Jun 30, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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FIN 4700 - Data Analytics for Finance
This course exposes students to various techniques in data analysis as applied to problems in the financial industry. Through experience with programming applications and modelling, students explore the role of a data analyst in the financial world and learn the basic skills required to begin a career in that field.
Requisites: QBA 3720 and FIN 3200 and FIN 3270 and FIN 3410
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to describe the importance of data analysis in modern finance.
- Students will be able to apply data analysis to problems in finance.
- Students will be able to use basic programming in a language applicable to a financial analyst.
- Students will be able to interpret case-style scenarios.
- Students will be able to construct meaningful tables, descriptive statistics, and figures.
- Students will be able to construct research questions that can be answered with empirical analysis.
- Students will be able to discuss the output of empirical analysis.
- Students will be able to produce qualitative and quantitative analysis.
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