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Overview of Finance
- analytical tools, including computers, spreadsheet software, statistics, and economics.
- functional area knowledge of the business firm, including Accounting, Finance, Management, and Marketing.
- environmental issues, including an examination of both the legal and economic frameworks that condition business decisions and actions.
- technical skills in the specific functional area chosen as a concentration in Finance. Students in the Master of Science in Finance (MSF) program master finance terminology, tools, techniques, and analytical frameworks that are required to truly have an impact in organizations and how to integrate financial analyses into the context of an overall business strategy.
Related subjects include: Accounting, Management and Organization, Information Technology, Analytics, and Operations, and Marketing.
Other Related Guides
News and Popular Press
Popular press resources such as newspapers and magazines are expert but non-scholarly sources that report basic facts and offer opinions. One benefit of these sources is that they are printed shortly after an event, but they do not reach the level of analysis necessary for scholarly work.
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FactivaProvides full-text access to thousands of national and local newspapers, magazines, and trade publications. Notable for access to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, and many more news and financial publications. Also notable for its company snapshots.
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Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)Includes journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers with deep archives; and business information on more than 80 million U.S. and international companies and more than 75 million executives.
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Dictionaries are most often collections of words in one or more specific languages, usually arranged in alphabetical order, providing information like word meanings, usage, etymology, and, when they contain more than one language, translations. Some dictionaries include information more commonly found in encyclopedias. Encyclopedias are collections of information on terms, figures, eras, locations also arranged alphabetically, and, alongside definitions of terms, they also include more in-depth general information on a topic. Encyclopedias can be general or subject-specific.
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A Dictionary of Business Research MethodsThis accessible new dictionary provides clear and authoritative definitions of terms, approaches, and techniques in the area of business research methods. It covers research philosophies including research design and qualitative and quantitative methods, types of data and data collection techniques, and organizing and reporting research finding. It is an invaluable resource for students, academics, and professionals learning about research methods as part of a business degree, and undertaking research in many fields including sociology, psychology, and marketing.
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The Handbook of International Financial Terms byISBN: 0198294816Publication Date: 1999-06-10This Handbook aims to be the most comprehensive and up to date reference book available to those who are involved or could be involved in the world of finance. The financial world has a capacity for ingenious innovation and this extends to the often bewildering array and use of terms. Here youcan find out what a Circus, a Firewall, an Amazon Bond, a Clean Float, a Cocktail Swap, a Butterfly, a Streaker, a Straddle and a Strangle are. As well as defining terms, the book also shows how they are used differently in different markets and countries. It also has numerous examples showing clearly the use of particular calculations and instruments; and provides details of major markets, acronyms and currencies.