FNC 485 - Empirical Methods in Finance, 3 credit hours

Prerequisite(s): FNC 280 and FNC 342 - waived for Statistics minors
The objective of this course is to provide financial statistical models and their applications of data in corporate finance and investments. Emphasis will be on intuitive reasoning and applied statistical modeling rather than mathematical proofs. All applications will be analyzed using software such as SAS. Bloomberg will be the primary source of data for this course. Students at the end of the course will have a working knowledge of financial data and also gain expertise in SAS software to conduct the analysis.