Bachelor of Business Administration Degree with a Major in Finance, Financial Planning Concentration
This degree helps you prepare for a career helping others make important financial decisions, such as investing, retirement planning, and tax and estate planning. FHSU is the only university in Kansas with a business undergraduate degree program in financial planning that is registered with the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Board of Standards. If you complete the financial planning concentration, you will meet the education requirements to sit for the CFP Certification Examination.
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General Education Program
New incoming students are automatically placed on the KBOR Systemwide Transfer General Education Program comprised of 34 credit hours organized in six discipline-based areas and two institutionally designated areas.
Business Core - 27 Credit Hours
ACCT 203 Principles of Accounting I
ACCT 204 Principles of Accounting II
BCOM 301 Strategic Business Communication
FIN 305 Managerial Finance
GBUS 204 Business Law I
MGT 301 Management Principles
MGT 602 Production & Operations Management
MGT 650 Business Policy
MKT 301 Marketing Principles
Finance Quantitative Core - 12 Credit Hours
MATH 110 College Algebra
MATH 250 Elements of Statistics
ECON 201 Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 202 Principles of Macroeconomics
Financial Planning Concentration - 36 Credit Hours
FIN 311 Fundamentals of Investments
FIN 405 Intermediate Finance
FIN 450 Personal Financial Planning
FIN 607 Options and Futures Markets
FIN 611 Investment Theories and Strategies
FIN 630 Insurance Planning
FIN 641 Financial Markets and Institutions
FIN 670 Estate Planning
FIN 680 Retirement and Employee Benefit Planning
ECON 601 Quantitative Methods
ACCT 402 Income Tax Procedure
Finance Major (Financial Planning Concentration) Electives (3 credit hours)
A minimum of 120 total credit hours are needed to graduate.