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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Principles of financial accounting that are used to communicate financial information to external parties. The study of financial accounting provides a strong foundation for future courses in business and finance. The student is introduced to accounting concepts, how to record transactions for the three legal forms of business organizations, and how to prepare financial statements. Use is made of tutorial software.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Analysis of cost accounting techniques and applications relative to managerial planning, control, and decision-making. Topics include measurement of unit costs, control of operating costs, incremental decision-making, production cost reports, cost variances, and profit planning. Computer spreadsheets and cases are used to analyze cost accounting data and to simulate managerial accounting decisions. Prerequisites: Business 241.
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4.00 Credits
Fall or Spring. Credits: 4. Introduction to legal concepts in those areas of the law essential to commercial transactions, including creation and performance of contracts for the sale of goods and other property, negotiable instruments, real and personal property, leases, and wills and estates. The course will be taught largely utilizing the case method and problem approach, with an emphasis on how legal concepts are applied to specific factual situations.
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2.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 2. This course provides an opportunity for sophomores and juniors across the curriculum to begin to contemplate how they can apply the skills and knowledge they have acquired in their coursework thus far, and the courses they plan to take in the future, to a real-world organization. Through off-campus shadow experiences and a self-assessment, students explore who they are, what they want, what their life's work should be and whether there are opportunities for positions in work organizations that match their interests and abilities. To qualify for this course, the students must have completed at least one full year of undergraduate coursework. A maximum of four credits may be earned.
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4.00 Credits
Fall or Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. Topics covered in this course include: ethical theory, gender and diversity issues, worker safety, international business ethics, regulation, insider trading, product safety, labor conflict and strikes, and a number of others that are either programmed or raised by students. Students will be called upon to understand and apply philosophical, economic and sociological concepts related to ethical reasoning and argument to business decision-making and conduct. Case material, videos, class discussion, and student presentations will be used to supplement readings.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 1-4. Content of the course varies with instructor. The course may be repeated for credit as long as topics covered are different. Prerequisites: Economics 101-102 and permission of the instructor.
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1.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 1. During a tour lasting three days in early January, students will visit corporate offices in New York City and listen to their executives explain the variety of career paths available in finance, marketing, and strategy. From the company visits and alumni networking events, students will experience first-hand what New York and Wall Street-based careers entail. Topics to be covered during company visits will include investment banking, equity research, hedge funds, trading operations, strategy, and brand management. The program is especially designed for first-year students and sophomores (but also open to juniors), who are uncertain of their career paths, but know that they are interested in business.
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4.00 Credits
Maymester. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: F11. Course is a combination of lectures, case discussion, and site visits. Lectures on international business including strategy, finance, marketing and management within the context of the European Union will form the basis for class discussion of business cases. Following work on business cases, students will visit business sites for discussion of the businesses' strategies and performances with firm officials. The course is offered in Antwerp, Belgium. Cases and site visits will vary from year to year. (Same as International Studies 283.) Prerequisites: Economics 101 and admission to summer study abroad program for Business 283. Business 283 is not open to students who have completed any prerequisites for Business 483.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: F6. Drawing conclusions from limited information is a common characteristic of decision making in economics and business. Although this course is designed to introduce the student to basic concepts of probability and statistics as applied to topics in Economics and Business, emphasis will be placed on the use of statistical inference to reduce the impact of limited information or uncertainty in decision-making. Topics will include descriptive statistical measures, probability, random variables, probability distributions, sampling distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, time series analysis, regression and the use of index numbers. Prerequisites: Economics 101.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. A study of the determinants of national income, its fluctuation and growth. Contemporary fiscal and monetary theories are analyzed in connection with the causes and control of economic growth and fluctuations. Prerequisites: Economics 101-102.
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