MGMT X 441 - Ethics in Finance

Course Description

This course focuses on ethical issues confronted by financial professionals, with attention to recent financial crises, and the latest developments affecting ethics within the financial world. Students will get an overview of ethical standards in finance, including the primary elements necessary to make proper ethical decisions. The course also covers fundamentals of ethics in finance; the retail customer; investments; financial markets; financial management; key definitions, issues, and general theories of business and finance ethics; and examples from scandals that have shaken public confidence in Wall Street and world financial markets.

Course Outline

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

• Finance : Ethics Requirement
• General Business Studies : Electives - Business Management
• General Business Studies with Concentration in Accounting : Electives - Business Management
• General Business Studies with Concentration in Entrepreneurship : Electives - Business Management
• General Business Studies with Concentration in Finance : Finance Requirement, Electives - Business Management
• General Business Studies with Concentration in International Trade and Commerce : Electives - Business Management
• General Business Studies with Concentration in Leadership : Electives - Business Management
• General Business Studies with Concentration in Marketing : Electives - Business Management
• General Business Studies with Concentration in Real Estate : Electives - Business Management
• Study Abroad at UCLA Program : Required