AC 610 Accounting for Decision-Making and Control 3 CH
Prerequisite: AC 511 Corporate Financial Accounting and Reporting. Covers the role of managerial accounting in corporate management. Emphasis is on financial planning and analysis, product and service costing, profit planning and the capital allocation process. Current financial and accounting matters are reviewed and evaluated.
BU 601 Organizational Management and Business Communication 3 CH
Must be taken as first core course in the program. Examines and analyzes principles of planning, organizing, leading and controlling the activities of business, government and other organizations in a globally competitive environment. Focus is not only on developing students' knowledge of these areas, but also on developing their business skills, especially in the areas of analysis and written and oral communication.
BU 631 Organizational Behavior 3 CH
Provides students with the analytical tools to understand the behavioral aspects of an organization relevant to managerial decision-making. Emphasis is on micro-organizational relationships examined through selective research findings, cases and group experiences. Topics include: individual differences, group dynamics, interpersonal communication, leadership, motivation, group decision-making and organizational change.
BU 633 Legal Environment of Business 3 CH
Studies the legal environment in which business organizations function in society. Topics include a description of the American Legal System and the impact the Constitution has on business. The main focus of the course is the regulatory environment in which business managers must make decisions. Three major areas of regulation will be examined: trade regulation and antitrust, the employer/employee relationship, and business and social issues. International aspects related to these topics also are examined as appropriate.
BU 641 Dynamics of Information Technology 3 CH
Provides topical coverage of contemporary information technology (IT) and telecommunications with a focus on planning, organizing, justifying, controlling, implementing and integrating IT within business more effectively. Topics include: competitive advantage and IT, information and network architecture, software, hardware and network fundamentals, systems development, life-cycle standards, outsourcing, disaster recovery/contingency planning and global applications.
BU 665 International Business 3 CH
Describes the scope of international business and studies multinational enterprises in light of cultural, historical, political and economic factors. Trade theories are examined in the context of international economics and finance. The focus then turns to the management of global operations, from initial entry into international markets to strategy development for the multinational enterprise.
BU 670 Operations Management 3 CH
Prerequisite: BU 543 Statistics for Decision-Making. Describes managerial concepts and quantitative tools and techniques required in the design, operation and control of operation systems in the production of goods and/or provision of services. Emphasis is on the use of quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis and continuous improvement processes.
BU 681 Leadership and Ethics 3 CH
Leadership and Ethics deals with a rapidly changing work environment, a more flexible and diverse workforce, a more technologically sophisticated employee and globalization. This course helps students understand leadership styles and attributes, and how to apply them. Ethics deals with social responsibility, as well as the origin and evolution of ethics, values and moral standards adopted by society.
BU 690 Global Management Integration 3 CH
This is the capstone course and must be taken as one of the last two courses in the program. It covers elements of all the required courses and illustrates how all ts of a business are globally integrated, with a focus on growth and sustainability.
EC 621 Managerial Economics 3 CH
Prerequisite: EC 511 Economics Principles. Studies the integration of the managerial decision-making process and the main elements of short- and long-range planning with applicable economic theory. Topics include: risk analysis and planning for profit, with appropriate emphasis on concepts and tools of analysis. Students learn the body of useful managerial economic concepts being applied by informed management today.
FN 660 Financial Management 3 CH
Prerequisite: AC 511 Corporate Financial Accounting and Reporting. An introduction to the field of finance. Core concepts include: risk and return trade-off, time value of money, bond and stock valuation, financial statement and ratio analysis, capital budgeting and capital structure.
MK 661 Marketing Management 3 CH
Explores how firms analyze market opportunities; select target markets; develop the marketing mix (product, price, place and promotion); plan; manage; organize and control the marketing resources throughout an enterprise; deal with competition; and extend marketing to the global marketplace.
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