Financial Decision-Making Certificate

Learn to read financial reports, articulate reasoned financial decisions, analyze financial statement, make forecasts, and evaluate new business ventures so you can add value through sound financial advising.

Required courses:

• Corporate Financial Reporting*—MBA:8140
• Data and Decisions*—MBA:8150/BAIS:9100
• Financial Statement Analysis and Forecasting—ACCT:9040

* If either of these two courses are waived, you'll take another approved elective from the list below in its place.

Elective course (select one):

• Project Management—MGMT:9185
• Corporate Finance—FIN:9300 (prerequisite: MBA:8180) (previously Corporate Investment and Finance Decisions)
• Corporate Financial Strategy—FIN:9310 (prerequisites: MBA:8180 and FIN:9300)

If you are taking the certificate on its own and not as part of the Iowa MBA, please note some electives have additional pre-reqs that must be satisfied.