CR: Business 3320
EQ: the former BUSI 4330
PR: BUSI 2011
 
BUSI 3401 Operations Management
teaches fundamental concepts, methods, tools, and techniques to understand, analyze, and effectively manage as well as improve operations in business organizations. The course covers operations competitiveness and strategy, productivity, forecasting, capacity planning, material requirements planning, waiting lines analysis, project management, inventory management, quality control and its improvement, and supply chain management.
CR: Business 3410
PR: Statistics 2500
 
BUSI 3405 Optimization I: Applications
extends the formulation seen in BUSI 2400 to more complex optimization models.
EQ: the former BUSI 5401
PR: BUSI 2400, Statistics 2500
 
BUSI 3406 Optimization II: Algorithms
covers the algorithms needed to solve the computer models made in BUSI 2400: the simplex and revised simplex algorithms, the interior-point algorithm, and the branch and bound algorithm.
EQ: the former BUSI 5402
PR: BUSI 2400, Statistics 2500
 
BUSI 3550 Financial Management I
introduces students to theoretical and practical aspects of financial management, including current technology for financial analysis and trading. Topics covered include: the time value of money, pricing of stocks and bonds, risk and return, diversification, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, and capital budgeting.
CR: Business 3500, Economics 3160
EQ: the former BUSI 4500
PR: BUSI 2111 or the former BUSI 1101, Economics 1010, Statistics 2500
 
BUSI 3610 Regulatory and Taxation Issues for Small Business
is designed for non-accounting students and provides knowledge of various tax and regulatory issues considered in starting a business. The role of tax in decision making is examined as well as types of corporate funding to establish a new business through government grants, conventional loans and tax credits as provided under the Income Tax Act. Alternative corporate structures, aspects of employee compensation, business valuations and practical aspects of starting a business will also be examined.
PR: successful completion of at least 48 credit hours
 
BUSI 3630 Venture Creation
covers the business creation process from the idea conception stage to the launch stage. Students learn how to search for, screen and evaluate opportunities, and to plan and assemble the required resources, including the preparation of an actual business plan. Alternatives to new venture creation, such as purchasing an existing business and purchasing a franchise, are also explored. Extensive group work is required.
CR: Business 3600
EQ: the former BUSI 5600
PR: successful completion of at least 48 credit hours
 
BUSI 3700 Information Systems
examines information systems in an organizational context. Students will learn to: explain how information systems generate organizational value; identify, describe, and evaluate options for acquiring information systems; assess the appropriateness of an information systems strategy in the context of an organizational strategy, and identify and analyze information systems-related risks and learn to propose mitigation approaches to those risks by creating appropriate policies and procedures.
PR: BUSI 1000, BUSI 2011
 
BUSI 4005 Business Law II