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A
Practical and Comprehensive Curriculum
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Fundamentals
of Financial Accounting and Financial
Management
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Credit Hours: 3 |
Accelerated and in-depth
study of conceptual foundations and applications
of financial accounting and financial management
with emphasis on building accounting and
finance information bases for external
decision making. (Accounting and finance
preparation to enter the MBA.)
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The
Economics of Business Decisions
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Credit Hours: 3 |
Topics include
scarcity; marginal analysis and tools of
optimization; demand and supply analysis
and market structure; economic efficiency;
regression analysis; risk analysis and
game theory and international economic
issues.
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Managerial
Accounting
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Credit Hours: 3 |
Focuses on the development
and use of accounting information for effective
managerial decision-making. Emphasis is
on understanding managerial accounting
information, specifically its purpose,
its effect on managerial behavior, and
its use in formulating and implementing
strategy. Topics include relevant information
for activity and process decisions, and
issues involved with management control
system's design and operation.
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Operations
Management
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Credit Hours: 3 |
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Design, operation, and control of service
and manufacturing systems. Emphasis on
using analytical tools for problem solving
in process analysis and re-engineering,
work-force management, material and inventory
management, aggregate planning, total
quality management, and others.
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Advanced Finance
and Corporate Decision-Making
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Credit Hours: 3 |
This course examines the firm's financial
function in the integrated context of
overall corporate decision-making. It
begins by examining topics that deal
with corporate investment and financing
decisions. Since the goal of these decisions
is to maximize firm value, an important
component of the course is to understand
how firm value is determined. This involves
a sound understanding of the risk-return
relationship in the valuation of financial
securities in the market. With this framework
as a backdrop, the course then brings
together, in an integrated manner, corporate
decision-making with respect to a broad
range of perspectives in financial services.
The emphasis is to identify issues and
problems at the corporate level, and
integrate decision-making from a wide
range of corporate functions.
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Organizational
Leadership & Behavior
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Credit Hours: 3 |
Behavioral knowledge and skills essential to
becoming an effective manager/leader
including behavior and motivation in an
environment of complexity and rapid change
and ethical implications of actions and
their effects on demographically diverse
and increasingly international work force.
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Marketing
Management
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Credit Hours: 3 |
A managerial approach to strategic marketing
decision making. Topics include product
strategy, promotional strategy, channels
of distribution, and pricing strategy.
This course aids in understanding the
relationships that exist in a market-based
economic system. A framework of concepts
and terms which facilitate the
understanding of the process of exchange
from the perspective of a decision maker
of marketing activities in an organization
is presented. Special attention will be
given to the marketing of financial
services.
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International
Marketing
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Credit Hours: 3 |
Study of opportunities, problems and techniques
involved in marketing internationally.
Analysis of environmental forces which
affect international marketing and the
methods companies utilize to market
effectively on an international scale.
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Entrepreneurship
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Credit Hours: 3 |
An examination of entrepreneurship and
entrepreneurs. Focus on planning the
start-up of a fast-growth enterprise with
the aim of rewarding the founders and
initial investors with significant capital
gains. Extensive use of case studies will
provide a background of classroom
activities to assist students in the
preparation of a detailed plan for the
hypothetical start-up of a fast-growth
firm.
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International
Business Concept
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Credit Hours: 3 |
An overview of international business management.
Specifically, the functional areas of
business are covered to provide an
international perspective. Management challenges
associated with the development of
international strategies and the
management of organizations in business
enterprises whose operations stretch
across national boundaries; how
multinational enterprises (MNEs) work.
Case studies, projects, and presentations
are used to help students apply concepts
and theories.
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Management
Strategy
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Credit Hours: 3 |
Examination
of the need to integrate the functional
activities of the firm in planning
corporate objectives and achieving
operating results. Emphasis on ability to
identify issues and problems of the firm
as a whole, to explore alternatives and to
make decisions which recognize the
interrelationships of the functional
specialties within the total organization.
Application and integration of knowledge
and skills of analysis developed in the
preceding courses of the MBA program.
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