Emerging CFOs

This program is designed for students interested in corporate finance and investment banking. It is designed to go more in depth into corporate finance aspects of finance, and provide students with enhanced leadership and communication skills. In addition to traditional courses taken by all finance majors, students in this program will attended a dedicated section of Financial Management, BMGT 440 FP section. This section would bring in corporate guest speakers and a case competition.

Dr. Sue White is the Faculty Champion for this program, click here to view her profile.

Curriculum - 1 year program

• BMGT 340 (Business Finance) Sophomore year or Fall of Junior year
• BMGT 313 FP section (Financial Statement Analysis) Fall of Junior or Senior year
• BMGT 440 FP section  (Financial Management) Spring of Junior or Senior year

NOTE: BMGT 313 (Financial Statement Analysis) is required for all Emerging CFO's Fellows. Two dedicated sections will be offered in Fall semester for Emerging CFO's and Financial Services fellows, students may enroll in either section.

*Program is open to rising Juniors and Seniors but must be completed within one year of being admitted.

Co-curricular activities/events

• Mentoring program with corporate sponsors in their company’s finance function
• Case competition
• Professional polish seminar
• Finance Fellows Speaker Series (3 speakers each semester)
• Optional non-credit trips
• Optional winter-term three credit study trip

NOTE: Fellows are required to attend 4 out of 6 events. The speaker series also require writing a 1-2 page reflection paper following each event.

Fellows Application Eligibility

• Must be a Finance Major
• Minimum Junior Standing. Rising juniors may apply
• Grade of B- or better in BMGT340 (may complete either spring semester at time of application or fall semester. Admission is provisional contingent upon satisfactory completion of BMGT340)
• Cover letter explaining why you want to participate in the program

Application & Selection Process

• This Application is closed and will reopen Spring 2009.
• You can work on your application in any order you choose
• You can save your application as a draft (before making a final submission). Your saved application is located in your "Profile" under "My Applications" in UNet.   Please remember not to submit your application until you have finished entering all parts of your application .  You will only be able to submit this application once and are then unable to return to make edits.