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ACC 210: Financial Accounting (3 credits)
The course introduces financial accounting concepts and
principles. It is designed to be a combination of both accounting
and finance that will lay a strong background for further studies in
financial subjects. The course covers the following topics:
Accounting Principles and concepts; Balance Sheets, Accrual vs. Cash
Basis of Income Measurement; Income Statement; Journals and Ledger
Recording; Trial Balance, Accrual and Deferral Adjustments, the
Accounting Cycle, Sales, Cash
and Accounts Receivable; Estimating Uncorrectable Accounts, Valuing
Inventories, Ratio and Trend Analysis, Present and Future Value
Concepts; Liabilities, Statements of Cash Flows, Stockholders’
Equity, Dividends and Treasury Stock.
ACC 211: Hospitality Industry Financial Accounting
(3 credits)
The course covers: the fundamentals of financial
accounting; the responsibilities of a hospitality property’s
accounting department; advantage and drawbacks of various types of
income statements; the role of inventory in calculating profit; and
computerized accounting and property management systems.
ACC 220: Accounting for Financial Decisions
(3
credits)
The purpose of this course is to introduce the
«basic concepts» of accounting and finance. Course covers
the following topics: basic accounting concepts, revenue and
monetary systems, cost of sales and inventory, non-monetary assets,
sources of capital, strategic investment decisions.
ACC 310: Managerial Accounting (3 credits)
The course covers approaches to providing, accounting and
processing information for effective management of profit and
nonprofit organization.
ACC 311: Hospitality Industry Managerial Accounting (3
credits) Prerequisite: ACC 211
The course covers: the managerial accounting information
and tax information; problems and samples of actual statements and
forms from hospitality organizations; effective business choices
based on the data that affect daily operations; and budgets and cash
flow control.
ACC 350: Accounting Information Systems (3 credits)
This course introduces the foundations of accounting
information systems, provides knowledge and skills required by
accountants as users, managers, designers, and evaluators of
information systems. The topics covered include choosing,
extracting, and analyzing relevant information to solve business
problems, documenting and modeling business processes, developing
information systems, and designing and evaluating internal controls
in information systems, analyzing and resolving contemporary issues
in accounting information systems.
ACC 410: Statutory Accounting
(3 credits)
The course covers: the study of statutory accounts and
reporting requirements; domestic auditing standards, and domestic
oil and gas accounting requirements.
ACC 420: Financial Reporting I
(3 credits)
Prerequisite: ACC 210, FIN 310
The course covers: Analysis of the International Financial
Reporting Standards, focusing on revenue and expense recognition and
the measurement of assets and liabilities; Concepts and theories
underlying financial statements are emphasized; Introduction to
international reporting Standards; Balance Sheet; Income Statement,
Statement of Changes in Equity; Cash Flow Statement; Cash and
Receivables; Inventory; Revenue and Expense Recognition; Property,
Plant and Equipment; Intangible Assets.
ACC 425: Financial Reporting II (3 credits)
Further study of International Financial Reporting
Standards, focusing on measurement and reporting issues such as
long-term investments and liabilities, leases, accounting for income
taxes, post-retirement benefits and stockholders’ equity; Interests
in Financial Instruments, Associates, Joint Ventures and Investment
Property; Business Combination and Consolidated Financial
Statements; Long-term debt; Leases; Income Taxes; Employee Benefits;
Stockholders’ Equity; Earnings Per Share; Interim Financial
Reporting;. Accounting Changes and Correction of Errors; Related
Party Disclosures.
ACC 430: International Accounting
(3 credits)
Securities regulation and trading; various national
accounting standards; the harmonization of accounting standards
internationally; accounting for the translation of transactions and
foreign subsidiary financial statements.
ACC 440: Cost Accounting (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ACC210, FIN 310
Students study cost accounting, accounts and investments;
inventory accounts; manufacturing accounts; material use variance
account.
ACC 450: Auditing (3 credits)
The course develops student’s knowledge of auditing
services. Topics include the role of auditing services in society,
audit programs planning, design and implementation.
ACC 480: Strategic Cost Management
(3 credits)
The course investigates the accounting manager’s role in
developing strategy, planning, measuring results, and working with
other managers to define the organization’s future. The core topics
embrace strategic issues in capital budgeting and cost analysis,
strategic management of control systems, and activity-based
management.
ACC 490: Taxation (3 credits)
This course introduces students to the tax concepts
applicable to sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations,
estates, and trusts. Emphasis is placed on differences between tax
and financial accounting concepts. In addition, students are exposed
to accounting periods and methods, deferred compensation, tax
planning, ethical practices, and tax research.
ACC 800: Accounting for Financial Decisions
(3
credits)
This course is designed for the graduate students majoring
in Information Technology. The course will focus on the financial
decision makers. The purpose of this course is to introduce the
«basic concepts» of accounting and finance. With the knowledge in
accounting and the basic elements of finance, one can understand how
specific techniques and decision rules can be used. Course covers
the following topics: basic accounting concepts, revenue and
monetary systems, cost of sales and inventory, non-monetary assets,
sources of capital, strategic investment decisions.
ACC 801: Financial Accounting
(3 credits)
The course is designed for the graduate students majoring
in Economics and Business Administration as a required course. This
course will focus on the user of accounting information. The purpose
of this course is to introduce the «basic concepts» of accounting.
With the knowledge in accounting, one can understand how specific
techniques and decision rules can be used from accounting records.
Course covers the following topics: analyzing transactions; the
matching concept and adjusting process; completing the accounting
cycle; accounting for different types of businesses; accounting
systems, internal controls and cash; receivables; inventories; fixed
assets and intangible assets; current liabilities; corporations:
organization, capital stock transactions and dividends;
corporations: income and taxes, stockholders’ equity and investments
in stocks; bonds payable and investments into bonds; statement of
cash flows; financial statement analysis
ACC 810: Auditing (3 credits)
The course provides knowledge important for the students
majoring in Accounting and Finance. It includes planning audit,
designing audit programs with internal control, audit evidence,
audit work papers, cash and marketable securities, accounts
receivable, inventories, property, plant and equipment, accounts
payable and other liabilities, debt and equity capital, losses
auditor’s reports. Casework is practiced.
ACC 820: Strategic Cost Management (3 credits)
This course focuses on the strategic issues in capital
budgeting and cost analysis, strategic management control systems
and the accounting manager’s role in developing organization’s
strategy, planning, measuring results.
ACC 840: Managerial Accounting
(3 credits)
Use of accounting information for internal planning and
control purposes; Role of management Accounting in decisions
concerning resource allocation and performance evaluation of
business units using data obtained from the accounting system.
ACC 850: Cost Accounting
(3 credits) Use of cost information for operational and strategic control; application of statistical tools and decision models to accounting data for the purpose of facilitating managerial control; identifying cost behavior with respect to managerial decision; measuring and controlling the consumption of resources by a firms products; analyzing product cost systems in diverse production and non-manufacturing settings.
ACC 860: Accounting Information Systems
(3 credits)
This course introduces the foundations of accounting
information systems, provides knowledge and skills required by
accountants as users, managers, designers, and evaluators of
information systems. The topics covered include choosing,
extracting, and analyzing relevant information to solve business
problems, documenting and modeling business processes, developing
information systems, and designing and evaluating internal controls
in information systems, analyzing and resolving contemporary issues
in accounting information systems. This course focuses on the
knowledge and skills required providing assurance for information
systems for the purpose of managing business risk.
ACC 870: International Accounting Practices
(3
credits)
This course is designed to study and resolve accounting
problems involved in international operations. It encompasses the
comparative study of different national accounting systems, the
problems caused by the existing differences in practices for
international operations, the organizations, which have emerged to
reconcile differences and to handle international accounting
problems.
ACC 880: Advanced Accounting Topics
(3 credits)
This course is specialized in accounting topics including
accounting and reporting for business combinations, international
accounting and foreign currency issues, partnership accounting and
other topics.
BSA 101: Introduction to Business
(3 credits)
Prerequisite: None
A basic background for the various fields of business; A
general survey of the entire field of economics, business and
management in the free enterprise system; Concepts of business and
management functions, organizational considerations, and
decision-making processes. Explores areas of specialization in the
business world; Exposure to business in small-medium-large
organizations.
BSA 210: Computer Applications in Business
(3 credits)
The course covers a practical course on how to use the
computer, especially the personal computer as a business
problem-solving tool. Topics include computer hardware and software,
operating systems, and up- to date software technology including
word processing electronic spreadsheets, database management, and
business graphics, telecommunication.
BSA 215: Statistical Methods for Economics and
Business (3 credits) Prerequisite: MATH 101
The course builds a foundation on statistics and develops
applications of the statistical tools to economic analysis. It
includes: descriptive statistics, probabilities, estimation, and
regression analysis. Cases and statistical package are supporting
the course content.
BSA 250: Business Statistics
(4 credits)
The course builds a foundation on statistics and develops
applications to business decision making. It includes: descriptive
statistics, probabilities, estimation, and regression analysis.
Course also provides with a set of skills for achieving and
maintaining statistical process control methods, problem-solving
tools. Cases and micro- computer statistical package support the
course content.
BSA 435: Taxation Policy
(3 credits)
Prerequisite: LAW 305
The study of fundamental income tax problems in business,
investments and personal decisions; tax problems arising for
business, corporations; Shareholder's tax problems; current trends
in law and taxation policy; comparative analyses of different
countries.
BSA 690: Information Technology for Decisions (3
credits)
Prerequisite: BSA 210
The course has the main goal to provide students with
applied knowledge on use of information technology and systems in
modern society, to learn how to make use of most efficient programs
in text processing, data management, spreadsheets and
communications. Information nets, methods of information services in
foreign trade, production management, banking system (SWIFT),
international tourism, and others will be examined.
BSA 880: Business Research Methods (3 credits)
The course covers the main research tools applicable in
applied and theoretical business research. Research problem
formulation, research proposal, research design, different types of
study, data collection and information sources, measurement,
quantitative and qualitative data processing, hypothesis testing,
data analysis, presentation and reporting, ethics in business
research are the main subject-matters of the course.
ECON 101: Introduction to Economics (3 credits)
It is an introductory course on the market economy,
economic way of thinking. Students should gain knowledge about such
market instruments as: demand and supply-aggregation, equilibrium,
scarcity, surplus and choices; aggregate demand and supply,
government expenditures and income, consumption’s and savings,
investments, ways to achieve macroeconomics equilibrium; monetary
and fiscal policy in solving problems with inflation, unemployment,
investments.
ECON 201: Principles of Microeconomics
(4 credits)
The course treats with the laws of demand, supply, returns
and costs; these basic tools are used to show how prices and outputs
are determined in different market situations; perfect (pure)
competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition and oligopoly.
ECON 202: Principles of Macroeconomics
(3 credits)
The course provides an understanding of the analytic
methods of macroeconomics. Students should examine models explaining
fluctuations in national income, unemployment, price levels, GNP,
monetary issues, limitations and applications of these models.
ECON 211: Economics of Tourism (3 credits)
The course application of the economic principles to the
tourism and hospitality industry, supply and demand and
determination of prices, the impact of the general state of the
economy, GDP, growth and fluctuations of the development on the
tourism industry.
ECON 270: Economy of Azerbaijan
(3 credits)
Course provides historical review of the Azerbaijan
economy, examines structure (industrial, organizational) of economy,
features of development of each sector in different periods, modern
problems of Azerbaijan economy, transition to the market,
privatization, directions of economic reforms.
ECON 360: International Economic Relations of
Azerbaijan (3 credits) Prerequisite: ECON 101or BSA 101
The course covers Historical analyses of International
Economic Relations of Azerbaijan; trade traditions, participation in
financial, industrial and other international organizations;
comparative analyses of international relations for different
branches of industry and with different countries.
ECON 380: History of Economic Thought (3 credits)
The course covers a historical presentation of the economic
doctrines of the physiocratic, classical, neoclassical, historical,
Keynesian, and other schools of thought.
ECON 390: World Economy
(3 credits)
The course gives to students the main directions in the
structure of world economy; world population, industry, agriculture,
global problems of the world development such as environment
protection, utilizing of the oceans and the space, international
cooperation; World economy as a system consisting of various
national subsystems, the modeling methods of the world economy
development.
ECON 410: Intermediate Microeconomics
(3 credits)
This course develops models of the behavior of individual
economic units, including consumers, workers, investors, and
business firms, and explains how and why these units make economic
decisions. Economic behavior in various types of market environments
is analyzed. The implications of this behavior for the allocation of
resources and for public policy are discussed.
ECON 415: Intermediate Macroeconomics (3 credits)
This course applies the tools of aggregate economic
analysis to the problems of the performance of the economy. The
course links the theories and data to understand the causes of
macroeconomic fluctuations in production, employment, inflation and
international economic relations; particular emphasis is placed on
macroeconomic policy issues.
ECON 425: Environmental Economics and Policy
(3
credits)
This course is designed to introduce the student to a broad
range of contemporary environmental problems and the design of
appropriate policy responses. The role of economic development and
the political and social forces deter-mining environmental quality
is explored. The effectiveness of different environmental policies
and regulations are analyzed.
ECON 430: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
(3 credits) Prerequisite: ECON 201, ECON 202
The purpose of this course is to introduce the analysis of
innovation and entrepreneurship. The course will emphasize the shift
in economic activity away from the traditional inputs of natural
resources, unskilled labor, and capital, to a knowledge-based
high-tech economy. Innovation is examined at the macroeconomic,
microeconomic and spatial level. The course also examines the
relationships between government policies, innovation and
entrepreneurship.
ECON 435: Experimental and Applied Economics
(3
credits) Prerequisite: ECON 201
This experimental study of economics builds upon the
scientific method and the testing of economic theories via computer
simulation experiments. Students will gain an understanding of the
extent to which basic economic theories predict actual human
behavior.
ECON 440: Public Finance
(3 credits)
Prerequisite: ECON 202
The course examines the role of state and local governments
in economy, the links between economic analysis and current
political issues. Two sides of government budget will be considered:
taxation and public expenditures. Optimal Tax Theory will be used as
a basic to understand income distribution and evaluation of taxation
efficiency. Students will also consider principle programs for
public expenditures: public education, health, welfare programs, and
social security.
ECON 450: Econometrics
(3 credits)
Course covers the nature of econometrics, economic models
(a simple model, a model for a game of chance), sample statistics;
the least squares principle, the correlation coefficient, confidence
integrals normal distribution, hypothesis testing; models of
experiment, one-way analysis, two-way analysis; the foundation of
correlation and regression theory; the linear model, solution of the
normal equations, nonlinear relationships; the problem of the time
series analysis, elementary methods for the time series description.
ECON 452: Mathematical Economics (3 credits)
This course provides an introduction to mathematical
techniques that are used in economic analysis. Topics covered
include differential and integral calculus and matrix algebra.
Emphasis is placed on the applications of mathematics to topics in
economic theory.
ECON 454: International Economic Organizations (3
credits) Prerequisite: ECON 101 or BSA 101
Among a lot of international organizations there are some
with special activity and importance for human community, e.g.
economic organizations. Some of them, such as International Monetary
Fund, United Nations, GATT, World Bank, etc. are studied from the
point of view of their structure, main goals and rules. Analyzing
activity of those organizations as a means of promoting
international relations is the main approach of the course.
ECON 455: Economic Analysis
(3 credits) Prerequisite: ECON 201 and ECON 202
The course provides background knowledge in macro- and
microeconomic analysis. Main topics are demand and supply estimation
and analysis, production cost and profit analysis, market structures
and decisions, project evaluation and analysis, economic growth,
development and forecasting, collection analysis and presentation of
economic data.
ECON 460: Managerial Economics
(3 credits)
It is an introductory course in application of
microeconomic principles to business decision-making; Quantitative
methods are applied to managerial decisions about pricing,
production volume; profit maximization, capital budgeting, risk
taking.
ECON 470: Development Economics
(3 credits) Prerequisite: ECON 202
The course is about economic growth of the countries,
structural changes, institutional development, economic policy and
growth.
ECON 480: International Economics/Trade and Finance
(3
credits) Prerequisite: ECON 202
The course covers structure of the world economy; World
economy as a system of various national economies; Globalization and
world economic development; International financial system; Global
capital markets; International trade; Growth and trade; Global
institutions and world trade.
ECON 485: Introduction to Insurance (3 credits) The course main approach to insurance as a risk reducing institution defines its contents. The necessity of insurance in different fields of economic and social life is analyzed. Different types of insurance contracts, their features, auto insurance, health insurance, fire insurance, unemployment insurance, and retirement are studied. Risk management is emphasized.
ECON 520: Economic Models
(3 credits)
Course includes such modern economic theories and models as
theory of growth, neoclassic model and production function, Caldor’s
theory of distribution, theory of demand and supply, dynamic model
of market number’s behavior, Neumann - Gale model, and transition to
new technology, model of mixed economy and equilibrium, analysis of
comparative statistics, price regulation and time value, models.
ECON 600: Petroleum Economics
(3 credits)
This course is a practical petroleum economics course,
which introduces students to the methods and practices the
international oil industry uses to examine the economic viability of
upstream oil and gas projects. The course covers Cash Flow Analysis,
Economic Indicators, Depreciation and Depletion Models, Economic
Analysis Tools, Sensitivity Analysis and Expected-Value Decisions,
Risk and Economic Decision Analysis.
ECON 610: Engineering Economics (3 credits)
This course is a practical engineering economics course,
which introduces students the basic principles of economic analysis
for application in the decision-making process. The course covers
Cash Flow Analysis, Economic Indicators, Depreciation and Depletion
Models, Economic Analysis Tools, Sensitivity Analysis and
Expected-Value Decisions, Risk and Economic Decision Analysis.
ECON 805: Advanced Mathematics for Economists
(3
credits) Prerequisite: MATH 225
This course covers the elements of mathematical analysis,
optimization techniques, and linear and nonlinear programming, with
applications to economics.
ECON 810: History of Economic Thought
(3 credits)
This course deals with the development of the political
economy from its origin through the twentieth century. The
continuity of intellectual and economic thought and their
relationship to changing social and political settings are stressed.
A particular emphasis is placed on the Classical and neo-Classical
theories and their critics.
ECON 820: Information Technology and Business
(3
credit)
This course focuses on organization of computing resources,
control and management of computer processing, and the future of
computer-based information processing and application in business.
ECON 825: Economics of the Public Sector
(3 credits)
This course provides an analysis of the role of government
in the economy; Survey of the problems of monopoly, government
regulation, externalities, public goods, and income redistribution;
Emphasis on measuring the output and costs of government services.
ECON 830: Managerial Economics
(3 credits)
This course focuses on an application of microeconomic
principles to business decision-making. Economic theory and
quantitative methods are applied to managerial decisions about
pricing, production, profit maximization, capital budgeting, risk
taking, and governmental restraints.
ECON 835: Theory of the Firm and Business Strategy
(3 credits) Prerequisite: ECON 830
The course examines an application of microeconomic theory
and industrial organization to topics for internal firm organization
and strategic business decision-making. Topics include transactions
cost analysis and empirical implications, multi-product cost
concepts, vertical integration, product differentiation and product
quality, durable good pricing, innovation and patents, spatial
competition, delivered pricing, prices discrimination, product
building, network economies and information implications.
ECON 840: Economic Development (3 credits) Prerequisite: ECON 830
This course focuses on the economic growth of the
countries. Course covers such topics as the theories of
international trade and finance, monetary-macroeconomics, Industrial
organization and the new theory of the firm. It proceeds to the
analysis of structural change, institutional development, economic
policy and growth. The course covers a variety of advanced topics in
econometrics. Standard theory is reviewed and extended. Subjects
include maximum likelihood, limited dependent variables, method of
moments estimation and simultaneous systems estimation.
ECON 845: Human Resources and Labor Markets
(3
credits)
The course examines the operation of labor markets, the
determination of labor supply, labor demand, and wages, and the
impact that market forces and institutions have on the practice of
human resources management and employment relations.
ECON 850: The Economics of Innovation and
Entrepreneurship
This course is designed to present the economic analysis of
innovation and entrepreneurship. The first part of the course
focuses on innovation. The second part of the course focuses on the
particular aspect of innovative activity – entrepreneurship and the
role of new and small firms. Theories about the Entrepreneurship are
introduced. The emergence of the new industries and the performance
of the entrepreneurial firms are examined.
ECON 855: Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecasting (3
credits) Prerequisite: ECON 202
The course covers the theory of aggregate demand and
supply, sector demand functions (Consumption, investment, and
money), disequilibrium models, economic growth, inflation,
unemployment and expectations, stabilization, and control, economic
development analysis and forecasting.
ECON 860: Advanced Econometrics
(3 credits)
This course provides a study of linear econometric methods.
Subjects cover the classical linear regression model, generalized
least squares and an introduction to a symptomatic distribution
theory. Topics such as maximum likelihood testing, specification
testing, violations of the classical assumption and dichotomous
choice models will be examined. This course covers a variety of
advanced topics in econometrics. Standard theory is reviewed and exe
tended. Subjects include maximum likelihood, limited dependent
variables, method of moments estimation, and simultaneous systems
estimation.
ECON 880: International Trade (3 credits)
This course develops an understanding of the economic basis
for trade. It also examines trade policies nations adopt, common
markets, international resources flows and the multinational
corporation.
EMGT
420: Environmental Management
(3 credits)
The course provides an overview of environmental management systems and
how environmental management systems can support environmental
improvements at facilities that are subject to environmental
regulations. The course focuses on pollution prevention techniques,
processes, and technologies, as well as, environmental management
systems. Topics also include industrial ecology, waste minimization,
chemical and material substitution, and alternative technologies.
EMGT
425: Environmental Economics
(3 credits)
The course is designed to introduce the student a broad range of
contemporary environmental problems. The role of economic
development and social forces deter-mining environmental quality is
explored. The effectiveness of different environmental policies and
regulations are analyzed.
EMGT 810: Energy Economics
This course explores the role of energy in the economy, key
aspects of energy supply and demand, energy markets, and public
policies affecting energy markets. It analyses key players in the
energy economics and their role rational formulation of energy
policies and formation of energy markets. It discusses various
aspects of the impact of oil, natural gas, electricity, and nuclear
power sectors in energy economics and examines such important issues
as energy taxation, price regulation, deregulation, energy
efficiency, etc.
EMGT 815: Energy Geopolitics and Global Energy Security
The course mainly concentrates on the global geopolitical
issues and strategies concerning energy security. Main economic and
political actors involved in the energy games, vulnerabilities of
different countries and regions of the world in terms of energy
security, and strategies applied to overcome these problems are
studied thoroughly. Continuously changing agenda of global energy
security is studied from up-to-date sources, and new challenges and
opportunities are analyzed on a comparative basis.
EMGT 820: Environmental Management
This course provides an overview of environmental
management systems and how environmental management systems can
support environmental improvements at facilities that are subject to
environmental regulations. The course focuses on pollution
prevention techniques, processes, and technologies, as well as,
environmental management systems. Topics also include industrial
ecology, waste minimization, chemical and material substitution, and
alternative technologies.
EMGT 825: Energy Resources Management
This course examines present and potential future energy
trends. Energy usage and its impact on the environment are
emphasized, as well as economic, technical, and political issues
related with the management of energy resources are covered. The
topics also include practical aspects of hazardous material and
waste management in industry and other components of society, and
resource recovery of hazardous waste streams.
EMGT 830: Energy Technology and Environment
This course identifies basic energy system components, and
investigates energy generation, transmission and distribution
systems. It explores the fundamentals of energy consumption through
analysis of energy use and its cost. The course will strike a
balance between global energy flows and the details of energy use
individuals. Other topics include the technology and infrastructure
involved in energy use, the economics of energy use, and government
policy regarding energy. Emphasis is placed on problem-solving and
identifying ways to improve energy-efficiency through energy
management at all levels. The course also explores advanced energy
generation technologies such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass,
and fuel cells. Students learn how to assess the environmental,
social, and economic impacts of various energy technology choices.
EMGT 835: Caspian Energy Resources and Socioeconomic Development of
Caspian Countries
The main focus of this course is the study of Caspian
energy resources and their impact in the socioeconomic development
of Caspian countries. The course mainly analyzes the role and weight
of each energy-rich Caspian country in the world total production,
their future perspectives, as well as socioeconomic development
strategies put forward by each country. It also mentions development
strategies of other energy rich-countries of the world in a
comparative framework and draws lessons from their experiences for
the Caspian countries.
EMGT
840: Caspian Energy Geopolitics and Global Energy Security
This course explores Energy Geopolitics; Global Energy Security;
Caspian Oil and Gas; Transportation of Caspian Oil and Gas; Foreign
investment; Transnational corporations; Oil and gas sector; Oil
strategy; Oil Fund; EITI Initiative; BTC, SCP, Nabucco.
EMGT 860: Energy Project and Supply Chain Management
This course develops analytical and behavioral skills for
effective energy project management. Students will learn how to
create a project team and a work breakdown structure, estimate task
times and costs, and allocate resources in an efficient way. A
variety of energy project management cases will be studied. The
course also cover topics on supply chain management activities, such
as the production plan, master production schedules, materials
requirement planning, and capacity planning. Warehouse planning and
management, energy resources distribution and transportation,
packaging and third party logistics are some of the issues discussed
in this course.
FIN 310: Fundamentals of Financial Management (4
credits) Prerequisite: ACC 210
Introduction to Financial Management, financial statements,
clash flow, taxis, financial environment, fundamentals concepts,
risk and return, time value of money, securities and their
valuations, investment and financial decision, cost of capital,
capital budgeting, capital management.
FIN 320: Corporate Finance
(3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 310
This is an introductory course in the financial management
of non-financial corporations and the role of interest rates and
capital markets in the economy. Topics include the structure and
analysis of financial statements, time value of money calculations
(using financial calculators), stock and bond valuation of
income-producing physical assets, determination of the cost of
capital and the profitability of proposed investments in fixed
assets, risk-return tradeoffs that must be considered in using
financial leverage, and methods used in obtaining funds from the
various capital markets.
FIN 350: Money and Banking
(3 credits) Prerequisite: ECON 202
The course examines the structure of the National Bank, its
behavior, form, functions, instruments, goals; Deposit creation,
money demand and supply; Determination of interest rate;
Understanding of financial instruments; Financial institutions:
banking firm, depository and non-depository institutions; Money
Market; The structure of rates of return; The Peculiarities of
Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Institutions of Azerbaijan
Republic.
FIN 405: Commercial Loan Analysis (3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 310 or FIN 320
Students examine financial statements and business
characteristics to learn the information content of financial
statements. Applications focus on how they can be used to identify
the pattern of funds need for a business and the best financing
vehicle to meet that need. The primary tools of analysis are
financial statement construction, cash flow statements, financial
ratios, common-sized statements, cash budgets, proforma statements,
sustainable growth, rates, and cost – volume- profit analysis. The
course develops an ability to evaluate the needs of a variety of
companies that differ with respect to type, industry, profitability,
growth, seasonality, cyclicality, and degree of distress.
FIN 410: Financial Management – A
(3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 310
Valuation models, capital budgeting, cost of capital,
capital structure, portfolio theory, capital asset pricing models,
innovations in treasury management, and financial planning.
FIN 420: Investment Management (3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 310
This course explores the practical aspects of investment
valuation and portfolio management in a global framework. The focus
is on market microstructure, bond- and equity-portfolio management
and overall asset allocation.
FIN 425: Commercial and Investment Banking (3 credits)
Course will examine in some details the
principal businesses banks are involved in and see how different
banks are pursuing different models.
In particular, bank management, financial statements, the
asset-liabilities structure, revenue earning features, and risk
management of banks will be examined. In addition, their cost and
return features, together with recent developments in the industry
will be outlined. We will focus on a number of overarching themes,
such as the interplay of regulatory changes, globalization,
technological advances and financial innovation and the emergence of
new markets.
FIN 430: Investments
(3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 310
The course combines practical application and theory.
During the class sessions concept checks, numerical examples and
boxed applications from the popular business press will be
introduced. The course covers all of the important investment
topics, provides understanding of the value of diversifying
portfolios, principles of portfolio building, ways of efficient
diversification. Efficient market hypotheses are also analyzed.
Students analyze financial statements, study technical analysis and
use these and other methods for security analysis.
FIN 435: Risk Management (3 credits)
This course aims to introduce students
to the rationale, principles, process and main tools of risk
management. Enclosed topics include the concept of risk, risk
theory, risk measurement, corporate risks and the rationales of
corporate risk management, risk management organization and process,
and some key tools of risk management.
FIN 440: Financial Markets (3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 310
This course provides an understanding of the mechanisms of
various financial markets, and institutions such as banks, stock
exchanges and brokers. The course develops a critical awareness of
the theoretical and practical problems associated with regulating
financial markets, investigates how the market structures
potentially cause and mitigate financial risk to market participants
and end users.
FIN 445: International Credit Relations and Currency
System (3 credits) Prerequisite: ECON 202, FIN 310
It studies of the international exchange market; balance of
payment as a basic for credit relations; international monetary
system; internal and external balance.
FIN 450: Multinational Financial Management (3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 310
The course examines a study of the financial issues facing
a firm operating in a multinational environment. Topics include:
balance of payments concepts, foreign exchange and international
capital markets, exchange rate theories, currency risk exposures and
hedging of exchange rate risks and international capital budgeting.
The course provides students with a conceptual framework for
financial decision-making in international corporations, an
understanding of the principles of foreign investment and the
management of foreign exchange risk, the management of the
international treasury function, the principles of multinational
working capital management and the techniques available for such
management. It considers the problems of the multinational company
as regards to investment appraisal and political risk.
FIN 460: Bank Management
(3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 310, FIN 350
This course examines the major financial management issues
confronting depository financial service firms (commercial banks and
bank holding companies, savings organizations, credits unions.)
Specific topics include the economics of intermediation, forces
affecting change, legal/regulatory influences, profitability
analysis, management of various risk areas such as interest rate
risk, liquidity risk, and capital management.
FIN 470: International Finance
(3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 310, ECON 202
The course examines foreign exchange market, the balance of
payments, exchange-rate systems with particular emphasis on the
current international monetary system, the international
macroeconomic model, and policies for internal and external balance.
FIN 480: International Investments
(3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 310, IB 410
The course offers a clear understanding of the investment
theory's application for international diversification. Students
examine international capital markets, international securities
markets and investment perspectives, portfolio tactics for foreign
investments. As a theoretical basis, Modern Portfolio Theory and its
development are also examined.
FIN 490: Multinational Bank Management
(3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 310, FIN 350
This course deals with international dimensions of domestic
commercial bank management as well as the global perspective of
multinational as well as the global perspective of multinational
banks. Funds procurement including offshore borrowing, foreign
lending and syndicated loans, financial product design, and
investment banking are analyzed in a global setting. The role of
government regulations and prominence of offshore financial markets
are highlighted for planning and decision-making purposes.
FIN 830: Financial Management
(3 credits) Prerequisite: ACC 800 or ACC 801
Analysis of corporate finance topics including risk, value,
capital budgeting, cost of funds, capital structure, option
valuation, mergers and acquisitions.
FIN 835: Bank Management
(3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 830
Major components of banking: management policy and strategy
formulation, experience and strategy of different types of
institutions in banking industry. Main components of bank capital
structure, personnel policy, liquidity management, marketing of bank
services will be studied on case analysis; will be offered topics of
bank management in multinational environment.
FIN 840: Financial Management and Policy
(3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 830
Financial planning and control for the financial and the
non-financial executive, including decisions of investment, growth
and expansion strategies, dividend policy and capital structure;
Analysis of principles leading to decisions in management of current
assets, fixed assets, debt, equity and capital. Emphasis is on
decision making based on quantitative analysis.
FIN 842: Risk Management (3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 830 This course aims to introduce students to the rationale, principles, process and main tools of risk management. Enclosed topics include the concept of risk, risk theory, risk measurement, corporate risks and the rationales of corporate risk management, risk management organization and process, and some key tools of risk management. A large number of the course content reflects the newest developments & industry practices in the discipline of risk management. Ethical part of risk management is also emphasized.
FIN 845: International Finance
(3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 830
The course examines the meaning of national income
accounting, the balance of payments exchange rates, and the foreign
markets functioning; influence of the monetary policy on the
exchange rates. The other concerns are: price levels and the
exchange rate in the long run, output and the exchange rate in the
short run; international monetary system; macroeconomics policy
under flexible exchange rates; global capital markets; investments
in equities; hedging of exchange rate risk by future contracts.
FIN 850: Financial Markets and Institutions (3
credits)
Differences between banks, other financial intermediaries,
and securities markets as sources of corporate financing; unique
aspects of banks as financial intermediaries; bank contracts, their
pricing and management with respect to interest rates, inflation and
credits risk; measures of interest rate risk and hedging techniques;
securing of bank assets; reasons for the rapidly growing importance
of non-bank sources of funds for corporations, and implications for
the future of the banking industry.
FIN 851: Investment Management (3 credits) Prerequisite: FIN 830
Valuation of companies and major types of securities,
including cash flow analysis, forecasting, ratio analysis, cost of
capital, discounted cash flow techniques, and the effect of capital
structure and investment policies, including merger and acquisition
strategies.
FIN 855: Taxation and Tax
Policy (3 credits)
An introduction to taxation, including the basic tax model,
tax computations, filling status, personal exemption, gross income,
business and personal deduction, tax credits property transactions
and the alternative minimum tax, with emphasis on their use in tax
decision-making.
FIN 860: Multinational Bank Management
(3 credits)
This course deals with the Foreign Exchange Market;
Exchange Rate Determinants; Foreign Currency Forecasting Techniques;
Eurocurrency Market; Euro banks; International Financial Centers;
International Syndicated Loan Market; Commercial Paper;
International Bond Market; Banking Regulation; Supervisory Issues;
Bank Failures/Problems; International Supervision; Money Laundering;
Forwards, Futures, Options
FIN 880: Accounting and Financial Analysis
(3 credits)
This course furnish students with knowledge and skills
necessary for the analysis of businesses, revealing their funding
needs, and designing a financing structure to satisfy the needs.
FIN 890: Advanced Corporate Finance (3 credits)
This course deals with the economic analysis of cash flows,
arising from short and long-term assets, management of the firm's
current assets and current liability position, the economic
determinate of the capital structure, cost of capital, and dividend
policy.
IB 410: International Business (3 credits)
This course covers the following topics: Globalization, The
Global Trade and investment environment, the Global Monetary System,
The Strategy and Structure of International Business, Business
Operations.
IB 415: International Firm
(3 credits)
This course gives a broad overview of
the opportunities and challenges facing firms involved in doing
cross-border business activities in an increasingly open and dynamic
world, and an introduction to the research literature about the
internationalization of the firm. The level of analysis in this
course is the firm. The main emphasis is put on analyzing the
behavior of firms in an ever-changing international marketplace and
the ways firms organize their activities in order to cope with the
intricacies of operating in foreign contexts.
IB 420: Internet for International Business (3
credits)
This introductory course familiarizes students with the
opportunities that Internet and emerging Information Technology
provides in global operations management, business data
communications, direct Internet marketing and advertising.
IB 440: International Trade (3 credits)
A study of the theories of trade, trade and welfare, tariff
and no tariff barriers to trade, common markets, and the
relationship between growth and trade.
IB 450: WTO and International Trade
(3
credits)
This course covers
Multilateral Trading System; WTO; GATT; GATS; Intellectual Property; Trade
Negotiations; Bilateral Trade Agreements; FDI; Transnational
Corporations.
IB 805: International Firm
(3 credits)
This course gives a broad overview of the opportunities and
challenges facing firms involved in doing cross-border business
activities in an increasingly open and dynamic world, and an
introduction to the research literature about the
internationalization of the firm. The level of analysis in this
course is the firm. The main emphasis is put on analyzing the
behavior of firms in an ever-changing international marketplace and
the ways firms organize their activities in order to cope with the
intricacies of operating in foreign contexts.
IB 810: Comparative Business Systems (3 credits)
Management problems from the perspective of the entire
enterprise in a domestic and international setting; strategy
formulation, environmental analysis and strategy implementation
applied to actual business. The course relies heavily on cases and
on presentations by business leaders.
IB 820: International Business
(3 credits)
This course deals with international business integrating
theory, policy, and application and using this knowledge to
understand how the business firm functions in a global setting.
Topics include the new theories of international trade and different
types of investment, exchange rates, international finance,
government intervention in trade and investment, the role of global
institutions in promoting world trade, and trade blocks. Special
emphasis is given to the trade opportunities for businesses in
emerging markets.
IB 825: International Business Environment
(3 credits)
Techniques and technicalities covered in the course include
legal aspects, teamwork, data collection and manipulation, public
participation, and cost benefit analysis. These topics are followed
by case histories considered from the perspective of proponent,
public, consultant and government. Finally, the ethics and politics
of environmental impact assessment are reviewed.
IB 830: Multinational Corporations
(3 credits)
The course examines the effects of globalization and
multinational corporations on cultures--as distinct from, though
related to, the economies of societies from around the world.
Ethnographic, political-economic, ecological studies by
anthropologists in a variety of world cultures are covered, as well
as the theoretical and ethical implications of social scientific
work on transnational companies.
INTLAW 335: International Business Law (3 credits)
The aim of this course is to provide basic knowledge in law and
practice of international business
INTLAW 810: International Business Law (3 credits)
The aim of this course is to provide knowledge in law and practice
of international business
INTLAW
820: International Business Transactions (3
credits) Prerequisite: INTLAW 362
This course covers selected topics in international trade,
analyzing important issues faced
IT 310:
Multimedia Systems and Computer Graphics (3
credits) Prerequisite: IT 200
Hardware and software of multimedia systems, graphics, audio,
video, animation. General
IT 390:
Software Project Management (3 credits)
The course provides an introduction to the basic concepts of
software project management.
IT
420: Enterprise Information Systems and Technologies (3
credits) Prerequisite: MGT 415
The course introduces the contemporary, technology-mediated, global
business
IT
430: Data Communications and Networks (3 credits)
The course provides a unified and fundamental view of the broad
field of data
IT 440:
Advanced Programming (3 credits)
The course focuses on programming in a modern, high-level
programming languages.
IT 450:
Database Design and Theory
(3 credits)
Overview of database systems, principles of database design,
entity-relationship and
IT 480:
Selected Topics in Emerging Technologies
(3 credits)
The course focuses on soft computing and artificial intelligence.
IT
810: Web Site Design and Management (3 credits)
Design methodologies. Logical and physical design of the site.
Requirements analysis,
IT 815: Operating
Systems (3 credits)
Concepts and techniques, designing and implementation of the
operating systems. Resources allocation and management. Contemporary
operating systems.
IT 820
Advanced Programming (4 credits)
Prerequisite: ECON 820
Systems and applications programming in a modern, high-level
programming languages.
IT 822: Software
Design (3 credits)
Methods and tools for software development, testing, and delivery.
Emphasis on data
IT 825:
Electronic Commerce (3 credits)
E-Business and E-Commerce. Elements of E-Commerce technology.
Search Engines Web
IT
830: Database Design and Management (3 credits)
Database design principles and techniques. Database management
systems and packages.
IT 840:
Multimedia Systems (3 credits)
Prerequisite: IT 820
Hardware and software of multimedia systems, graphics, audio,
video, animation. General
IT
850 Network Design and Administration (3 credits)
Prerequisite: IT 815, ECON 820
This course exposes students to network design and administration
methodologies.
IT 860:
Applied Artificial Intelligence Systems (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ECON 820
Intelligent system design problem, design resources. IS design
stages, identification,
IT 870
Advanced topics in information technology (3 credits)
Prerequisite: consent of instructor
Emerging technologies will be covered.
IT 880: Soft
Computing (3 credits)
The concepts of uncertainty. Theory of fuzzy sets and fuzzy
measures. Constituents of the
This course focuses on information systems law. It covers following topics freedom of information, confidentiality, copyright, security, legal liability, and information policy topics. The course helps to students to explore the legal challenges that occur as a result of the technological innovations.
LAW 305: Business Law
(3 credits)
The course provides students with the knowledge in modern business
law. The course focuses on the following topics: financial law,
stocks & other securities transaction
MATH 120: Business Statistics (3 credits)
Course builds a foundation on statistics and develops
applications to business decision making. It includes descriptive
statistics, probabilities, estimation, and regression analysis.
Course also provides with a set of skills for achieving and
maintaining statistical process control methods, problem solving
tools. Cases and microcomputer statistical package support the
course content.
MATH 140: Discrete Mathematics
(3 credits) Finite and infinite sets. Principle of inclusion and exclusion. Permutations and combinations. Relations and functions. Properties of Binary relations. Graphs. Trees. Boolean Algebras.
MATH
220: Calculus and Linear Algebra (4 credits)
Prerequisite: MATH 101
The course covers Definite integrals; Infinite series; Functional
series; Maxima and minima of multivariate
MATH 225:
Mathematics for Economics and Business (3 credits) Algebra and its applications. The Mathematics of Finance (Interest, annuities, amortization of loans). Linear Mathematics and its applications. Calculus with applications to economics. Functions of several variables. Partial differentiation, optimization, constrained extremum.
MATH 810:
Probability and Theory of Statistics (3 credits)
Prerequisite: BSA 250
This course presents a general outline of the mathematical theory
of probability and
MGT 310: Management and Organization (3 credits)
The course covers the problems concerning organization of
the firm, managing in competitive and monopolistic markets. Students
should examine pricing strategies, Production process and costs,
Theory of industrial behavior, Profit maximization over time.
MGT 320: Business Organizations
(3 credits)
This course introduces students to the various types of
business entities created by law, including corporations or joint
stock venture companies, partnerships, joint ventures, limited
liability companies. The organizational structure, advantages and
disadvantages, and rights of the owners of each type of entity will
be addressed.
MGT 330: Business and Professional Communication
(3
credits)
Theory and practice of communication appropriate to
business and professional environments, including public and
interpersonal communication within organizations.
MATH 340:
Applied Statistics (4 credits)
Sample space, events, probability. Conditional probability, Bayes
Theorem. Independence, independent trials. Combinatorial
probability. Densities and distributions. Joint densities
MGT 370: Entrepreneurship and Small Business
(3
credits)
The course combines small business management and
financing, uses features of small entrepreneurship to make clear its
financing mechanism. Course considers innovations in small business
investments, ventures capital market, funds, firms, principles of
risk capital formation and using; financing model in connection with
company’s innovation or spin-off evolution; stages of development.
Class sessions use case discussions, simulations on company
business-plan preparation and presentation, financial analysis for
investments.
MGT 410: Organizational Behavior – A
(3 credits)
This course describes and analyzes the growth, development,
and application of behavioral science to industrial society.
Emphasis is placed upon an understanding of the social,
psychological, and cultural aspects of the work situation using
behavioral patterns as the basic unit of observation. Attention is
focused upon such topics as industrial sociology, organization,
social control, personnel psychology, and industrial social
psychology.
MGT 415: Information Technology and Systems
(3
credits)
This course provides an introduction to computer and
information systems concepts, including hardware, software,
databases, networks data communications, and business applications.
The student is introduced to methods of determining user
requirements and developing application systems using databases and
fourth generation languages.
MGT 420: Managerial Communications
(3 credits)
This course provides an understanding of the importance of
communication within organizations and knowledge of the nature of
the communications process. It promotes the ability to analyze and
deal with communications potentials and problems as part of the
organizing process.
MGT 440: Production/Operations Management (3 credits)
This course provides an introduction to the concepts
underlying production and operations management. Such topics as
inventory control, production control, quality control, work
measurement, production methods, and facilities will be covered. The
topics covered will be integrated using a systems approach to the
operations of an organization.
MGT 445: Production/Operation Strategy
(3 credits)
This course addresses the development and implementation of
production/ operations strategy and the integration of this strategy
with the corporate/ business strategies and with those of other
functional areas. Topics include planning and implementation of
operations strategies, organizational design for operations,
productivity improvement, and the implementation of production
planning and control systems.
MGT 450: Human Resource Management
(3 credits)
This course is designed to provide the student with a
background in the field of Human Resource Management. Course covers
the principles, practices, and scientific techniques and methods
involved in the development and operation of an effective human
resource management program.
MGT 455: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (3
credits)
This course provides a strategic framework for
entrepreneurship and managing innovations in business. The emphasis
is on the skills and analysis necessary to do business development
in a company. The analytical tools in this course are critical for
development of an innovation strategy leading to organic growth.
Topics include developing entrepreneurial ideas and innovations;
strategic planning; marketing research, analysis and planning;
advertising, promotion and sales; financial planning and financing;
operations and services planning; human resource planning and
management; analysis of risk; information management strategy; legal
aspects of new venture planning; and global venturing.
MGT 460: Project Management
(3 credits)
This course covers management techniques that are
applicable to a wide variety of project types including information
systems development, business startups, marketing campaigns,
facility relocations, construction, research, and special events.
Emphasis is on processes for scheduling, budgeting, and controlling
projects.
MGT 465: Strategic Management and Business Policy
(3
credits)
This is a capstone course in the B.B.A. program and is
required of all seniors. The course integrates subject matter from
the business core courses and other disciplines. This course focuses
on integrated approaches to medium and long-term organizational
challenges in a dynamic environment. Students develop skills in, and
appreciation of, the role of all managers in the formulation and
implementation of organizational strategies.
MGT 470: International Management
(3 credits) Prerequisite: ECON 202, MGT 310, FIN 310
The course covers international trade and financial
management; The functions and responsibilities of export and import
managers; International company policy for the export/import
activities expansion; Public policy and regulation of international
trade management; International financial management including rules
and functioning of the international credit and banking system;
International business firms and management.
MGT 472: Leadership and Group Dynamics
(3 credits) Prerequisite: MGT 310
This course covers Power, Leadership, Behavior
modification, Fundamentals of the Group Dynamics; Group Development,
Teams and Teamwork, Change, Conflict and Negotiation.
MGT 475: Quality Management
(3 credits) Prerequisite: BSA 250, MGT 440
This course addresses principles and tools of quality
management. The course emphasizes the strategic importance of
quality in manufacturing and services. Topics include the
statistical process control methods, problem-solving tools for
quality assurance, and the management of quality. Cases and examples
illustrate basic concepts and principles.
MGT 480: Managing Multinational Corporations
(3
credits )
This course focuses on the nature, functions and structure
of Multinational Corporations (MNC); Management strategies, policies
and practices; Economic, social, cultural, legal, political and
ownership peculiarities of managing MNC. Corporate governance issues
in MNC.
MGT 800: Applied Business Statistics (3credits)
This is application-oriented course. Main topics are
describing data, probability concepts, probability distribution,
sampling, test of hypothesis, analysis of variance. Regression
analysis, time-series and forecasting, decision-making
MGT 810: Strategic Business Communications
(3 credits)
Theory and practice of communication appropriate to
business and professional environments, including public and
interpersonal communication within organizations. This course
provides an understanding of the importance of communication within
organizations and knowledge of the nature of the communications
process. It promotes the ability to analyze and deal with
communications potentials and problems as part of the organizing
process.
MGT 820: Decision Science Foundations (3 credits)
This course addresses problem- solving models. Students
learn how to diagnose problems through statistical and logical
tools, generate alternative solutions, and make effective decisions
through decision analysis and by building decision support models.
Students use applied software to conduct analysis and simulation.
MGT 825: Management and Cross National Environment
(3
credits)
The course covers development of management and
organization theory, nature of the management process and function
and its future development. The role of the manager as an organizer
and director, the communication processes goals and
responsibilities.
MGT 828: International Management (3 credits)
International management course furnish students with the
understanding of application of management concepts and techniques
to contexts in firms working in multinational, multicultural
environments. Main topics covered by the course are: globalization
and worldwide developments, political, legal, and technological
environment, ethics and social responsibility, meanings and
dimensions of culture, managing across culture, organizational
culture and diversity, cross-cultural communication and negotiation,
international strategic management, strategy formulation and
implementation, managing political risk, government relations, and
alliances, management decision and control, organizational behavior
and human resource management, motivation and leadership across
cultures, human resource selection and development across cultures.
MGT 830: Organizational Behavior – B
(3 credits) Prerequisite: consent of the instructor
This course seeks to enhance student knowledge concerning
the behavior of individuals and groups in an organizational setting
through the use of research perspective, and to guide the
application of conceptual organizational behavior knowledge to
managerial problems. The topics covered in the course include
learning, perception, job attitudes, work motivation, leadership,
decision-making and various group dynamics and processes.
MGT 832: Management and Organizational Behavior (3
credits)
This is a hybrid course that provides an overview of the
key management functions and seeks to enhance student knowledge
concerning the behavior of individuals and groups in an
organizational setting through the use of research perspective, and
to guide the application of conceptual organizational behavior
knowledge to managerial problems. The topics covered in the course
include planning, organizing, leading, controlling, learning,
perception, job attitudes, work motivation, leadership,
decision-making and various group dynamics and processes.
MGT 835: Entrepreneurship and Enterprise
(3 credits) Prerequisite: consent of the instructor
The course provides an overview of entrepreneurship and
planning new business ventures for prospective entrepreneurs and
managers. Topics include developing entrepreneurial ideas and
innovations; strategic planning; marketing research, analysis and
planning; advertising, promotion and sales; financial planning and
financing; operations and services planning; human resource planning
and management; analysis of risk; information management strategy;
legal aspects of new venture planning; and global venturing.
MGT 840: Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
(3
credits)
The course examines the developing a basic knowledge of the
legal and ethical environment and its relationship to business.
Students learn about the different impacts of legal systems on the
global business community; how to prevent adverse legal impacts
while conducting business; how to impact the legal environment with
proactive, responsible legal and ethical activities.
MGT 845: Human Resource Management
(3 credits)
Human Resource Management will focus on the role of the
Human Resource professional in business today. The course will also
cover a variety of HR-related subjects including employee relations
and diversity management; recruitment and selection; training and
development; performance management; progressive corrective action;
wage and salary administration; compensation; and employee benefits,
among others.
MGT 848: Leadership, Power and Politics
(3 credits)
The focus of this course is on helping you gain insights
into your managerial strengths and areas for additional development.
Key theoretical concepts in the field of management will be covered
as needed. The class is designed to provide for plenty of
discussion, interaction, and feedback. The goal is that by the end
of the course students will have significantly improved their
ability to manage and lead themselves and others in a variety of
situations and settings.
MGT 850: Operations Management
(3 credits)
Fundamental decisions and tradeoffs in control of a firm's
operations: obtaining and controlling the flow of materials through
a production facility and distributing them to customers; Process
fundamentals; cross-functional integration (coordination and
control); improving the performance of productive systems; and
competing through technology and operations.
MGT 855: Corporate Decision Making and Modeling
(3
credits)
The course examines Managerial decision making under
conditions of uncertainty and incomplete information; modern
decision theory; case studies in managerial decision analysis.
MGT 860: Strategic Management
(3 credits)
Company analyses: new product development, pricing
strategy, brand management, product line cycle; company strategic
management problems: background, present situation, external
environment (threats, opportunities), internal environment
(marketing, management, Board of Directors, Finance), and
alternative search.
MGT 870: Modeling and Optimization (3 credits)
This course deals with advanced concepts in modeling,
semi-structured problems using mathematical, statistical and
business models to support managerial problem solving. Students are
required to design, validate, and evaluate model based decision
support systems. Models are considered in such areas as inventory
control, financial control, and sales analysis.
MGT 890: Global Supply Chain Management
(3 credits)
The course focuses on effective logistics strategies for
companies operating global complex networks and on the integration
of supply chain components into a coordinated system to increase
service levels and to reduce costs. The effective management of
facilities, inventories, transportation, information, outsourcing,
and strategic partnering to improve operational performance are
presented.
MKT 301: Principles of Marketing
(3 credits)
Course prepares students for marketing thinking, provides
them with knowledge on marketing management for problem solving
through case analysis. The main topics are: marketing management
process and planning: consumer market: buyer behavior; market
segmentation and product positioning; product strategy; pricing,
price adapting’ global market.
MKT 310: Principles of Advertising
(3 credits)
This course examines advertising as a business, as a
marketing tool, as a creative process, and as a hybrid discipline,
which draws from both the arts and the sciences. The first half of
the course takes an international perspective, focusing on the
history of advertising, as well as more current social, legal
ethical, and economic issues. The second half of the course assumes
a managerial orientation, as students learn about the advertising
process, including such topics as the psychology of advertising,
diagnostic and evaluative research, concept development, copy and
layout, media, sales promotion, and the advertising organization.
MKT 410: Pricing Strategy (3 credits)
This course
covers topics such as
Effective pricing
management, Price sensitivity and reference price, External factors
affecting reference price, Economic foundations of pricing theory,
Effective pricing management, Customers reaction to price changes
,Pricing in international markets, Profitability analysis for
pricing decisions, Developing pricing strategies
and Pricing on the Internet.
MKT 420: Global Marketing (3 credits) Prerequisite: MKT 301
This course introduces the students to International
Marketing issues: economic, socio-cultural, financial, and legal
political factors affecting international marketing and to the
problems and opportunities associated with doing business on a
global scale.
MKT 430 Consumer Behavior
(3 credits)
The forces that affect the consumer`s buying decisions:
perceptions, attitudes, learning, personality, family, group and
individual influences, and culture; An online consumer behavior.
MKT 440 Business to Business Marketing Strategy (3 credits) Prerequisite: MKT 301
We will analyze the dynamics of Business
to Business markets, the key elements of business marketing
strategy, and the frameworks for go-to-market strategies. This is a
case-based course which will combine a mix of lectures,
presentations, class discussions, and team assignments.
MKT 445 Service Marketing (3 credits)
Knowing
the field of service marketing is a prerequisite today for those who
want to successfully pursue careers and manage businesses both in
the private and public sector. However, knowing how services are
different from products and what unique challenges they pose on
marketing and managing is necessary, but not sufficient information.
Additionally, the rapid infusion of technology into various
industries has created new kinds of services that offer
opportunities for service and manufacturing organizations to enhance
their relationships with customers. Consequently, customers’ demands
have changed. Customers now expect to interact with service
providers in a multitude of ways, posing additional challenges on
service marketing and managing.
MKT 450: Marketing Research
(3 credits)
Information management; needs, nature and value of
information; relationship between valuable information and decision
making; consideration of different research methods.
MKT 460: Marketing Management – A
(3 credits) Prerequisite: MKT 301
The course provides an overview of marketing management in
modern organizations; Customer analysis, business environment,
competition, and organizational strengths and weaknesses; Selection
of target markets and planning the components of the marketing mix;
The role and use of information in marketing planning and
determinants and the nature of buying behavior.
MKT 810: Marketing Policy (3 credits)
The course focuses on understanding the important concepts
in marketing, marketing strategic planning. Including a variety of
frameworks, models, classification systems, and “how-to –do-it”
techniques. Focusing in marketing’s’ macro role in society and its
micro role in business and other organizations. Strategic planning
and the marketing management process; consumer and organizational
markets; market segmentation, targeting and positioning, marketing
planning, process; pricing, channels and promotion decisions,
marketing control.
MKT 820: Pricing Strategies (3 credits)
The objective of the course is to systematically present
factors that have to be considered when setting price, and to show
how pricing alternatives can be developed and analyzed. The course
provides students with an integrative framework for making pricing
decisions. The course covers economic aspects of pricing, strategy
and tactics of market based pricing, in addition to psychological
aspects of price sensitivity and decisions under incomplete
information.
MKT 840: Marketing Management – B (3 credits)
The course provides a decision-oriented overview of
marketing management in modern organizations, emphasizing the
knowledge and application of key strategic frameworks to customer
analysis, environment, competition, and organizational strengths and
weaknesses. Primary focus centers on the creative selection of
target markets and planning the components of the marketing mix. The
role and use of information in marketing planning and determinants
and the nature of buying behavior are also considered. Special
emphasis is placed on the added complexity of developing and
managing the marketing process in a local and multinational arena.
MKT 845: Sales Management
(3 credits)
This course examines the role and formulates of the
strategic sales program. Specific issues include factors that shape
that program, its successful implementation, and an evaluation of
results. Various sales management topics, such as territory design,
motivation, compensation, and ethics, are examined. The course
emphasizes a mix conceptual and applied information to provide a
balanced view of sales management.
MKT 850: International Marketing
(3 credits)
This course introduces managerial study of opportunities
and complexities of conducting marketing operations in the global
marketplace; Strategic planning and execution of marketing mix
programs in global markets with focus on the analysis of cultural,
economic, and political environments. Special emphasis is placed on
study of the nature of global competition and marketing frameworks,
and tools that can be employed for developing a sustainable global
competitive advantage.
MKT 860: Business to Business Marketing Strategy
(3 credits)
We will analyze the dynamics of Business
to Business markets, the key elements of business marketing
strategy, and the frameworks for go-to-market strategies. Business
markets differ from consumer markets in several important ways.
The buying process is more complex, the buying unit and
purchase criteria differ and order fulfillment may require
coordination both internally and externally.
Effective business marketing requires continuous interaction
with customers, an understanding of the impact of supply chains on
sales, and the ability to use information in the process of
identifying, communicating, delivering and extracting value. This is
a case-based course which will combine a mix of lectures,
presentations, class discussions, and team assignments.
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