Finance (FIN)

Program of Study at USF Sarasota-Manatee

Students attending Manatee Community College should complete the Associate of Arts degree and include: 

State Mandated Common Course Prerequisites:

ACG 2021 Principles of Financial Accounting (or ACG 2001 & ACG 2011)
ACG 2071 Principles of Managerial Accounting
CGS 1000 Computer Information Systems (or CGS 2100)
ECO 2013 Macroeconomics
ECO 2023 Microeconomics
MAC 2233 Applied Calculus
STA  2023 Elementary Statistics (or QMB 2100)

NOTE: To be admitted to the College of Business, the student must first be accepted to the University of South Florida. Additionally, students must have completed a minimum of 60 semester hours, earned a 2.50 cumulative grade point average, a minimum 2.0 GPA on all credit attempted at USF, completed the seven state mandated common prerequisites with a 2.0 GPA  and no grade lower than a "C-".  Admission requirements may be subject to change.  Please check with Academic Advising for the current criteria.

The Business Core common to all majors in business consists of the 15 hours of prerequisites plus the following (3-hour) courses:*

FIN 3403 Principles of Finance
QMB 3200 Business and Economics Statistics II
BUL 3320 Law and Business I
ISM 3011 Info Systems in Organizations
MAR 3023 Basic Marketing
MAN 3025 Principles of Management
GEB 4890 Strategic Mgmt & Decision Making

*Students must earn a C- or higher in each business core course & a 2.0 cumulative business core GPA.

Required courses for Finance Majors:
FIN 4303 Financial Institutions and Markets
FIN 4414 Advanced Corporation Finance
FIN 4504 Principles of Investments

Additional upper level Finance electives: 
9-15 hrs Finance electives may be selected from among those 3000 and 4000 level classes which have FIN, REE, and RMI prefixes (except FIN 3100 and FIN 3105).  At least two electives must have an FIN prefix.

Independent Study (FIN 4905) and Independent Research (FIN 4915) will not be accepted as credit toward the minimum degree requirements for a major in finance. 

Also required for Finance (FIN) major:
* Advanced writing course
* Speech communication course
* Contemporary International topic course

Total hours: 18 - 24 hours

NOTE: Students must be admitted to the College of Businessat least one term before their anticipated graduation date. To be certified for graduation, students must achieve a 2.0 grade point average in the major field work, as well as all other college work attempted, both at USF and any other institution(s) attended.

American Sign Language is not approved by the College of Business for the Foreign Language Exit Requirement. (FLEX).

All courses in the major or minor field and all foundation courses in business must be taken on a graded basis; the S/U option is not available.