Faculty:Laura A. McEwen, Director of Graduate Business Programs; F. Scott Wilson, Academic Coordinator; Edward J. Gress, Director of MBAPA and MBAA programs; George M. Palumbo, Academic Coordinator of One-Year MBA Program.
The Richard J. Wehle School of Business offers evening and one-year master's degree programs in business administration (MBA). Within the evening program, electives are available in accounting, finance, management, marketing and tele-communications management. The one-year program offers an internship opportunity.
Canisius College offers two graduate programs in accounting. The Master of Business Administration in Professional Accounting (MBAPA) program is for students who enter at the graduate level without an accounting background. The Master of Business Administration in Accounting (MBAA) program is for those who begin as undergraduates. The latter is designed to meet the 150-hour requirement of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
The MBAPA and MBAA programs qualify students to sit for the CPA examination in New York State. Graduates of the MBAPA are required to complete two years of experience for certification in the State of New York; only one year of experience is required of MBAA graduates.
Admission
Candidates for the MBA and MBAPA programs must meet all the requirements for admission to graduate programs in the Richard J. Wehle School of Business. The GMAT requirement is waived for applicants holding a doctoral degree.
Students who choose to pursue the MBAA program should apply for admission in their junior year. They should complete the GMAT at the earliest opportunity during their junior year and no later than the March examination. The admissions criteria for this program are more stringent than those that apply to the MBA and MBAPA programs. Candidates must have: (1) a minimum cumulative average of 2.75 in all accounting courses taken at Canisius, including junior accounting courses; (2) a minimum cumulative overall average of 3.00 by the end of junior year; (3) a minimum score of 500 on the GMAT.
Knowledge of college mathematics and basic computer skills is a prerequisite for entry into the MBA and MBAPA programs. Students who are admitted without this background must complete an approved course during their first semester in the program.
Eligible students may enter the MBAPA and evening MBA programs in the fall, spring or summer semester. Applicants are encouraged to apply by July 1 for fall, November 1 for spring and April 1 for summer. The One-Year MBA program begins only in the fall semester.
Transfer credit
Graduate business course work completed by a student at another AACSB accredited college or university may be accepted for transfer credit. Students desiring transfer credit should submit a written request to the program director for evaluation.
No transfer credit will be awarded for courses with grades below "B" and not more than 21 credit hours of transfer credit will be accepted for the evening MBA and MBAPA programs. No transfer credit is allowed for the One-Year MBA program.
Transfer students in the MBA program must complete at least 30 credit hours at Canisius College. Transfer students in the MBAPA program are reviewed on an individual basis.
Graduate business students at Canisius College who wish to take graduate course work at another institution must have the prior written permission from the director of Graduate Business Programs.
The Jesuit Consortium (JEBNET), of which Canisius is a member, allows MBA students from another Jesuit institution to readily transfer up to 21 credit hours of coursework.
Waivers
Students may qualify for waivers of foundation and selected additional courses based upon their undergraduate coursework, at the discretion of the director and academic coordinator. A student who qualifies for a proficiency examination in statistics must complete the exam in their first semester. No waivers are granted for the One-Year MBA program.
Additional information
All graduate work must be completed within five years for the MBA program and six years for the MBAPA and MBAA programs. A student who has not taken a course in three successive semesters is considered to have withdrawn from the program. Extensions to these time limits may be granted upon the petition of the student to the director.
There is no language requirement for any of the graduate business programs. However, term papers and/or research projects may be required in individual courses.
One-Year MBA Program
Fall Semester
| MBA 822 |
|
Statistical Methods |
|
3 |
| MBA 823 |
|
Economics |
|
3 |
| MBA 824 |
|
Financial Accounting |
|
3 |
| MBA 825 |
|
Organizational Behavior |
|
3 |
| MBA 826 |
|
E-Commerce |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 827 |
|
Career Exploration |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 841 |
|
Finance |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 891 |
|
Managerial Environment |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 859 |
|
Application & Integration |
|
1.5 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
TOTAL |
|
19.5 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Spring Semester |
| MBA 840 |
|
Managerial Accounting |
|
3 |
| MBA 843 |
|
Marketing Management |
|
3 |
| MBA 846 |
|
Quantitative Decision Making |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 845 |
|
Human Resource Management |
|
3 |
| MBA 847 |
|
Operations Planning and Control |
|
3 |
| MBA 870 |
|
Management Information Systems |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 873 |
|
Financial Performance |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 897 |
|
Strategy Consulting Project |
|
3 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
TOTAL |
|
19.5 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Summer Semester |
| MBA 821 |
|
Legal Environment |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 836 |
|
Regression and Forecasting |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 876 |
|
National/International Economics |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 878 |
|
Global Competition |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 899 |
|
Internship |
|
3 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
TOTAL |
|
9 |
Notes (One-Year MBA only):
- A student may be dismissed from the program if the student's QPA is 2.0 or lower upon completion of the first semester.
- A student will be placed on probation if the student's QPA is greater'than 2.0 but less then 2.66 upon completion of the first semester.
- A student may be dismissed from the program if the student's QPA is less than 2.66 upon completion of the second semester.
- A student must have a QPA of at least 2.66 to graduate.
MBA curriculum
Foundation Level
| MBA 520 |
|
Computer Skills |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 521 |
|
Legal Environment |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 522 |
|
Statistics |
|
3 |
| MBA 523 |
|
Economics |
|
3 |
| MBA 524 |
|
Financial Accounting |
|
3 |
| MBA 525 |
|
Organizational Behavior |
|
3 |
| MBA 526 |
|
Regression Analysis and Forecasting |
|
1.5 |
Formulation Level
Students should have completed or be taking concurrently all foundation level courses.
MBA 540 Managerial Accounting Planning 1.5
| MBA 541 |
|
Finance |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 542 |
|
Economics of Production |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 543 |
|
Marketing |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 545 |
|
Planning/Acquiring Human Resources |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 546 |
|
Management Science |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 547 |
|
Operations Planning |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 559 |
|
Cross Functional Integration |
|
1.5 |
Implementation/Evaluation
Students should have completed or be taking concurrently at least three formulation level courses.
| MBA 570 |
|
Management Information Systems |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 571 |
|
Managerial Accounting Evaluation |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 572 |
|
Operations Control |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 573 |
|
Financial Performance |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 574 |
|
Developing/Rewarding Human Resources |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 575 |
|
Marketing/Strategic Analysis |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 576 |
|
National/International Economics |
|
1.5 |
Concentration
| Electives |
|
Two courses |
|
6 |
| MBA 990 |
|
Integration Module |
|
1.5 |
Capstone/Integration
| MBA 991 |
|
Managerial Environment |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 997 |
|
Strategy Management Seminar |
|
3 |
Total MBA credits 51
MBAPA curriculum
Foundation Level
| MBA 520 |
|
Computer Skills |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 522 |
|
Statistics |
|
3 |
| MBA 523 |
|
Economics |
|
3 |
| MBA 525 |
|
Organizational Behavior |
|
3 |
| MBA 526 |
|
Regression Analysis and Forecasting |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 701 |
|
Financial Accounting |
|
3 |
Formulation Level
Students should have completed or be taking concurrently all foundation level courses.
| MBA 541 |
|
Finance |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 542 |
|
Economics of Production |
|
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 702 |
|
Managerial and Cost Accounting |
|
3 |
Implementation/Evaluation
Students should have completed or be taking concurrently at least three formulation level courses.
| MBA 570 |
|
Management Information Systems |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 572 |
|
Operations Control |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 573 |
|
Financial Performance |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 575 |
|
Marketing/Strategic Analysis |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 576 |
|
National/International Economics |
|
1.5 |
Concentration in Professional Accounting
| MBA 671 |
|
Business Law and Legal Environment |
|
4 |
| MBA 711 |
|
Intermediate Financial Reporting I |
|
3 |
| MBA 712 |
|
Intermediate Financial Reporting II |
|
3 |
| MBA 715 |
|
Personal and Corporate Income Tax |
|
3 |
| MBA 721 |
|
Advanced Financial Reporting |
|
3 |
| MBA 725 |
|
Auditing Theory and Practice |
|
3 |
MBA 751 Seminar in Accounting Theory
OR Accounting Elective |
|
3 |
Capstone/Integration
| MBA 997 |
|
Strategy Management |
|
3 |
MBAPA TOTAL: 61
Notes MBAPA only:
- Students who have not completed six credit hours of finance in their undergraduate program must take an additional course in finance after completing MBA 541 and MBA 573.
- Students who have not completed six credit hours of economics in their undergraduate program must take an additional business elective of three credit hours.
- To sit for the CPA examination in New York State, a student must have a minimum QPA of 3 on a scale of 4.0 in all graduate accounting courses taken.
Requirements for graduation from the MBAA 150-hour program:
Students in the 150-Hour Program will graduate with a BS degree in business administration major accounting at the end of their senior year. In order to receive the BS degree, the student must have a minimum QPA of 2.0 on a scale of 4.0 in all under-graduate courses, a minimum QPA of 2.0 on a scale of 4.0 in the combination of accounting and business law courses taken at Canisius College, and a minimum of 3 on a scale of 4.0 in all graduate courses.
To graduate with a degree of MBA in accounting, a minimum QPA of 3 scale of 4.0 is required in all graduate courses taken.
Under present education requirements of the State of New York, students are able to sit for the CPA examination upon completing their senior year. Students applying to take the CPA examination in the State of New York after August 1, 2009, must have completed a program of study consisting of 150 hours.
MBAA curriculum 150-hour program:
- ENG 101, ENG 102, RST 101, PHI 101 4 courses 12
- Area Studies: Two courses from each of these areas:
I, III, IV, VI, VIII. One course from Area V
11 courses 33
- Major course requirements: 37 or 36 courses
a. Undergraduate portion:
| PHI 300 |
|
Logic |
|
3 |
| QNT 101 |
|
Quantitative 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 |
|
Principles of Accounting I |
|
3 |
| ACC 212 |
|
Principles of Accounting II |
|
3 |
| ECO 101 |
|
Principles of Macroeconomics |
|
3 |
| ECO 102 |
|
Principles of Microeconomics |
|
3 |
| ECO 255 |
|
Business Statistics I |
|
3 |
| ECO 256 |
|
Business Statistics II |
|
3 |
| FIN 336 |
|
Advanced Corporate Finance |
|
3 |
| MIS 201 |
|
Management Technology |
|
3 |
| MGT 101 |
|
Introduction to Management |
|
3 |
| MKT 201 |
|
Principles of Marketing |
|
3 |
| ACC 301 |
|
Intermediate Accounting I |
|
3 |
| ACC 302 |
|
Intermediate Accounting II |
|
3 |
| ACC 307 |
|
Accounting Information Systems |
|
3 |
| LAW 371 |
|
Business and Commercial Law |
|
3 |
| LAW 372 |
|
Business Organization and Commercial Paper |
|
3 |
Elective: one course for those who take MAT 111 or
MAT 115 instead of QNT 101 and MAT 106 0-3
Graduate Portion:
| MBA 526 |
|
Regression Analysis and Forecasting |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 542 |
|
Economics of Production |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 545 |
|
Human Resources |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 546 |
|
Management Science |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 547 |
|
Operations Planning |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 559 |
|
Cross Functional Integration |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 572 |
|
Operations Control |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 574 |
|
Organizational Change |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 575 |
|
Marketing/Strategic Analysis |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 576 |
|
National/International Economics |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 672 |
|
Advanced Commercial Law |
|
3 |
| MBA 715 |
|
Basic Taxation |
|
3 |
| MBA 716 |
|
Advanced Tax |
|
3 |
| MBA 721 |
|
Advanced Financial Reporting |
|
3 |
| MBA 725 |
|
Auditing Theory and Practice |
|
3 |
| MBA 726 |
|
Advanced Auditing |
|
3 |
| MBA 729 |
|
Not for Profit Accounting |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 751 |
|
Seminar in Accounting Theory |
|
3 |
| MBA 799 |
|
Accounting Internship |
|
0 |
| MBA 990 |
|
Integration Module |
|
1.5 |
| MBA 997 |
|
Strategy Management Seminar |
|
3 |
MBA Finance elective: two courses. One should be in international finance 6
Total 150 or 151
Courses 2002-2004
Note that pre-requisites are not listed here. They are included in registration packets sent to students each semester.
MBA 520 Computer Skills (1.5 credits)
Development of computer skills relevant to business management, including Windows, Office, statistical software, data access from mainframe, CD-ROM and the Internet.
MBA 521 Legal Environment (1.5 credits)
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 credits)
Statistical concepts and techniques emphasizing problem solving and interpretation: descriptive measures, probability distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, contingency tables and analysis of variance.
MBA 523 Economics (3 credits)
Organization of resources to attain economic goals, supply and demand and determination of prices and output. Emphasis on consumer behavior and the level and variability of macroeconomic activity; money, banking, inflation and unemployment.
MBA 524 Financial Accounting (3 credits)
Reporting the financial results of operations and financial position to investors, creditors and managers; problems that arise in the preparation, analysis, and use of accounting data with emphasis on use of financial reports.
MBA 525 Organizational Behavior (3 credits)
Individual, group and organizational principles within a framework of high functioning and high quality performance; critical organizational issues and strategies to effectively manage them.
MBA 526 Regression Analysis and Forecasting (1.5 credits)
Builds on the tools of statistical inference developed in MBA 522 to address issues of estimation and hypothesis testing encountered in regression and time series analysis.
MBA 540 Managerial Accounting Planning (1.5 credits)
Preparation and analysis of data used by management in planning, budgeting and decision making.
MBA 541 Finance (1.5 credits)
Decision making in financial management; sources and uses of funds; analytical techniques for evaluating financial decisions.
MBA 542 Economics of Production (1.5 credits)
Builds upon concepts and tools introduced in MBA 523; important decision making issues facing all firms, placed in context of growing global and regional market place.
MBA 543 Marketing (1.5 credits)
Tools, techniques and framework needed to design an effective marketing plan; the interdynamics and management of product, price, promotion and distribution factors.
MBA 545 Planning and Acquiring Human Resources (1.5 credits)
Strategies to manage human systems; planning, staffing, motivating and maintaining these systems; behavioral and economic examination of both effective and ineffective human resources systems.
MBA 546 Management Science (1.5 credits)
Decision making through optimization of quantitative models including linear programming, project management and decision trees.
MBA 547 Operations Planning (1.5 credits)
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 credits)
Teams of faculty, business executives, and students work on multi-disciplinary problems which require integration of material from accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing and statistics.
MBA 570 Management Information Systems (1.5 credits)
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 credits)
Preparation and analysis of data used in product costing, inventory valuation and performance evaluation.
MBA 572 Operations Control (1.5 credits)
Decision-making, applications and tools in key areas of production/operations management: inventory management, aggregate planning, quality assurance techniques, materials/resources requirements planning and operations scheduling.
MBA 573 Financial Performance (1.5 credits)
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 Developing and Rewarding Human Resources (1.5 credits)
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 credits)
The techniques and approaches which are frequently used in imple-menting and evaluating the marketing component of a business plan.
MBA 576 National/International Economics (1.5 credits)
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 620 Investment Management (3 credits)
Organization and functioning of securities markets; modern portfolio theory; analysis of stocks, bonds, options and futures; investment companies and their performance evaluation.
MBA 622 Financial Institutions and Markets (3 credits)
Consideration of the rapidly changing world of financial services and intermediaries with new benchmarks and success factors; examination of commercial/thrift banking, investment banking, brokerage, insurance and asset management; discussion of the key customer market segments, risk factors, profitability dynamic and strategic challenges of each area; consideration of modernization legislation and the possibilities it opens for mergers, acquisitions and globalization.
MBA 623 Fixed Income Securities (3 credits)
Discussion of various types of fixed income securities and the markets in which they are traded; emphasis on contract evaluation, extracting term/risk structure information from pricing, evaluating investment opportunities, and interest rate risk management.
MBA 624 Appraisal of Municipal Credit Risk (3 credits)
Urban processes and arrangements fundamentally involved with credit worthiness of state and local governments in the United States.
MBA 626 International Finance (3 credits)
Application of international finance to managerial decision-making and policy.
MBA 627 Risk Management (3 credits)
Methods of managing pure risks to limit losses; theory of risk manage-ment; practical framework for decision-making under uncertainty; public policy and social insurance.
MBA 628 Options and Futures (3 credits)
Discussion of forward and futures contracts, swaps and options; description and analysis of markets for these securities; techniques for identifying overvalued and undervalued contracts; use of derivative securities for risk management.
MBA 629 Real Estate Finance (3 credits)
Theory and practice of mortgage origination, mortgage markets, and income property valuation for residential properties; emphasis on current market conditions, effects on consumer decisions to rent or buy and the availability of various mortgage products.
MBA 630 Consumer Behavior (3 credits)
Why people purchase the things they do; how to build models of individual purchasing behavior, which integrate theories from psychology, sociology and marketing.
MBA 636 Advertising Management (3 credits)
New set of management tools and strategies required by present evolution of integrated data based marketing; state-of-the-art procedures to maximize impact of advertising and promotion campaigns.
MBA 638 Internet Marketing (3 credits)
Building relationships, promoting and selling products, gathering valuable market information, providing customer service and establishing competitive advantages online; laying the groundwork for your professional online experience.
MBA 639 New Product Strategy (3 credits)
Technologies offered by the Internet and related E* Commerce systems are dramatically changing new product development process and marketing's role in that process; examination of marketing's increasingly important role in new product development including both traditional and Internet-related techniques and tools employed by marketing in developing and launching new products.
MBA 640 Managerial Skills Development (3 credits)
Seminar intended to provide students with opportunity to better understand and internalize concepts and theories of organizational behavior through application of behavioral science concepts and tools.
MBA 644 Organizational Theory and Design (3 credits)
Seminar providing overview of organizational design: what organizations are, how they are designed, how they operate and how they can be changed and improved through organizational design.
MBA 647 Organizational Change and Development (3 credits)
Contemporary approaches through application of behavioral science concepts and tools; systems concepts and operational components; need for change and development; action research and intervention strategies; overcoming resistance to change; managing paradigm shifts in organization culture.
MBA 648 Management of Technology Innovation (3 credits)
Management of new-product development in small, entrepreneurial firm or large organization with focus on technological innovation; theoretical and practical knowledge about managing the process.
MBA 652 Business Decisions and Federal Taxes (3 credits)
Tax considerations inherent in business decisions: selecting business form, capital gains and losses. Section 1231 assets, buying and selling real estate; acquiring and disposing of fixed asset; accounting methods; emphasis on problem recognition. For non-accountants.
MBA 654 Customer Relationship Management (3 credits)
Introduction to data-driven, fact-based CRM; exposure to the marketing and IS challenges facing firms developing new customer acquisition and retention programs, deepening customer relations through cross-selling, and managing customer lifetime value; use of statistics and data base programs.
MBA 662 Law for Executives (3 credits)
Codes and cases affecting small and large corporations. Computer law, environmental law, employment law, securities, liability, bankruptcy, due diligence and comfort laws.
MBA 663 Mergers and Acquisitions (3 credits)
Terminology, ground rules and strategy; development of criteria; defense of acquisition; tax considerations; antitrust laws; negotiation.
MBA 666 Negotiation (1.5 credits)
Theory, processes and techniques of negotiation as practiced in a variety of settings; designed to be relevant to a broad spectrum of negotiation problems faced by managers and professionals in the telecommunications industry.
MBA 671 Business Law and Legal Environment (4 credits)
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 law.
MBA 672 Advanced Commercial Law (3 credits)
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, secured transactions, accountant's liability, real property, trusts estates and insurance.
MBA 673 End User Computing (3 credits)
Intermediate-level course focusing on the integrated use of spreadsheet, graphics, database, word-processing and presentation software. Development of business applications to support analysis, decision-making and communications activities.
MBA 680 International Business Seminar (3 credits)
Two to three weeks of travel in Europe, either between fall/spring semesters or in summer; exposure to international business environment and to business practices outside the U.S.A.; readings, discussions and paper required after return to U.S.
MBA 701 Financial Accounting (3 credits)
Accounting concepts related to external financial reporting; theories and procedures relevant to reporting financial position and results of operations.
Note: Students who have taken MBA 524 prior to enrolling in the MBAPA program must consult the program director for possible waiver of this course.
MBA 702 Managerial and Cost Accounting (3 credits)
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.
MBA 711-712 Intermediate Financial Reporting (6 credits)
In-depth theories relating to asset and liability measurement and reporting, revenue and expense determination and financial statements presentation.
MBA 715 Basic Taxation (3 credits)
Provisions of Internal Revenue Code affecting individuals and corporations; tax factors in planning and decision making; social, political and economic considerations underlying tax laws.
MBA 716 Advanced Tax (3 credits)
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."
MBA 721 Advanced Financial Reporting (3 credits)
Accounting for partnerships, corporate mergers and acquisitions, non-profit institutions,foreign exchange and fiduciaries.
MBA 725 Auditing Theory and Practice (3 credits)
Standards and practice relevant to verification of financial statements; responsibilities and ethics of public-accounting profession; internal control design and evaluation; auditing programs and working papers; statistical sampling.
MBA 726 Advanced Auditing (3 credits)
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.
MBA 729 Not-for-Profit Accounting (1.5 credits)
Accounting and reporting issues that apply to governmental units, hospitals, schools, religious institutions and other non-profit organizations; budgetary procedures including appropriations and encumbrances.
MBA 751 Seminar in Accounting Theory (3 credits)
Accounting theory and theory formulation; current issues in financial accounting and concepts of income determination.
MBA 799 Accounting Internship (1.5 credits)
Supervised practical training in a staff position in public accounting.
MBA 821 Legal Environment (1.5 credits)
Threshold knowledge of the law in areas of contract, product liability, corporate and partnership law, employment and environmental law for managers.
MBA 822 Statistics (3 credits)
Statistical concepts and techniques, emphasizing problem solving and interpretation; descriptive measures, probability distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, contingency tables and analysis of variance.
MBA 823 Economics (3 credits)
Organization of resources to attain economic goals, supply and demand, determination of prices and output; emphasis on consumer behavior and the level and variability of macroeconomic activity; money, banking, inflation and unemployment.
MBA 824 Financial Accounting (3 credits)
Reporting the financial results of operations and financial position to investors, creditors and managers; problems that arise in the preparation, analysis and use of accounting data with emphasis on use of financial reports.
MBA 825 Organizational Behavior (3 credits)
Individual, group, and organizational principles within a framework of high functioning and high quality performance; critical organizational issues and strategies to effectively manage them.
MBA 826 E-Commerce (1.5 credits)
An introduction to business by simulating a web-based pizza start-up; competition of firms, determination of prices and product strategy, maintenance of web sites, and tracking their performance over time.
MBA 827 Career Exploration (1.5 credits)
Effective career planning as a problem-solving process requiring self-assessment, career research, experiential learning and testing of the knowledge gained; introduction to the fundamentals of career planning including various self-assessment tools, websites and other resources for career research.
MBA 836 Regression Analysis and Forecasting (1.5 credits)
Builds on the tools of statistical inference developed in MBA 822 to address issues of estimation and hypothesis testing encountered in regression and time series analysis.
MBA 840 Managerial Accounting (3 credits)
Accounting concepts for internal reporting, product costing and control; utilization of financial information for business planning, budgeting, decision making and performance evaluation.
MBA 841 Finance (1.5 credits)
Decision making in financial management; sources and uses of funds; analytical techniques for evaluating financial decisions.
MBA 843 Marketing Management (3 credits)
Focus on the strategic management of the marketing process the development, implementation and evaluation of the marketing plan; creating an understanding of the basic nature of the marketing decision process in both business and non-profit organizations; developing an ability to delineate marketing problems in real world settings, structure and analyze them; using appropriate concepts and techniques toward identification of solutions to such problems.
MBA 845 Human Resource Management (3 credits)
An introduction to strategic management of human resources and the employment function, including discussion of planning, staffing, performance management, training and development, compensation and labor relations systems, as well as the regulatory environment and organizational strategies for improving productivity, quality and quality of work life.
MBA 846 Quantitative Decision Making (1.5 credits)
Use of quantitative information about relationships to formulate and solve constrained optimization decisions; understanding how optimal managerial decision-making is impacted by the organization of the industry in which the firm operates.
MBA 847 Operations Planning and Control (3 credits)
The operation's management functional area of the firm, which comprises decision-making in operations strategy, quality management, facilities layout, planning and scheduling, inventory, just-in-time systems and operations technologies.
MBA 859 Application and Integration (1.5 credits)
Introduction to models that integrate the functional areas of business into strategic decision processes; application to the analysis of cases.
MBA 870 Management Information Systems (1.5 credits)
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 873 Financial Performance (1.5 credits)
Formal analysis of the risk dimension associated with financial decision-making; problems of measurement of risk and of quantifying appropriate risk/return tradeoffs.
MBA 876 National/International Economics (1.5 credits)
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 878 Global Competition (1.5 credits)
Basis of creating competitive advantages in the international arena; emphasis is on developing global management systems and international markets.
MBA 891 Managerial Environment (1.5 credits)
Relationship of business and society; emphasis on management and integration of ethics and social issues in daily business practices.
MBA 897 Strategy Consulting Project (3 credits)
Developing strategies for 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.
MBA 902 Management Information Systems (3 credits)
An elective seminar in management information systems.
MBA 903 CYBER Commerce (3 credits)
Conducting worldwide 24-hour-a-day business on the Internet; impact of the World Wide Web's graphics, interactivity and hypermedia links on business transactions; no scheduled classes except for orientation meeting; all course requirements conducted via the Internet.
MBA 990 Integration Module (1.5 credits)
Opportunity for students to study the relationship between their selected area of concentration and other functional areas of business.
MBA 991 Managerial Environment (1.5 credits)
Relationship of business and society; emphasis on management and integration of ethics and social issues in daily business practices.
MBA 996 National/International Internship (3 credits)
Strongly recommended for international students who do not have familiarity with U.S. corporations; to be taken in addition to the 51 credit hours required for the MBA.
MBA 997 Strategy Management Seminar in Business Analysis (3 credits)
Developing strategies for 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.