This course is an overview of the principles of financial management. Students also discuss managerial topics, which include dividend policy, capital structuring, and working capital management. This course reviews statistics, mathematics, and decision theory that help clarify managerial problems and aid in selecting courses of action. Students will analyze and interpret numerical data for management decision-making applying techniques such as data sampling, statistical inference, hypothesis testing, correlation studies, regression analysis, queuing models, distribution models and decision theory. This course examines domestic money and capital markets.
Students study the movement and impact of interest rates in domestic and international markets.
Students also analyze and compare regional economic and trade blocs and prominent economic systems. This course examines theoretical and pragmatic issues facing organizations and leaders today. Students study modern concepts, strategies and techniques in solving organizational issues. Students are introduced to principles of ethical thinking and their application to business situations and decision-making. Critical thinking, decision making, ethics and communications are among the recurring themes.