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This course introduces students to the general concepts of risk identification and management, as well as how various products and methods, including insurance, can be used to manage the non-speculative risks of individuals and businesses. Emphasis will be placed on analyzing various types of insurance products, including life, health, property, and liability insurance contracts, and how the insurance industry develops, manages, markets, and underwrites such contracts in a complex economic and regulatory environment.

This course focuses on the core principles underlying and potential applications for commercial lines property and casualty insurance as a risk management tool. Emphasis is placed on analyzing various types of property and casualty insurance products for businesses, contracts involved in such products, and considerations of both the insurer and the insured in identifying suitable P & C insurance products for mitigating specific business risks.

Credits from the Nationwide School of Middle Market Underwriting (3) or the Nationwide School of Commercial Underwriting (4) may be transferred in to replace RMI 420.

This course analyzes insurer operations and, in particular, the methods and bases for their operational decisions, including pricing, distribution, marketing, underwriting, reinsurance, claims handling, and loss limitation or control. Consideration will also be given to the impact of outside influences on insurer operations, including industry regulation and market/economic influences.

ECON 420 - Forecasting
This course provides a hands-on experience for creating working econometric models to forecast business activities, including revenues, costs, and profits. Trends, seasonal and cyclical fluctuations, as well as error term dynamics, are analyzed.

ACCT 341 - Fraud Examination
This course provides an overview of the behavioral research associated with occupational fraud and the methodology of fraud examination (i.e., obtaining documentary evidence, interviewing witnesses and potential suspects, writing investigative reports, testifying to findings, and forensic document examination). The majority of the course is focused on detecting the most common types of occupational fraud, determining how each type of fraud is committed, and implementing prevention strategies.