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3.00 Credits
Intensive introduction to the preparation and interpretation of financial information for investors (external users) and managers (internal users) and to the use of financial instruments to support system and project creation. Adopts a decision-maker perspective on accounting and finance. Restricted to System Design and Management students.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: None
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4.00 Credits
An intensive introduction to the preparation and interpretation of financial information. Adopts a decision-maker perspective of accounting by emphasizing the relation between accounting data and the underlying economic events generating them. Class sessions are a mixture of lecture and case discussion. Assignments include textbook problems, analysis of financial statements, and cases. Restricted to first-year Sloan master's students.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Preparation and analysis of financial statements. Focuses on why financial statements take the form they do, and how they can be used in evaluating corporate performance and solvency and in valuation of corporate securities. Introduces concepts from finance and economics (e.g., cash flow discounting and valuation) and explains their relation to, and use in, accounting. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments. Permission of Sloan Educational Services required for all cross-registrants.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Provides a conceptual framework for thinking about taxation. Topics include the taxation of various investments and types of compensation; retirement planning; considerations of choosing an organizational form when starting a business; the various methods of mergering, acquiring, and divesting business entities; international tax planning rules and strategies; and high wealth planning and the estate tax. Applies current debates on various tax policy options to class discussions. Intended for investment bankers and consultants who need to understand how taxes affect the structure of deals, managers and analysts who need to understand how firms strategically respond to taxes, and entrepreneurs who want to structure their businesses and finances in a tax-advantaged manner.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 15.501, 15.511, 15.515, or 15.516
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3.00 Credits
Introduces participants to the language and methodologies of internal accounting practices. Topics include cost allocations, absorption costing, standard costing, transfer pricing, and performance measurement and evaluation. Major focus is on identifying which information is useful and which is useless and potentially misleading.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 15.501, 15.511, 15.515, or 15.516
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3.00 Credits
Examines how corporations choose securities and markets to finance themselves. These are decisions which the firm must make after it has determined its financial policies including capital structure and dividend policy. Subject discusses recent trends in corporate financing including globalization, secularization, and transformation. Explores new securities and institutional factors, particularly tax and accounting factors that affect their design.
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Prereq: 15.401; 15.402 or 15.414; 15.433 or 15.434
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3.00 Credits
Presents a framework for business analysis and provides students with tools for financial statement analysis, including strategic, accounting, financial, and prospective analysis. Concepts are then applied to a number of decision making contexts, such as credit analysis, company performance assessment, merger analysis, financial policy decisions, and securities analysis.
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Prereq: 15.501, 15.511, 15.515, or 15.516; 15.411, 15.414 or 15.401
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Designed primarily for doctoral students in accounting and related fields. The reading list consists of accounting research papers. Objective is to introduce research topics, methodologies, and developments in accounting, and train students to do independent research.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 15.515
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2.00 Credits
Probably the most dramatic events in a corporation's history involve the decision to acquire another firm or the decision to oppose being acquired. This is also one of the areas of management most thoroughly documented in the financial press and the academic literature. Subject explores three aspects of the merger and acquisition process: the strategic decision to acquire, the valuation decision of how much to pay, and the financing decision on how to fund the acquisition. Class sessions alternate between discussions of academic readings and applied cases.
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Prereq: 15.402, 15.414, or 15.415; 15.511 or 15.515; 15.516
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3.00 Credits
Examines technology concepts and trends underlying current and future uses of information technology (IT) in business. Emphasis on networks and distributed computing, including the web. Other topics include hardware and operating systems, software development tools and processes, relational databases, security and cryptography, enterprise applications, and electronic commerce. Exposure to web, database, and graphical user interface (GUI) tools. Primarily for Sloan master's students with limited IT background.
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Prereq: None
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