Topics will include capital budgeting techniques and applications, decisions under certainty and uncertainty, capital rationing, and methods of evaluating and classifying investments. Covers topics in all areas of finance by using recent articles, cases, discussions, speakers, and finance simulation game. Designed to bring together all aspects of finance. Attention is given to operation of stock markets, concepts and terminology of investing, mutual funds and their function, investment clubs, and problems involved in making investments through brokers, bankers, and stock promoters. Develops understanding of concepts and techniques, involving conventional and structured approaches to analyzing problems of business information systems and systems definition feasibility, as well as quantitative and evaluative techniques of business information systems analysis.
Students learn tools and techniques for design of a business system.
Along with classroom discussions of principles and techniques for analyzing, designing, and constructing the system, students will formulate system teams to analyze the problems of an existing business information system, to design an improved system, and to control implementation of new systems. Distributed marketing, financial, and corporate accounting systems are included. This course develops a subset of Management Information Systems, applied Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence in the business decision making environment. As the most avant guard dimension of Information Systems, the course introduces the concepts of cognitive architecture, knowledge representation, and human information processing as they are simulated in the managerial decision function with computerized software packages. Covers advanced or exploratory topics within the discipline.