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PREREQUISITE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

AC 511 Corporate Financial Accounting and Reporting      3 CH
Introduces the student to accounting concepts necessary for the preparation and interpretation of financial statements. While emphasis is on conceptual aspects of accounting fundamentals, sufficient methodology is included to demonstrate the basic operation of an accounting system that enables the student to analyze complex financial statements.

BU 543 Statistics for Decision-Making        3 CH
This problem-oriented course in business statistics discusses probability theory, frequency distribution, sampling, inference theory, hypothesis testing, index numbers, time-series analysis, linear regression, and correlation. Computer-based statistical models are used to develop skills in interpretation of the usefulness of statistics to business decision-making.

EC 511 Economics Principles  3 CH
Covers both macroeconomics and microeconomics principles. Topics in macroeconomics include: income and employment, money and banking, fiscal and monetary policy and economic fluctuations. Topics in microeconomics include: supply and demand, price determination, types of costs, profit, imperfect markets and income distribution.

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