AMERICAN UNIVERSITY COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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| FIN-685 | Business: Finance and Real Estate | |||
| Course level: Graduate | ||||
| Topics in Finance and Real Estate (1.5-3) | ||||
| Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics of special interest in finance, real estate, and related interdisciplinary topics. | ||||
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| FIN-685 | 002 | Business: Finance and Real Estate | Fall 2007 | |
| Course level: Graduate | ||||
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| Corporate Governance | ||||
| This course examines corporate governance practices in the United States and selected international settings, with analysis of investors as well as top management and directors. The class discusses issues including the role of the board of directors, executive compensation practices, equity ownership structure, creditor rights, etc. and uses a combination of readings and case studies. | ||||
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| FIN-685 | 001A | Business: Finance and Real Estate | Spring 2008 | |
| Course level: Graduate | ||||
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| Biotechnology, Health Care and Real Estate | ||||
| This course examines the biotechnology and health care sectors, their location, and place of delivery. For biotech, it includes wet labs and space planning, and the locational concentration of the industry into clusters. For health care, it includes pricing mechanisms, facilities management, and the delivery of services at doctors offices, in formal delivery places including hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted-living facilities, and alternative outpatient delivery places including retail stores or shopping centers. Prerequisite: FIN-605. | ||||
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| FIN-685 | 001B | Business: Finance and Real Estate | Spring 2008 | |
| Course level: Graduate | ||||
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| New Venture Finance | ||||
| The primary objective of this course is to provide an understanding of theory, concepts, and institutions involved in new venture financing. The focus of the course is on new venture finance from the points of view of both the entrepreneur and the providers of financing. The roles of major players and sources of financing, but especially angels, venture capital funds, and exit financing are analyzed. The course analyzes the venture capital sequence that starts with the initial idea and (hopefully) ends with a liquidity event, which is most often a buy-out, or less frequently, an IPO. Goals, strategy, business plan and information needs, forecasting, cash flow and financing needs, valuation, contracting, staging, incentives, characteristics of venture capital sources and alternative financing possibilities, and finally, IPOs and other exit strategies, are discussed. | ||||
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| FIN-685 | 002B | Business: Finance and Real Estate | Spring 2008 | |
| Course level: Graduate | ||||
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| Single and Multi-Family Housing: Investment, Development, and Financing | ||||
| This course considers the process of analyzing the market for single and multi-family housing, including demand analysis, the development process, and interim and permanent financing alternatives for single and multi-family housing. | ||||
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| FIN-685 | N01 | Business: Finance and Real Estate | Summer 2007 | |
| Course level: Graduate | ||||
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| Fixed Income Securities | ||||
| This course examines fixed-income securities and other financial instruments relating to interest rates. Among the major classes of fixed income instruments examined are Treasury and agency securities, mortgage-backed securities (including Collateralized Mortgage Obligations and Strips), asset-backed securities, and municipals, along with floating and inverse floating rate securities. Other topics include theories of term structure, techniques for managing interest rate risk, bond refunding, defeasance, corporate bonds, and mortgage-backed securities. Prerequisite: FIN-614. | ||||