Finance
Faculty
Chair: Gary Joseph Scott
Professor: Gary Joseph Scott
Assistant Professor: Mark Hanssen, Hannah Kling, Michael Szpindor Watson
Program Mission
The Finance program aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of asset and risk management, grounded in data science and economic analyses. Curricula look to develop students’ technical skills in market forecasting, effective communication, critical analyses, and wealth management and accrual. Faculties are committed to modeling and encouraging the development of honesty, integrity, and virtue in our students. Our hope is to provide an atmosphere of learning and study that will, in keeping with the highest values of a Catholic and Benedictine education for humane stewardship, enable young men and women to live a life that will help to make the world a better place.
Program Goals
Finance develops analytical reasoning through formal modeling, empirical testing, cash flow analyses, and historical-institutional interpretations. Finance majors gain training for strategic management and leadership; along with strong preparation for graduate study in Finance, Economics, Law, or MBA programs. The knowledge and skills developed are utilized in problem solving, executive decision-making, and policy applications in business, regulation, internal compliance, banking, investment, and not-for-profit organizations. Thus, the Finance major prepares students for interesting careers as well as for further graduate work. Oral and written communication is especially important in course work; together with mathematical, empirical, graphical, and data-presentation software and skills.