Offered in the spring. Personal Financial Planning is a course primarily for business majors and concentrates on preparation of professional financial planners. This course concentrates on understanding the financial planning process in areas such as risk management and insurance, investments, and retirement planning, estate planning, and the Louisiana community property and inheritance laws. The main objective of the course is to teach students to prepare and analyze financial plans for individuals. Analyzes the asset and liability management problems of financial institutions.
Emphasis is on the particular problems of managing a commercial bank.
Cases are used to illustrate the alternative solutions to problems common to financial institution management. Offered on demand. Primary focus is on evaluating the risk-return potential of income producing real property. Offered on demand. See description in College of Business Administration section.