FINA 4370 — Financial Modeling

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureusually offered: fall, springtypical days: T/FBostonTraditional

Designed to develop students’ quantitative financial modeling skills and techniques using the Excel spreadsheet. Through learning how to use numerical examples and business cases, students study corporate valuation, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), pro forma statement modeling, portfolio models, and Monte Carlo simulation methods, etc. Seeks to cultivate students’ ability to make assumptions, deal with imperfect information, and real-world data issues. Offers students an opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge in advanced corporate finance, asset pricing, and option pricing in a real-world context. This course is highly quantitative in nature; while it does not derive complicated mathematical formulas, familiarity with concepts such as the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), WACC, portfolio theory, and pro forma financial statements is expected.

Prerequisites

Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Fall 202314040100%0.0
Spring 202414040100%0.0
Summer B 20241224055%18.0
Fall 20241414298%1.0
Spring 20251394098%1.0
Summer B 20251234057%17.0
Fall 202514242100%0.0
Spring 202614040100%0.0

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 16% · T 72% · W 29% · Th 16% · F 71%

Common patterns: TF (57% of sections), MTWR (16% of sections), F (14% of sections), W (14% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Spring

Summer B

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

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