3 hours Examines the nature of cultural, behavioral, and social changes within organizations. Emphasis is on managerial style, risk analysis skills for effective decision-making, management in complex organizational settings and resource constraints. Includes workplace evaluation of management styles, leadership impact opportunities, planned change, and the assessment of the impact of organizational change. This course addresses the financial, nonfinancial, and ethical dimensions of decision-making.
Students focus on cost management and managerial accounting skills.
Topics include product costing, relevant costs for decision analysis, cost systems, and budgeting and control. Emphasis is on the interpretation and use of accounting information rather than its creation and accumulation. Using case studies and written projects, students acquire an overview of the marketing process. The course focuses on the kind of decisions managers must make within the limits prescribed by consumers, by competition, and by government. Emphasis on budgeting, planning, financial ratios and capital structures, and relationships among financial decisions and human and nonhuman environments with organizations.