Courses

Takes a broad comprehensive perspective on managing and operating in a rapidly growing global economy. Explores regional and national approaches to international operations including trade practices; penetration strategies; financial, marketing, services, and manufacturing operations; ethical and sustainability issues; and global competitive strategy. Compares global business practices in Asia, South America, Europe, and Africa. Prerequisites: Restricted to Master of Business Admin (MBAD), MBA with Dual Degree (DMBA), Joint Juris Doctor/MBA (JMBA) or Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Explores the key issues related to the design and management of supply chains. Covers the efficient integration of suppliers, production facilities, warehouses, and stores so that the right products in the right quantity reach customers at the right time. Focuses on the minimization of the total supply chain cost subject to service requirements imposed by a variety of industries. Recommended prereq., MBAC 6080. Same as OPIM 4050. Formerly MBAX 6865. Prerequisites: Restricted to Master of Business Admin (MBAD), MBA with Dual Degree (DMBA), Joint Juris Doctor/MBA (JMBA) or Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Concerned with tax problems encountered in acquisition, operation, and disposition of natural resource properties. Topics include depletion, lease bonuses, intangible drilling costs, depreciation, and financing arrangements. Prereqs., admission to the graduate tax program, ACCT 6700 or equivalent, or instructor consent.

Covers a diverse array of issues in taxation. Highlights areas of current interest and draws on the strengths of leading outside authorities as guest lecturers in various topic areas. Prereq., ACCT 6420 and 6700.

Explores ways to improve organizations to meet demands of changing environments. Emphasizes theoretical framework and models of organization change, barriers to implementing change and ways to overcome them, and the roles of the change agent and/or consultant. Prereq., MBAC 6040. Prerequisites: Restricted to Master of Business Admin (MBAD), MBA with Dual Degree (DMBA), Joint Juris Doctor/MBA (JMBA) or Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Explores and builds skills for conflict management and negotiation problems faced by managers (e.g., dealing with subordinates, peers, superiors, or clients). Content is relevant to all MBA students, especially those interested in management, accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, and marketing. Prereq., MBAC 6040. Prerequisites: Restricted to Master of Business Admin (MBAD), MBA with Dual Degree (DMBA), Joint Juris Doctor/MBA (JMBA) or Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Practice the art and science of successful negotiations. Provides students high interaction with businesses and entrepreneurs. Prerequisites: Restricted to Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Provides an integrative, hands-on exercise in managing change. Develops skills in contracting, collecting, and analyzing data, and writing reports. Teams practice these skills by conducting an organizational diagnosis, consulting project within an organization. Prereq., MBAC 6040. Prerequisites: Restricted to Master of Business Admin (MBAD), MBA with Dual Degree (DMBA), Joint Juris Doctor/MBA (JMBA) or Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Examines a variety of issues common to management of technology, such as technology strategies, methods of technology transfer, selecting technology standards, managing the research and development process, and encouraging and rewarding innovation. Prerequisites: Restricted to Master of Business Admin (MBAD), MBA with Dual Degree (DMBA), Joint Juris Doctor/MBA (JMBA) or Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Examines organizational leadership from the executive perspective, including private and public sector firms, and non-profits. Studies how executives lead change and innovation, interact with the top management team, and deal with the board of directors Topics include governance of the firm, strategies for enhancing executive influence, assessing and understanding diverse leadership styles, and the ethics and responsibilities of an executive. Formerly MBAX 6890. Prerequisites: Restricted to Master of Business Admin (MBAD), MBA with Dual Degree (DMBA), Joint Juris Doctor/MBA (JMBA) or Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Provides an opportunity to examine leadership from the executive perspective in organizations including private and public sector firms and non-profits. Topics covered include how executives lead change and innovation in organizations, interact with the top management team, deal with the board of directors, leadership issues involved with governance of the firm and strategies for enhancing executive influence. Prereqs., MBA core courses. Prerequisites: Restricted to Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Studies methods of analyzing real estate opportunities, local government controls and regulations of the development process. Majority of class material is provided via case studies and guest lecturers. Last portion of the course will be the presentation of student group projects. Prerequisites: Restricted to Master of Business Admin (MBAD), MBA with Dual Degree (DMBA), Joint Juris Doctor/MBA (JMBA) or Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Objectives of the course are to conduct income property investment analysis; to develop the technical competence necessary to structure real estate transactions; and to understand the financial assets securitized by real estate. Students will analyze income properties using Excel spreadsheets and Argus Financial Software. Techniques for structuring real estate transactions examined in this course include lender participations, sale-leasebacks, joint ventures, and real estate syndications. Prereq., MBAX 6600 or equivalent, or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Master of Business Admin (MBAD), MBA with Dual Degree (DMBA), Joint Juris Doctor/MBA (JMBA) or Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Explores contemporary issues, historical developments, and selected topics pertinent to business assurance services by independent accountants. Emphasizes improving both the decision behavior of decision makers and the quality of information, or its context, for decision makers. Prereq., ACCT 5620 or equivalent.

Develops skills in real estate decision making. Teams design, complete, and present a real estate project in a competition forum. Students gain an understanding and working knowledge of real estate, use a piece of real property to determine its highest and best use, create a sales plan, and prepare a real estate financing package. Team members organize and assign responsibilities, interact with real estate professionals, and apply appropriate quantitative and qualitative tools and procedures. Prereqs., MBAX 6600, 6610 and 6640, or equivalent, or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Master of Business Admin (MBAD), MBA with Dual Degree (DMBA), Joint Juris Doctor/MBA (JMBA) or Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Examines real estate market operations and discusses alternative methodologies for estimating real estate values. Examines various theories of land price determination and uses these models to understand how the private market allocates land to competing residential, office, retail, industrial/warehouse, hotel, and other end users. Examines how factors influencing the demand for real estate interact with the supply of real estate to determine market rents and how the flow of future expected income is capitalized to yield the market price of the asset. Prereqs., MBAC 6011 and MBAC 6060. Formerly MBAX 6835. Prerequisites: Restricted to Master of Business Admin (MBAD), MBA with Dual Degree (DMBA), Joint Juris Doctor/MBA (JMBA) or Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Examines the legal issues associated with developing, acquiring, transferring, and leasing real property. Topics include real estate contracts, land use and development agreements, vehicles for owning real estate, real estate covenants, conditions and restrictions, loan transactions, negotiating real estate contracts, commercial leases and real estate taxation. Material for this course will consist of assigned articles and real estate cases. Prereq., MBAX 6600 or equivalent, or instructor consent. Formerly MBAX 6855. Prerequisites: Restricted to Master of Business Admin (MBAD), MBA with Dual Degree (DMBA), Joint Juris Doctor/MBA (JMBA) or Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Emphasizes the fundamentals of the federal income tax system and examines its impact on the individual. Prereq., ACCT 5440 or equivalent. Same as LAWS 6007. Prerequisites: Restricted to Accounting (ACCT), Accounting-Information Systems (ACIS), Accounting - Taxation (ACTX), Master of Business Admin (MBA) or Business Administration (BUAD) graduate students only.

Provides an in-depth study of the concepts underlying contemporary financial accounting practice. Includes preparation and analysis of financial statements and the application of concepts to selected current issues. Prereq., MBAC 6020 or equivalent. Same as ACCT 6220. Prerequisites: Restricted to Master of Business Admin (MBAD), MBA with Dual Degree (DMBA), Joint Juris Doctor/MBA (JMBA) or Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Analyzes federal estate and gift taxation of inter vivos and testamentary transfers, introduces income taxation of estates and trusts, and involves elementary estate planning. Prereq., ACCT 5440 or equivalent. Coreqs., ACCT 6420 and 6700. Same as LAWS 7207. Prerequisites: Restricted to Accounting (ACCT), Accounting-Information Systems (ACIS), Accounting - Taxation (ACTX), Master of Business Admin (MBA) or Business Administration (BUAD) graduate students only.

Focuses on the use of accounting information by decision makers external to the firm. Considers judgments made by security analysts, bank lending officers, and auditors. Emphasizes credit scoring, risk analysis, and equity valuation. Prereq., MBAC 6020 or equivalent. Same as ACCT 6250. Prerequisites: Restricted to Master of Business Admin (MBAD), MBA with Dual Degree (DMBA), Joint Juris Doctor/MBA (JMBA) or Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Discusses problems and solutions for owners of various-sized estates and different types of assets including jointly-held property, stock in closely-held corporations and farms, analysis of federal taxation of generation-skipping transfers in trust, postmortem estate planning, and drafting of trusts and wills. Prereq., ACCT 6710 or equivalent. Same as LAWS 7217.

Explores cost management, especially as related to organizational decision making, planning, and control. Emphasizes case analysis and applications. Prereq., MBAC 6020 or equivalent or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Master of Business Admin (MBAD), MBA with Dual Degree (DMBA), Joint Juris Doctor/MBA (JMBA) or Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Introduces managerial accounting, which includes the concepts, models, and systems that provide this information and control. The course will familiarize participants with the terminology and basic concepts of managerial accounting, touching on topics ranging from development and use of cost information for decision-making to management control systems. Prereq., MBAC 6020. Prerequisites: Restricted to Professional MBA Program (PMBA) majors only.

Covers basic aspects of the United States taxation of income earned abroad by its citizens and the taxation income derived by foreign persons from U.S. sources, including the implications of income tax treaties. Restricted to Accounting, Finance/Accounting, Information Systems/Accounting, Systems/Accounting Concurrent Degree students or Accounting, Accounting/Taxation or Business Administration graduate students only. Same as LAWS 7617. Prerequisites: Restricted to Accounting, Finance/Accounting, Information Systems/Accounting, Systems/Accounting Concurrent Degree students or Accounting, Accounting/Taxation or Business Administration graduate students only.