Read the financial story of an organization, in Principles of Accounting (ACC 200) and Cost Accounting (ACC 301).

(STAGING) Financial Management
Minor

Add the Skill Every Career Runs On
Money moves every organization. Learn to read it, and you’ll have an edge anywhere.
The Financial Management minor at Goshen College is an 18-credit undergraduate minor that teaches you to read the numbers behind real decisions: accounting, cost analysis, corporate finance, and investing. It’s open to students in any major and declared with your academic advisor.
It pairs with almost any field, from business and sport management to entrepreneurship, the arts, and the sciences, because every organization runs on budgets and decisions. It’s a practical, portable edge you can carry into any career, and any country.
What You Will Study in the Minor

What You’ll Be Able to Do
By the time you finish the minor, you’ll be able to:
- Use accounting principles, financial-management concepts, and cost-analysis techniques to evaluate how an organization is performing and to inform real managerial decisions.
- Apply quantitative tools and financial models to analyze investment opportunities and make sound capital-allocation decisions.
In other words, you’ll be the person in the room who can look at the numbers and say what they actually mean.

Real Tools, Not Just Theory
The minor is hands-on where it counts. You’ll build the spreadsheet skills employers expect, and you’ll research, build, and monitor real investment portfolios through a simulation, putting strategy to work with actual market data. Along the way, cost and financial analysis turn into decisions you can defend.
It’s the kind of practical fluency that strengthens whatever you already do, on a team, in a startup, in a nonprofit, or in your own plans for life after graduation.
Common Questions About the Financial Management Minor
The 18-credit minor includes Principles of Accounting (ACC 200), Cost Accounting (ACC 301), Spreadsheet Skills (BUS 220), Financial Management (BUS 317), and Investing in Capital Markets (BUS 332), plus your choice of Operations Management (BUS 318) or Supply Chain Management (BUS 312).
You’ll be able to use accounting, finance, and cost-analysis tools to evaluate how an organization is performing and inform managerial decisions, and to apply quantitative models to analyze investments and make capital-allocation decisions. In short, you’ll read the numbers behind real decisions, and act on them.
Almost any of them. Because every field runs on budgets and decisions, the minor strengthens majors from business, sport management, and entrepreneurship to the arts and sciences. It’s a portable, practical credential that signals you can handle the financial side of whatever you do.
Two things. Accounting majors who complete this minor take both BUS 318 (Operations Management) and BUS 312 (Supply Chain Management). And all Financial Management minors must earn a grade of C- or higher in every course required for the minor. Your advisor can help you map it out.
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