The Reid School focuses its undergraduate professional courses in the final two years of the four-year degree program. We emphasize a broad educational base through a common body of business knowledge, ensuring that our students are well-prepared for the complexities of the financial world.
As a Finance and Economics major, you will explore essential topics such as financial analysis, investment strategies, economic theory, and market behavior. Our curriculum is regularly updated to reflect current trends and demands in the industry, ensuring that you acquire relevant competencies and skills that align with professional performance expectations.
Acc 201: Principles of Accounting I
An introduction to financial accounting that explains the accounting principles and procedures used to record and report economic events of a business entity. Financial accounting focuses on the preparation of accounting information for users outside the business entity.
Acc 202: Principles of Accounting II
A continuation of the introduction to financial accounting principles and an introduction to managerial accounting. Managerial accounting focuses on the preparation and use of accounting information by management.
BAd 103: Introduction to Software Applications
Survey of the Windows operating system and business software applications, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software. Fulfills computer competency for Business or Accounting majors.
BAd 301: Business Law
A basic course dealing with the history and operation of the law, the law of contracts, and some description of other important segments of law useful to business students.
BAd 318: Business Statistics
Fundamental concepts and methods of statistics covering frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability, probability distributions, sampling, estimation, statistical quality control, quantitative decision making, hypothesis testing, correlation analysis, regression analysis, and non-parametric statistics.
BAd 405: Management Information Systems
Examination of information needs of a business and how to plan, design, and implement a system to meet those needs.
BAd 499: Business Policy
A capstone case course with an emphasis on integrating the various functional areas of business. As cases are discussed, consideration is given to topics such as decision making, strategic planning, and organization theory.
Eco 202: Economic Concepts II (Microeconomics)
An introduction to the functions of an economic system with an emphasis on decision-making by individuals and firms in a market economy.
Fin 308: Financial Principles
An introduction to the basic principles, concepts, and analytical techniques of finance. Major topics include financial analysis and planning, working capital management, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and sources of capital.
Mgt 306: Management Concepts
The study of principles of management focused around a central core of planning, organizing, directing, controlling, and staffing.
Mkt 307: Marketing Concepts
The study of the principles of marketing around the themes of product, price, place, and promotion.
Eco 304: Intermediate Economics
Intermediate analysis of microeconomic theory and concepts. Topics include consumer behavior and demand, production and costs, price and output under both perfect competition and pure monopoly.
Eco 307: Money and Banking
This course presents a fundamental treatment of how money functions. Topics covered include the money supply, how banks create money, how the various types of financial institutions operate, and the workings of monetary and fiscal policies.
Eco 418: Mathematical Methods in Economics
A survey course designed to develop those mathematical results and methods that find frequent use in economic analysis.
Fin 314: Managerial Finance
This course uses cases to reinforce finance principles and to develop further areas such as financial analysis and planning, working capital management, capital budgeting, and capital structure.
Fin 401: Investments and Derivatives
This course is designed to introduce the students to the general investment media, the analysis of these alternative investments, both individually and in a portfolio context, and the operations of the securities markets.