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MGMTFE 408Foundations of Finance

Management-Fully Employed MBA · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)

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Introduction to managerial finance. Topics include time value of money, discounting and present values, valuation of bonds and stocks, risk and return, construction of optimal portfolios, capital budgeting, and weighted average cost of capital.

Letter grading.

When it runs

  • Spring 2026
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

Requisites

UCLA lists no requisites for this course.

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

Nothing — this is an entry point.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

MGMTFE 4081 more beyond

  • MGMTFE 427AGlobal Access Program
  • MGMTFE 427BGlobal Access Program
  • MGMT 229Balancing Purpose and Profit: Environmental, Social, and Governance for Managers and Investors
  • MGMT 230Takeovers, Restructuring, and Corporate Governance
  • MGMT 231Corporate Valuation
  • MGMT 232Market and Credit Risk Management
  • MGMT 234Investment Management
  • MGMT 236Fixed-Income Markets
  • MGMT 237Option Markets
  • MGMT 238Behavioral Finance
  • MGMT 239Bonds, Options, and Currencies Investment
  • MGMT 277Entrepreneurial Real Estate Development
  • MGMT 278Urban Real Estate Financing and Investing
    • MGMT 277Entrepreneurial Real Estate Developmentanother path to it
    • MGMT 279Cases in Real Estate Investmentsanother path to it
  • MGMT 279Cases in Real Estate Investments
    • MGMT 277Entrepreneurial Real Estate Developmentanother path to it
  • MGMT 294Financial Forecasting, Analysis, and Modeling for Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Dealmakers

16 courses list this as a requisite. Showing 18 courses over 2 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.