Minor in Finance

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The School of Business will admit a maximum of 30 students to the Minor in Finance each year. Admission decisions are made on behalf of the Undergraduate Recruitment, Admissions, and Student Affairs Committee of the DeGroote School of Business.

Notes

The Minor is not open to students registered in any Commerce or Engineering and Management program.
To apply for admission into the minor, students must email their interest to the Business Faculty Office at buscom@mcmaster.ca before April 30th each year.
Students seeking the Minor must have completed ECON 1B03 and 1BB3 with an average of at least 7.0.
Students seeking to obtain the Minor must complete both ECON 2B03 and 2H03 before undertaking any Level III or Level IV Finance courses.
For the purposes of this Minor, all courses listed as anti-requisite for COMMERCE 2QA3 in the Course Listings section of the Undergraduate Calendar will be accepted as a substitute for ECON 2B03 .
For those taking COMMERCE 2FA3 and/or 3FA3 , it is strongly recommended that MATH 1MM3 (or 1M03) be completed.
COMMERCE 4FW3 and COMMERCE 4FP3 do not count towards the Minor.

Requirements

30 units total

6 units

ECON 2B03 - Analysis of Economic Data
ECON 2H03 - Intermediate Macroeconomics I
(See Notes 4 and 5 above)

9 units

from

COMMERCE 1AA3 - Introductory Financial Accounting
COMMERCE 2FA3 - Introduction to Finance (or ECON 2I03)
COMMERCE 2FB3 - Managerial Finance (or 3FA3)

9 units

Levels III, IV Finance courses (See Note 7.)