FIN 464

Fall 2026 All Classes

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Applied Financial Analysis

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Provides key building blocks necessary for many careers in finance. Designed to provide a practical approach to analyzing and interpreting complex financial statements to make decisions from a range of user perspectives, including investment banks, equity investors and commercial banks. Advanced financial analysis and forecasting will be applied through assignments and casework. There will be an emphasis on business writing skills commonly applied by finance professionals.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Credit is not given for FIN 464 and FIN 490 CRNs 57268 and 57353. Prerequisite: ACCY 201. Priority given to finance majors.

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FIN 464 class schedule data for fall 2026
	Status		CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
			76751	Lecture-Discussion	B1	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	3003 Business Instructional Fac	Vitek, M	Availability: Closed Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/26-12/09/26 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: The goal of this course is to teach students how to value virtually any business or company. More importantly, the course seeks to provide students with an understanding of the underlying factors that drive a company’s value and how those factors differ across industries. This class is designed to be hands-on and interactive. We will study a series of cases using real companies in a variety of industries. For each case, we will discuss the company’s business model, analyze its most recent financial statements, and construct a financial forecast using a discounted cash flow model. Then we will incorporate all this information to explore various financial concepts and drivers of valuation. A particular focus will be to examine how these differ across companies, industries and market environments. We will also use each case to introduce and analyze specific issues within the financial statements. These will include: common size income statements, return on invested capital and its components, working capital management and cash conversion cycles, share based compensation and fully diluted share count, convertible securities, net operating losses and deferred taxes, and acquisition accounting. Restriction(s): Restricted to Gies College of Business. Not intended for Nondegree major(s) or minor(s). Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
			76236	Lecture-Discussion	U	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	3039 Business Instructional Fac	Vitek, M	Availability: Closed Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/26-12/09/26 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: The goal of this course is to teach students how to value virtually any business or company. More importantly, the course seeks to provide students with an understanding of the underlying factors that drive a company’s value and how those factors differ across industries. This class is designed to be hands-on and interactive. We will study a series of cases using real companies in a variety of industries. For each case, we will discuss the company’s business model, analyze its most recent financial statements, and construct a financial forecast using a discounted cash flow model. Then we will incorporate all this information to explore various financial concepts and drivers of valuation. A particular focus will be to examine how these differ across companies, industries and market environments. We will also use each case to introduce and analyze specific issues within the financial statements. These will include: common size income statements, return on invested capital and its components, working capital management and cash conversion cycles, share based compensation and fully diluted share count, convertible securities, net operating losses and deferred taxes, and acquisition accounting. Restriction(s): Restricted to Gies College of Business. Not intended for Nondegree major(s) or minor(s). Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.