A successful financial manager focuses on maximizing shareholder wealth, while also considering other stakeholders such as employees and communities. This course utilizes financial formulas, tables, and spreadsheets to focus on the financial functions of analysis, planning and decision-making, and control. Topics may include financial statement analysis and forecasting, working capital policy, cost of capital and capital budgeting techniques, interaction with financial markets, and time value of money techniques. NOTE: MTH 504 Statistics is recommended.