Superiority of methods. Incremental cash flow, replacement decisions, equivalent annual NPV, capital rationing, certainty equivalents. Look at the front of each chapter. You will find a detailed list of learning objectives. These represent our more specific course objectives.
Finance is a field that offers many job opportunities.
Chapter one of the text will discuss this point. You still need an understanding of finance even if you do not intend to work in finance. Few managers can really function effectively without a working knowledge of financial principles. This point is also explained more fully in Chapter One. In essence, I think you were wise to select this course.