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This concentration is fundamentally designed to prepare its graduates for careers in corporate financial management in all forms of organizations: business and non-business, public or private, foreign or domestic. The objective is to teach the fundamental principles underlying organizations, to emphasize training which will improve student's thought processes, to provide a familiarity with analytical tools of finance within corporate management, and to develop in the student the ability to use the techniques involved in analyzing and evaluating corporate managerial problems and making sound decisions.

Requirements (32-33 Units)

Accounting Requirements

Required Courses (15 Units)

• BUS 120A Accounting Information Systems
• BUS 121A Intermediate Accounting I
• BUS 121B Intermediate Accounting II
• BUS 123A Tax Factors of Business & Investment Decisions

Accounting Electives (Choose 1)

• BUS 120B Advanced AIS and IS Audit
• BUS 120C Network Environments & Accounting Controls
• BUS 122B Advanced Management Accounting and Control Systems (BUS 122A is a prerequisite)
• BUS 124 Forensic Accounting
• BUS 125 Special Financial Report Topics
• BUS 126 Advanced Accounting
• BUS 127A Honors Practicum in Corporate Financial Management
• BUS 127B Advanced Honors Practicum
• BUS 129B Operational Auditing

Finance (15 units)

• BUS 171A Financial Institutes & Markets
• BUS 173A Financial Management: Theory & Policy
• BUS 173B Problems in Financial Management
• BUS 177 International Business Finance

Finance Electives (Choose 1)

• BUS 127A Honors Practicum in Corporate Financial Management
• BUS 127B Advanced Honors Practicum
• BUS 171B Commercial Banking
• BUS 172A Investments Analysis
• BUS 172B Portfolio Management
• BUS 172C Futures and Options
• BUS 173C Small Business Finance
• BUS 174 Risk Management and Insurance
• BUS 175 Real Estate Finance
• BUS 179B Selected Topics in Business Finance

*BUS 127A - Honors Practicum in Corporate Financial Management (3 units) and BUS 127B Advanced Honors Practicum Corporate sponsored project. Students will be admitted based on the following: minimum GPA of 3.0 for four prerequisite courses which include BUS 121A, 121B, 122A, and 173A; average GPA of 3.2 or above; review of their resume and successful interview and selection by the faculty advisor.

Business Pool

Freshmen admitted in fall 2010 or latermust complete MATH 71 with a grade of C or better. Transfer students and Freshmen admitted prior to fall 2010 complete MATH 70, Finite Math with grade of C or better. As of fall 2009, all courses below require grades of C or better.

• MATH 71 Business Calculus (For Freshmen and Transfer Students admitted Fall 10 or later)
• ENGL 1B Composition
• BUS 20 Financial Accounting
• BUS 90 Business Statistics

Non-Business Support

• ECON 1A Macroeconomics
• ECON 1B Microeconomics
• PHIL 186 (@) Professional Business Ethics (See SJSU Studies below)
• Non-Business Global Perspectives

Lower Division Business Core

• BUS 10 Discovering Business(Freshman, only)
• BUS 80 Legal Environment of Business
• BUS 91L Business Computer Productivity Tools(1 unit)

Upper Division Business Core

• BUS 122A Management in Accounting Control Systems
• COMM 100W or ENG 100WB or LLD 100WB (Requires passing of the WST)
• BUS 130 Fundamentals of Marketing
• BUS 140 Fundamentals of Operations Management 
• BUS 160 Fundamentals of Management and Organization Behavior
• BUS 170 Fundamentals of Finance
• BUS 187 Global Dimensions of Business
• BUS 188 Business Systems Integration
• BUS 189 Strategic Management(Graduating Seniors Only)
• BUS 190 Quantitative Business Analysis

General Education (48-51 Units)

Core GE

* Areas F1-F3 may also fulfill part of Area D

SJSU Studies

Standard Tracking Schedules

• Freshman Students
• Transfer Students