Concepts and models of financial accounting are introduced. Included are the analysis, interpretation and reporting of financial events.

Stresses fundamental communication principles and techniques for effective business writing in diverse managerial situations. Participants complete a variety of writing activities, including responding to management communication cases and evaluating written communications using holistic and analytic tools. Within this context, participants are provided an opportunity to achieve an understanding of syntactical and grammatical patterns while improving analytical and logical business writing skills.

Note: This requirement will be waived for students who achieve a score of 4.5 or higher on the Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) exam. Graduate Writing Intensive (GWI) course.

Intensive study of important aspects of law for managers, including law as an instrument of social and political control. Analyzes selected problems in areas of private law such as contract, tort, business organizations, and agency. In addition, selected issues of administrative law and government regulation of business will be investigated.

Computer-based course in data analysis. Business case studies are used to differentiate between common and specific sources of statistical variation and to construct statistical models such as multiple regression, times series, and statistical quality control. Emphasis is placed on intuitive statistical thinking and communication of results.

Management accounting data characteristics and application to internal decisions made by managers. Topics cover management accounting as a tool of business management. Topics generally include product costing, managers' use of accounting data in specific decision frameworks, performance evaluation, and relevant versus strategic analysis. Class participation is encouraged.

Financing of corporations and management of corporate resources, short-term and long-term, stressing maximizing shareholder wealth. The case method is used extensively. Both oral and written communication skills are stressed.

Behavior of equity, debt, currency, and derivatives markets and the linkages between these markets. Presents the principles of valuations of instruments traded in these markets and the use of these instruments to investors, speculators, hedgers and arbitrageurs.

Prerequisite: MBA 220 or instructor permission.

Theoretical and empirical applications of fund formation models. Emphasis is placed on model development strategies based on analyzing secondary sources of financial data. The quality of models is assessed in terms of their logical consistency, robustness of underlying theoretical assumptions, and predicative power. Development, analysis and predicative assessment are conducted within the Excel environment.

Prerequisite: MBA 222 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of instructor.

Financing in health care institutions will be studied; including planning and control features involving budgets, funds flow, funding sources, and factors affecting finance in the health care industry. Analyzes will be made of the relationships and effects on health care finance of such factors as labor, business, government, insurance, research, and demography.

Behavioral science theories, concepts, and practices in current use in private and public organizations. Critical evaluation of research supporting those practices.

Synthesis of specialized problems relating to the acquisition, introduction, and utilization of innovations and technological advances by managers in business, industry, government, profit or nonprofit organizations. Current research, thinking methodology dealing with the economics and social impact, sources, barriers, and transfer mechanisms of innovations and technological advances will be investigated.

Marketing policy for channels of distribution, pricing brands, advertising, and sales as interrelated at the executive level. Designed to develop capacity for sound decision making by marketing managers.

Use of information technology (IT) as management resource. Focus is on management decision-making related to telecommunications, data-bases, system development, and decision support systems. Use of technology to reengineer the business organization.

Prerequisite: Classified graduate status.

Cover the knowledge, skills, and principles required to organize, plan, and control projects and outsourcing activities. Topics include a review of project characteristics and risks, development executive objectives, organization structure and interfaces, information management, and control techniques.

Cover the processes, methodologies, infrastructure, framework, and current practices used to transform business data into useful information and knowledge for IT-enabled managerial decision support and performance improvement. Data-orientated techniques for corporate performance management and decision making, as well as methodologies for business process improvement, are emphasized. Foundation knowledge in data storage and retrieval, logical data models for database management systems and data warehouses, and security-related issues are discussed.

Explore multi-dimensions of entrepreneurship including the entrepreneurial initiatives in a corporate context. As a nascent entrepreneur, students are to evaluate new venture opportunities and to understand the entire process of a new venture creation. In corporate settings, students are to understand the innovation and change management of established firms to accomplish their sustainable competitive advantages.

Study the current state of enterprise value chains from an operation management perspective. Discuss contemporary issues regarding supply and operations management of organizations including profit and nonprofit, service and manufacturing organizations. Integrative topics will be selected among issues affecting an organization's value chain at operational, strategic, and economic levels.

Prerequisite: classified or conditionally classified graduate student in the College of Bus Admin

Individual projects or directed reading for students qualified to carry on independent work.

Note: Admission requires approval of faculty member supervising work in addition to the approval of the Associate Dean for Graduate and External Programs. Petitions are obtained from Tahoe Hall 1035.

Prerequisite: Classified graduate status.

Each student conducts an individual project to fulfill the culminating experience graduation requirement of the MBA program as required in Title V of the CA educational Code. The course also covers the competitive strategy of a firm, investigates competitive position, strategic capabilities, inter-firm dynamics, and strategic levers of firms. It integrates the accumulative knowledge, skills and techniques delivered in the program to review the strategy process executives employ for effective decision making.

Note: May be repeated for credit.

Prerequisite: Advanced to candidacy, Fully classified