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1.00 Credits
This course is designed to teach students how to prepare 1040 federal returns and related schedules, prepare multi-state returns and related schedules, and process taxpayers for various financial services administered by the VITA Clinic. Students will be certified by the IRS and trained as financial advocates. Students will also receive ethics training related to tax preparation, cultural sensitivity training, and learn client-interviewing skills. Graduate students must complete all certifications making them eligible to participate in QR and audit teams and supervise undergraduate students. Included certifications are basic, advanced, HSA, military, foreign student and international. Prerequisite: completion of a minimum of 15 Westminster credit hours. Offered spring semester.
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2.00 Credits
This course will explore the subject of people centered leadership. It will provide you with the necessary tools to become highly effective leaders who can positively coach and influence employees to reach their full potential. The course is designed to provide you not only a strong theoretical understanding of the components of people centered leadership, but also hands-on tools and practices to develop your leadership skills and abilities. We will explore many facets of people leadership including building a highly engaged workforce, creating compelling work purposes, having crucial conversations, and growing and developing your employees. In addition, we will discuss several people leadership topics chosen by the class. This is a highly participatory class that will combine lecture, practical application, class discussions, and team activities to give you an opportunity to build your tool kit of practical skills and knowledge to become a highly effective people centered leader.
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2.00 Credits
This course covers advanced investing with a focus on practical strategies that can be employed by the individual investor in their own personal portfolios. Students will learn in-depth financial market dynamics including how to optimize orders, select stocks based on proven value and growth strategies, evaluate bonds and other fixed-income investments, capitalize on key SEC filings and activism-based investing, understand seasonality and other trading patterns, and take advantage of special situation investing.
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2.00 Credits
Students in this course will be managing the $50,000 D.A. Davidson Student Investment Fund for the academic year (Fall 2005 and Spring 2006). The course will give students experience preparing industry/sector analyses, researching and using various investment styles, making stock selections, monitoring portfolio selections, preparing performance reports and portfolio re-balancing. The class is designed to prepare students for employment opportunities in investment research and management. The course will include materials designed to help students prepare for the Level 1 Exam for the Chartered Financial Analyst professional designation.
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2.00 Credits
Students in this course will be managing the $50,000 D.A. Davidson Student Investment Fund for the academic year (Fall 2005 and Spring 2006). The course will give students experience preparing industry/sector analyses, researching and using various investment styles, making stock selections, monitoring portfolio selections, preparing performance reports and portfolio re-balancing. The class is designed to prepare students for employment opportunities in investment research and management. The course will include materials designed to help students prepare for the Level 1 Exam for the Chartered Financial Analyst professional designation.
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2.00 Credits
An overview of the fixed income markets and instruments within those markets. In this course you will learn about many of these securities, their markets and methods for valuing them and their risks, such as their exposure to changes in interest rates. Participants in this course will be managing a portfolio of fixed income securities. Offered Spring Semester.
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2.00 Credits
As companies look to change their processes, it is efficient and cost effective to use simulation software to evaluate alternatives. By simulating the process changes, you can measure, analyze, improve and control your processes. Simulations allow to explore "what-if" scenarios, to identify and eliminate constraints, and to potentially increase workflows with fewer resources. This course teaches students how to use a simulation software package to create simulations for these purposes. The simulations will build upon case problems solved in MBA 640C: Managing Processes, which is a pre-requisite for the course.
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2.00 Credits
No business practice has changed as much as marketing has in the last 10 years. This change has been brought about by one key factor: the Internet. This course will cover an array of topics related to social media marketing, such as: search engine optimization, social marketing best practices and strategies, Facebook advertising methods, social media policies, etc.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on global business and includes an international context tour. It provides a framework to develop strategies incorporating global influences for the firm seeking to compete globally and the firm facing competitive pressures from abroad. Economic, social, financial, demographic, diverse and multicultural environments are considered. At the end of the course, students will travel to a region outside the US for a 10-day period, analyzing as a whole the aspects of doing business in a global environment as studied in class. Prerequisite: Completion of 20 credit hours in the MBA program.
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1.00 Credits
Independent research/readings in areas not fully covered by core or elective courses. Prerequisites: meet all MBA literacy requirements and consent of instructor and school dean.
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