The Corporate Finance concentration provides students with a synthesis of the theoretical, practical and ethical issues that face corporate financial managers today. It is designed to immerse students in the issues and ideas that will assist them in making well-informed, thoughtful decisions in a corporate financial management environment. The focus on case methodology in the electives phase further aids students in developing critical thinking, writing and numerical skills in the major areas of corporate finance.

 The MBA program consists of 15–19 semester hours of foundation courses in Phase I and 39 semester hours in Phases II–IV (depending upon the concentration). After reviewing the student’s transcripts at the time of admission, the MBA advisor determines the number of foundation courses a student must take.

Phase I: 15–19 Semester Hours (or Course-Equivalent Undergraduate Work)

Foundation courses give students the necessary background to begin Phase II of the program. Students must complete or be waived from the appropriate foundation courses before enrolling in Phase III course work, in accordance with the designated prerequisites for 6000-level courses. Once students enroll in the MBA program, they may not take undergraduate courses or CLEP or DSST exams to meet the Phase I degree plan requirements.

The Phase I requirements of the MBA program can be satisfied through provision of evidence of equivalent undergraduate course credit earned with a grade of C or higher, according to the following guidelines: (1) provision of evidence of three semester hours of credit for the equivalent course at the graduate level or (2) the passing of a CLEP or DSST exam in lieu of one or more undergraduate courses (see the Counseling and Consultation Center web page, www.stedwards.edu/clep/equivalents.htm, or contact your advisor for more information about CLEP and DSST exams).

• ACCT 5301 Accounting Principles and Management (or six semester hours of accounting)
• BUSI 5304 Quantitative Methods for Managers (or three semester hours of statistics)
• ECON 5301 Economic Principles and Concepts (or two semester hours of microeconomics and two semester hours of macroeconomics)
• FINC 5301 Financial Concepts and Policies (or three semester hours of upper-division managerial finance or investments)
• MKTG 5301 Marketing Principles and Concepts (or three semester hours of marketing principles)

Phase II: 21–24 Semester Hours

Phase II of the MBA program includes the seven to eight required core courses for each area of concentration. These courses give the student the necessary knowledge base to address the more complex problems and theoretical constructs of the next phases of the program.

• ACCT 6315 Accounting for Managers
• BUSI 6303 Business Law and Ethics
• BUSI 6312 Managerial Communications
• FINC 6301 Financial Management
• MGMT 6305 Organizational and Operations Management
• MGMT 6306 Human Relations
• MKTG 6301 Marketing Management

Phase III

• FINC 6315 Advanced Corporate Finance

Students must successfully complete four of the following options:

• ACCT 6301 Cost Management
• ENTP 6302 Financing the Entrepreneurial Venture
• FINC 6304 Global Finance
• FINC 6305 Investment Planning
• FINC 6306 Bond Portfolio Management
• FINC 6313 Taxation for Individuals and Managers
• FINC 6314 Fundamentals of Financial Planning and Risk Management
• FINC 6316 Financial Statement Analysis
  
• FINC 6318 Working Capital Policy and Management
• FINC 6399 Special Topics in Finance or Three hours through the MGMT 6199/6299 Executive Seminar Series

Phase IV

• BUSI 6302 Business and Public Policy