B.A./B.S. M.B.A.
James S. Valone, Director
This program enables a qualified student in any major to earn an undergraduate degree and an M.B.A. within a five-year period. During the first three years, students take courses to fulfill their Core Curriculum and major-area requirements, but they save any electives until later. In the senior year, they complete their undergraduate requirements and take a series of introductory graduate courses in place of free electives. They complete the M.B.A. requirements in the fifth year.
Admission
Application is made in the spring semester of the junior year. The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is required. Admission to the program will require meeting current M.B.A. admission standards.
Recommended Schedule:
First Three Years:
Courses in Core Curriculum and major area. It is recommended that courses in logic and ethics be used to fulfill the Area V requirement. To whatever extent possible, students should include in their program the course work described in the notes below. This will enable them to waive some of the introductory MBA courses. If no courses are waived, it may not be possible to complete the MBA in the fifth year.
| Fall |
|
Spring |
|
| Senior Year |
|
|
|
| Undergraduate Course |
3 |
Undergraduate Course |
3 |
| Undergraduate Course |
3 |
Undergraduate Course |
3 |
| Undergraduate Course |
3 |
MBA 526 |
1.5 |
| MBA 520 |
1.5 |
MBA 540 |
1.5 |
| MBA 521 |
1.5 |
MBA 541 |
1.5 |
| MBA 522 |
3 |
MBA 542 |
1.5 |
| MBA 523 |
3 |
MBA 543 |
1.5 |
| MBA 524 |
3 |
MBA 545 |
1.5 |
| MBA 525 |
3 |
MBA 546 |
1.5 |
| |
|
MBA 547 |
1.5 |
| Total |
181 |
Total |
18 |
Notes:
1. Non-Business majors: MBA 522, 523, and 524 may be waived by students who achieve a grade of B or higher in ECO 255-256, ECO 101-102, and ACC 201-202. If it is necessary to take MBA 522, 523, and 524, some of the other first semester MBA courses are moved to the second semester, and some of the second semester MBA courses are taken in the Summer or during the following year.
2. Business majors: All fourth-year MBA courses are potential waivers except MBA 525, but students may waive not more than four of the 540 series and a total of not more than 21 credits. The equivalent courses must have been taken at Canisius with a grade of B or higher. It should be noted, however, that students must complete 36 hours in the senior year to have enough credits to complete both degrees. If all undergraduate requirements have been met and MBA courses waived, a student must take enough free electives to complete 18 hours each semester. Fifth-year courses may not be taken during the fourth year. See adviser for further information on waivers.
Fifth year
| MBA 559 |
1.5 |
|
Elective 1 |
3 |
| MBA 570 |
1.5 |
|
Elective 2 |
3 |
| MBA 571 |
1.5 |
|
MBA 990 |
1.5 |
| MBA 572 |
1.5 |
|
MBA 991 |
1.5 |
| MBA 573 |
1.5 |
|
MBA 997 |
3 |
| MBA 574 |
1.5 |
|
Total |
12 |
| MBA 575 |
1.5 |
|
|
|
| MBA 576 |
1.5 |
|
|
|
| Total |
12 |
|
|
|
Additional Information
Since individual programs of study are custom designed, interested students should see one of the individuals listed below as soon in their academic careers as possible. The graduate section of the program is designed specifically for each student on the basis of his/her undergraduate experience and will vary from student to student. Hence early and continuous advisement is important. Students in majors with relatively few free electives, e.g. business, science, or education, are especially encouraged to see an adviser early in their academic careers to ensure completion of required courses.
For further information students should see Dr. James Valone, Associate Dean of the Wehle School of Business and Program Director, or Dr. George Palumbo, Professor of Economics.
B.A./B.S.-M.B.A.P.A.
Edward J. Gress, Director.
This program offers an opportunity for a highly motivated undergraduate student to earn a graduate degree in approximately one year beyond the baccalaureate degree. This program provides the student with the degree of Master of Business Administration in Professional Accounting along with an undergraduate degree in liberal arts or natural sciences.
Students interested in this program are advised to make their decision prior to beginning their junior year. Entrance into the graduate portion is contingent upon meeting the appropriate graduate admission standards. Application to the graduate program should be made in the student’s senior year.
Completion of this program is made possible by permitting students to substitute undergraduate courses in which they have received a grade of B or better for selected graduate courses. Information on these substitutions is available in the Office of the Richard J. Wehle School of Business.
Dual Degree Program (B.A./B.S.-M.B.A.P.A.) Curriculum:
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
| 1. |
ENG 101, ENG 102, PHI 101, RST 101 |
(4 courses) |
(12) |
| 2. |
Area Studies: Two courses from each of these areas: I, III, IV, VI, VIII; one course from Area V |
(11 courses) |
(33) |
| 3. |
Major course requirements |
(27 or 26 courses) |
|
| |
a. Pre-M.B.A.P.A. |
|
|
| |
PHI 300 |
Logic |
(3) |
| |
QNT 101 |
Quant. Methods for Business |
(3) |
| AND |
|
|
|
| |
MAT 106 |
Calculus for the Non-Sciences |
(3) |
| OR |
|
|
(6 or 4) |
| |
MAT 111 |
Calculus I |
(4) |
| |
OR |
|
|
| |
MAT 115 |
Calculus for Business I |
(4) |
| |
ACC 211-212 |
Principles of Accounting I and II |
(6) |
| |
ACC 301-302 |
Intermediate Accounting I and II |
(6) |
| |
ACC 307 |
Accounting Information Systems |
(3) |
| |
ECO 101 |
Principles of Macroeconomics |
(3) |
| |
ECO 102 |
Principles of Microeconomics |
(3) |
| |
ECO 205 |
Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis |
(3) |
| |
ECO 206 |
Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis |
(3) |
| |
ECO 255 |
Business Statistics I |
(3) |
| |
ECO 256 |
Business Statistics II |
(3) |
| |
MIS 201 |
Management Technology |
(3) |
| |
FIN 301 |
Introduction to Finance |
(3) |
| |
Finance elective: one course |
|
(3) |
| |
b. Courses in liberal-arts major3 |
|
(30) |
| Undergraduate Total |
|
(42 or 41 courses) |
(126 or 124) |
GRADUATE PROGRAM
| MBA 525 |
Organizational Behavior |
(3) |
| MBA 526 |
Regression Analysis and Forecasting |
(1.5) |
| MBA 543 |
Marketing |
(1.5) |
| MBA 545 |
Managing Human Resources |
(1.5) |
| MBA 546 |
Management Science |
(1.5) |
| MBA 547 |
Operations Planning |
(1.5) |
| MBA 559 |
Cross Functional Integration |
(1.5) |
| MBA 570 |
Management Information Systems |
(1.5) |
| MBA 572 |
Operations Control |
(1.5) |
| MBA 574 |
Organizational Change |
(1.5) |
| MBA 575 |
Marketing/Strategic Analysis |
(1.5) |
| MBA 671 |
Business Law and Legal Environment |
(4) |
| MBA 702 |
Managerial and Cost Accounting |
(3) |
| MBA 715 |
Basic Taxation |
(3) |
| MBA 721 |
Advanced Financial Reporting |
(3) |
| MBA 725 |
Auditing Theory and Practice |
(3) |
| MBA 751 |
Seminar in Accounting Theory |
(3) |
| MBA 997 |
Strategy Management Seminar in Business Analysis |
(3) |
| Graduate Total |
|
(40) |
| Program Total |
|
(166 or 164) |
MBA COURSES: 1999-2001
This list includes all the required MBA courses in the Dual Degree programs and in the 150-hour Accounting program
MBA 520 Computer Skills 1.5
Development of computer skills relevant to business management. DOS/Windows, spreadsheet software and statistical software, data access from mainframe, CD-ROM, the Internet.
MBA 521 Legal Environment 1.5
Provides threshold knowledge of the law in areas of contract, product liability, corporate and partnership law, employment and environmental law for managers.
MBA 522 Statistics 3
Statistical concepts and techniques, emphasizing problem solving and interpretation. Descriptive measures, probability distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, contingency tables, analysis of variance, and statistical process control.
MBA 523 Economics 3
Organization of resources to attain economic goals. Supply and demand, determination of prices, output. Consumer behavior, level/variability of macroeconomics activity. Money, banking, inflation, unemployment.
MBA 524 Financial Accounting 3
Reporting the financial results of operations and financial positions to investors, creditors, and managers. Preparation, analysis, and use of accounting data; use of financial reports.
MBA 525 Organizational Behavior 3
Integrates individual and group and organizational principles within a framework of high functioning and high quality performance. Students learn to describe and analyze critical organizational issues and apply strategies to effectively manage them.
MBA 526 Regression Analysis and Forecasting 1.5
Builds on the tools of statistical inference developed in the Statistics course to address issues of estimation and hypothesis testing encountered in regression and time series analysis.
MBA 540 Managerial Accounting Planning 1.5
Preparation and analysis of data used by management in planning, budgeting, and decision making.
MBA 541 Finance 1.5
Decision making in financial management. Sources and uses of funds. Analytical techniques for evaluating financial decisions.
MBA 542 Economics of Production 1.5
Building upon the concepts and tools introduced in micro and macro economics, the course covers the important decision-making issues facing all firms, placed in the context of the growing global and regional market place.
MBA 543 Marketing 1.5
Provides the tools, techniques, and framework needed to design an effective marketing plan. Attention is placed on the inter-dynamics and management of product, price, promotion, and distribution factors.
MBA 545 Managing Human Resources 1.5
Organizations have many strategies to manage human systems. An effective organization must plan, staff, motivate, train, and maintain these systems. Building on behavioral and economic principles, this course examines effective and ineffective Human Resource Systems.
MBA 546 Management Science 1.5
Decision making through optimization of quantitative models including linear programming, project management, and decision trees.
MBA 547 Operations Planning 1.5
Inputs, processes, and outputs of the production system. Productivity, competitiveness, and strategy. Operations facility layout, new technologies, just-in-time manufacturing, and total quality management.
MBA 559 Cross Functional Integration 1.5
Teams of faculty, business executives, and students work on multi-disciplinary problems.
MBA 570 Management Information Systems 1.5
Role of information systems in modern organizations; integration of hardware, software, data, procedures, and people to further organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of work life.
MBA 571 Managerial Accounting Evaluation 1.5
Preparation and analysis of data used in product costing, inventory valuation. performance evaluation.
MBA 572 Operations Control 1.5
Decision-making, applications, and tools in various key areas of production/operations management including inventory management, aggregate planning, quality assurance techniques, materials/ resources requirements planning, and operations scheduling.
MBA 573 Financial Performance 1.5
The formal analysis of the risk dimension associated with financial decision making. Problems of measurement of risk and of quantifying appropriate risk/return tradeoffs.
MBA 574 Organizational Change 1.5
Discusses organizational development, organizational culture, system concepts, and operational components of organizational development, inner group interventions, interpersonal and group process interventions, and employee empowerment.
MBA 575 Marketing/Strategic Analysis 1.5
Presents the techniques and approaches which are frequently used in implementing and evaluating the marketing component of a business plan.
MBA 576 National/International Economics 1.5
Development of a model to help explain the growth and fluctuations in an open macroeconomy. Use and effects of monetary, fiscal, and international trade policies.
MBA 671 Business Law and Legal Environment 4
Legal aspects of partnerships and corporations. Substantive law of contracts, agency, bailments, accountants’ liability. Uniform Commercial Code, commercial paper, and secured transactions Bankruptcy, SEC, antitrust.
MBA 672 Advanced Commercial Law 3
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, secured transactions, accountant liability, real property, trusts and estates, and insurance.
Prerequisite: LAW 372 or MBA 671.
MBA 702 Managerial and Cost Accounting 3
Preparation and analysis of data used by management for planning, control, and performance evaluations. Inventory valuation and reporting methods in manufacturing enterprises. Standards and budgets.
Prerequisite: ACC 212 or MBA 701.
MBA 715 Basic Taxation 3
Provisions of Internal Revenue Code affecting individuals and corporations. Tax factors in planning and decision making. Social, political, and economic considerations underlying tax laws.
Prerequisite: ACC 212 or MBA 701.
MBA 716 Advanced Tax 3
Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to taxation of corporations and shareholders; partnerships and partners including organization, reorganization, distribution, and liquidation. Emphasis on Sub-Chapters "C," "S," and "K."
Prerequisite: ACC 415 or MBA 715.
MBA 721 Advanced Financial Reporting 3
Accounting for partnerships, corporate mergers and acquisitions, non-profit institutions, foreign exchange, and fiduciaries.
Prerequisite: ACC 302 or MBA 712.
MBA 725 Auditing Theory and Practice 3
Standards and practice relevant to verification of financial statements. Responsibilities and ethics of public-accounting profession, internal control design and evaluation, audit programs, statistical sampling, audit working papers.
Prerequisite: ACC 302 or MBA 712.
MBA 726 Advanced Auditing 3
Review and integration of the underlying concepts in the auditing and accounting information systems courses. Reviews and tests associated with computerized accounting systems as well as the relationship between specific procedures and overall audit objectives.
Prerequisite: ACC 425 or MBA 725.
MBA 729 Not for Profit Accounting 1.5
Accounting and reporting issues that apply to governmental units, hospitals, schools, religious institutions, and other non-profit organizations. Budgetary procedures including appropriations and encumbrances.
Prerequisite: ACC 302 or MBA 712.
MBA 751 Seminar in Accounting Theory 3
Accounting theory and theory formulation. Current issues on financial accounting and concepts of income determination.
Prerequisite: ACC 302 or MBA 712.
MBA 799 Accounting Internship 1.5
Supervised practical training in a staff position in public accounting.
MBA 990 Integration Module 1.5
Provides students with the opportunity to study the relationship between their selected area of concentration and another functional area of business.
MBA 991 Managerial Environment 1.5
Relationship of business and society. Emphasis on management and integration of ethics and social issues in daily business practices.
MBA 997 Strategy Management Seminar in Business Analysis 3
Developing strategies for a successful business operation and hands-on business analysis focusing on problem-solving. Student teams work with current business problems using analytical tools and skills developed from other courses.
1 The Fall schedule for senior year included 24 hours of coursework on the assumption that at least six credits will be waived.
2 Area II is automatically fulfilled because this program is in the Social Sciences. Area VII is fulfilled by the Mathematics courses required in this program. One course from Area V is fulfilled by the required course in Philosophy.
3 A minimum of 10 courses (30 credit hours) is required for a liberal arts major. In many cases, the liberal arts major will allow for the exclusion of two Area Studies courses, bringing the undergraduate curiculum down to 40 courses.