The role of the financial professional is more vital than ever. Organizations are increasingly confronting the need to invest in development and growth while ensuring the stringent balancing of organizational income and disbursements.

Today's finance industry requires professionals who possess not only solid business fundamentals but also an understanding of areas that influence business decisions, including financial statement preparation and analysis, risk and return, the time value of money, the valuation of stocks and bonds, cost of capital calculations and capital budgeting. Taught by instructors, many of whom have relevant knowledge regarding today's complex financial management industry, the BSBA with a concentration in Finance focuses on preparing you with a variety of practical competencies, creative leadership approaches, and the development of critical thinking skills.

In this industry-current program, our project-based Professional Learning Model™ can offer you the opportunity to understand the importance of integrating technology for greater operational efficiency, professional communication skills, collaboration and team building skills, accounting and financial management, international business practices, business law and project management. The CTU PLM™ is designed to place you in the active role of collaborative problem-solver and project initiator, helping you acquire marketable skills as you study and learn.

Colorado Technical University's Bachelor's Degree Completion Program is designed to enable completion of a Bachelor's degree in as little as 17 months.*

Successful completion of the BSBA with a concentration in Finance can provide students with an applicable foundation of relevant qualifications, including how to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the basic functional areas of management.
• Assess personal leadership style and adapt to needs of situations, employees and co-workers.
• Demonstrate the critical skills necessary to solve business problems.
• Apply appropriate concepts and principles of finance, accounting and statistics to make effective decisions.
• Understand the impact a global and electronic marketplace has on management practices, human resources and strategic decision-making.
• Understand the legal and global environments in which businesses operate.
• Act as a change agent to assist organizations, individuals and teams to adapt successfully to continuous change.
• Employ tools, principles and techniques of continuous process improvement in order to achieve quality and excellence in the workplace.
• Participate as a collaborative solution finder in a team environment.
• Demonstrate the ability to work comfortably and effectively in multicultural teams.
• Demonstrate a sense of responsibility for one’s own learning and the ability to assess and continuously improve.
• Demonstrate the application of management information systems including spreadsheets and database applications.
• Discuss the differences between using the equity and debt to finance investment opportunities.
• Examine the financial performance of a firm based on its financial statements.
• Discuss the ethical ramifications of a firm’s financial disclosure.
• Describe the functions and roles played by financial markets and institutions particularly as they relate to the flow of the funds from the lenders to borrowers within the global financial systems.
• Evaluate the activities and impact of the U.S. Treasury Department, state, and local governmental units’ involvement in raising funds within the financial system.
• Discuss and evaluate the ethical, economic, demographic, social and technological forces reshaping financial institutions, financial market and the financial system.
• Analyze the ways in which monetary policy can influence a nation’s economic goals of achieving full employment, controlling inflation, sustaining adequate economic growth, and achieving a stable balance of payments position.

Concentration courses in this program are focused on providing an industry-current relevant overview of the accounting industry. For example:

• In Financial Statement Analysis, students may receive and overview of financial statements and financial statement analysis, including an exploration of ration analysis, trend analysis, ethics and financial proformas.
• In Money and Capital Markets, the financial system is examined to understand the roles played by consumers, businesses and government, particularly the Federal Reserve System.
• In Risk Management, students may explore personal and corporate exposure to risk, as well as the tools used to manage risk. The management of organizations’ and individuals’ exposure to property damage and legal liability will also be covered.

Other concentration courses in this program include:

• Investments
• Corporate Finance
• International Finance
• Finance Capstone

Core courses in this program include:

• Accounting I
• Accounting II
• Accounting III
• Contemporary Business Trends
• Organizational Behavior
• International Business
• Research Design Methods and Applications
• Microeconomics
• Financial Management
• World Cultures and Values or World History and Culture II
• Management of Human Resources
• Managing Organizational Change
• Quantitative Decision Making
• Business Strategy
• Business Law I
• Operations Management
• Introduction to Marketing
• Introduction to Project Management
• Introduction to Logistics/Supply Chain Management
• Introduction to Sociology

Concentration coursework in this program is focused on providing an industry-current relevant overview of the accounting industry. For example:

• In Financial Accounting, students may study the concepts and standards underlying the preparation and analysis of external reports by reviewing the elements, structure, interrelationships of financial statements and the tools necessary to understand and interpret them.
• In Investments, students may be introduced to various investment vehicles such as stocks, bonds and commodities and explore the principles of security analysis and valuation.
• In International Finance, students have the opportunity to focus on the workings of international financial markets, the risks of doing business in the international area and the management of exchange risk exposure.

Other concentration courses in this program include:

• Money and Capital Markets
• Risk Management
• Corporate Finance

Required core courses in this program include:

• Accounting I
• Macroeconomics
• Microeconomics
• Introductory Human Resource Management
• Principles of Business
• Introduction to Business Law
• Management Fundamentals
• Fundamentals of Marketing
• Introduction to Project Management
• Personal Finance Concepts

Upper Level

• Managerial Accounting Practices
• Introduction to Corporate Finance
• Managing Human Resources
• Organizational Change
• E-Business
• International Business Communications
• Statistics: Data-Driven Decision Making
• Organizational Behavior Principles
• Operations Management Principles
• International Business Practices
• The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
• Business Strategy
• Marketing and the Virtual Marketplace
• Ethics: The Hallmark of Leaders at All Levels