FINA at Northeastern University

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. FINA 6318Financial Management
  2. ACCT 6201Financial Reporting and Managerial Decision Making 2
  3. MGSC 6200Information Analysis
  4. FINA 6200Value Creation through Financial Decision Making
  5. FINA 6320Advanced Financial Management

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate FINA coursework.

• FINA 2201Financial Managementopens 33 courses (11 directly)
• FINA 2209Financial Managementopens 33 courses (11 directly)
• FINA 6200Value Creation through Financial Decision Makingopens 27 courses (11 directly)
• FINA 6320Advanced Financial Managementopens 26 courses (10 directly)
• FINA 3303Investmentsopens 22 courses (21 directly)
• FINA 3301Corporate Financeopens 21 courses (20 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate FINA work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 95 FINA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 29 more FINA courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in FINA. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at FINA 4605

  1. ACCT 1201Financial Accounting and Reporting
  2. FINA 2201Financial Management
  3. FINA 3301Corporate Finance
  4. FINA 4335Computational Methods and Their Applications in Finance
  5. FINA 4340Blockchain Applications in Finance
  6. FINA 4605Fintech Experiential Project

• 6 courses deep, ending at FINA 6361

  1. ACCT 6201Financial Reporting and Managerial Decision Making 2
  2. FINA 6200Value Creation through Financial Decision Making
  3. FINA 6320Advanced Financial Management

• 4 courses deep, ending at FINA 4219

  1. ACCT 1201Financial Accounting and Reporting
  2. FINA 2201Financial Management
  3. FINA 3303Investments

• 3 courses deep, ending at FINA 6461

  1. FINA 6403Investment Analytics
  2. FINA 6439Quantitative Portfolio Management
  3. FINA 6461Fund Management for Managers

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for FINA yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under FINA yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

FINA does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Northeastern campus feed.