing the accounting cycle, internal control and cash, receivables, investments, current liabilities and payroll, long-term liabilities, stockholders’ equity, the statement of cash flows. Finance topics covered include financial statement analysis; cost management systems such as activity-based, just-in-time, and quality management; cost-volume-profit analysis, variable costing; and master budgets.

This course provides an overview of the personal financial planning process. Highlights include credit and debt management, evaluating insurance products, personal and small business tax strategies as well as investment, retirement and estate planning.