Curriculum

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Technical accounting concepts that students must master in order to plan an operation effectively. These topics, typically identified as managerial accounting, include traditional cost allocation procedures, cost behavior and estimation, contribution margin income statements, and budgets. The general approach will be the use of accounting information rather than its accumulation and distribution.

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Factors affecting the level of demand, methods of estimating the demand function, and methods of forecasting demand.

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An introductory financial perspective to 1) why a publicly-traded firm exists and 2) what is the optimal approach for managing a publicly traded firm. Comparisons are made between how privately-held firms and public sector institutions are managed.

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This module introduces a framework for defining a company's operating system and evaluating its operations strategy and provides an overview of key diagnostic and analytical tools for identifying, framing, and solving strategic operating issues.

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Part one of this course provides an overview to examine the role of information technology (IT) in business organizations, its impacts, and potential for enhancing a firm's competitive positioning. Part two exposes students to the four underlying technical elements of IT infrastructure: hardware, software, database, and networks. This technology overview provides students with basic literacy in technology concepts to enable communication with technical specialists in the business environment.

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Today's managers operate within the constraint of highly competitive markets. To plan effectively under these circumstances requires both rigorous analytical tools and a sophisticated sense of how the demands of oft-time conflicting constituencies. QBA 5131, using a mix of theory and case studies, enables students to develop a rich portfolio of tools to assist them in the planning process. The course seeks to develop students' technical skills in sampling, data analysis and risk management tools essential to effective planning.

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Examines principles and strategies of effective management communication in the areas of audience analysis, ethics, cross-culture, crisis, and interpersonal communication. Provides techniques, skills, and strategies for overcoming communication barriers and for designing and delivering executive presentations. Examines corporate and leadership communication topics including communicating change, corporate responsibility, integrity and image, communicating with the media, principle- centered leadership, and web-based communication, with ample opportunities for application and feedback.

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A one-hour, beginning, graduate career development course designed to enhance your personal marketability by providing self assessments, career passion discovery, career exploration and development experiences and career experiences and career resources to help prioritize and focus your specific internship and job search.

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Operating issues as operations are begun. Topics include controlling day-to-day operations and responsibility accounting, and short-term operating decisions. Additional topics include accounting for cash, accounts receivable, inventories, plants and equipment, current and long-term liabilities, installment notes payable, and bonds. Using the information provided by the accounting system and establishing appropriate operating procedures will be emphasized.

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How resources should be combined, how many units of output should be produced, and incremental analysis.

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This one-hour module builds on the principles of optimal project selection introduced in FIN 5161. Usage of the Capital Asset Pricing Model for determining project rates is demonstrated. Both internal financing decisions (dividend decisions) and external financing decisions (debts vs. equity) are introduced.

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This module covers key tools for resolving the challenges of operational networks, setting capacity levels and allocating capacity within the network, and establishing a strategy for operational improvement and examines the key issues that a firm faces in establishing its operations strategy.

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The business literature abounds with examples of IT project failures. Most often, such failures are due to poor alignment between firm's business and IT strategies. This course examines the cause of such failures and provides a framework of best practices to insure firms' ability to maximize the value achieved from IT investments.

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In today's highly competitive markets, implementing decisions effectively requires both rigorous analytical tools and a sophisticated sense of how to balance the demands of oft-times conflicting constituencies. QBA 5132, using a mix of theory and case studies, enables students to develop tools essential to effective implementation. The course seeks to prepare students to the analytical tools including correlation analysis, regression analysis, and time series analysis.

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This course integrates the content of previous courses through an in-depth analysis of the semester's Focus Firm Company with attention on day-to-day operations as well as strategic issues. The course emphasizes the practical application of theoretical knowledge in an actual company facing current, challenging problems. Students will experience a team-centered approach to learning and selling their ideas. Participants will be involved in analyzing the Focus Firm company issues, presenting their solutions to faculty and company executives of the Focus Firm. Students will receive feedback from the company executives as well as faculty on their work.

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A one-hour graduate career development course designed to introduce personal accountability, networking skills, company/position analysis, job search strategy, interviewing skills and negotiations to maximize the student's career development and personal marketability.

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Skills used in evaluating and adapting to change. Topics include the income statement, the balance sheet, the cash flow statement, analysis of financial statements, transfer pricing, and international operations. Emphasis will be upon providing non-accounting professionals with the accounting knowledge they need to be successful in today's rapidly changing environment.

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How prices are determined under different market structures as well as how the firm deals with uncertainty.

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The concluding module on strategic Corporate Financial Management, exploring optimal strategies for financing the firm's projects. The theoretical linkage between the modern option pricing model, efficient capital markets, agency theory, and the theory of the firm is developed.

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This module provides frameworks for decisions on how firms should approach the execution of fundamental changes in their operating systems and addresses how various processes and systems are designed and managed in a way that build superior and rapidly improving performance. Particular attention is placed on how to balance the competing objectives of operational focus and growth.

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Part one of this course examines principles and practices related to effective systems development practices from the standpoint of a non-technical manager. We begin the section with a discussion of the system development life cycle (SDLC) and augment this with a discussion of emerging systems development trends and practices as well as an examination of traditional systems development methodologies. Part two of the course examines various IT risk management and security issues.

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To effectively adapt to today's ever changing competitive environment requires both rigorous analytical tools and a sophisticated sense of how to balance demands of conflicting constituencies. QBA 5133, using a mix of theory and case studies, enables students to develop a set of tools to help them adapt to organizations' changing needs. The course seeks to develop students' technical skills in linear programming, quality control and improvement, and experimental design.