Franklin University

Financial Management


Institution: Franklin University
Program: Financial Management
Degree or Certificate: BS-Bachelor of Science in Financial Management
Department: College of Business
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Program specializations:

Not Applicable
Program mission statement:

The Financial Management program is to develop graduates who are able to:
1. Conduct analyses of financial statements;
2. Utilize time-value-of-money techniques in security valuation and investment analysis;
3. Analyze the capital structure and degree of leverage of a business; and
4. Compare capital investment opportunities using various budgeting tools.
Professional accreditation: International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE)
Program learning outcomes:
What Will I Learn?:
  • Use data provided within financial statements to calculate financial ratios and common-size statements.
  • Apply time-value-of-money techniques to derive security valuation tools and models.
  • Calculate values of public-traded securities using accepted bond and stock valuation models.
  • Calculate the weighted-average-cost-of-capital and assess the capital structure of a corporation. 
  • Apply budgeting tools to evaluate capital investment alternatives including net-present-value, internal rate of return and payback methods.
Evidence of Student Learning - Internal: How will the program measure what I have learned?:

Assignments from courses are collected and reviewed by external evaluators to determine the level of competency for each outcome.

Assessment results for 2009 (n=13) showed that over 71% of the students met program level outcomes at or above the acceptable level.
Results of External Exams/Assessments: What third-party assessments will measure what I have learned?:

Not Applicable


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