This course will include common business processes and skills practiced including innovation, problem solving, negotiation, and effective presentations. Special attention will be given to the legal and ethical context in the practice of interviewing, selecting, training, promoting, and terminating employees. Teaching methods include role-playing, discussions, case studies, readings, and experiential exercises. Teaching methods are highly experiential and include assessments, role-plays, case studies, simulations, skill practice and a writing project documenting a team leadership experience. This course focuses on accounting as the principal planning and control tool of business.
Special attention is given to concepts in open book management and enterprise resource planning.
Teaching methods include lecture, computer assignments, case studies, and projects. This course explores how business organizations acquire, use, and value capital resources. Topics covered are domestic and international financial markets, monetary policy, the time value of money, financial instruments, risk and return, capital market efficiency, and the cost of capital. Common business processes and business skills practiced are cash flow projections, capital budgeting, and the valuation of a firm and its securities. Teaching methods include lecture, practice sets, case studies, and an action research project demonstrating use of technology.