The course provides the basic framework of accounting practices from the perspective of non-accounting managers. The course provides students with fundamental financial and managerial accounting principles to allow them to link individual and unit operational goals to the financial requirements of the organization. Students will understand when and how to use various analytical approaches based on the kinds of decisions needed and the particular stakeholders to be addressed.

This course addresses the fundamental economic principles of decision making including opportunity costs, factors of production, and competitive and comparative advantage. Risk and uncertainty are also analyzed. In addition, students address sustainable business principles in a rapidly changing economic and social environment. The course approaches all of these topics from the perspective of the practicing manager.

The course builds on the principles of the MS6010 Accounting Practices for Managers course and the competencies established in the MS6012 Economic Practices for Managers course to provide the financial acumen necessary to make appropriate investment and spending decisions with limited information*. Students also explore the financial tools organizations use to capture and evaluate complex costs associated with business actions, such as environmental or social impacts that may be external to the firm.
Prerequisite(s): MS 6010 , MS 6012

MS6900 is an integrative project focused on adding value to the organization and integrating the material covered throughout the MS programs a session-long project. Students demonstrate analytical capacity in determining a course of action that contributes to the organization's financial and operational success while concurrently meeting the goals of the discipline and/or work unit in an ethical and professional manner. Project management tools and processes are presented.
Prerequisite(s): To be taken in the final session of the program.

This course focuses on the essence of leadership and management, including the behaviors, attitudes, and perspectives that distinguish leaders. Effective strategies for developing managers and leaders in the context of modern organizations are emphasized. Leadership dilemmas and issues are analyzed. A multidisciplinary approach will be used to explore new demands and relevant strategies for effective leadership. Individuals will be helped to identify their leadership style.

This course focuses on the development of effective communication strategies and their applications in various organizational contexts and with different stakeholder groups. Topics covered include defining the organizational communications culture and styles, audience assessment, overcoming communications barriers, communications etiquette, and ethical dimensions of communications. Techniques covered include preparation of memos and business reports, business correspondence using email and hard copy formats, preparing and delivering oral reports, and facilitating discussions.

This course provides an overview and comparative understanding of sustainable business practices along with frameworks of sustainable business practice and economic principles provide the foundations for helping managers achieve competitive advantage. This course also presents current theory and practice of systems thinking to understanding global, environmental, and social change. This holistic and dynamic understanding helps bridge the social sciences with the natural sciences to understand the complexities involved in developing and implementing sustainable business practice. Issues of sustainable business practices are explored in order to provide tools and methods to help students understand, make decisions, implement and evaluate emerging global issues surrounding sustainable business practice.

This graduate course examines the nature and complexities of international business; the factors that determine the international environment [economic, accounting, ethical, physical, socio-cultural, political, legal, labor, competitive, and distributive]; most important international organizations; and the methods that can be used by business to effectively and ethically deal with these forces. The course provides an in-depth review and analysis of the latest theories and research on leadership and collaboration research and literature as it related to international business practices will be examined. Communication projects will focus on critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making based on relevant research, information literacy, applied technology, integration, ethical and diversity concerns.

This course offers insights and approaches for understanding cultural/social/gender differences, dealing with difficult people, and assessing conflict styles. Students identify, analyze, and plan for those elements within the cultural, economic, and political environments that require specialized understanding and strategy for successful management.

Contract Law and Professional Ethics analyzes the primary legal structures governing business activity in the United States, and introduces students to state and international guidelines and interests. Students identify, apply, and anticipate legal issues relevant to advancement in the industries and regions relevant to their careers.