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MGMT 41300 - Advanced Corporate Financial Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. The course provides the theoretical and problem-solving tools needed in entry-level financial analysis positions in a corporate, commercial lending, or investment banking setting. Topics include corporate valuation, cash flow forecasting, project evaluation, capital structure, dividend policy, capital acquisition, and mergers/acquisition. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 41500 - International Financial Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. The course explores financial decision making in an international framework from the perspective of the management of a multinational corporation. Topics covered include the international financial markets, the measurement and management of exchange risk and political risk, and the financial aspects of the decision to set up cross-border operations. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 41601 - Corporate Mergers And Acquisitions
Credit Hours: 3.00. The financial analysis of corporate acquisitions, mergers, and reorganizations including asset acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs, sell-offs, equity carve-outs, bankruptcy proceedings and reorganizations, and corporate governance. The course uses a combination of lectures, readings, and case analysis. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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MGMT 42210 - International Marketing
Credit Hours: 3.00. Most U.S. businesses, large and small, are becoming deeply involved in international business. The trend is going to grow even stronger because of the influence of the World Trade Organization and regional trade blocks. Under these circumstances, it is imperative that business managers possess the skill set to adapt their marketing strategies to the needs of international markets. The course will cover the concepts and theories pertaining to international marketing and provide the tools necessary to develop an international marketing plan. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 42300 - New Product Development
Credit Hours: 3.00. Provides an overview of the new product development process. Detailed insights are provided in the “fuzzy front end” of this process. Targeting positioning, and product decisions are also covered. The second half of the course completes the marketing mix and covers various market testing and product launch issues. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 42310 - Global Marketing Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. Most US businesses, large and small, are becoming deeply involved in international business. The trend is going to grow even stronger because of the influence of the World Trade Organization and regional trade blocks. Under these circumstances, it is imperative that business managers possess the skill set to adapt their marketing strategies to the needs of international markets. The course will cover concepts and theories pertaining to international marketing and provide the tools necessary to develop an international marketing plan. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 42500 - Marketing Research
Credit Hours: 3.00. The purpose of this course is to develop skills in the planning and execution of market research studies designed to acquire useful information for marketing decisions. It aims to familiarize students with techniques of research design, data collection, and analysis. Emphasis is placed on evaluating the results obtained from such investigations. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 42610 - Brand Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. This elective course is mainly for students having a marketing concentration and focuses on the issues of how to build brand equity, how to measure brand equity, and how to manage and/or grow the brand of interest. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 44301 - Management Of Human Resources
Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of theory and techniques used in human resource management within organizations. Emphasis is placed on legal concerns, human resource staffing and development, reward systems, and the role of unions in American society. Techniques studied include job analysis, the use of various recruitment and selection procedures, compensation, administration, and collective bargaining. No credit for students in the School of Management. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 44330 - Introduction To Organizational Behavior
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course investigates the impact of individuals, groups, and organizational structures have on behavior within organizations for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization’s effectiveness. Attention is given to such topics as personality, judgment and decision-making, motivation, team processes, organizational structure, leadership, conflict management, and organizational change. Emphasis is placed on developing management skills and applying organizational behavior theories. Typically offered fall Spring Summer.
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MGMT 44428 - Human Resources Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of the techniques and practices used in human resource management. Emphasis is on legal requirements, cost/benefit considerations, and strategic needs in managing human resources. Topics include recruitment, selection and placement, compensation, work design, and reactions to work. Specific techniques reviewed include assessment centers, incentive plans, structured interviewing, and autonomous work groups. Current issues and managerial decision making are emphasized. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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MGMT 44429 - Employee Relations And Performance Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on the employer-employee relationship at work, and how managers work with employees to improve employee performance. Attention is given to the history of labor relations and performance management in work settings, with an emphasis, however, on contemporary approaches to managing the employer-employee relationship and the systems for managing employee performance. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 44500 - Introduction To Investments And Portfolio Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to investments and portfolio management for non-management students. Covers characteristics of stock, bonds, portfolios, and financial markets. Includes introduction to interest rates and time value of money. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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MGMT 45100 - Strategic Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. The course focuses on understanding competitive forces and how organizations strive to build sustainable competitive advantages through business- and corporate-level strategies. It integrates and builds upon previous training in functional areas and presents new analytical tools for developing an understanding of the strategic decisions that determine future directions and effectiveness of the organization. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 45200 - Manufacturing Strategy And Process Innovation
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the management challenges posed by the growth in worldwide manufacturing capabilities, markets, and competition and by rapid advances in technology and the concomitant decline in product life cycles. The manufacturing function is considered within a broader context encompassing design, engineering, purchasing, marketing, and customer service in an effort to assess the degree to which existing management structures successfully meet the challenges arising from the changing manufacturing environment. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 45300 - Labor And Employment Law
Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the common law and statutory law affecting union-management relations, with emphasis on current labor legislation including such areas as the National Labor Relations Act and amendments, the Railway Labor Act, wage and hour legislation, workmen’s compensation, unemployment compensation, Occupational Health and Safety Acts and social security laws. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 45500 - Legal Background For Business I
Credit Hours: 3.00. The nature and place of law in our society, national and international, social and moral bases of law enactment, regulation of business, legal liability, and enforcement procedures. Special emphasis on torts, contracts, and agency. No credit to students in the School of Management. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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MGMT 45600 - Legal Foundations For Business II
Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of commercial law as prescribed by the Uniform Commercial Code, including the law of sales, documents of title, negotiable instruments, and the law relating to security interests. Additional material is presented covering the legal aspects of real estate transactions and personal property transfer. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 45700 - Legal Background For Business II
Credit Hours: 3.00. Course content same as MGMT 45600 . No credit for students in the School of Management. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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MGMT 45800 - The Regulatory Process, Consumerism, And Public Policy
Credit Hours: 3.00. A legal analysis of the administrative process and regulatory agencies as they influence business decisions. Included will be a discussion of (1) concepts of the regulatory process from legal, economic, and social aspects; (2) administrative agencies and regulatory process; (3) legal and social implications of consumerism movement; and (4) impact of antitrust legislation on business decisions and conduct. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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MGMT 45900 - International Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on the challenges top managers face in developing strategies and management policies in multinational corporations (MNCs). Major topics usually covered include foreign market entry strategies, motivations and organizational challenges of internationalization, analyzing global industries, managing MNC/host government relations, building competitive advantage in global industries, international alliances and acquisitions, structuring and controlling MNCs, risk management, and the country manager role. Typically offered Spring.
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MGMT 46100 - Management Operations
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introductory course concerned with the management of production, distribution, and service system operations. The topics covered include facilities planning, job design, materials control, work foce planning, and product quality. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 46200 - Advanced Manufacturing Planning And Control Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. An intensive individual computer lab supplements lectures examining the role of computerized information and control systems in manufacturing. An elaborate series of case studies, enlivened by advanced computer simulations, bring together production planning, master scheduling, materials planning, short-range capacity planning, production floor execution, and quality control. Students plan and execute the production and purchasing of all parts, aided by an integrated MRP/capacity planning/shop-floor control system built into the computer simulation. Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 47000 - Transport Management I
Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic concepts and models for the transporting and distributing function. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 47100 - Transport Management II
Credit Hours: 3.00. Application of the trends in modern management to transportation, with emphasis on effective coordination and control. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 47200 - Advanced Spreadsheet Modeling And Simulation
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course covers up-to-date and practical spreadsheet modeling tools that can be applied to a wide variety of business problems from finance, marketing, and operations. The topical coverage consists of the following five modules: (1) Excel functions, skills and financial models; (2) deterministic and stochastic optimization techniques to determine the best managerial actions under internally-and/or externally-imposed constraints; (3) probability distribution fitting techniques to find the most likely description of the uncertainty in future business; (4) simulation modeling techniques to discover and analyze the risk and uncertainties in business environment and processes; (5) application of spreadsheet modeling and simulation techniques in forecasting asset dynamics( stock price) and pricing options and real investment opportunities. This course provides hands-on experience of computer application using Microsoft Excel and the spreadsheet add-ins @RISK,RISKOptimizer, SimQuick, etc. Typically offered Spring.
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MGMT 48000 - Elements Industrial Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. An analytical treatment of basic problems of general management in industrial organizations, combining lectures, case studies, and readings and building on earlier course work in economics, quantitative methods, industrial relations, and general management. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 48100 - Contemporary Management Philosophy
Credit Hours: 3.00. A lecture-discussion course which features presentations by outstanding business and government executives. Emphasis is placed on the basic problems faced by contemporary senior management and their effects upon the organization. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 48400 - Management New Entrepreneurship
Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of problems and opportunities associated with starting and managing new and small firms. Topics include developing and appraising new business plans, raising capital, purchasing an established business, and dealing with problems of growth. Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 48800 - Electronic Commerce And Information Strategies
Credit Hours: 3.00. Discuss the new business models in electronic commerce that have been enabled by Internet technologies and analyze the impact these technologies and business models have on industries, firms and people. Typically offered Spring.
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MGMT 49000 - Problems In Industrial Management
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Investigation in a specific management field. Arrange with instructor before enrolling. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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MGMT 50300 - Advanced Accounting
Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced course in financial accounting. A range of contemporary issues in financial reporting, such as business combinations, investments, consolidations, inflation, multinationals, and tax allocation are covered. Both technical proficiency and user applications are emphasized. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 50400 - Tax Accounting
Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic tax course designed to provide an understanding of the various federal taxes, including income, gift, estate, excise, federal insurance contribution, self-employment, and unemployment taxes. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 50500 - Management Accounting II
Credit Hours: 3.00. The focus of the course is managerial decision making and the economic role of information. Topics covered include decentralized financial performance evaluation, cost analysis, and financial planning and control systems. Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 50600 - Auditing
Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the concepts and procedures of auditing, which is the systematic process of objectively obtaining and evaluating evidence regarding assertions about economic actions and events. Primary emphasis is on audits conducted by independent certified public accountants, but topics covered apply to internal auditing as well. Typically offered Spring.
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MGMT 50700 - Advanced Federal Income Taxes
Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced course in federal income taxes, with a brief study of gift and estate taxes. Some issues covered in MGMT 50400 are studied in more depth, particularly taxation of corporations and partnerships. The course, which is taught in seminar format, gives the student considerable practice in doing tax research and reporting conclusions. It is especially appropriate for the student entering a career in a tax environment. Typically offered Spring.
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MGMT 50900 - International Accounting
Credit Hours: 3.00. Provides insight into and an understanding of the many accounting problems and issues faced in an international business environment. The material is approached from two compatible and overlapping perspectives: the perspective of accounting or financial management in a U.S. multinational corporation and the perspective of an investor interested in understanding the international business environment. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 51100 - Fixed Income Securities
Credit Hours: 2.00. Introduction to fixed income securities. Discusses a variety of contracts-starting with pure discount bonds, coupon bonds, and callable bonds. Continues with options on bonds, caps, floors, and interest rate swaps. Introduces the theory of the term structure and present models for pricing fixed income securities. Topics include: spot and forward markets for debt instruments, simple models for interest rate risk management, duration, convexity, organized exchange-traded interest rate contracts, interest rate swaps, pricing relationships and the theory of the term structure, and single factor models for pricing interest rate claims. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 52000 - Pricing Strategy And Analysis
Credit Hours: 2.00. Builds on the introductory courses in marketing management. Enables students to formulate a systematic framework for approaching the problem of pricing a product, and more generally, a product line. The concepts and analytical methods necessary to develop such a framework are explored and incorporate marketing, economic, psychological, and organizational factors that influence pricing decisions, as well as competitive and legal aspects. Topics covered include value pricing, dynamic pricing, segmented pricing and price discrimination, bundling and multi-part tariffs, sales promotions, and pricing to the distribution channel.
Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 52100 - Brand Management
Credit Hours: 2.00. Designed to provide an understanding of how to manage a brand, product, or product category. The course focuses on issues related to customer behavior and customer decision making, with an emphasis on how to utilize such customer-oriented knowledge, especially as it relates to developing ideal forms of advertising and communications, product and/or service adjustments or extensions, and appropriate decisions related to distribution and pricing, all of which must be concerned both with customer acquisition and retention. Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 52200 - New Product Development
Credit Hours: 2.00. Provides students with state-of-the-art management techniques to identify markets, develop new product ideas, measure customer benefits, and de-sign profitable new products. In addition, students will be taught techniques that will allow them to successfully interact in cross-functional teams that include members from marketing, R&D, engineering, and manufacturing. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 52300 - Marketing And E-Commerce
Credit Hours: 2.00. Investigates the fundamentals of Electronic Commerce to better understand and evaluate the major changes occurring in marketing as a result of the expansion of the Internet. Organized in two parts focused on: (1) business webs and models; and (2) customer management. Studies simple but powerful economic theories and examines empirical data to investigate strengths and weaknesses of Internet-based business models. Examines principles on web psychology and the ways they can be applied to enhance brand equity, consumer trust, and consumer satisfaction. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 52500 - Marketing Analytics
Credit Hours: 2.00. Deals with concepts, methods, and applications of decision modeling to address such marketing issues as segmentation, target market selection, new product forecasting, positioning, and resource allocation. Provides skills to translate conceptual understanding into specific operational plans-a skill in increasing demand in organizations today. Using market simulations and related exercises tied to PC-based computer software, students will develop marketing strategy and plans in various decision contexts. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 53000 - Financial Statement Analysis
Credit Hours: 3.00. The course is designed to help students: (a) understand the content of corporate financial reports and analyze the information therein, (b) use the information for evaluating the financial health, operating performance, and growth prospects of corporation-type companies, and (c) learn the various models available and estimate the value of such a company using those models and the information abstracted from the financial reports. The topics to be covered include the corporate financial statements and their relationships, ratio analysis for profitability and risk evaluation, assets/liabilities/owners’ equality analysis, intercompany investments, forecasting financial statements, and company valuation models. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 53100 - Government/Not-For-Profit Accounting
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to provide students with a solid understanding of the financial reporting and accounting principles used in the preparation of governmental and not-for-profit entities. Topics include, but are not limited to, fund accounting, city government accounting, state government accounting, special funds, budgetary accounting for the general and special revenue funds, fiduciary funds and government-wide statements, university accounting, accounting for community foundations, not-for-profit accounting, and auditing not-for-profit entities. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 53200 - Forensic Accounting And Fraud Examination
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to help students apply their accounting, auditing, information systems and communication skills to detect financial fraud and unauthorized reporting acts to prepare and present a fraud case for criminal proceedings or civil litigation. These skills are highly valued in the rapidly growing field of forensic accounting. Upon completing this course, students will understand the role of forensic accountants in examining financial records for fraud and detecting insurance fraud; in providing litigation support; and in capturing digital evidence. This course will also review material related to the Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) exam. Throughout the course, students will have opportunities to improve their written and oral communication skills, particularly as they relate to communication in the legal settings associated with investigating accounting. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 54400 - Database Management Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Covers the theory and practice of database design and usage. Students will learn the importance of data modeling concepts and how to use these effectively and how to plan and design a database, including issues such as data security and control. The following course is recommended: MGMT 29000 Programming for Business Applications or CS 15900 or CS 17700 or CNIT 17500 , all with a C- or higher. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 54500 - Systems Development
Credit Hours: 3.00. Focuses on information systems development theories, practices, and tools for rapid adaptation and management of leading-edge as well as emerging computing paradigms. The following courses are recommended: MGMT 38200 , with a C- or higher; and MGMT 29000 Programming for Business Applications or CS 15900 or CS 17700 or CNIT 17500 , all with a minimum grade of C-. Permission of department required. Typically offered Spring.
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MGMT 54600 - Decision Support And Expert Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Since a large percentage of societal and management problems can be characterized as relatively unstructured, this course explores how computers can be used to aid decision makers in dealing with unstructured, as well as structured, problems. Appropriate material from knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, and language theory is considered. Applications selected from environmental management and strategic planning in large organizations are used to illustrate theoretical ideas. Since the key computer software tool is database management, a development of the CODASYL approach to data management is presented. Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 54700 - Computer Communications Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Explores the convergence of telecommunications and computer technology, framed in terms of their strategic impact in the business environment. Components of computer communication systems are surveyed. Major design and analysis issues in the development, implementation, and management of computer communication systems are examined. Relevant emerging trends are highlighted. The course is devoted to technical issues, applications, and case studies covering telecommunication systems used in business. Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 56000 - Manufacturing Planning And Control
Credit Hours: 2.00 or 3.00. An advanced course in manufacturing planning and control systems, emphasizing the integration of demand forecasting, inventory control, production scheduling, and production control. Topics are linked through case studies and an elaborate manufacturing computer simulation game. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 56100 - Logistics
Credit Hours: 2.00 or 3.00. Examines the distribution and delivery functions in a manufacturing or service industry. Topics include inventory control in distribution, transportation planning, distribution requirements planning, analysis of waiting lines, distribution system design and facility location and layout analysis. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 56200 - Project Management
Credit Hours: 2.00. Emphasizes the use of PC-based project management software and its applications, particularly in manufacturing organizations and especially new product development projects. Extensive use is made of several case studies to illustrate the planning and monitoring of a project. Class is held in a computer lab. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 56400 - Management Of Service Operations
Credit Hours: 2.00. Special characteristics of services require an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing operations. This course draws upon concepts from accounting, management science, and marketing. Differences and similarities between the service and manufacturing organizations are analyzed. Case studies of service organizations are used extensively. Prerequisite: MGMT 66000 (if Graduate student status) or else MGMT 36100 (if Undergraduate student status).Typically offered Spring Fall.
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MGMT 56500 - Strategic Sourcing And Procurement
Credit Hours: 2.00. This course will address the process of procurement including terminology, metric, and decision making. Additionally, we will investigate the best practices and processes for managing the relationships with suppliers and their performance. We will also explore the sourcing decision and the strategic ramifications of producing/providing goods and services internally or purchasing them from external organizations. Prerequisites: Students are expected to have taken a basic course on operations (such as the masters core class MGMT 66000 : Introduction to Operations Management) and a basic course on supply chain management (such as the masters elective MGMT 66400 : Supply Chain Management). Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 56600 - Global Supply Chain Management
Credit Hours: 2.00. This course will integrate issues from marketing (channels of distribution), logistics, and operations management to develop a broad understanding of a supply chain in a global context. Students will learn how different factors, including exchange rate risk, custom duty and trading policies, geographic distribution of resources and demand, availability and reliability of local supplier, and characteristics of consumer, affect the design and execution of global supply chain strategies. Prerequisites: Students are expected to have taken a basic course on operations (such as the masters core class MGMT 66000 : Introduction to Operations Management) and a basic course on supply chain management (such as the masters elective MGMT 66400 : Supply Chain Management). Exposure to a course on optimization is also preferred, but not required. The course requires logical and analytical thinking. Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 57000 - Spreadsheet Modeling And Simulation
Credit Hours: 2.00. Covers up-to-date and practical spreadsheet modeling tools, which can be applied to a wide variety of business problems in finance, marketing, and operations. Consists of simulation modeling techniques to analyze risk and uncertainties in business environment, optimization techniques to determine the best managerial actions under internally- and/or externally-imposed constraints, and real-world examples and cases to demonstrate broad applications of spreadsheet modeling and simulations in manufacturing and service operations, supply chain systems, yield management, asset dynamics, option pricing, etc. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 57100 - Data Mining
Credit Hours: 2.00. Introduces the concepts, techniques, tools, and applications of data mining. The material is approached from the perspective of a business analyst, with an emphasis on supporting tactical and strategic decisions. Includes a variety of techniques to identify nuggets of information or decision-making knowledge in bodies of data, and extracting these in such a way that they can be put to use in the area, such as decision support, prediction, forecasting, and estimation. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 57200 - Six Sigma And Quality Management
Credit Hours: 2.00. Establishes the link between quality and productivity design and improvement and variance reduction. The course examines some of the more traditional views on quality, as well as those today, which are gaining greater credibility and influence under the umbrella of TQM. It also covers up-to-date and practical spreadsheet modeling tools that can be applied to a wide variety of business problems from finance, marketing, and operations.
Typically offered Summer.
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MGMT 57300 - Optimization Modeling With Spreadsheets
Credit Hours: 2.00. The course emphasizes applications of optimization through cases and computer exercises. The applications are chosen to provide insights into business and economics. Areas covered include linear, network, integer, and nonlinear optimization. At the end of the course, the students should have the ability to model optimization problems work with software to solve optimization problems relate to optimization theory in a variety of application settings develop optimization insights into applications in marketing, finance, and operations and get some basic exposure to EXCEL automation. Prerequisites: Students are expected to have taken a basic MBA (core) course in business analytics (such as the masters core MGMT 67000 ). Typically offered Spring.
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MGMT 58200 - Management Of Organizational Data
Credit Hours: 2.00. Provides the basic concepts and skills needed to analyze and organize business data, as well as to utilize the organized data to answer a variety of business queries. After successful completion, students will have an understanding of why database management is important and what it entails, how to analyze the data requirements of a business scenario and represent these requirements by means of entity-relationship (ER) diagrams, translate an ER diagram into normalized relations for a relational database management system, write simple and relatively complex data retrieval commands in the SQL language for an Oracle database, use Microsoft Access as a front end to a server database in Oracle, be familiar with several selected topics of current interest in the data management arena. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 59000 - Directed Readings In Management
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00 (West Lafayette, North Central) 2.00 to 4.00 (Calumet) Supervised reading and reports in various subjects. Open only to a limited number of seniors and graduate students.
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MGMT 60000 - Accounting For Managers
Credit Hours: 2.00 or 3.00 (West Lafayette) 3.00 (Calumet, North Central) The two-course accounting sequence employs a user’s perspective on the firm’s database. First, the standard accounting model is developed into a working tool, as no prior study of accounting is assumed. Then illustrative business cases are discussed to show how external reports conform to financial contracts and public regulation. Public reports primarily directed to investors and creditors are analyzed to reconstruct the economic events and managerial decisions underlying generally accepted accounting standards. Prerequisite: Masters student standing and Management majors only. Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 60100 - Managerial Accounting
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00 (West Lafayette) 3.00 (North Central) Oriented to managers, the course examines the firm’s internal systems for costing products or services and their interpretation. A variety of manufacturing and service industries are studies to demonstrate design of flexible cost systems to match the firm’s technological, competitive and/or multinational environments. Applications to budgeting, variance analysis, pricing models, performance evaluation and incentives are demonstrated. Case discussion and analytical “what if” modes of instruction are used to enhance managerial skills of students. Design and use of accounting data are linked to other subjects in the program core and to ethical aspects of accounting policy issues. Prerequisite: MGMT 60000 . Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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MGMT 60200 - Valuation And Financial Statement Analysis
Credit Hours: 2.00. Establishes how to use accounting information to make business and investment decisions. Internally, the information is used to assess performance of units, to evaluate performance of upper-level management, to monitor the firm’s investment and financing decisions, and for comparison purposes with the firm’s rivals. Externally, accounting information is used by financial analysts, investors and (potential) acquirers to assess the value of the firm, by creditors to assess its credit-worthiness, and by regulators. Prerequisite: MGMT 60000 , MGMT 60100 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 60300 - Taxes And Business Strategy
Credit Hours: 2.00. Provides a framework for analyzing tax planning. The framework offers an approach to tax planning and business strategy that remains useful long after the next revision of the tax code. It offers an approach that can be readily employed in an international setting. After developing the framework, it will be applied to a variety of business settings that integrate topics from accounting, finance, and economics in order to provide a more complete understanding of the role of taxes in business strategy. Two important concepts will be applied: the concept of implicit taxes (tax-induced differences in before tax rates of return) and the concept of tax clienteles (the effect of cross-sectional differences in tax rates). Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 60600 - Seminar In External Reporting I
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00. Seminar examines research issues on the production, dissemination, and use of financial accounting information for economic decisions by external users. The materials covered are primarily empirically oriented. The aim is to expose students to these issues as they are covered in the accounting and related literature. Prerequisite: ECON 60000 . Typically offered Spring.
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MGMT 60700 - Seminar in Internal Accounting
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00. Development of a conceptual framework for evaluating information system alternatives. The seminar examines insights into information value provided by the literature. Both the decision-facilitating and contracting-facilitating roles of information are considered. Topics also include auditing issues. Prerequisite: ECON 60700 , ECON 61500 . Typically offered Spring.
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MGMT 60800 - Selected Research Topics In Accounting
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00. (West Lafayette, North Central) Credit Hours: 3.00. (Calumet) Individual and group study of current research problems in accounting. A limited set of problem areas will be covered in any one offering. Emphasis will be placed on current substantive problems and the research methods employed. Prerequisite:MGMT 60100 . Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 60900 - Seminar in External Reporting II
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00. Selective investigation of analytical research of informational and incentive issues in accounting. Emphasis is on the role of externally reported accounting information in asset pricing in financial markets. Prerequisite: ECON 60700 , ECON 61000 , ECON 61500 . Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 61000 - Financial Management
Credit Hours: 0.00 to 4.00. Analysis of short-term working capital needs. Cash budgeting procedures, pro forma statements, major types of short-term loan arrangements, and short-term asset management. Prerequisite: MGMT 60000 , Master’s student standing or higher and Management and Computational Finance majors only. Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 61100 - Advanced Corporate Finance
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4 .00 (West Lafayette, Calumet) 3.00 (North Central) Long-term capital structure planning, capital budgeting, treatment of uncertainty in investment decisions, security underwriting, dividend policies, and mergers. Prerequisite: MGMT 61000 . Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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MGMT 61200 - Financial Management III
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00 (West Lafayette) 3.00 (Calumet, North Central) Further treatment of topics in the financial management of nonfinancial corporations, from the viewpoint of the internal financial officer. Topics include further coverage of cost of capital and financial planning, as well as cash management, working capital management, short-term financing, advanced capital budgeting, and leasing. Emphasis on applications. Continuation of MGMT 61100 with additional depth and topic coverage. Prerequisite: MGMT 61000 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 61400 - Investments
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00. Examination of the process of asset valuation. Emphasis on portfolio analysis, security selection, risk-return relationships, and performance evaluation. Additional topics considered include security analysis, option pricing and analysis, futures contracts, and security market operations. Typically offered Spring Fall.
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MGMT 61500 - International Financial Management
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00 (West Lafayette) 3.00 (Calumet) Integrative course dealing with the management of firms doing business internationally. Emphasis on decision making. Will draw upon, and adapt, managerial decision models developed for domestic operations, as well as cover appropriate international institutional material. Particular focus on finance and strategic management. Prerequisites: ECON 51500 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 61601 - Seminar In Capital Markets I
Credit Hours: 2.00. This is the first in a sequence of four PhD level finance courses that cover theoretical and empirical research in capital markets. Offered in alternate years. Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 61602 - Seminar In Capital Markets II
Credit Hours: 2.00. This is the second in a sequence of four PhD level finance courses that cover theoretical and empirical research in capital markets. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: MGMT 61601 . Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 61701 - Seminar In Capital Markets III
Credit Hours: 2.00. This is the third in a sequence of four PhD level finance courses that cover theoretical empirical research in capital markets. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: MGMT 61602 . Typically offered Spring.
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MGMT 61702 - Seminar In Capital Markets IV
Credit Hours: 2.00. This is the fourth in a sequence of four PhD level finance courses that cover theoretical empirical research in capital markets. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: MGMT 61701 . Typically offered Spring.
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MGMT 61801 - Seminar In Managerial Finance I
Credit Hours: 2.00. This is the first in a sequence of four PhD level finance courses that cover theoretical empirical research in managerial finance. Offered in alternate years. Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 61802 - Seminar In Managerial Finance II
Credit Hours: 2.00. This is the second in a sequence of four PhD level finance courses that cover theoretical empirical research in managerial finance. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: MGMT 61801 . Typically offered Fall.
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MGMT 61900 - Seminar In Managerial Finance II
Credit Hours: 2.00. Continuation of Seminar in Managerial Finance I. Treats the relationships between external capital market phenomena and internal financial decisions. Emphasis on empirical evidence as tests of the theories, including model formulation for testing. Selected topics in capital structure planning and asset valuation. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: MGMT 61800. Typically offered Spring.
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MGMT 61901 - Seminar In Managerial Finance III
Credit Hours: 2.00. This is the third in a sequence of four PhD level finance courses that cover theoretical empirical research in managerial finance. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: MGMT 61802 . Typically offered Spring.
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MGMT 61902 - Seminar In Managerial Finance IV
Credit Hours: 2.00. This is the fourth in a sequence of four PhD level finance courses that cover theoretical and empirical research in managerial finance. Prerequisite: MGMT 61901 . Typically offered Spring.
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MGMT 62000 - Marketing Management
Credit Hours: 2.00. to 4.00 (West Lafayette and Calumet) 3.00 (North Central) An integrated analysis of major marketing decisions, including product pricing, advertising, distribution, and sales force policies. Prerequisite: Master’s student standing and Management majors only. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 62100 - Marketing Management II
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00. Introduces students to the analytical, strategic, and tactical aspects of marketing management. Exposes students to the issues and challenges in the management of the marketing mix, including product policy, pricing, marketing communications, and distribution policy. Prerequisite: MGMT 62000 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 62200 - Marketing Strategy
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00 (West Lafayette) 3.00 or 4.00 (Calumet) 3.00 (North Central) Key aspects of marketing strategy formulation and implementation are covered, including customer needs assessment, targeting, and positioning strategies in a competitive market. A managerial perspective allows development of decision-making skills necessary for successful marketing strategies. Prerequisite: MGMT 62000 , MGMT 62100 . Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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MGMT 62300 - Business Marketing
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00. Marketing of goods and services to businesses and other organizations for use in their production and further marketing of goods and services is studied. Emphasis is placed on management of the field sales force, industrial buying processes, distribution channel development and maintenance, development of new industrial products, pricing and promotion decisions. Prerequisite: MGMT 62000 . Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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MGMT 62500 - Marketing Research
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00 (West Lafayette) 3.00 (Calumet) Application of statistical and other quantitative concepts to marketing management problems. Prerequisite: MGMT 67000 . Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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MGMT 62600 - Seminar In Marketing Models
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00. Treatment of theoretical marketing models. Study of marketing models in research setting. Prerequisite: MGMT 62000 , MGMT 67200 . Typically offered Spring.
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MGMT 63000 - Legal And Social Foundations Of Management
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00 (West Lafayette) 3.00 (Calumet, North Central)
An examination of the nature of the legal environment from the viewpoint of the social and moral bases of law. Emphasis is given to the operation of our legal system and its significance in decision functions of management. Prerequisite: Master’s student standing and Management majors only. Typically offered Spring Summer Fall.
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MGMT 63100 - The Legal And Social Foundations Of Management II
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00. Covers the social and ethical dilemmas of business policy and decision making, often involving legal, social, and ethical considerations encountered by business managers. Prerequisite: MGMT 63000 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 63400 - Business Law For Accountants
Credit Hours: 2.00. This course is designed to help prepare students for their professional careers by familiarizing them with aspects of the law that are directly relevant to the practice of accounting. These topics are not only at work every day in business but are also tested on professional examinations such as the Uniform Certified Public Accounting (CPA) Exam. Specific topics include, but are not limited to, contract law, relevant provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, bankruptcy, and the legal liability of accountants. The course will be taught through a mixture of lectures and class discussions. Students are expected to come to class having completed the assigned readings and ready to participate in class discussions. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 63401 - Communications For Accountants
Credit Hours: 2.00. Accountants spend much of their time designing and writing reports, narratives, memos, etc. and explaining those communications to others. They communicate regularly with external investors and creditors, regulators, clients and fellow professionals. This course is designed to help accounting students prepare for their professional careers by helping them develop their written and oral communication skills. This course begins with an overview of the writing process and then moves to document organization and design and how to write with conciseness and clarity. The last half of the course focuses on specific forms of written communication (e.g., letters, memos, reports, email, and essays on professional exams) and oral presentations. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 63410 - Communications For Accountants
Credit Hours: 2.00. Accountants spend much of their time designing and writing reports, memos, etc. and explaining those communications to others. They communicate regularly with external investors and creditors, regulators, clients and fellow professionals. This course is designed to help accounting students prepare for their professional careers by helping them develop their written and oral communication skills. The course begins with an overview of the writing process and then moves to document organization and design and how to write with conciseness and clarity. The last half of the course focuses on specific forms of written communication (e.g., letters, memos, reports, email, essays on professional exams) and oral presentations. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 63500 - Accounting Information Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Accounting information Systems is a course designed to provide students with a solid background in the information systems that accountants use. Topics include, but are not limited to, input, processing and output devices, data communications and networks, document and system flowcharts, organizing and manipulating data in databases, producing reports and forms, popular accounting software, enterprise-wide information systems, security, privacy and ethics for accounting information, and information technology auditing. The course will advance students’ abilities in the following areas. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 63800 - Pricing Strategies And Tactics
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00. Focuses on pricing fundamentals. Students learn how to develop rational pricing decisions, taking into account the range of determinants of price. Discussion centers on the determination of proper costs, price sensitivity, and competition. With these established, the course then moves to a consideration of the range of pricing strategies and tactics. Prerequisite: MGMT 62000 , MGMT 62100 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 63900 - Advanced Auditing And Professional Practice
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to help students prepare for their professional careers by strengthening their understanding of the CPA’s attest function and familiarizing them with current assurance issues. After finishing the course, students should understand the current state of the Enterprise Risk Management and tools for risk evaluation, be able to identify best practices related to external audit, be prepared to manage an audit group, understand the key aspects of being an audit consultant and be able to work with all levels of internal and external audit professionals. Throughout the course, students will have opportunities to improve their written and oral communication skills, particularly as they relate to communication in the audit setting. The course will also emphasize the impact of recent and current regulatory actions, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, on the audit profession. Prerequisite: MGMT 50600 with a minumum grade of C. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 64100 - Options And Futures
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00. Rigorous and applied coverage of the pricing and hedging of options and futures contracts with applications. Prerequisite: MGMT 61000 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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MGMT 64200 - Portfolio Management II
Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00. Methods of analysis of common stocks and bonds for individual and institutional portfolios. Review of the empirical evidence of security market efficiency, and implications of that evidence for various methods of security analysis. Team projects to analyze the economy, the particular industry or sector, and selected firms within the industry or sector, and to make specific buy-hold-sell recommendations for the stocks and bonds of those firms. Prerequisite: MGMT 61000 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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