Economics of Business Decisions
Topics include scarcity; marginal analysis and tools of optimization; demand and supply analysis and market structure; economic efficiency; regression analysis; risk analysis and game theory and international economic issues.

Applied Statistical Analysis
A managerial approach to statistical analysis. This course focuses on the role of statistics and business research as tools for the manager to use when making planning and operating decisions. The course prepares the manager to be a critical user of statistics competent of assessing the validity and reliability of statistics and business research prepared for the manager's use. Topics include research design and data collection, survey design and sampling theory, probability theory, hypothesis testing, inferential statistics, analysis of variance, chi-square tests, correlation, regression, discriminate analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, conjoint analysis, nonparametric statistics, and research reporting and evaluating.

Managerial Accounting
Focuses on the development and use of accounting information for effective managerial decision-making. Emphasis is on understanding managerial accounting information, specifically its purpose, its effect on managerial behavior, and its use in formulating and implementing strategy. Topics include relevant information for activity and process decisions, and issues involved with management control system’s design and operation.

Operations Management
Design, operation, and control of service and manufacturing systems. Emphasis on using analytical tools for problem solving in process analysis and re-engineering, work-force management, material and inventory management, aggregate planning, total quality management, and others.

Financial Decision Making
The theory and practice of corporate (business) finance, including asset management, cost of capital and capital budgeting, optimization problems, and socio-economic aspects of financial management. Computer technology is employed when applicable.

Organizational Leadership & Behavior
Behavioral knowledge and skills essential to becoming an effective manager/leader including behavior and motivation in an environment of complexity and rapid change and ethical implications of actions and their effects on demographically diverse and increasingly international work force.

Marketing Management
A managerial approach to strategic marketing decision making. Topics include product strategy, promotional strategy, channels of distribution, and pricing strategy. This course aids in understanding the relationships that exist in a market-based economic system. A framework of concepts and terms which facilitate the understanding of the process of exchange from the perspective of a decision maker of marketing activities in an organization is presented. Special attention will be given to the marketing of financial services. Case studies, readings and simulations are used.

Advanced Corporate Finance
This course examines topics in corporate finance and capital investments. The primary focus will be on corporate investment and financing decisions. Since the goal of these decisions is to maximize firm value, an important component of the course is to understand how firm value is determined. This involves a sound understanding of the risk-return relationship in portfolio decisions, the valuation of financial securities in the market, and capital market efficiency. With this framework as a backdrop, the course examines corporate investment criteria and cash flow estimation, cost of capital, project risk, and capital structure decisions.

Commercial and Investment Banking
In this course, the techniques employed in the management of commercial and investment banks are covered. Topics of study include the identification, measurement and management of the risks and returns encountered in the creation of value in the banking industry. Industry products, industry structure, management of assets, liabilities, capital, and financial analysis of the banking firm are emphasized, as well as the use of financial derivatives in the management of financial risks encountered in banking.

Investments and Derivatives
Theory and practice of investment decisions of individuals and fund managers, and the theory and practice of market risk management through the use of financial derivatives. Topics include investment analysis, global stock markets, the Capital Asset Pricing Model and Arbitrage Pricing Theory, options and futures applications, binomial options pricing and the use of the Black-Scholes options formula.

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