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This course will enable students to identify the tools that contribute to the economy from a Microeconomic (firm) and Macroeconomic (domestic and global) perspective.

This introductory course builds an understanding and awareness of organizational operations and oversight. Students deep dive into management, exploring the subtopics of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. You will discover how organizations leverage their scarce resources to achieve their goals. This course provides students with an overview of management and insights into organizational structures.

In this fundamental accounting course, students apply executive, management, planning, and control processes to evaluate transactions and prepare and analyze financial statements.

This course examines the managerial use of statistical concepts and data analysis, covering topics such as descriptive statistics, probability, sampling, statistical inference and correlation, and regression analysis. Students become familiar with the Office Automation Systems and standard statistical software.

This course helps develop an understanding of financial management, with a focus on the valuation of cash flows, the relationship between risk and return, capital budgeting, and working capital management.

Prerequisite: Financial Accounting

Production and operations are the management of processes used by businesses when manufacturing their goods and services. Students will study the design, management, and improvement of production systems for efficiency and effectiveness. The course prepares students for various careers within efficient operations management, with a focus on analytically based decision-making and the improvement of processes, quality, and productivity.

This course dissects the strategy behind a firm’s marketing efforts when targeting their audience. Specifically, this course seeks to develop a student in two ways: (1) understanding of how the firm can benefit by creating and delivering value to its customers, and (2) further their skills in conceptual analysis and the application of marketing tools that improve segmentation and targeting, branding, pricing, distribution, and promotion. Students participate in lectures and case discussions, case write-ups, student presentations, and a comprehensive final examination to achieve these objectives.

This course develops a foundation of concepts and solutions that supports the planning, scheduling, controlling, resource allocation, and performance measurement activities required for the successful completion of a project.

Dive into a course overview of all information systems, including the integration of management, information, and systems concepts into a unified framework. Topics include management information systems development, design, implementation, and evaluation strategies.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the entrepreneurship process. Topics include, but are not limited to, creativity and innovation, entrepreneurship, feasibility analysis, venture finance, and business plan development.

Prerequisite: Organizational Behavior and Leadership

This course is an in-depth study of the application of accounting methods to solve business management problems. You’ll gain knowledge, insights, and analytical skills to design, implement, and plan and control systems strategies. Topics covered include transfer pricing budget preparation, management compensation, motivation, and goal congruence.

Prerequisites: Financial Accounting and Financial Management

This course provides an overview and broad understanding of cybersecurity, principles and concepts relating to the security of information assets, and cyber-risk management. Learners will develop the knowledge and skills to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of digital assets needed to secure an organization.

This is a hands-on graduate course conducted entirely in instructional computer labs, requiring students to work on intensive spreadsheet-based finance assignments and projects in every class, individually and in teams. It is a finance elective for finance majors and a business elective for non-finance majors.

This course provides an overview, insights, and importance of information technology applications in support of supply chain management activities. It covers areas such as technology-driven supply chain evolution, customer and service management, manufacturing planning, supplier management relationships, logistics networks, and optimization, and SCM technology strategies. Current innovations in information technology are incorporated into the course and emerging challenges/issues are highlighted to provide students with an understanding of the use and importance of information technology in supply chain management. The course uses IT and supply chain websites, articles, white papers, relevant cases, and current news (e.g., Wall Street Journal) throughout course discussions. Guest speakers make presentations that provide insight on current topics and general global supply chain technology issues. This course also incorporates the opportunities and challenges involved in e-commerce including the evolution of e-commerce, supply chain e-commerce management, and electronic commerce tools used in supply chain management.

Learn to develop business plans that solve complex problems. This capstone course involves the formulation and implementation of corporate strategy. Topics include long-range planning, acquisitions and mergers, and business policy. Students will present their findings to a panel of faculty and top industry professionals, then receive feedback and recommendations for moving forward. Dean and other faculty will attend.

Through a global management consulting engagement, students will learn how to effectively develop, lead, research and analyze a strategic business challenge. Major topics covered include country analysis for market entry strategies, global regulatory issues, demand analysis, product development, marketing, and distribution issues. The course includes site visits and events outside of class time.