金融是对个人，企业和组织如何获取和利用资本（即金钱）并有效地利用其创造价值的研究。财务的两个基本要素包括预期收益和风险之间的权衡以及未来现金流量的时机重要性。金融学理学学士课程为期120小时，为学生提供以下学习目标：获得有关金融基础理论和实践的广泛功能知识，访问和分析财务报表以评估公司的财务状况及其采用的策略为股东创造价值，开发和运用财务建模技巧来评估公司以及单个资本资产，证券和其他投资工具的价值，运用资产分配和多元化的原则通过经验学习来制定投资组合策略，理解并运用评估投资组合绩效的各种措施，展示书面和口
Finance is the study of how individuals, businesses, and organizations acquire and use money. In fact, finance students get hands-on experience with this through the Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF), or Tiger Fund, which gives them the opportunity to work through such areas of security research, valuation of risky assets, and portfolio management. Since it began in 2005, students have taken the initial 1 million provided by the LSU Foundation and grown it to more than 2.3 million.Possible CareersActuarial specialistAppraiserBankerCertified financial plannerCorporate developerInvestment managerReal estate analystRisk management specialist