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Main Departmental Office
Business Leadership Building, Room 212

Mailing address:
1155 Union Circle #305339
Denton, TX 76203-5017
940-565-3050
Fax 940-565-4234

Web site: www.cob.unt.edu/firel

Advising Office
Graduate Programs Office
Business Leadership Building, Room 229
940-369-8977

Marcia J. Staff, Chair

Faculty 

Research

The Department of Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Law (FIREL) faculty have a distinguished record of scholarship in discipline-based, instructional development and applied research. Articles written by our faculty have been published in journals such as the American Business Law Journal; American Economic Review; Appraisal Journal; Financial Analyst’s Journal; Financial Management; Financial Review; Journal of Applied Corporate Finance; Journal of Applied Finance; Journal of Banking and Finance; Journal of Business Finance and Accounting; Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; Journal of Financial Economics; Journal of Financial Engineering; Journal of Financial Research; Journal of Financial Services Research; Journal of Financial Transformations; Journal of Futures Markets; Journal of Insurance Issues; Journal of Insurance Regulation; Journal of Monetary Economics; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Journal of Portfolio Management; Journal of Real Estate Research; Journal of Risk and Insurance; Managerial and Decision Economics; Managerial Finance; Organizações Em Contexto; Quarterly Journal of Economics and Finance; Real Estate Economics; Real Estate Probate and Trust Law Reporter; Research in Finance; Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting; and South Carolina Law Review.

Degree programs

The Department of Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Law offers a graduate program leading to the Master of Science with a major in finance.

The college offers a Master of Business Administration with a major in business administration  and a Doctor of Philosophy with a major in business , both with a concentration in finance.

The program admission and degree requirements are the same as those listed for the College of Business unless stated otherwise by the department.

Scholarships

Scholarships are awarded each year in the FIREL department for students majoring in finance. Please contact the department chair for current information.

Programs

• Finance, MS

Courses

• BLAW 5050 - Legal, Regulatory and Ethical Environment of Business
• BLAW 5400 - Law for Accountants and Managers
• BLAW 5600 - Current Topics in Law
• BLAW 5610 - Legal Issues in Electronic Commerce
• BLAW 5760 - Insurance Law
• BLAW 5770 - Advanced Real Estate Law and Contracts
• BLAW 5900 - Special Problems

• FINA 5040 - Introduction to Finance and Financial Mathematics
• FINA 5170 - Financial Management
• FINA 5210 - Investment Analysis and Management
• FINA 5220 - Theory and Application of Financial Derivatives
• FINA 5230 - Portfolio Management and Security Analysis in Investments
• FINA 5310 - Advanced Topics in Financial Management
• FINA 5400 - Financial Markets and Institutions
• FINA 5410 - Advanced Management of Financial Institutions
• FINA 5500 - International Financial Management
• FINA 5510 - Theory of Finance
• FINA 5650 - Contemporary Issues in Finance
• FINA 5700 - Integrative Capstone Course in Finance
• FINA 5800 - Internship
• FINA 5900 - Special Problems
• FINA 5910 - Special Problems
• FINA 6010 - Seminar in Business Administration
• FINA 6014 - Seminar in Investments, Modern Portfolio Theory and Capital Markets Research
• FINA 6015 - Seminar in Financial Derivatives
• FINA 6016 - Seminar in Corporate Finance
• FINA 6017 - Seminar in Financial Institutions and Markets
• FINA 6018 - Seminar in Econometric Methods Applied in Financial Markets Research
• FINA 6100 - The Theory of Financial Decisions
• FINA 6110 - Special Topics in Financial Theory
• FINA 6900 - Special Problems
• FINA 6910 - Independent Doctoral Research
• FINA 6940 - Individual Research
• FINA 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation

• REAL 5350 - Introduction to Real Estate and Investment Analysis
• REAL 5400 - Advanced Real Estate Valuation
• REAL 5440 - Advanced Real Estate Finance and Analysis
• REAL 5750 - Real Estate Market and Feasibility Analysis
• REAL 5760 - Advanced Real Estate Investments and Analysis
• REAL 5780 - Seminar in Real Estate Research
• REAL 5800 - Internship
• REAL 5900 - Special Problems

• RMIN 5730 - Risk Management Techniques for the Business Executive
• RMIN 5770 - Employee Benefits and Other Business Uses of Life and Health Insurance
• RMIN 5780 - Financial and Estate Planning
• RMIN 5900 - Special Problems

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