The objective of this course is to enable students to analyze business situations and develop strategies in terms of financial variables. Issues explored in depth include sources and costs of capital, tax strategies, financial and capital structure, capital budgeting, valuation and portfolio analysis, dividend policy, and ratio analysis. MBA 673 Accounting for Managers. This course must be taken before MBA 682 Business Strategy. This course examines the legal, political, ethical, and regulatory processes as they pertain to profit and nonprofit organizations and their impact on management decisions in relation to the general public, employees, customers, competitors, suppliers, and the wider national and international community.
Computer software is used where applicable.
MBA 671 Statistics and Research Methods. This course examines the interactions among human resources, technologies, organization design, external forces, and management practices from a macro-organization perspective. The course also examines the concepts of organization character, life cycle, sociotechnical system design, work design, and management theory. This capstone course examines the running of an enterprise from the chief executive officer's point of view. It is designed to help students conduct external and internal assessments of an organization, identify its key strategic issues, identify and choose from alternative strategies, and defend those decisions.