TROY UNIVERSITY
MASTER SYLLABUS
SORRELL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
FIN 3360
Entrepreneurial Finance
Prerequisites
FIN 3331.
Description
This course is intended to cover financial issues of business entrepreneurship. The focus is on
how to apply finance tools and skills to entrepreneurial businesses. The topics covered in this
course include business planning and financial management, financial statement analysis,
financial statement forecast, capital budgeting, working capital management, and personal
finance for entrepreneurs.
Objectives
On completion of the course, the student should be able to:
1. Understand financial fundamentals of business entrepreneurship including various types of
business ownership.
2. Discuss the characteristics of various financing sources available to entrepreneurial
businesses.
3. Analyze and forecast financial statements by applying traditional financial techniques to
small business ventures.
4. Understand the time value of money as an important tool to solve real-life financial
problems and explain the usefulness of this tool.
5. Explain how working capitals are analyzed and managed.
6. Understand the purpose of capital budgeting and apply its techniques to entrepreneurial
businesses.
7. Discuss personal financial planning for entrepreneurs.
Purpose
To provide fundamental ideas for applying financial techniques to entrepreneurial businesses.
Approved Texts
Adelman, Philip J., & Marks, Alan M. (2010 or current). Entrepreneurial Finance (5th ed.).
Boston, MA: Prentice Hall
Master Syllabi are developed by the senior faculty in each business discipline. This Master Syllabus must be used as the basis for developing the
instructor syllabus for this course, which must also comply with the content specifications outlined in the Troy University Faculty Handbook.
The objectives included on this Master Syllabus must be included among the objectives on the instructor’s syllabus, which may expand upon the
same as the instructor sees fit. The statement of purpose seeks to position the course properly within the curriculum and should be consulted by
faculty as a source of advisement guidance. Specific choice of text and other details are further subject to Program Coordinator guidance.
1 August 2005
Master Syllabus: FIN 3360
2
Leach, J. Chris, & Melicher, Ronald W. (2012 or current). Entrepreneurial Finance (4th ed.).
Mason, OH: Thomson/South-Western.
Supplements
As deemed appropriate.
Troy University Faculty Handbook (2010): Section 3.9.2.8 [extract] — essential elements of the syllabus (somewhat modified for space):
1. Course title
8. Classroom
2. Course number +
location
section
9. Office location +
3. Term
e-mail address
4. Instructor
10. Office telephone
5. Prerequisites
11. Course
6. Office hours
description,
7. Class days, times
objectives
12. Text(s)
13. Other materials
14. Grading methods, 16. General supports
criterion weights,
(computer works,
make-up policy,
writing center)
mid-term grade
17. Daily assignments,
reports
holidays, add/drop
15. Procedure, course
& open dates,
requirements
dead day, final
exam
18. ADA statement
23. Cheating policy
19. Electronic device 24. Specialization
statement
requirements
20. Additional
(certification,
services,
licensure, teacher
statements
competencies)
21. Absence policy
22. Incomplete-work
policy