Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: analyze different forms of business organization and basic types of financial management; examine the purpose of a balance sheet, main components, and fundamentals of financial leverage; evaluate an income statement, the main components, and operations of an income statement; evaluate the fundamentals of stock and the difference between common and preferred stock; apply knowledge of the rate of return fundamentals and rate of return methods; define dividends, dividend yields, and the dividend growth model; apply knowledge of investments and the investment process of asset allocation; identify investment risk components and the relationship between risk and return; and analyze the fundamentals of capital and the capital market.