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This course examines essential principles of the transfer tax system. The course will research, assess, and apply critical Federal and State transfer tax laws to factual scenarios.

Areas of Interest:

Finance

The course examines significant principles of the federal tax system as applied to individuals and entities to provide a deeper understanding and appreciation of tax rules and underlying policies. The course will utilize the study of critical tax cases and application of tax laws to factual scenarios.

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

Accounting (MACC) | Taxation (GC)

This course addresses the importance of using data for business decision making purposes. Students will learn to identify specific business problems, evaluate potential solutions, and use data to provide a foundation for making sound business decisions. This will be accomplished through the use of systematic problem solving tools, the exploration of commonly used business analytics methodologies, and the learned use of specific software packages.

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

Accounting (MACC) | Business Administration (MBA) | Taxation (GC)

The course examines the IFRS reporting practices of various countries and examines recognition and disclosure differences of the major classes of assets and liabilities reported in accordance with IFRS and US GAAP. Hedging transactions of multinational corporations are also discussed.

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

Accounting (MACC)

Professional consulting services are a high growth area in many successful financial services firms and the demand for these services is expected to continue to increase. This course provides an overview of the professional consulting environment and explores the skills and tools necessary to be successful as a professional consultant.

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Participation in a paid full-time position with a cooperating business, governmental, or civic organization whose program has been approved in advance by the department in which the student has an approved major. Credits provided upon completion of all requirements.

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

Accounting (MACC)

This course will employ hands-on application of accounting and tax concepts to case applications. Applications will include completion of the accounting cycle as well as researching in accounting standards and tax law to address appropriate treatment of transactions.

Prerequisites:

MACC 615

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

Accounting (MACC)

This course provides an advanced overview of the production and management of workplace communication. Participants will analyze and produce documents typical of workplace communication (ranging from memos and reports to business plans and websites) and research presentations, documentation, and management of communication projects appropriate to their industry or business concerns.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Accounting (MACC) | Business Administration (MBA) | Information Security & Risk Management (PSM)

This course provides an understanding of the role of statistics related to the gathering and creation of information used in business decision making. Data analysis concepts covered include hypotheses testing, ANOVA, multiple regression, time series analysis, and chi-square tests.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Business Administration (MBA) | Data Science (MS) | Engineering Management (PSM) | Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MS)

The course develops and integrates principles and ideas from economic and business and applies them to managerial decision making and policy formulation within a firm.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Business Administration (MBA) | Engineering Management (PSM) | Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MS)

Managers need a good understanding of law to be effective businesspersons as well as good citizens. Law is fundamental to maintaining social order, and social order is necessary for successful and efficient markets. Additionally, law facilitates the creation and operation of efficient markets by, for example, providing necessary assurance to market players (buyers, sellers, investors, employers, employees, etc.) that their reasonable commercial expectations will be realized. In keeping social order, facilitating markets, and other ways, law places a pervasive external constraint on business decisions and transactions. Thus law plays a central role in business. This course will address some of the legal principles that are most relevant to business. The course will also consider how ethics (the branch of philosophy that addresses what conduct is right and what is wrong) affects business.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Business Administration (MBA)

Provides an in-depth analysis of managerial accounting concepts and procedures, including product and service costing, cost-volume-profit analysis, planning and control systems, capital budgeting, and contemporary managerial systems and issues. Students will become familiar with contemporary computer applications.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Business Administration (MBA)

This course involves an application of the quantitive techniques used by organizations to evaluate the investment in capital assets, the factors affecting security valuations, and the overall financing or capital structure decision. These issues heavily emphasize the risk and return interaction in the investment decision.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Business Administration (MBA)

The course will cover a range of topics, including the strategic management of human resources, job analysis, hiring, performance appraisal, training and development, compensation, as well as labor relations.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Business Administration (MBA) | Business Leadership (GC) | Engineering Management (PSM) | Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MS)

The MBA MIS course integrates contemporary technology concepts with an emphasis on the managerial aspects of information systems. A review of contemporary technology examines data management, analysis, modeling, and design, and data communications, and networking in the most recent generation of technology. Project and change management, and information systems policy and strategy emphasize the managerial aspects of information systems. Project and change management examines how systems and technologies are implemented. It includes consideration of project planning, scheduling, and budgeting, as well as consideration of the change management required to implement projects, MIS policy, and strategy examines the IS project portfolio from the view of the senior IS executive and from the view of the business executive. It shows students how policy and strategy considerations affect every aspects of IS and, conversely, how IT transforms organizations, and indeed, the very nature of business.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Business Administration (MBA) | Engineering Management (PSM) | Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MS)

This course will focus on an area of study that attempts to explain, predict, control, and increase understanding of human work behavior in organizations both in the U.S. and internationally. Using a variety of techniques, students will learn about the nature of people as well as how individual and group behavior is influenced by organizational factors. The intent is to use various theories and principles to help diagnose and solve organizational problems. The goal is to more effectively manage in today's environment so employees are engaging in ethical, creative, and productive behaviors on the job. Learning tools include some lecture/discussion active learning groups, original readings, exercises, projects, cases, library research and presentations.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Business Administration (MBA) | Business Leadership (GC) | Engineering Management (PSM) | Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MS)

This course addresses the concepts, techniques, and technology necessary to manage and control operations in services and manufacturing. The emphasis is on operations strategy, project management, quality management, and supply chain management.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Business Administration (MBA) | Engineering Management (PSM) | Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MS)

This class is designed to enhance negotiating skill. Students will learn techniques for generating beneficial outcomes from bargaining situations with regard to contracts, purchasing, and dispute resolution. A number of different bargaining models will be introduced and students will engage in simulated negotiations.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Business Administration (MBA) | Business Leadership (GC)

This course is designed to combine the why of leadership thinking with the how of leadership skill development. The class is both philosopical and practical, so you will have to both think and apply what you are learning. The course will provide students with opportunities to use theories to analyze leader behaviors, and with personal awareness and development. You will come out of the class with a Leadership Development Plan of your own to help you apply the class to your own development as a leader and manager.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Business Administration (MBA) | Business Leadership (GC) | Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MS)

This course is designed to provide students with the theory and practical applications to diagnose organizational problems and to develop appropriate interventions and solutions to those problems. Students also use theory to guide practice in designing and implementing successful organizational change. These activities require students to use research and data analysis skills to gather data to learn about organizations.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Business Administration (MBA) | Engineering Management (PSM) | Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MS)

This course uses a strategic and integrative approach to global marketing decision making in a global economy. It provides an understanding of international marketing strategies and operations of both beginning and multinational firms. The web based Global Marketing Management Online software will be utilized extensively throughout the course.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Financing investments and working capital management problems in multi-national environments.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

The purpose of this course is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the policies, strategies and operations of companies doing business internationally.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Business Administration (MBA) | Information Security & Risk Management (PSM)

Provides a comprehensive framework for the application of marketing concepts to the development and implementation of marketing strategy. The course emphasizes the activities and processes needed to design a marketing plan.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Business Administration (MBA)

The Executive Seminar provides the opportunity for students to interact directly with visiting executives in order to gain insight into the challenges in leading a modern complex business organization. Personal communication skills, reflective learning, critical thinking assignments, and career planning exercises help shape executive development.

Areas of Interest:

Business, Management, and Administration

Programs:

Business Administration (MBA) | Business Leadership (GC)