Make your mark
in the finance industry.
Our M.B.A. in Corporate Finance is a 36-credit program that
prepares you to obtain a high-level corporate financial position
such as treasurer, comptroller, chief financial officer, or a
position as one of their principal assistants.
Through our program, you will learn extensively about the roles
and responsibilities of corporate finance professionals as well
as what it takes to achieve excellence in financial management
and practice. By the time you graduate, you will be ready to
apply theory to practice as you encounter real-world corporate
financial problems and further develop the skills you need to
become a leader.
Earn your degree on your terms.
We understand that you have a busy lifestyle and we want
to allow you to earn your M.B.A. in Corporate Finance in
a way that’s convenient for you. In addition to our traditional
degree options, you may also choose to enroll in our 16-month
Saturday Accelerated M.B.A. Program (with Saturday-only
classes) and earn your degree in just three semesters! Classes
are conveniently located at our Rudolph-Oakdale Campus, our
Brookhaven Campus, and our Melville Center.
Business core.
ACC 6241 or 6242* Managerial Accounting or Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting
CIS 6261
Information Technologies for Managers
FIN 6212
Financial Management
FIN 6223 or MGT 6233*Macroeconomics in Financial Markets or Quantitative Methods
in Business
MKT 6252
Marketing Management
*If you are planning to take the New York CPA exam, contact the School of Business for advisement.
Program requirements.
To earn your M.B.A. in Corporate
Finance, you must complete
the following coursework, 36 credits.
Please see reverse for complete
course descriptions.
Corporate Finance concentration.
FIN
FIN
FIN
FIN
FIN
6224
6313
6321
6323
6327
Money and Capital Markets
Global Corporate Finance
Financial Analysis and Valuation
Global Investment Analysis
Corporate Financial Policy
Select one 6-credit capstone course from the list below.
FIN 6392/6393
FIN 6397/6398
FIN 6399
Internship
Thesis
Corporate Finance Simulation
For more information contact
631.244.3266 or mbaopenhouse@Dowling.edu
M.B.A. in Corporate Finance course descriptions.
(All courses are 3 credits unless otherwise noted.)
ACC 6241 Managerial Accounting
MGT 6233 Quantitative Methods in Business
This course introduces the accounting procedures
This course focuses on the advanced application of
This course uses a case method approach to apply tech-
and concepts used to meet the information needs of
quantitative reasoning methods in management science
niques that help to attain corporate objectives by means
management. Stress is placed on the identification,
as required to support decision-making situations in
of effective financial policies. Major topics to be covered
accumulation, reporting, and interpretation of cost
business organizations. Emphasis is on the application
include financial statement analysis, financial planning
information for decision-making and control in the general
of linear programming techniques, simulation methods,
and forecasting, working capital management, capital
context of a manufacturing operation. In addition, this
decision theory, inventory control models, queuing theory,
budgeting, long-term financing and dividend policy, and
course enables the student to evaluate and utilize the
and forecasting methods from an accountant’s or financial
comprehensive financial policy analysis. Prerequisites:
information supplied to management by the accounting
manager’s perspective.
ACC 6241, FIN 6212, and FIN 6323.
course is to make the non-accounting major able to
MKT 6252 Marketing Management
FIN 6392/6393 Internship, 6 credits total
understand and use the accountant’s tools. Prerequisite:
This course focuses on the challenge and decisions facing
For those students desiring to gain practical experience
6 credits of undergraduate accounting or completion
the marketing executive. Emphasis is on examination of
in business, Dowling College’s graduate business program
of accounting/finance seminar.
marketing problems, practices, and principles. Areas of
offers an internship experience for two semesters under
discussion and analysis include product positioning, strategy,
the supervision of the instructor and sponsorship of a
FIN 6327 Corporate Financial Policy
department of a business concern. The purpose of this
ACC 6242 Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting
buying behavior, and developing a marketing plan.
The purpose of this course is to provide students with
firm. Internship options are limited in number depending
on the needs of the sponsoring firms. In the Internship
an opportunity to investigate the decision-making
FIN 6224 Money and Capital Markets
Project, the student will be required to identify, analyze,
environment from the public sector or nonprofit entity
Bank management, profitability, structure, and competition
and offer alternative solutions to a business problem in an
perspective. Emphasis will be placed on analyzing the
will be explored. Regulation of financial institutions
actual business environment. The student’s performance
consequences and impact of regulations and pronounce-
and non-bank financial institutions will be emphasized.
will be evaluated by the firm’s management and the
ments established by the Governmental Accounting
Contemporary problems affecting financial institutions
business faculty. Grading is pass/fail. AVM 6392 is the
Standards Board, the U.S. Comptroller, and the Federal
including changes that have occurred and continue to
first course toward an internship experience. Prerequisite:
General Accounting Office. Emphasis will be placed on
occur within the industry will be studied through case
24 graduate credits in business studies.
fund accounting, budget and control issues, revenue
analysis.
and expense recognition, and issues of reporting for both
FIN 6397/6398 Thesis, 6 credits total
government and nonprofit organizations. Prerequisite:
FIN 6313 Global Corporate Finance
The student who wishes to conduct advanced research
6 credits of undergraduate accounting or completion of
The course explores most aspects of international bank
in an area of interest may elect to write a thesis under
accounting/finance seminar.
management including profile of organizational forms
faculty supervision. This enhances the student’s powers
used to conduct international banking, the foreign ex-
of quantitative and qualitative analysis as well as formal
CIS 6261 Information Technologies for Managers
change market, the Euro currency markets and especially
exposition. The topic for research must ordinarily be a
This course studies the application of computer-based
the Euro dollar market, the financial management of a
current problem in business and must lend itself to empirical
information technology to the solution of business
bank or bank affiliate, and the review of international
analysis. Library research, personal interviews, opinion
problems. The course will provide the student with the
lending activities of U.S. banks. Prerequisite: FIN 6212.
surveys, and other methods will be used to analyze the
FIN 6321 Financial Analysis and Valuation
committee and be kept on permanent file in the library.
background, concepts, and skills necessary for informed
professional use of computer resources. Students will
problem. The finished thesis will be evaluated by a faculty
demonstrate the application of business software to
This course offers a comprehensive study of the application
Grading is pass/fail. MGT 6397 is the first course toward
support personal, group, and organizational productivity.
of analytical tools to the analysis of financial statements.
a final thesis project. Prerequisite: 24 graduate credits in
It includes extensive review of accounting principles,
business studies.
FIN 6212 Financial Management
financial statements, and Securities Exchange Commission
This course is designed to provide a broad understanding
reports (10-K’s, etc.). Prerequisite: FIN 6212.
of financial management. Topics include financial analysis,
FIN 6399 Corporate Finance Simulation,
6 credits total
capital management, capital budgeting, long-term financ-
FIN 6323 Global Investment Analysis
ing, valuation, the measurement of capital costs, determi-
This is a course in which students will learn the valuation
course in which the responsibilities and actions of the
nation of capital structures, and analysis of problems
techniques of financial assets. Emphasis will be placed on
chief financial officer within a multinational corporation
relating to growth and reorganization. Prerequisite:
fixed income, equities, and derivative securities valuation.
are replicated. In the simulation, the students have financial
ACC 6241 or equivalent.
The discussion of these techniques will be applied within
control of a hypothetical company over numerous periods
the different global financial markets. Prerequisites: FIN
of operation. Students have control of major financial and
6212 and FIN 6347 or FIN 6313.
operating decisions of their company including working
FIN 6223 Macroeconomics in Financial Markets
This is a comprehensive multiple period finance simulation
This course is an examination of the determination of
capital management, capital structure decisions, treasury
employment, income, and economic growth. Attention
decisions, and capital budgeting decisions. Students
is given to both the real and monetary sectors of the
develop and enhance skills in financial management,
economy, with specific attention on the role of govern-
financial accounting statement analysis, and general
mental entities in fiscal and monetary policy.
financial decision-making. Internet access by the instructor
and student is required. Prerequisites: FIN 6327 and 24
graduate credits.