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Spring 2025 | FINA 6322 Section 001: Financial Modeling (56333)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 2 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Online Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- MBA 6231; MBA or Mgmt Sci student
- Meets With:
- FINA 5322 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Second Half of Term03/18/2025 - 05/05/2025Tue, Thu 09:55AM - 11:35AMUMTC, West Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Financial modeling tools to access financial data warehouses to build, estimate, maintain, and interpret comprehensive financial models that provide the framework for understanding businesses and their historical performance, plans/strategies, and market values. Financial analytics/modeling skills, including data mining of large standard financial databases (warehouses) (e.g. Capital IQ), and a manageable introduction to Excel VBA programming. prereq: MBA 6231 (previously MBA 6230), MBA or Mgmt Sci MBA student
- Class Description:
- The ability to build, operate and interpret financial models has become an almost universal job requirement for all MBA students. (See student and professional quotes below.) This course has been redesigned to appeal to MBA students with a wide range of career interests. Corporate finance, marketing, consulting, supply chain, IT and entrepreneurial students will find the course useful, as will students with career interests in the financial services industry (e.g. credit analysts, equity analysts, investment bankers, etc.). Students build a financial model on their own, they learn to use a fully developed financial model and they use these models repeatedly to evaluate and plan performance, to estimate value added from projects and strategies and to estimate the value of securities. Relative to other finance courses, this course emphasizes building and interpreting financial models, plowing little new ground in the way of finance theory and concepts. On the other hand, one objective of this course is to reinforce finance concepts by having students build them into models and by having students interpret the results produced by the models. The ability of students completing this course to build and work with comprehensive financial models should allow them to claim financial modeling and financial analysis capabilities as among their strengths, regardless of the functional career path they have chosen. This course has been designed to both stand on its own and to serve as the first half of a four-credit two-course sequence on financial modeling. The second half of the sequence, Fina 6323, Advanced Financial Modeling, is offered in the Fall semester and focuses on advanced financial performance models, equity security analysis models, including relative valuation models, credit analysis models and mergers and acquisition models. Upon completion of this two-course sequence, students will know how to use standard financial models and how to build financial performance and valuation models for any financial analysis situation they might come across. Testimonials: "Bottom line is if you can build a cash flow model from scratch, you will understand how everything in a P&L is linked. This allows you to easily explain to both finance and non-finance people what is going on (very important in the corporate finance world). Modeling is the one skill that can really set you apart from your peers and help make you look a lot smarter than you may even be!" "All the recruiters seem to care about is whether I can build and maintain a financial model!" "Financial models are not about absolute values; they are about relationships. A good financial model demonstrates the relationships and the business tradeoffs that compose the profitability potential of the business idea. If you understand the relationships, the drivers of revenue, drivers of cost, and the critical success factors, you understand the core of the business."
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- This course is reserved for MBA students. If you are a non-MBA student seeking to take this course, fill out the petition form found at goo.gl/9Y9PR5. Additional information, including petition deadlines, can be found at http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/degrees/master-business-administration/part-time-mba/admissions/mba-course-petition-form
- Learning Objectives:
- 1. To build financial models to analyze, summarize and explain a firm's historical performance2. To translate the historical analysis into a financial model of a firm's plans and strategies3. To translate the financial plan model into a valuation model with sensitivity capabilities4. To better use shortcut financial analysis methods by understanding complex financial models5. To better use multiplier valuation models by understanding fundamental valuation models
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/56333/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 February 2017
Spring 2025 | FINA 6322 Section 090: Financial Modeling (56328)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 2 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Online Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- MBA 6231; MBA or Mgmt Sci student
- Times and Locations:
- First Half of Term01/21/2025 - 03/17/2025Wed 05:45PM - 09:05PMUMTC, West Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 48 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Financial modeling tools to access financial data warehouses to build, estimate, maintain, and interpret comprehensive financial models that provide the framework for understanding businesses and their historical performance, plans/strategies, and market values. Financial analytics/modeling skills, including data mining of large standard financial databases (warehouses) (e.g. Capital IQ), and a manageable introduction to Excel VBA programming. prereq: MBA 6231 (previously MBA 6230), MBA or Mgmt Sci MBA student
- Class Description:
- The ability to build, operate and interpret financial models has become an almost universal job requirement for all MBA students. (See student and professional quotes below.) This course has been redesigned to appeal to MBA students with a wide range of career interests. Corporate finance, marketing, consulting, supply chain, IT and entrepreneurial students will find the course useful, as will students with career interests in the financial services industry (e.g. credit analysts, equity analysts, investment bankers, etc.). Students build a financial model on their own, they learn to use a fully developed financial model and they use these models repeatedly to evaluate and plan performance, to estimate value added from projects and strategies and to estimate the value of securities. Relative to other finance courses, this course emphasizes building and interpreting financial models, plowing little new ground in the way of finance theory and concepts. On the other hand, one objective of this course is to reinforce finance concepts by having students build them into models and by having students interpret the results produced by the models. The ability of students completing this course to build and work with comprehensive financial models should allow them to claim financial modeling and financial analysis capabilities as among their strengths, regardless of the functional career path they have chosen. This course has been designed to both stand on its own and to serve as the first half of a four-credit two-course sequence on financial modeling. The second half of the sequence, Fina 6323, Advanced Financial Modeling, is offered in the Fall semester and focuses on advanced financial performance models, equity security analysis models, including relative valuation models, credit analysis models and mergers and acquisition models. Upon completion of this two-course sequence, students will know how to use standard financial models and how to build financial performance and valuation models for any financial analysis situation they might come across. Testimonials: "Bottom line is if you can build a cash flow model from scratch, you will understand how everything in a P&L is linked. This allows you to easily explain to both finance and non-finance people what is going on (very important in the corporate finance world). Modeling is the one skill that can really set you apart from your peers and help make you look a lot smarter than you may even be!" "All the recruiters seem to care about is whether I can build and maintain a financial model!" "Financial models are not about absolute values; they are about relationships. A good financial model demonstrates the relationships and the business tradeoffs that compose the profitability potential of the business idea. If you understand the relationships, the drivers of revenue, drivers of cost, and the critical success factors, you understand the core of the business."
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- This course is reserved for MBA students. If you are a non-MBA student seeking to take this course, fill out the petition form found at goo.gl/9Y9PR5. Additional information, including petition deadlines, can be found at http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/degrees/master-business-administration/part-time-mba/admissions/mba-course-petition-form
- Learning Objectives:
- 1. To build financial models to analyze, summarize and explain a firm's historical performance2. To translate the historical analysis into a financial model of a firm's plans and strategies3. To translate the financial plan model into a valuation model with sensitivity capabilities4. To better use shortcut financial analysis methods by understanding complex financial models5. To better use multiplier valuation models by understanding fundamental valuation models
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/56328/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 February 2017
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