FINC 605 - Ethics in Finance and Public Policy

3 credit hours
This is a course in decision making, culture, public policy, and developing systems that reduce the likelihood of ethical lapses leading to firms’ financial impairment. The particular focus of this course in on how managers should think about the role of values and ethics in financial decision making; as business leaders, some of the most challenging aspects of the decisions that managers will make in the future are the aspects of those decisions that involve values and morality. As such, the course is designed to expose students to, and help them gain facility with, a set of ideas and concepts that can help students structure their thinking and more fully develop an approach to recognizing and incorporating a consideration of ethics into their own decision-making framework. This will enable students to reason more effectively about the role of ethics in a complex, dynamic, global business environment, and will ultimately further develop their senses of responsible judgment. Students will explore the relationship between corporate cultures and how and whether they create environments for sound, ethical financial decisions. The course will also treat the relationship between macroeconomic forces, such as financial “bubbles,” on the incentives to behave ethically. Finally, students will explore the relationship between law, regulation, public policy and ethics.
Course Delivery Methods: TRA, BLD, WEB, ONL, SEL
College: CGPS