Courses
MSA 670 FORENSIC & INVESTIGATIVE ACCT 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed to acquaint the student with the field and practice of forensic accounting. Topics to be discussed include fraudulent financial reporting, employee fraud, indirect methods of reconstructing income, money laundering and transnational financial flows, various courtroom procedures and litigation support, and cybercrime and business valuations.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
MSA 671 UNDERSTANDING BUS. VALUATIONS 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed to acquaint the student with the business valuation process. Topics to be discussed include business valuation overview, valuation standards, various types of reports, appraisal theory, appraisal engagement, market approach, asset approach, income approach, discounts and capitalization, premiums, and completing the engagement.
Offered: Late Spring Semester All Years
MSA 625 TAX RESEARCH 3.0 Credit(s)
This course will explain and apply various tax research techniques, the importance of tax research, and appropriate techniques for conducting tax research in real world contexts. Students will learn how to apply research techniques to resolve basic to intermediate tax compliance issues and to distinguish primary versus secondary authority in the tax areas, as well as about the hierarchy of federal tax guidance.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
MSA 626 GLOBAL FN'L RPTG & ANALYSIS 3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on policy issues of foreign currency translation, global inflation, transnational reporting and disclosure, and international accounting and auditing standards. Financial statements of multinational and foreign firms are used for financial statement analysis. The course includes case studies, computer-based assignments, and research projects.
Offered: Late Spring Semester All Years
MSA 690 FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS 3.0 Credit(s)
This course emphasizes the content of corporate financial reports and helps students learn to analyze the information therein. It also includes information for evaluating the financial health, operating performance, and growth prospects of corporation-type companies. The topics to be covered include the corporate financial statements and their relationships, ratio analysis for profitability and risk evaluation, assets/liabilities/owners' equity analysis, intercompany investments, and forecasting financial statements.
Offered: Late Spring Semester All Years
FN 670 MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS & JOINT VENTURES 3.0 Credit(s)
Examines the role of each of these strategies as part of the whole restructuring process faced by corporations in their attempt to compete and grow in the United States and abroad. Emphasis is on each method's strategic and financial advantages. Group analysis of cases and computer applications are utilized. Prerequisite: Take WGB-603
Offered: Late Spring Semester All Years
HR 689 CAPSTONE & APPLIED RESEARCH PROJECT 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is the final required course in the program. Students should have successfully completed all required courses before enrolling in this course. Students will develop a project plan or research proposal for their final project in this class. The course will cover acceptable project ideas, problem statements, literature reviews, research and project evaluation methodologies, and project plans. Each student is required to complete a proposal ready for consideration of review and approvals.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
HR 631 MANAGING A GLOBAL WORKFORCE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on helping the student develop an international perspective of the human resource management (HRM) function. Students will examine the unique demands of global firms and their consequential impact on strategic human resource management issues. Specific focus will be on the role of culture and differences in attitudes in requiring both a localization of practices in different countries/regions and a global integration of business practices across the organization.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
HR 638 COMPENSATION & BENEFITS 3.0 Credit(s)
Compensation and benefits is the cornerstone of many human resource strategic plans. This course will give students an in-depth understanding of the design and implementation of compensation and benefit systems. Topics covered will include pay for performance systems, compensation equity across global locations, integrating compensation systems and performance systems, executive compensation, and teambased performance systems.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
HR 634 TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT 3.0 Credit(s)
A critical part of maintaining an organization's workforce so that it is uniquely qualified to achieve the organization's short- and long-term goals is to provide training and development opportunities at all levels of the workforce. This course will explore in depth the theories and best practices used in workforce training, skills development, and leadership development. Additionally, students will explore training and development as a retention tool for top performers in the organization.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CM 627 CAPSTONE IN COMMUNICATION 3.0 Credit(s)
An advanced course tailored to students' areas of interest in the communication field. The focus of the class is on acquiring skill sets specific to students' career interests and the latest developments within the industry.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CS 638 ADV. SCRIPTING WITH PYTHON 3.0 Credit(s)
This course will provide advanced concepts of Python script programming. Topics covered include Functions, Design with classes, Multithreading, Networks, Client/server programming, Searching, Sorting and Complexity analysis. Prerequisite: Take CS-504
Offered: Spring & Late Spring Semesters All Years
HR 620 PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY 3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines the application of psychological research, employment law, and ethical principles to human resource problems in organizations. It focuses on applications designed to make employees and organizations more effective and create organizations that are satisfying places to work. Particular attention is given to hiring practices, including recruitment, screening, and selection; training and development; and performance evaluation.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
HR 699 SPECIAL TOPICS IN HR 3.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MSA 698 FORENSIC ACCOUNTING CAPSTONE 3.0 Credit(s)
Offered: All Semesters All Years