GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS ACT 6515 Financial Statement Analysis 3 Credits This course illustrates how accounting information can be used effectively and strategically. It provides a foundational understanding of generally accepted accounting principles with a traditional accounting model. Topics include using accounting information for analysis and decision-making by comparing ratios, short and long-term debt-paying ability, demand analysis and forecasting, capital budgeting, and profitability. ACT 7530 Management Finance and Control 3 Credits This course provides an in-depth look at how organizations manage financial resources through capital generation, asset management, and asset planning. Learners will study complex accounting rules to learn how financial information is created and applied to evaluate a firm’s financial standing. Topics included in this course are budgetary planning and controls, financial and risk analysis, and managerial decision making. Learners will also develop an understanding of the external users of financial information, such as investors, customers, analysts, and the financial media. BUS 7300 Advanced Measurement and Statistics for Business 3 Credits This course delves into the statistical and measurement techniques that are used to analyze, interpret, and present business data. Examples include descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, probability distributions, sampling, analysis of variance, correlation, and linear regression. The emphasis of this course is on selecting the optimal statistical/measurement technique and on properly interpreting the results. BUS 7305 Ethnography of Corporate Culture 3 Credits This course examines how ethnographic methods may be used to analyze information-based work practices and to design business systems to be sensitive to those who use them. Corporate culture is highly distributed, infrastructural, and rapidly changing, with a dramatic impact on organizational action. Corporate cultures should be studied by means of sophisticated ethnographic methods. Grounded this way, the course aims to help learners develop the judgment necessary to design, test, and evaluate business systems of the future. BUS 7805 Doctoral Comprehensive Essay Examination 1 Credit This course provides an opportunity to assess learners’ academic competencies. Preparing for and taking the examination encourages the integration of all facets of a doctoral education. At the end of your coursework and prior to beginning your doctoral project, you must successfully complete a comprehensive essay exam. Successful completion of this exam demonstrates that the Doctor of Business Administration candidate has the knowledge and skills inherent to the degree of Doctor of Business Administration. Learners are given three opportunities to pass the examination satisfactorily to continue in the program.
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