Applied Business Management Degree Program

Surveys accounting principles with emphasis on theory, concepts, and practice. Explores accumulation, reporting, uses, and limitations of data. Introduces the use of accounting software.

Examines basic accounting principles for partnerships and corporations. Analyzes financial reports and basic cost accounting for non-merchandising firms.

Explores basic aspects of business management including business ethics, leadership, motivation, organization, operations, marketing, and financing in both for-profit and not-for-profit settings. Emphasis will be on practical skills for supervisors and managers.

The components of the marketing structure and of the behavioral science concepts involved in marketing. Emphasis will be on practical skills in identifying markets and opportunities, product development, and advertising.

This course examines major theories in management and leadership and incorporates practical case studies and projects to evaluate how different management styles can help business achieve growth and profitability.

This course examines the ethics in commerce and management. It will include an examination of the conflicting roles of professionals working to further the interests of shareholders in a context of fiduciary duty while being responsible for an organization’s behavior with regard to its stakeholders. In depth discussions will consider market imperfections and possible market failures that result from the above listed dilemma. Students will do case studies that require an interdisciplinary approach, i.e. use of analytical tools outside the usual quantitative tools normally subscribed to in business.

Surveys principles, practices, and procedures used in corporate financial management. Emphasizes basic principles as they relate to short-term financing, time value of money, capital assessment evaluation, and financial planning.

Operations Management (OM) is concerned with the management of resources and activities that produce and deliver goods and services for customers. Efficient and effective operations can provide an organization with major competitive advantages since the ability to respond to customer and market requirements quickly, at a low cost, and with high quality, is vital to attaining profitability and growth through increased market share. As competition becomes fiercer in an increasingly open and global marketplace, a company’s survival and growth become greatly contingent on its ability to run its operations efficiently and to exploit its resources productively. The course focuses on basic concepts, issues, and techniques for efficient and effective operations. Special emphasis is placed on process improvement and chain management. Topics include operations strategy, product and service design, process design and analysis, capacity planning, lean production systems, materials and inventory management, quality management and six sigma, project management, and supply chain management.

Reviews essential concepts of starting and operating small businesses. Covers environmental, management of operations, management of enterprise, problems in starting or growing a business, and financial and administrative control of small business.

Explores law regarding contracts, sales, personal property, and bailments.

Examines the activities in managing humans. Included topics are assessment of human resources needs at present and in the future, and recruitment, training, and development of personnel and related legal issues.

The behavior that occurs in firms is examined. Emphasis is on the complex dynamics that exist in human organizations. Development of organizational learning and organizational intelligence is examined in detail.

The Business Career Research Seminar explores career goals, planning and development and introduces students to research methodologies in the business field. This course is offered as an alternative to the internship course.

The course explores electronic spreadsheet design and implementation principles especially appropriate to business-related applications. Topics include advanced formulas and functions, data operations, charting, pivot tables, goal seeking, what-if analysis, macros, and an introduction to the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language.

This course explores practical applications of data science through the use of modeling and analysis using current analytical tools. Its purpose is to transform data into problem-solving results which communicate information for strategy development. Topics include: advanced business functionality, auditing, and sensitivity analysis using add-ins, introduction to optimization modeling for capital budgeting and financial analysis, creating interactive and dynamic models, and statistical analysis.