Topics include cost behavior, cost accumulation, activity-based costing, cost information for competitive decisions, and performance measurement and control. Business and Public Policy teaches students to analyze normative arguments about what government and corporate policies ought to be, to analyze positive arguments regarding claims made about the effects of government policies on business, to understand government policy making, and to learn to forecast changes in government policy. Finance II emphasizes the application of finance principles to business cases and includes an introduction to the use of derivatives for risk management. Technology and Knowledge Management provides a managerial perspective on the effective use of information technology for strategic advantage and operational performance in global organizations through case analyses and class discussion. Competing in International Business , the second integrative experience, focuses on analysis of one or more international industries.
Students work in teams to complete the analysis.
The course also stresses written, oral, interpersonal, and group communication skills. Business Ethics builds students' appreciation for, and ability to deal with, ethical, public, and social dimensions of problems they will face as managers. The course emphasizes the interplay between the economic dimensions of those problems and their ethical, political, and social aspects. Decision Support Systems , a selective course, requires students to choose one decision module for the functional area they wish to pursue and introduces them to advance decision models and systems. Global Experience , the fourth integrative experience, includes one required module course and an international integrative experience.