Courses
WGB 603 CORPORATE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 3.0 Credit(s)
Provides an introduction to three key areas in finance-financial markets, financial management, and valuation-focusing on how capital is effectively raised and invested in a value-based management framework. Topics include: analysis of firm performance using financial ratios and other measures, techniques to assess new opportunities including new product lines, projects or corporate investments, an introduction to global capital markets, the relationship between risk and return, determinants of a firm's cost of raising capital, and the basic factors impacting the value of financial securities.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
WGB 612 LEADING AND INFLUENCING WITH INTEGRITY 3.0 Credit(s)
Leaders and managers at all levels in organizations must influence others to enable achievement of the organization's objectives. Leading and influencing with integrity requires understanding of one's self, other people, the situational and cultural context, as well as both current and future impacts of actions taken. Through course learning experiences students develop individual and organizational strategies to influence others, shape culture, manage change, negotiate, and facilitate employee engagement and performance so that their organizations can contribute to society in ways that are effective, responsible, and sustainable.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
WGB 614 SOCIAL & LEGAL RESP. IN BUSINESS 3.0 Credit(s)
Sustainable organizational practices require managers to pay attention to the economic, environmental and social impact of organizational strategies and actions. This course focuses on ethical and legal issues that organizations and individual managers face in achieving triple bottomline sustainability. Ethical decision-making frameworks provide principles for dealing with challenges posed by technology, globalization, and societal changes and for fulfilling personal as well as corporate social responsibility. Legal topics survey business regulation and processes, forms of business organizations, intellectual property, and commercial transactions.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
WGB 691 WELCH COMPETENCY DEMO & IMPLEMENTATION 3.0 Credit(s)
This is the capstone course of the MBA program. Through the action-learning consulting project, cases, readings, and experiential exercises, students hone their management skills and make presentations to business practitioners, non-profit executives, and faculty. Seminar topics cover corporate strategy, leadership, and sustainability. Students prepare a personal and professional self-development plan. Prerequisite: Take WGB-650
Offered: As Needed All Years
AC 610 ACCTG FOR DECISION MAKING & CONTROL 3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores the essentials of providing relevant and useful cost and managerial information to both multinational and domestic corporate managers. Ethical aspects of each of these areas are examined. Much of the classroom interaction comprises written assignments, case studies, and team presentations. Prerequisite: Take WGB 602
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
AC 615 MANAGERIAL CONTROLS & BUDGETING 3.0 Credit(s)
The basic considerations of controllership and budgeting are set forth and analyzed, and the importance of business planning and control is emphasized from a management perspective. Emphasis is on budgeting practices and theory as a tool for profit and control. Prerequisite: Take WGB 602
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
AC 617 FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS 3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines current financial reporting and disclosure practices. Emphasis is on development of the ability to analyze financial statements to evaluate the current financial condition of a firm and assess its future trends. Topics include the use of various ratios to analyze income statements, balance sheets, and funds flow. Prerequisite: Take WGB-602
Offered: Late Spring Semester All Years
AC 621 FEDERAL TAXATION 3.0 Credit(s)
Prerequisite: Take WGB-602
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
AC 622 ADVANCED FEDERAL TAXATION 3.0 Credit(s)
Prerequisite: Take AC 621
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
AC 625 INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING 3.0 Credit(s)
Prerequisite: Take WGB-602
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
AC 699 SPECIAL TOPICS 1.0-6.0 Credit(s)
Emphasis is on the usefulness of accounting information in financial markets through the study of the accounting conceptual framework. Analyses include the standardsetting process, asset valuation, and income determination. Examines accounting policies, ethical issues, FASB financial accounting rules, and the impact of international accounting policies, all with a focus on application to current issues.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
BU 601 ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT 3.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
BU 610 ENTREPRENEURSHIP 3.0 Credit(s)
Students utilize their interdisciplinary business knowledge and creativity to evaluate an entrepreneurial opportunity, whether a new product/service/business or a new application of an existing product or service. In developing a comprehensive business plan, student teams use their knowledge of the market and the competitive landscape, engage in research, develop financial models/forecasts, and gauge the project's financial feasibility, taking into consideration inherent business risk and the likelihood of being able to raise venture capital.
Offered: As Needed All Years
BU 621 COMPARATIVE MGMT & INTERCULTURAL COMMUN 3.0 Credit(s)
Sensitivity to different perceptions, values, traditions, and ways of thinking are critically important in today's global workforce as organizations interact across cultures. This course explores how culture affects individuals as well as organizations and introduces frameworks for understanding how cultures may vary. Students develop strategies for effectively communicating, working with, and managing people of different cultural backgrounds. Prerequisite: Take BU-601 or WGB 521
Offered: As Needed All Years
BU 632 MANAGING CHANGE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines strategies and techniques for successfully introducing and managing change in organizations. Explores power, influence, leadership, motivation, and communication in the change process, as well as organization development, organizational learning, and innovation management. Student teams develop a framework for recognizing factors that influence change and a process map to manage change effectively.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department