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ACTG 611 -- Accounting for Decision Making and Control (Three hours lecture)
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Emphasis on accounting data used by managers in decision making. The course uses a textbook and cases. Among topics covered are relevant cost identification in decision making, contribution margin approach and capital budgeting.
MGNT 621 -- Organizational Behavior and Managerial Skills (Three hours lecture)
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Studies behaviors of individuals and groups in work organizations from managerial view; applies the concepts, methods, and research findings of the behavioral sciences to the understanding of the causes of human performance, satisfaction and development in work organizations.
ITEC 623 -- Management Information Systems (Three hours lecture)
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Development and application of management information systems to organizations. Analysis of critical information flow in the context of an organizational system.
MGNT 624 -- Operations Management (Three hours lecture)
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description A problem-solving course designed to help reduce uncertainty in the decision-making environment of operations and production in manufacturing and service firms of private and public sectors of the economy. Emphasis on employment of mathematical models for use and application in decision making in business.
FINC 631 -- Financial Management (Three hours lecture)
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Examines techniques and concepts used in modern business and the theoretical advances in the areas of asset management and capital structure planning. Topics include capital budgeting, working capital management, valuation, cost of capital, capital structure planning, dividend policy, option pricing, mergers and acquisitions. Problems and short cases used to enhance student skills in financial planning and decision making.
MKTG 641 -- Marketing Management (Three hours lecture)
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Examines role of marketing from micro and macro environmental perspectives. Marketing concepts, policies, strategies and decision making are integrated with other organizational functions.
ECON 651 -- Managerial Economics (Three hours lecture)
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Study of selected topics in economic theory and their application to management problems. Topics include demand and supply, revenues, elasticity, production and cost, incremental decision making, market structure and pricing, and investment analysis. Elementary quantitative methods will be developed and utilized
MGNT 685 -- Strategic Management (Three hours lecture)
Prerequisites: MBA status or permission of the instructor, ACTG 611, FINC 631, MGNT 624, MKTG 641 taken prior to or concurrently.
Description Integrates graduate business courses in a top level strategy development course. Emphasis on environmental analysis and decision making. A capstone course; must be taken during or after the term in which the last required MBA course is taken.
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ACTG 606 -- Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Study of the practice of accounting, financial reporting, and analysis of financial performance for governmental and nonprofit organizations. Emphasis will also be placed on budgeting and managerial control of these organizations.
ACTG 671 -- Special Topics in Accounting
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description This course gives the students a chance to examine topics of special interest in accounting not covered in current course offerings. May be taken more than once for a maximum of four hours credit.
ACTG 698 -- Directed Study
Prerequisites: MBA status and permission of the instructor, advisor, and dean of the Graduate College.
Description Hours and credits to be arranged. Pass/Fail.
ACTG 699 -- Research and Thesis
Prerequisite: MBA status.
Description Hours and credits to be arranged with the approval of the student's thesis supervisor, adviser, department chairperson and the dean of the College of Graduate and Extended Education
BLAW 603 -- Legal Aspects of Enterprise
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description A study of the legal framework within which business enterprises function with special attention to business government relationships.
BLAW 671 -- Special Topics in Business Law
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Covers social issues such as ecology, the disadvantaged consumer, the uninformed consumer and business and its environment. Emphasis on issues related to society values which reflect on business policies.
ECON 672 -- Collective Bargaining
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing.
Description This course explores nature of collective bargaining in the United States and deals with the process of negotiating agreements. Emphasis is on practical decision making in solving problems under the collective bargaining contract. It will employ considerable case material in labor law and arbitration.
ECON 673 -- Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing.
Description This course deals with the general and specialized roles of financial institutions as well as their structure, regulation.
ECON 694 -- Business Forecasting
Prerequisite: Admission to the MBA program or graduate status, STAT 205 (or equivalent) and MATH 151 (or equivalent).
Description Forecasting involves making the best possible judgment about some future event. Topics coverage includes introduction to forecasting, a review of basic statistical concepts, exploring data patterns and choosing a forecasting technique, moving averages and smoothing models, regression analysis, time series analysis, the Box-Jenkins (ARIMA) methodology, and judgmental elements in forecasting. Students will be trained in using computer-based models, databases, and programs.
ECON 695 -- Current Topics in Economics
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing.
Description This course investigates topics of current and continuing interest which are not covered in regularly scheduled graduate courses. Topics will be announced with each offering of the course. It may be taken twice for a total of six semester hours credit.
ECON 698 -- Directed Study
Prerequisite:
Approval of the directed study supervisor, advisor, and dean of the Graduate College.
Description This course provides the opportunity for semi-autonomous independent research on an economic topic of interest to the student. It will provide the student with an opportunity to develop conceptual sophistication about specific topics.
ECON 699 -- Research and Thesis
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description
FINC 632 -- Risk Management
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Provides a study of the management of nonspeculative risks in business and the several management tools available to deal with them. Examines cases and situations which require risk management decisions. Students review in detail the text's risk management analysis of a business organization.
FINC 635 -- International Finance
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Finance 635 deals with the international financial environment and focuses on managerial aspects from a corporate financial perspective.
FINC 671 -- Special Topics in Finance
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description This course gives the students a chance to examine topics of special interest in finance not covered in current course offerings. May be taken more than once for a maximum of four hours credit.
FINC 681 -- Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Analyzes various investment instruments in terms of two elements they possess: risk and return.
FINC 698 -- Directed Study
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description
FINC 699 -- Research and Thesis
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description
INSY 698 -- Directed Study
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Simi-autonomous independent research on an information systems topic of interest to the student. Provides the student with the opportunity to develop conceptual sophistication on a specific topic. Pass/Fail.
MGNT 622 -- Quantitative Methods
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Provides a study of the quantitative tools used in business production and service organizations. Topics include linear programming, integer programming, network analysis and stochastic programming.
MGNT 651 -- Entrepreneurship
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description This course focuses on starting and managing high growth businesses. Major topics include: identifying potential high growth business opportunities, characteristics of entrepreneurs, developing creativity, evaluating market potential, choosing a legal structure, tax planning, financing strategies, preparing a business plan, operating considerations, choosing an exit or succession strategy.
MGNT 562 -- Business Consulting
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Introduces the student to comprehensive organizational analysis, alternative development and implementation planning in a business firm. Students will work in teams with the management of firms in the surrounding area. Extensive field work is required. Students meet regularly with the managers of firms assigned to their team, conduct an analysis of the firm's problems and develop a plan of action for solving the problems identified. Professional presentations are an integral part of this course.
MGNT 671 -- Special Topics in Management
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Examines topics of special interest in management area not covered in current graduate course offerings.
MGNT 698 -- Directed Study
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description
MGNT 699 -- Research and Thesis
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description
MKTG 612 -- Global Market Research
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description Provides MBA students an opportunity to participate in international market research. Students conduct an in-depth analysis of foreign markets to determine market potential and to develop strategies for Virginia firms to enter or expand specific markets.
MKTG 671 -- Special Topics in Marketing
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description MKTG 671 gives the students an opportunity to examine topics of special interest in the marketing area beyond the subjects covered in the current graduate course offerings.
MKTG 698 -- Directed Study
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
Description
MKTG 699 -- Research and Thesis
Prerequisite: MBA status or permission of the instructor.
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