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BUSI 7116
Financial Analysis
Integrated course combining financial accounting and corporate finance for MBA students. This course studies financial decision making for managers within a corporation. The course is an in-depth look at business finance concepts including cash flows, working capital management, valuation, financial markets, capital budgeting, leasing, financial statement analysis, financial planning mergers, and dividend policy.
BUSI 7126
Quantitative Analysis for Business Decisions
Integrated course in statistical methods and management science for MBA students. Students will master the application of statistical methods for business decision making. Students will master the application of management science methods for business decision making. Students will become competent in the use of spreadsheets and other quantitative analysis software. Students will use quantitative analysis in addressing real business decisions.
BUSI 7136
Strategic Analysis and the Competitive Environment
Integrated course covering business strategy and the external environment in a global context. Course objectives: to identify and utilize the elements of business strategy formulation in a global context; to identify the key elements of macroeconomic conditions and policies that are part of the external environment affecting businesses; to acquire an understanding of the elements of the competitive industry structure and change which affect business strategies; and to develop an understanding of pricing strategies and non-price competitive strategies in the marketing process.
BUSI 7146
Organizational Leadership and Change
Integrated course covering aspects of individual and group behavior and assessment in organizations, effective team building, and leading organizations through change. Course objectives: to enhance skills as effective communicators, to develop skills in the management and assessment of employees in the workplace; and to develop the management skills necessary to lead people and organizations.
BUSI 7216
Marketing and Consumer Theory
Combines elements of the economics of demand theory and marketing management. Includes advanced pricing topics and the competitive environment. Course objectives: to facilitate graduate level understanding of the complexities of marketing management. Specifically, this course is an integrative strategic perspective of the nuances of environmental analyses, problem and opportunity assessment and strategic action plans, solidly grounded on the economics of demand theory and dynamic market analysis.
BUSI 7226
Operations and Information Technology for Competitive Advantage
The structure of business operations and the role that information technology plays in formulating and implementing strategies for competitive advantage. Course objectives: to give MBA students a basic model of how operations and information technology can create competitive advantage for organizations. To achieve this, the students will explore how information technologies and operations management principles interact.
BUSI 7236
Cost Analysis and Systems
Integrates production and cost theory from economics with managerial cost accounting theory and systems for MBA students. Course objectives: to familiarize the students with the economic concepts of opportunity cost, and measures such as fixed, variable, total and marginal cost; to familiarize the student with productions and cost theory, and the implications of the firm's cost structure on the optional structure of the firm; to understand the accounting concept of costs and the accounting systems that allow managers to measure and track those costs; and to understand cost information and further, be able to apply that information in a business decision making context.
BUSI 7986
Integrated Business Project and Case Analysis
Course which integrates knowledge gained from MBA classes and applies that knowledge to address actual business problems. Course will demonstrate the ability to apply the knowledge gained from their course work to real business issues. They will demonstrate this ability through written reports and oral presentations. The general idea for this course is that students will work with businesses in the region on substantive issues that will utilize the education the students have been pursuing in the previous year of the MBA program. They will apply their research and analytical skills, and their oral and written communication skills in this class.