Budgets are developed stressing the measurement, reporting, and interpretation of operating results. Financial Services MBA 7291 provides an in-depth examination of the financial service industry. Specific emphasis is on the evolution of the brokerage, banking, thrift, and insurance industries into financial supermarkets. Financial products, product delivery, regulation, and pending deregulation are examined. Automation, mechanization, computerization, and cybernetic systems are studied.
Emphasis is on cases, problems, and current and emerging technology in various industries.
A survey of information technology and management and its role in the world of business, both from managers' and consumers' points of view. The current state of the art in computers, information management, and networking is presented as part of an evolutionary process, with emphasis on probable future changes and their effects. The impact of information and its importance to the managerial functions of planning, organizing, and providing competitive intelligence, as well as competitive advantages, are explored. In this course, microeconomic theory is applied to analysis of the business firm. Principles from economics and business are developed and integrated, with emphasis on management decision-making and policy formulation.