International Business Courses: Fall 2024
Accounting
ACC 500: Strategic Profitability & Analysis
3 Credit Hour(s)
Cross listed with MBA 500. Financial and operational company data will be collected and incorporated into a strategic profitability analysis built around case scenarios to illustrate the role of financial and managerial accounting information in management decision making. Each analysis will decompose changes in a firm's operating income into components related to growth, price, recovery, and productivity. Specifically, using a Balanced Scorecard Approach, the financial, customer, internal business process, learning and growth, and environmental and social aspects will be evaluated in terms of their strategic alignment. Relevant analytical tools, software applications, and managerial techniques will be utilized for customer profitability analysis, inventory management, activity-based costing, workflow analysis, decision making, pricing, planning, and control. (GR)
ACC 501: Accounting Data Analytical Tools
3 Credit Hour(s)
This course will provide the necessary background and instruction for accountants to develop data analytic skills to address the needs of the profession. Students will learn to identify the business questions that can be addressed with data, extract the data, test the data, refine, then communicate the findings to management in order to make key financial and accounting-related decisions. (GR)
ACC 618: Advanced Taxation
3 Credit Hour(s)
This course focuses on the basic principles of federal income taxation of corporations, partnerships, trusts, gifts, and estates. It reinforces the use of tax research tools, and provides an overview of administrative and procedural aspects of tax practice. Accounting Majors must earn a minimum of a C grade. If they do not earn the required final grade, they will be allowed to repeat the course only once to earn the minimum grade. Prerequisites: ACC 318. (GR)
ACC 620: Advanced Auditing
3 Credit Hour(s)
An advanced study of auditing standards, principles, theory, and practice. Current trends in auditing and assurance services will be emphasized. The class offers an in-depth examination of advanced audit concepts, auditor legal liability, ethics, audit procedures, statistical sampling, and audit research using electronic databases and the Internet. The class will also be focused on the Information Technology Audit function, the use of technology in audits, and hands-on completion of audit workpapers. Accounting Majors must earn a minimum of a C grade. If they do not earn the required final grade, they will be allowed to repeat the course only once to earn the minimum grade . Prerequisites: ACC 420 (GR)
ACC 630: Global Financial Reporting and Statement Analysis
3 Credit Hour(s)
This course presents a five step framework for effective financial statement analysis. It begins with an understanding of the industry economic characteristics and current conditions of the firm's businesses and the particular strategies the firm selects to compete in each of these businesses. It then assesses how well the firm's financial statements reflect the economic effects of the firm's decisions and actions. With the use of financial statement ratios and other analytical tools, it assesses the profitability and risk of the firm in the recent past and, by incorporating information about expected changes, forecasts expected profitability and risk. Finally, the analyst values the firm using various valuation tools and models. The framework will be applied to both domestic and international companies. Accounting Majors must earn a minimum of a C grade. If they do not earn the required final grade, they will be allowed to repeat the course only once to earn the minimum grade. (GR)
ACC 640: Advanced Accounting
3 Credit Hour(s)
This course provides students with an in-depth, contemporary coverage of accounting for consolidations, governmental, not-for-profit entities, and other key advanced topics. The course links theory and practice with constant emphasis on generally accepted accounting principles as applied to business activities. For MBA Accounting program students only. (GR)
ACC 650: Graduate Seminar in Accounting
3 Credit Hour(s)
Graduate Seminar in Accounting Description: Students will explore advanced topics in financial accounting and tax, as well as current issues in the field of accounting and their impact on society and the profession. Students will research topics and present for discussion in a seminar format. In addition, students will prepare a culminating project and presentation on a current issue in accounting. Prerequisite: Graduate status. Permission of Instructor required. (GR) (GR)
Finance
FIN 601: Global Monetary System and Capital Markets
3 Credit Hour(s)
This course is devoted to in-depth discussion and practical application of business finance as practiced in a borderless world. The major topics covered include the international monetary system, the balance of payments, foreign exchange, the management of foreign exchange risk, the role of banks in international finance, and a discussion and analysis of the non-bank financial institutions and international financial markets that represent an inventory of financial resources for the global company. (GR)
Management
MGT 501: The Global Competitive Framework
3 Credit Hour(s)
Success in the global marketplace depends first upon understanding international economic and business developments, and then applying this knowledge to the process of gaining a global competitive advantage. This course examines the evolving competitive characteristics of the global economy, including the new World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, technological development, the globalization of business activities, the advent of specific regional trading blocs, the rise of newly industrializing nations as major competitors in selected industries, and the various ways industries develop and sustain international competitiveness. Students examine these issues by exploring the effects on business decision making of key economic and business concerns in the United States, the European Union, the Centrally Planned Economies, and Japan and the Pacific Basin region (including China). (GR)
MGT 502: Ethics for Professionals in a Multicultural World
3 Credit Hour(s)
As business becomes increasingly internationalized and a global economy further develops, ethical issues that affect business in the international arena have also become of increasing importance. This course specifically addresses the following moral and ethical issues: employment practices and policies, consumer protection, environmental protection, political payments and involvement, and basic human rights and fundamental freedoms. Special emphasis on ethical requirements will be the focus for accounting students. Case study analysis, videos and guest speakers will provide the student with an increased understanding and sensitivity to these issues. (GR)
MGT 503: Comparative Management
3 Credit Hour(s)
This course serves as an introduction to the field of international organizational behavior and management. It presents the material from a global rather than from a North American or Western European perspective. It views culture not only as important for understanding other societies and managing organizations, but as a major cause of much behavior in organizations, specifically addressing how technology, strategy, size and goals of an organization relate to culture. Finally, it attempts to improve a student's interpersonal behavior concerning the cultural variations found in international organizations. (GR)
MGT 504: Operational and Technology Issues in Global Business
3 Credit Hour(s)
This course instructs students on how manufacturing and service operations can support a global strategy. Course topics will include supply chain network design and management from incoming raw materials to final product delivery. Capacity planning, inventory, outsourcing, information technology, sustainability, risk management and recent trends will be discussed. (GR)
MGT 650: Directed Research
3 Credit Hour(s)
This course is the last course taken by the student in the MS - International Business program. All other course work must be complete. The student will be assigned a faculty mentor by the director of the program based upon the specific area of study the student wishes to undertake. In close consultation with the faculty mentor, the student will develop a thesis in the form of a case study, a management consulting report, or a theoretical research study. The work generated in this course needs to be approved by graduate program faculty at various stages. The student will be provided more detail on this process by the faculty mentor. (GR)
Marketing
MKT 507: Strategic Planning for the International Market
3 Credit Hour(s)
This course lays out the competitive orientation and strategies for initial entry, market expansion, and integration of international marketing operations. The course reviews current market opportunities and competitive conditions at the global, regional, and national levels. The student learns how to successfully participate in both emerging markets and regional economic blocs such as APEC, ASEAN, EU, EFTA, NAFTA, MERCOSUR. Participants use case study analysis to develop their skills in analyzing and formulating international marketing initiatives. (GR)
MKT 615: Consumer Behavior
3 Credit Hour(s)
How and why do consumers behave as they do? How can consumer decision making be understood when there are so many variables to consider? This course answers these questions by providing students with the fundamental theories underpinning consumer behavior and understanding of how consumer behavior concepts can be applied to marketing management, to our roles as consumers, and to everyday life. Additionally, concepts, theories and principle from the social sciences will be employed to extend understanding of how consumers acquire and consumer goods, services, and ideas. Students will learn how and why consumers behave by examining how they use products to define themselves and how that self-concept affects their attention to and perception of products, their motivations to purchase, their awareness of and attitudes towards brands, products, and advertising, their choices of products, and their levels of customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. (GR)