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Program Overview
Examine the opportunities our online B.B.A. in Finance program can offer you
In the online Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Avila University, you will develop an understanding of financial markets, concepts, and strategies. Gain the essential tools needed to excel in careers such as financial analysis, credit analysis, or investor relations.
This 100% online finance degree program is designed to build a foundation in banking, investments, and financial policy. In this unique program, you will interact with highly engaged faculty eager to teach you how to identify and analyze financial challenges and strategies while developing a broad-based business foundation that will help you discover multiple career opportunities.
This program does not prepare you to become a Certified Financial Planner.Career opportunities:
- Financial Analyst
- Investor Relations Associate
- Credit Analyst
- Financial Analyst
- Investor Relations Associate
- Credit Analyst
Personalized learning experience
You will receive a personalized learning experience online. Faculty regularly engages in value-added comments and feedback providing the same level of instruction as if you were in person.
Tuition
Learn more about our financially feasible tuition
The B.B.A. in Finance online program tuition is the same affordable, pay-as-you-go rate for all U.S. residents. Fees are included in the total tuition, and financial aid may be available.
Plus, a Prior Learning Assessment evaluates knowledge gained outside traditional academic environments and may help reduce your tuition and time to completion.
Program | Per Credit Hour | Per Course |
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B.B.A. in Finance | $290 | $870 |
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Calendar
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Ideal for working professionals, the B.B.A. in Finance online program features 8-week courses and multiple start dates each year so you can begin at the time that works best for you. View the full calendar for all upcoming starts and corresponding deadlines.
Term | Start Date | App Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline | Class End Date | Term Length |
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Fall 2 2024 | 10/21/24 | 10/7/24 | 10/16/24 | 10/16/24 | 10/20/24 | 12/15/24 | 8 weeks |
Spring 1 2025 | 1/6/25 | 1/2/25 | 1/2/25 | 1/3/25 | 1/6/25 | 3/2/25 | 8 weeks |
Spring 2 2025 | 3/3/25 | 2/26/25 | 2/26/25 | 2/28/25 | 3/3/25 | 5/4/25 | 8 weeks |
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Admissions
Learn how to apply to the online B.B.A. in Finance program
We’ve simplified the admission process to help you get started quickly and easily. You can find all requirements for admission to the Avila online B.B.A. in Finance below.
Admission Requirements:
- Official transcripts
- 2.0 GPA in prior coursework
- Transfer up to 90 credits
In order to be eligible to receive a bachelor’s degree from Avila University, you must have the following:
- High school diploma
- Minimum 2.0 GPA on college coursework or 2.0 GPA on high school conferred transcript
- Official transcripts from all institutions previously attended
Submit all official transcripts to:
Email: [email protected]
Mail: Undergraduate Admissions
Avila University
11901 Wornall Road
Kansas City, MO 64145
Courses
Preview the topics you'll study in our B.B.A. in Finance online courses
In order to earn the B.B.A. in Finance online, you will complete 120 credit hours, including 35 credit hours of general education requirements, 42 credit hours of major requirements, 21 credit hours of concentration courses and 22 credit hours of electives.
Course objectives:
- Develop and maintain interpersonal, small group and public communication skills for use in a career and social context.
- Apply verbal and non-verbal components of oral communication to real life situations.
Course objectives:
- Use the computer to generate multiple drafts and demonstrate writing as a process.
- Strengthen skills in the construction and logical development of a clear and concise thesis.
Course objectives:
- Identify and explain the significance of major works of art.
- Recognize & describe the aesthetic elements which mark selected periods & artists.
Course objectives:
- Identify the basic molecules of life and to predict their properties and reactions.
- Connect the genetics of all biological life and understand the basic flow of genetic information.
Course objectives:
- Appreciate the aesthetic qualities of literary texts and develop an awareness of influential critical and interpretive methods
- Analyze and interpret works from different historical and cultural traditions using appropriate critical terms of literary analysis and responding to questions about genre, style, and content or theme
Course objectives:
- Knowledge: Identify and characterize the major questions of United States and World history in terms of continuity and change using relevant political, economic, social, religious, and cultural institutions, traditions, and beliefs.
- Theory: Demonstrate an understanding of the effects of race, gender, class, ethnicity, or religion on the experiences of ordinary and extraordinary people of the past using current historical theory and methodology.
Course objectives:
- Perform operation with real numbers. Evaluate algebraic expressions.
- Solve and apply linear equations and inequalities.
Course objectives:
- Obtain knowledge of basic ethical theories and how they apply to all areas of live: personal, professional and societal.
- Recognize the differences between moral absolutism, relativism and pluralism.
Course objectives:
- Develop an understanding of the sociological perspective
- Compare and contrast the major concepts, ideas and methods of sociology
Course objectives:
- Learn the primary features of the major world religious systems, with special focus on scriptures, social and cultural formations, history, myths and rituals, ethics, and the category “sacred”
- Learn to interrogate the methodologies used in discussing the categories of “world religions” and “religious experience,” with particular focus on the role that dominant narratives and elite discourses play in the formation of these systems
Course objectives:
- Examine the development of peace research and peace studies over the last 50 years.
- Understand the breadth and scope of the interdisciplinary field of peace studies.
Course objectives:
- Describe the nature of accounting & its use in the business world.
- Explain the concepts & principles that underlie accounting & provide the basics for external reporting.
Course objectives:
- Apply basic accounting principles in recording and reporting a firm’s activities and their application to business decision-making
- Prepare financial statements and analyze relationships on the statements in evaluating business performance
Course objectives:
- Demonstrate knowledge of local and global business organizations through the study of major disciplines within the fields of business.
- Apply methods of quantitative data analysis to support organizational decision-making processes.
Course objectives:
- Demonstrate knowledge of local and global business organizations through the study of major disciplines within the fields of business.
- Diagram the state and federal legal systems and explain how civil and criminal cases proceed through the systems.
- Explain how law is an expression of social, political and economic forces.
- Evaluate the law as an expression of ethical, social, political and economic forces.
- Recognize legal issues in personal and professional situations and use legal concepts and terminology to explain them.
- Identify and research appropriate legal resources to assist in analyzing situations with legal implications in personal and professional life.
- Critically analyze business and personal situations from a legal perspective.
- Identify influential frameworks for problem solving and ethical decision making.
- Make personal and professional decisions that appropriately use legal knowledge.
- Explain the importance of contracts in the American Society.
- Recognize and discuss the legal issues in contract formation, performance, breach of contract and remedies.
- Recognize and discuss the various crimes and torts that may arise in business situations.
- Discuss the legal implications of organizing a business as a sole proprietorship, a partnership or a corporation.
- Explain the function, structure and interrelationship of the legal, political, social and economic systems in the United States.
Course objectives:
- The roles of marketing in society, industry, and the individualized firm
- Potential marketing opportunities
Course objectives:
- Demonstrate an understanding of management theory necessary to perform successfully in a management position.
- Apply basic management knowledge and techniques to the management functions of decision- making, planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling, in order to enhance achievement of organizational goals and objectives.
Course objectives:
- Understand the principles of finance and basic legal forms of the business organization.
- Describe financial markets and discuss interest rate theory.
Course objectives:
- Clarify and articulate a personal value system as a framework for ethical decision-making and behavior.
- Participate in group interaction to achieve an identified goal.
Course objectives:
- Operate a computer using productivity applications to accomplish tasks
- Show knowledge of social and ethical issues relating to computer use
Course objectives:
- Explain the basic functioning of the functions of supply and demand as well as draw supply and demand curves and manipulate these curves when performing economic analysis.
- Identify and apply the determinants of supply and determinants of demand.
Course objectives:
- Explain how the economy operates and will be able to identify the determinants of aggregate levels of economic activity.
- Identify the tools used by the government and by the Federal Reserve to influence the economy. Student will also know how changes in these policy tools affect individual economic behavior.
Course objectives:
- Organize data into appropriate graphical and tabular representations.
- Calculate and interpret measures of central tendency and dispersion.
Course objectives:
- Write a clear, well developed, effectively organized, and convincingly reasoned paper.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the values of many diverse Americans and of the writing strategies successful authors use to communicate ideas clearly through reading and responding.
Course objectives:
1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1a: Use basic psychological terminology, concepts, and theories in psychology to explain behavior and mental processes.
1.1b: Explain why psychology is a science with the primary objectives of describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling behavior and mental processes.
1.2a: Identify key characteristics of major content domains in psychology (e.g., cognition and learning, developmental, biological, and sociocultural).
2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.1b: Use psychology concepts to explain personal experiences and recognize the potential for flaws in behavioral explanations based on simplistic, personal theories.
2.1a: Describe the value and limitations of using theories to explain behavioral phenomena.
2.1b: Describe common fallacies in thinking (e.g. confirmation bias, post hoc explanations, implying causation from correlation) that impair accurate conclusions and predictions.
2.2b: Describe what kinds of additional information beyond personal experience are acceptable in developing behavioral explanations (i.e., popular press reports vs. scientific findings).
3: Ethical and Social Responsibility in a Diverse World
3.1a Describe key regulations in the APA Ethics Code for protection of human or nonhuman research participants.
5: Professional Development
5.1d Describe how psychology’s content applies to business, health care, educational, and other workplace settings.
Course objectives:
- Describe the history of federal taxation, formation and administration of income tax laws.
- Apply the basic principles of federal income taxation as they relate to individuals and sole proprietorships.
- Students will complete federal income tax forms and prepare letters of communication to clients which involve tax planning.
- Student will be able to use deductive and inductive reasoning to solve business problems relating to federal income taxation.
Course objectives:
Be able to identify the properties of and when a market system exists and apply economic models to real world scenarios.
Course objectives:
- Learn the basic principles regarding money, interest rates and financial markets
- Learn how financial institutions are regulated.
- Learn the tools and strategies of monetary policy and the evolving role of the Federal Reserve system.
Course objectives:
- Understand the mechanics of financial markets and the investment process
- Understand the characteristics of money market instruments
- Manage investments in the money market
- Understand the bond terminology and the bond market.
- Price bonds and calculate bond yields
- Managing bond portfolios
- Understand the characteristics of the equity securities, and the mechanics of the stock market
- Be able to perform equity valuation
- Understand portfolio theory and perform efficient diversification
- Analyze financial statements
- Understand mutual funds and other investment companies
- Evaluate investment performance
Course objectives:
- Understand important derivatives terminology and concepts.
- Develop capability in applying derivative valuation models to value various derivatives contracts.
- Build strong analytical skills to solve real business problems using deductive and inductive reasoning in the area of derivative pricing and derivative trading.
- Acquire and apply critical thinking to make informed decisions.
- Demonstrate professional communication skills in the business setting via written, oral and technological means.
- Promote business ethics.
Course objectives:
- Master critical finance and business concepts.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate professionally in an organizational setting via written, oral and technological means.
- Use deductive and inductive reasoning to solve business problems.
- Demonstrate interpersonal skills. The outcome will be assessed by group case analysis, and in-class case discussions.
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively research as subject and present the findings both orally and in writing.
Course objectives:
- Understand critical international finance and business concepts.
- Understand and reflect on the diversity of international financial market environment across different countries including the bond markets, the equity market and the money market.
- Reflect and analyze the opportunities and challenges provided by international financial markets to MNCs.
- Development understanding of the foreign exchange market, different theories about exchange rate determination, and different exchange rate regimes.
- Consider and evaluate the impacts of specific local or firm actions on global community.
- Examines and evaluate the development of global organizations and institutional over time and its effects upon the financial system, the economy and the society.
- Build strong analytical skills and data processing abilities to analyze real exchange rate data and understand exchange rate movement and behavior.
- Be able to carry out exchange rate forecasting using different techniques.
- Build strong analytical skills to solve real business problems faced by multinational corporations.
- Apply critical thinking to make informed decisions in the international context.
- Identify potential risk factors and learn to measure risk exposure and perform risk management in a global business setting using various approaches.
- Demonstrate professional communication skills in the business setting via written, oral and technological means.
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