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Financial Management and Accounting

Graduate School of Management and Technology

Master of Science in Financial Management and Information Systems (MSFS)

Dr. James Howard, PhD, CGFM, program director for financial management

Kathryn Klose, MSM-FM, CPA, associate program director for financial management and accounting

Donald Gakenheimer, MBA, academic coordinator

Requirements

Program Rules

  1. Students must complete MGMT 640 before enrolling in FIN 610, and FIN 610 must be completed before any other financial management course.
  2. Students must complete all courses except either FIN 645 or INFA 610 before enrolling in MSFS 670.

Recommendations

Students who wish to improve their graduate writing skills may take COMM 600, Academic Writing for Graduate Students (3).

Required Financial Management Courses

UCSP 611 Introduction to Graduate Library Research Skills (0), to be taken within the first 6 credits of study

  • MGMT 640 Financial Decision Making for Managers (3)
  • FIN 610 Financial Management in Organizations (3)
  • FIN 620 Capital Markets, Institutions, and Long-Term Financing (3)
  • FIN 630 Investment Valuation (3)
  • FIN 645 Behavioral Finance (3)
  • FIN 615 Financial Management of Current Operations (3)

Required Information Technology Courses

  • ISAS 610 Information Systems Management and Integration (3)
  • ISAS 630 Systems Analysis and Design (3)
  • ISAS 650 Information Technology, the CIO and Organizational Transformation (3)
  • INFA 610 Computer Security, Software Assurance, Hardware Assurance, and Security Management (3)
  • IMAT 637 IT Acquisitions Management (3)

Capstone Course: MSFS 670 Financial Management and Information Systems Capstone (3)

Note: Some course names and numbers were updated beginning with the fall 2007 semester. If you began the program prior to fall 2007 and have chosen to follow your original, pre-fall 2007 requirements, you should use the pre-fall 2007 Study Plan for this degree.

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