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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

Master of markets, risk, valuation, and long will examine how the field of
communication contributes to
term and short term financing
Business and investment. Upon completion effective leadership. It also examines
the skills of effective leaders, the
of this course, the student will
importance of context for leaders,
be able to apply these important
Administration tools of Financial Management in and case studies of successful
a wide range of areas. This course
leaders in business. This course will
emphasizes the nature of the give you the chance to learn the
decision process and the role that styles of leadership including what
economic analysis plays in various works and what doesn’t. The course
Core Courses areas of business by providing also covers all the relevant and
illustrations of practical applications recent research on leadership. Topics
of Financial Management. The course may include leader as individual,
ACC 522 - Managerial relies on the Internet and MS Excel in team leadership, leading change,
Accounting the educational process. and creating vision and strategic
direction. Particular emphasis
Credit Hour: 3 MGT 521 - International is placed on the role of ethics in
Prerequisite: ACC 482-PC Business leadership.
Managerial accounting provides Credit Hour: 3 MGT 523 - Strategic
information to managers and Prerequisite: MGT 482-PC Management in a Global
other internal stakeholders in the Environment
areas of costing, decision making, This course is about the nature of
international business and how
planning, and control. This course Credit Hour: 3
provides an in-depth coverage of companies respond to forces in the Prerequisite: Last Semester
international business environment.
such accounting topics as basic cost In today’s increasingly global
concepts, cost classification, design It includes analysis of the extent competitive environment, managers
and the principles of cost accounting of the international business, the face no greater challenge than that
theories underlying it, and the forces
systems, alternative costing methods, of strategic planning and strategic
budgeting, cost allocation systems, affecting it. It also includes analysis management. Guiding a complex
of appropriate company responses
planning and control, and costing organization through a dynamic,
for decision making (i.e., strategic to the international business rapidly changing, and increasingly
cost analysis). Practical applications phenomenon. Ultimately, this course globalized environment requires
prepares students to manage a
of these topics are integrated and the best of judgment. Strategic
emphasized by teaching students business in the international context. management and planning
how to use accounting information MGT 522 - Leadership and issues are invariably ambiguous
in managerial planning, decision Communication and unstructured, and the way
making, and control. In addition in which management responds
to that, students will learn how to Credit Hour: 3 to them determines whether an
use cost analysis in developing Prerequisite: No Prerequisite organization will succeed or fail.
organizational budgets. All the above Leadership is an essential ingredient This class prepares you to face
mentioned topics are discussed from in any attempt to manage and the aforementioned challenges by
the perspective of a senior manager. achieve organizational goals. The focusing on strategy formulation,
process of leadership depends implementation, evaluation, and
FIN 512 - Financial Management on the interaction in a group or control in a global competitive
Credit Hour: 3 organization. Communication is one environment. This class teaches
Prerequisite: ECO 482-PC + ACC of the processes that are central to strategy formulation at the functional,
482-PC effective leadership and followership. business, corporate, and global
Therefore, the course will provide levels with a particular reference to
This course teaches optimal students fundamental management business ethics, social responsibility,
management of firm’s assets and concepts and explore the connection and good corporate governance. A
financing requirements, analysis between communication and special emphasis is placed on the
of financial statements, financial leadership. Particularly, the course area where strategies typically fail

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