Concentration in Information Management for Finance

Undergraduate Program: Curriculum: Degree Requirements: Management Concentrations:
Information Management for Finance

CM Courses

General Education Requirements

Management Foundation and Core

Management Concentrations

Schedules

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT FOR FINANCE CONCENTRATION (IM-F)
Six courses (18 credits)

Overview	In the financial industry, real-time access to reliable data about investments and clients is becoming ever more important; in the IM-F concentration students will learn how to collect, manage and integrate financial information and will learn how such information is ultimately used.

Career Paths	Graduates of the IM-F concentration will be positioned to enter careers as information managers in commercial banks, investment banks, mutual fund companies, finance departments of larger traditional companies, and more.

Advising Notes	This concentration is an interdisciplinary concentration, so students should seek guidance from both Finance and MSIS departmental advisors. Prerequisites for these courses are strictly enforced, so IM-F concentrators should plan their schedules carefully and early.

Take all four: :

AF 325: Theory of Corporate Finance (prereq for AF 495)

AF 335: Investments (prereq for AF 495)

AF 495: Financial Policy

MSIS 309: Databases and Programming for Managers

And at least one of the following:

MSIS 461: Systems Analysis and Design

MSIS 430: International Information Management

With additional choices:

AF 425: Topics in Corporate Financial Management

AF 426: Financial Modeling

AF 435: Derivative Securities

AF 445: Management of Financial Institutions

AF 455: International Financial Management

MSIS 414: Computer Networks for Management

MSIS 415: Object-oriented Programming for Business

MSIS 425: Project Management

MSIS 427: Knowledge Management: Competing in the Knowledge Economy

MSIS 428: Information System Security

MSIS 478*: Special Topics in Management Science and Information Systems

MSIS 480*: Internship

MGT 497*: Honors Seminar

* Students may count only one of MSIS 478, MGT 497, and MSIS 480 towards this concentration.

For More Information Contact:
Arindam Bandopadhyaya, Chair of the Accounting and Finance Department at 617.287.7854 or Jean Pierre Kuilboer, Chair of the Management Science and Information Systems Department at 617.287.7868.

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