MBA in Accounting and Finance

Take an intensive journey and gain a deep sense of virtuous behavior that creates and deploys people-focused organizations for the betterment of society. This course will analyze foundational ethic principles that can ignite organizational growth.

Learn accounting and financial insight to drive business decisions that result in profitable and sustainable growth for an organization. Students will interpret financial reports, evaluate investments and understand the implications of financing strategies.

This course provides a clear and balanced presentation of relevant economic practices, analytics, theories and concepts. The focus of this course will be on the application of modeling and predictive analytics, relevant theories and the tools of analysis in the decision-making sciences to examine how managers make optimal economic choices in the face of constrained resources. The course should be thought of as applied analytical economics, emphasizing those topics of the greatest interest and importance to decision-making managers and economists, including demand, production, cost, pricing, market structure and government regulations.

This course introduces the graduate student to best practices in business administration from the perspective of organizational leaders who give guest lectures for the students. Students get exposed to the culture, business and technical aspects of various industry types, and hone their professional networking skills. Series delivered over two semesters and combines on-campus and online components.

This course takes a practical Coaching approach to exploring the student’s lifelong learning mindset toward professional development while discovering personal and professional strengths that can impact business interactions, behavior, and decisions. No matter where a student is in their learning journey or professional career, this course is designed to invite self-discovery and appreciative inquiry to forefront. Students will assess goals and strategies for upskilling, enhanced performance management, and career advancement.

This course allows students to travel abroad to experience business and cultures other than that available in the United States. Students will be immersed in an environment that will allow improved cultural awareness, communication skills and tactile learning. Special International Student Information: This class is available only to students for opportunities outside the home country of the international student.

This course introduces a method that organizes an operational improvement project into five components: define, measure, analyze, implement and control (DMAIC). Similar to a scientific research project, students will learn the Six Sigma process and how to use measures and statistics to make the right decisions to improve the effectiveness of organizational operations. This is an “application project course” and the project will be the most significant mediator of success and the final grade.

This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the principles of occupational fraud, emphasizing circumstances with which any management team may ultimately be confronted. The course covers fraud in the areas of skimming, cash larceny, check fraud; register schemes, and misappropriation of cash and assets. A brief overview of corruption and interviewing of employees when a fraud is suspected is also included.

This course has a primary focus on using Excel as a basis for analyzing managerial accounting decisions and performing basic analytic procedures and calculations. The course covers managerial accounting topics such as activity-based costing, allocating service department costs, CVP analysis, and variance analysis. Excel functions include formatting and sorting data, simple regression, templates, graphs, what-if analysis, and pivot tables.

This course is the second in a two part series taking a deep dive into financial accounting theory. Topics include financial statement presentation, accounting for transactions and events, and accounting for NFP and governmental entities. Critical thinking and analytic skills will be honed through task-based simulations and case studies.
Prerequisites: (ACCT 540, 540, 5400 or 5400).

This course is a study of the function of finance and the flow of funds within the corporation. This course emphasizes financial analysis, decision-making, planning and controlling, capital acquisition and use, and strategic planning. This is a 3-credit course. It is required that students have had an undergraduate finance class or equivalent prior to attempting this class. This course focuses on three competencies within the MBA program: numeracy, decision-making, and communication. The financial and calculatory elements represent numeracy. This skill is then used to improve the decision-making ability of the financial manager. The decisions are then communicated, in this class, in written format to the end user (board, shareholders, and other stakeholders). It is also expected that financial practitioners will make decisions based upon ethical practices, therefore, ethical and spiritual development is also involved.

This course provides an understanding of the financial services industry with a focus on measuring and managing risks. It is designed for the practical application of measurement and management techniques, thus complex formula-driven techniques will be reviewed in concept.