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FIN 3403

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Business Finance

4 credits
Offered: Fall, Spring & Summer
Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate
Bottleneck
Weed-out

Time value of money, valuation, capital budgeting, and risk/return. The gateway to every upper-division finance course — and the technical baseline for finance recruiting.

Typical workload: ~10 hrs/week outside class

Why students take this
From UF's official model plans and critical tracking, aggregated by TrackPilot.

Scheduled in 6 of 81 UF model plans, usually in semester 6 (junior year) and part of critical tracking for 2 majors.

Accounting
Business Administration, General Studies, BABA
Finance
Information Systems
Management
Marketing
Prerequisites
Chain shows catalog-listed prerequisite courses.
ACG 2021ECO 2023STA 2023FIN 3403

You need ACG 2021, and ACG 2021, and ECO 2023 first.

Usually taken with
Courses UF model plans put in the same semester as FIN 3403.
MAN 3025 · 3 plans
MAR 3023 · 3 plans
QMB 3250 · 2 plans
What it unlocks
11 courses list this as a prerequisite (directly or downstream).
FIN 4414 · Financial Management
FIN 4504 · Equity and Capital Markets
FIN 4453 · Financial Modeling
ACG 4111 · Financial Accounting and Reporting 2
FIN 3124 · Introduction to Financial Planning & Wealth Management
FIN 4132 · Estate & Tax Planning
MAN 4504 · Operations and Supply Chain Management
MAN 4723 · Strategic Management
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Career relevance

You need this material before IB/AM interviews, which now happen sophomore spring–junior fall.

Critical for: Investment Banking Analyst
Critical for: Asset Management / Equity Research
Critical for: Corporate Finance / FP&A
Critical for: Management Consulting
Critical for: FinTech / Product Analytics
Fall 2026 sections
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Only 2 real sections
Critical tracking for 2 majors
§3490John Banko
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