BUS 132: FOUNDATIONS OF FINANCE
University of California, Riverside
4 Units, Lecture, 3 hours; written work, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): BUS 020; STAT 008 or STAT 010 or ECON 101. Covers the mathematical and economic foundations of finance. Topics include intertemporal production and consumption; fisher separation; risk and return; two-fund separation; standard asset-pricing models; arbitrage; derivatives concepts and parity relationships; and international finance parity relationships. Credit is awarded for one of the following BUS 132 or BUS 133.
Average GPA: 3.39
Grade distribution records: 2,555 students across 36 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 131 | 5.1% |
| A | 596 | 23.3% |
| A- | 610 | 23.9% |
| B+ | 423 | 16.6% |
| B | 390 | 15.3% |
| B- | 166 | 6.5% |
| C+ | 79 | 3.1% |
| C | 82 | 3.2% |
| C- | 24 | 0.9% |
| D+ | 5 | 0.2% |
| D | 10 | 0.4% |
| D- | 3 | 0.1% |
| F | 14 | 0.5% |
| S | 7 | 0.3% |
| W | 15 | 0.6% |
Based on 2,555 student grade records across 36 terms and 8 professors.
Instructors
- Greg Richey 615 students, Average GPA 3.37
- Yawen Jiao 398 students, Average GPA 3.51
- Leo Vu 214 students, Average GPA 3.80
- Sameer Qadri 133 students, Average GPA 3.27
- Saxon Song 106 students, Average GPA 3.19
- Salvatore Lucia 105 students, Average GPA 2.86
- Javad Kashefi-Nejad 70 students, Average GPA 3.12
- Jungjun Park 28 students, Average GPA 3.39