# Finance (FIN) courses UC Irvine · 2026-2027 Catalog · 28 courses Source: https://catalogue.uci.edu/allcourses/fin/ "Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026. ### FIN 203A — Financial Reporting for Management - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/fin.md) - Restrictions: Master of Finance only Financial reporting is concerned with the preparation and public dissemination of financial reports designed to reflect corporate performance and financial condition. Provides a base level of knowledge needed by corporate executives to understand and discuss corporate financial statements. ### FIN 209B — Investments Management - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/fin.md) - Restrictions: School of Business students only Introduction to how securities are traded and how their prices are determined. Discussion of different market organizations, including some recently developed online financial markets. Study of pricing models, including Capital Asset, factor models, and Arbitrage Pricing Theory. ### FIN 210 — Foundations of Finance - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/fin.md) - Restrictions: Master of Finance only Examines foundations of finance. Teaches tools such as time value of money, capital budgeting techniques, cash flow analysis. Examines foundations of investment management and theory/empirical evidence related to portfolio theory, market efficiency, asset pricing models, factor models, option pricing theory. ### FIN 211 — Master of Finance ProSeminar - **Units:** 0 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/fin.md) - Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times - Restrictions: Master of Finance only Provides students in the Merage School Master of Finance program with information and practical skills for success in the program and for business career planning. ### FIN 231 — Financial Statement Analysis - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: School of Business students and Master of Finance only Develops skills to extract, analyze, and interpret financial statements for investment and credit decisions. Covers profitability, cash flow, and credit risk analysis, accounting quality assessment, and financial forecasting, integrating data analytics tools including GPT, SQL, and Tableau. ### FIN 240 — Financial Research Methodology - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: Master of Finance only Provides an introduction into the computational research methods necessary in modern finance, such as optimization, simulation methods, and finite difference and finite element methods. Some applications include quadratic programming for portfolio selection and option pricing. ### FIN 241 — Risk Management - **Units:** 4 - **Prerequisite:** FIN 249 with a minimum grade of B- - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: Master of Finance only Examines modern techniques for managing financial risks, including market, credit, liquidity, and operational risks. Covers measurement techniques for different financial risks and instruments. Discusses how risk measurement tools can be used for management of the risk/return profile of financial institutions. ### FIN 242 — Portfolio Management - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: Biotechnology Management majors, School of Business students, Master of Finance, and Master in Management only Provides a working understanding of the themes and concepts of portfolio management. Covers several disciplines, such as investment valuation, investment decision-making, investing styles, asset allocation, monitoring and re-balancing portfolios, risk management strategies, performance evaluation, and attribution analysis. ### FIN 243 — Bonds and Fixed Income - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: Biotechnology Management majors, School of Business students, Master in Management, and Master of Finance only Addresses concepts covering a broad spectrum of debt securities with emphasis on qualitative and quantitative analysis of fixed income securities in many areas, including corporate (credit) debt, MBS/ABS, structured debt, and credit derivatives. ### FIN 244 — Multinational Finance - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: Biotechnology Management majors, School of Business students, Master in Management, and Master of Finance only Examines the history of the world’s foreign exchange markets, the macroeconomics of foreign exchange, major parity conditions, hedging of currency exposure and international investment. Gives students a basic understanding of foreign exchange market. ### FIN 245 — FinTech - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: Biotechnology Management majors, School of Business students, and Master in Management only Provides working knowledge of the role of IT-enabled innovation in financial markets to help students acquire an understanding of broad economic issues that are of wide applicability in many areas of FinTech. Both qualitative analysis and quantitative applications are explored. ### FIN 246D — The Real Estate Development Process - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: School of Business students only Nature and composition of development community and development process. Emphasis on role of conflicting interests, values and goals, and market uncertainty. Special attention paid to deal structuring and risk management. Lectures, guest lecturers, team projects evaluating actual development project. ### FIN 246F — Seminar in Management of the Real Estate Enterprise - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: School of Business students only Capstone seminar. Looks beyond “The Deal” to management of the real estate enterprise itself. Explores aspects of decision-making focused upon strategic objectives: goal setting, legal/tax structures, public vs. closely-held entities, corporate ethics, capital structure, managing growth, diversification, technology. Guest professionals. ### FIN 246H — Real Estate Transactions - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: School of Business students only For real estate professionals engaged in purchasing, selling, appraising, evaluating, analyzing and lending on, and developing real property with the basic tools needed to understand the primary elements of a commercial real estate transaction in California. ### FIN 246I — Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: School of Business students only Introduction to Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) and its many facets. Appreciate the role of CREM, its impact on global society, and its importance to both the real estate community and corporations that it supports. ### FIN 247 — Cases in Corporate Financial Management - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: School of Business students only Case-based course in corporate finance. Introduces advanced analytical tools and techniques for value-based financial management in a broad range of corporate settings, including financial forecasting, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, ownership and control, corporate restructuring, and financial distress. ### FIN 249 — Derivatives - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: Master of Finance only Covers major derivative instruments that are widely used for hedging, including forward, futures, swaps and options, speculation, and arbitrage. Focuses on understanding the instruments, how to use and price them, basic risk management principles, and how to implement investment strategies. ### FIN 250 — Mergers and Acquisitions - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: School of Business students only Focuses on mastering mergers and acquisitions concepts and techniques that enable participants to practically apply them in related fields such as investment banking, consulting, and corporate development. Studies drivers of success in M&A with heavy attention on transactional review. ### FIN 252 — Wealth Management - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: Master Of Finance majors have the first consideration for enrollment. School of Business students only Provides overview of considerations needed to connect singular functional areas that comprise personal and business wealth management, including basic and advanced estate planning, investment management, tax management, life/liability and property/casualty insurance, medical and long‐term care coverage, retirement and philanthropy considerations. ### FIN 253 — Venture Capital and Private Equity - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: School of Business students only Overview of venture capital and private equity, which constitute the “alternative” asset class (as opposed to conventional investments). Many start-up and entrepreneurial firms require substantial capital, and venture capital and private equity organizations finance these high-risk but potentially high-reward companies. ### FIN 255 — Finance Internship - **Units:** 2-4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times - Restrictions: Master of Finance only Provides students with opportunities to apply knowledge obtained from classroom theory through actual practical work experiences. Also provides knowledge of career opportunities, understanding of finance in business environments, and preparation for the finance profession. ### FIN 256 — Financial Innovation - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: School of Business students and Master of Finance only Examines financial innovation across product, technology, and ESG domains. Explores innovation cycles, regulatory implications, and economic impact. Applies Clayton Christensen's Theory of Disruption to finance and investigates methods for quantifying innovation and managing associated risks. ### FIN 258 — Fundamentals of Financial Analysis - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: School of Business students only Introduces foundational investment concepts aligned with the CFA Level I curriculum, covering ethics, financial statement analysis, equity and fixed income valuation, corporate issuers, alternatives, and portfolio management. Prepares students to apply professional standards in investment practice. ### FIN 270 — Application of Machine Learning in Finance - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: School of Business students and Master of Finance only Explores Machine Learning applications in finance and business, covering supervised and unsupervised learning, CART, random forests, SVM, neural networks, and reinforcement learning. Emphasizes real-world implementation, model validation, ethics, and algorithmic bias. ### FIN 271 — Programming and Data Analysis for Business - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: School of Business students and Master of Finance only Introduces Python programming for finance and business, covering data cleaning, web scraping, robotic process automation, machine learning, and textual analysis. Builds transferable skills applicable across programming languages. No prior programming experience required. ### FIN 290 — Special Topics in Finance - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/fin.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary - Restrictions: Master Of Finance majors have the first consideration for enrollment. School of Business students only Studies in selected areas of finance. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### FIN 296 — Master of Finance Capstone - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: Master of Finance only Students work in teams on an applied finance project associated with their area of focus to demonstrate knowledge and expertise. The project can involve experiential learning, collaboration with a faculty member, or association with an internship. ### FIN 299 — Individual Study - **Units:** 1-4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/fin.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times Individual study under the direction of a select faculty member.