Master of Business Administration

A comprehensive examination of managerial accounting on the use of accounting data in the management of an organization. What accounting data are interesting and how they might be used depend on what the manager is seeking to accomplish and what other information is available.

An advance study of risk management, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, the function and role of capital markets, and analysis of financial statements.

A capstone study of how firms formulate, implement, and evaluate strategies. Students study strategic management concepts and techniques used to chart the future direction of different organizations. The major responsibility of the student is to make objective strategic decisions based on an integrated perspective of the program curriculum and to justify their decisions through oral and written communication.

This course is intended for business students with these goals: 1) To provide the key methods of predictive analytics and advanced business intelligence concepts; 2) To provide business decision-making context for these methods; 3) Using real business cases, to illustrate the application and interpretation of these methods. The course will cover trends in predictive analytics, and understanding available application programs that can be deployed within the business enterprise.

This course introduces students to an area of business administration that considers the extensive use of data, methods, and fact-based management to support and improve decision making. While business intelligence focuses on data handling, queries, and reports to discover patterns and generate information associated
with products, services, and customers, business analytics uses data and models
to explain the performance of a business and how it can be improved. This course discusses the benefits of employing analytics and a structured approach to problem-solving in management situations.

This course will familiarize students with the assumptions underlying various statistical techniques and assist in identifying their appropriateness in a variety of situations. Students should be able to perform statistical analysis and interpret results in a meaningful way. Students are expected to relate results of such analyses to become information-based decision makers.