Finance (B.A.)

Foundations of Business at Gordon College

The Department of Economics and Business offers four distinct majors in the business field: accounting, business management, finance, and marketing. Students majoring in business management may also elect to complete a concentration in entrepreneurship and small business, human resource management, or sport management; students may choose only one concentration.

Double majors within the Economics and Business Department are allowed, but triple majors are not allowed.

Students must continuously maintain a 2.0 GPA within the major.

All students majoring in a business field (accounting, business management, finance, or marketing) are required to take the following courses (22 credits total):

• ECB 105 - Introduction to Business (2)
• ECB 110 - Personal Financial Analysis (2)
• ECB 115 - The Economy (4)
• ECB 117 - Principles of Financial Accounting (4)
• ECB 118 - Principles of Managerial Accounting (4)
• ECB 205 - Vocation and Business Careers (2)
• ECB 211 - Statistics in Business and Economics (4)

•   The ECB 211 requirement can alternatively be satisfied through completion of MAT 220 - Biostatistics ; or MAT 318 - Probability  and MAT 319 - Statistics ; or PSY 256 - Research Methods I  and PSY 257 - Research Methods II ; or AP Statistics by permission.

Finance Requirements

The finance major utilizes foundational and elective courses from both accounting and economics to develop the tools and understandings essential to competent financial theory and practice. This knowledge base is extended and specialized to the finance discipline through the study of international capital markets and financial institutions, financial planning and control, capital budgeting and development of capital resources. The two elective courses allow students to emphasize either corporate finance or financial markets/institutions.

Completing the finance major requires at most 66 credits in total (44 credits in addition to the 22 credits in Foundations of Business). Required courses in addition to the Foundations of Business are:

• ECB 247 - Financial Management (4)
• ECB 311 - Intermediate Microeconomics (4) or ECB 324 - Intermediate Macroeconomics (4)  
• ECB 320 - Business Law (4)
• ECB 330 - Financial Markets and Institutions (4)
• ECB 355 - Risk Management and Insurance (4)
• ECB 356 - Professional Financial Planning (4)
• ECB 372 - Investments (4)
• ECB 492 - Senior Seminar: Management, Strategy and Ethics (4)
• MAT 111 - Introduction to Applied Calculus (4) or MAT 121 - Calculus I (4)  

Graduate Studies

Students interested in graduate work in finance should elect:

• MAT 121 - Calculus I (4)
• ECB 313 - Econometrics (4) or

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• MAT 318 - Probability (4) and
• MAT 319 - Statistics (4)

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  Taking MAT 318  and MAT 319  also waives ECB 211 .