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BUSI 60

FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCE · 5 units · used in 1 transfer pathway

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About this course

This course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of financial analysis and applications to business challenges in valuation, risk analysis, corporate investment decisions, and basic security analysis and investment management. The four major sections of the course are: (A) an introduction to the financial system, financial statement analysis; (B) interest rates and valuing cash flows: time value of money; interest rates; valuation of stocks, bonds; (C) valuation of the firm: investment decision rules, fundamentals of capital budgeting, stock valuation (NPV); and (D) introduction to risk and return: risk and return; systemic risk; portfolio theory, CAPM, WACC.

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Fall 2026 · updated Sep 3, 3:30 PM UTC
BUSI 60FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCEWaitlist1 section · 0 seats reported · 1 instructor
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Prerequisites

The Foothill catalog lists no prerequisite for this course.

Advisory: “Advisory: Intermediate Algebra or equivalent.

Transfer pathways that use BUSI 60

ASSIST maps BUSI 60 to a requirement in 1 published pathway from Foothill College.

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