Corporate Financial Management Concentration
General information
This program is fundamentally designed to prepare its graduates for careers in corporate financial management in all forms of organizations: business and non-business, public or private, foreign or domestic. The objective is to teach the fundamental principles underlying organizations, to emphasize training which will improve student's thought processes, to provide a familiarity with analytical tools of finance within corporate management, and to develop in the student the ability to use the techniques involved in analyzing and evaluating corporate managerial problems and making sound decisions.
Requirements (32-33 Units)
| Course type |
Units |
| General Education: |
51 units |
| Business Pool: |
12 units (6 of these 12 units fulfill GE Requirements) |
| Non-business support: |
14 units (6 of these 14 units fulfill GE Requirements) |
| Lower-Division Business Core: |
7 units |
| Upper-Division Business Core: |
30 units (6 of these 12 units fulfill GE Requirements) |
| Corporate Financial Management Concentration: |
33-34 units |
Accounting Requirements (15 Units)
| Course ID |
Course Name |
| BUS 120A |
Accounting Information Systems |
| BUS 121A* |
Intermediate Accounting I |
| BUS 121B* |
Intermediate Accounting II |
| BUS 122B* |
Advanced Management Accounting (BUS 122A* is a prerequisite) |
Accounting Electives (Choose 1)
| Course ID |
Course Name |
| BUS 120B |
Advanced AIS and IS Audit |
| BUS 120C |
Business Network Environment & Control |
| BUS 123A |
Tax Factors of Business & Investment Decisions |
| BUS 124 |
Forensic Accounting |
| BUS 125 |
Special Financial Report Topics |
| BUS 126 |
Advanced Accounting |
| BUS 127A |
Honors Practicum in Corporate Financial Management |
| BUS 127B* |
Advanced Honors Practicum |
| BUS 129B |
Operational Auditing |
Finance (15 units)
| Course ID |
Course Name |
| BUS 171A* |
Financial Institutes & Markets |
| BUS 173A* |
Financial Management: Theory & Policy |
| BUS 173B |
Problems in Financial Management |
| BUS 177 |
International Business Finance |
Finance Electives (Choose 1)
| Course ID |
Course Name |
| BUS 127A* |
Honors Practicum in Corporate Financial Management |
| BUS 127B* |
Advanced Honors Practicum |
| BUS 172A |
Investments Analysis |
| BUS 172B |
Portfolio Management |
| BUS 172C |
Futures and Options |
| BUS 173C |
Small Business Finance |
| BUS 174 |
Risk Management and Insurance |
| BUS 175 |
Real Estate Finance |
| BUS 179B |
Selected Topics in Business Finance |
*BUS 127A - Honors Practicum in Corporate Financial Management (3 units) and BUS 127B Advanced Honors Practicum Corporate sponsored project. Students will be admitted based on the following: minimum GPA of 3.0 for four prerequisite courses which include BUS 121A, 121B, 122A, and 173A; average GPA of 3.2 or above; review of their resume and successful interview and selection by the faculty advisor.
Business Pool
These courses require a "C-" and must be completed and cleared by BSAC (BC 008), 924-3435 prior to taking upper-division Business courses.
Note: Students must earn a "C" or better in Math 70 in order for it to fulfill GE requirements.
| Course ID |
Course Name |
| MATH 70 |
Finite Math |
| ENGL 1B |
Composition 2 |
| BUS 20 |
Financial Accounting |
| BUS 90 |
Business Statistics |
Non-Business Support Courses
| ECON 1A |
Macroeconomics |
| PHIL 186 |
(@) Professional Business Ethics |
| ECON 1B |
Microeconomics |
|
Non-Business Global Perspectives (#) (Click here to see the approved list of courses) |
Lower Division Business Core
| Course ID |
Course Name |
| BUS 10 |
Discovering Business (Freshmen Only) |
| BUS 80 |
Legal Environment of Business |
| BUS 91L |
Business Computer Productivity Tools (1 unit) |
Upper Division Business Core
| Course ID |
Course Name |
| BUS 122A* |
Management in Accounting Control Systems (Requires grade of C or better) |
| COMM 100W, ENGL 100WB, or LLD 100WB |
Writing Workshop (Requires passing of the WST) |
| BUS 130 |
Fundamentals of Marketing |
| BUS 140 |
Fundamentals of Operations Management |
| BUS 160 |
Fundamentals of Management and Organization Behavior |
| BUS 170 |
Fundamentals of Finance |
| BUS 187 |
Global Dimensions of Business |
| BUS 188 |
Business Systems & Policy |
| BUS 189 |
Strategic Management (Graduating Seniors Only) |
| BUS 190 |
Quantitative Business Analysis |
Interdisciplinary Electives or Minor (See a BSAC advisor for details)
Total Unit Requirement - 120 Units
NOTE: Students are required to attend a Department orientation workshop.
General Education (48-51 Units)
Core GE
| Section |
Course name |
Units |
| A |
Basic Skills |
9 |
| B |
Science (including lab) |
6 |
| B4 |
Math Concepts (Math 70) |
3 |
| C |
Humanities and Arts |
9 |
| D |
Social Science(Econ 1B-D1)* |
9 |
| E |
Development |
0-3 |
| F1 |
American History |
0-3 |
| F2, F3 |
US Constitution CA Government |
0-3 |
* Areas F1-F3 may also fulfill part of Area D
SJSU Studies
| Section |
Course name |
Units |
| S |
Self, Society, and Equality in the U.S. (Phil 186) |
3 |
| R |
Earth and Environment |
3 |
| V |
Culture, Civilization, and Global Understanding |
3 |
| Z |
Written Comm. II (100W) |
3 |
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