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GBUS 8800 - Operations Strategy
This course explores the major issues and managerial concepts relating to strategic management of the operations function in today’s global economy. The course targets prospective general managers. It is organized into three main topical groups, including an introduction to operations strategy concepts, an examination of operations strategy process tools, and the discussion of specific management decision areas within the operations strategy framework. Competitive cost analysis is emphasized and issues related to e-business operations strategy are included in the discussion of the topical issues. Business cases studied include a mix from both the manufacturing and service industries. Classes may feature visiting company executives, and there is a strong global emphasis throughout the course.
Credits: 1.5
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GBUS 8830 - Supply Chain Management
The increasing globalization of business and heightened outsourcing in many industries has led to increased interest in supply chain management issues by the senior management of most companies. This course is designed to provide an understanding of the functional and strategic role of supply chains in both manufacturing and service industries, with emphasis on global supply chains originating or ending in North America. The course is oriented towards prospective general managers who desire to become more familiar with supply chain design and coordination as well as some of the major issues and managerial concepts relating to supply-chain management that are important sources of competitive advantage. The course is taught using textbook and article readings, cases, lectures, and guest speakers.
Credits: 1.5
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GBUS 8840 - Innovation
Innovation plays an essential role in the development and achievement of long-term competitive advantage. This is a course in strategy and entrepreneurship with three main themes: Creating and Realizing Value, Prioritizing Opportunities, and Managing the Innovation Process. Within these themes, students will explore why innovation is invention that creates value and why some inventions do not create value; why projects involving the innovation process are notoriously difficult to value: how to set priorities when choosing among innovation opportunities; how to guide early stage research efforts toward potentially distant products; why managing the process requires thinking about the unfolding and often nonlinear stages; how multiple dimensions cumulate in success or failure; how to think about the many uncertainties and manage the risks such as running out of cash; how to deal with the changes of course, challenges of competition, setbacks, and forward leaps in managing big, long-term innovation efforts; and, most importantly, how the outcomes of this process depend on the people involved. This course deals with both small and large corporations and usually encompasses a range of technologies.
Credits: 1.5
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GBUS 8850 - Networked Business Seminar
The pace of Internet business evolution has proven to be as rapid during the extinction phase as it was in the evolutionary phase for new companies and their business models. The course will examine the business models and strategies of both pure-play survivors and established firms to understand the keys to successfully exploiting the Internet and related technologies. Prerequisites: Restricted to Darden students.
Credits: 1.5
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GBUS 8870 - Strategy Seminar
This course helps students become conversant with contemporary issues in the field of strategic management both in theory and practice. It covers selected strategy topics in depth that are chosen from three areas: First Year Strategy, current practice and issues, and current research in strategy and related fields of economics and organizational sociology. Four streams of literature will be discussed: organizational economics, resource-based/dynamic-capabilities view of the firm, business psychology, and business sociology. The course will allow students to become more conversant with relevant current issues in strategic thinking and the practice of strategy and to treat ideas in greater depth and rigor than possible in a traditional case course. Through this dialogue, students will sharpen their strategic thinking abilities and instincts. The course content will consist of a variety of readings from books, management and academic journals, and working papers. Class meets once a week, and the reading load is extensive. Grading will be based on class participation, weekly one-page papers, and a final essay.
Credits: 1.5
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GBUS 8900 - Management Decision Models
This course will be treated as a workshop in decision consulting and modeling. It will develop additional methodology and more advanced applications for students who were comfortable in First Year Decision Analysis and wish to pick up where that course left off without significant overlap. Applications receiving special attention in this course are financial modeling, such as the random walk, hedging, and modeling of real options; strategy analysis and modeling, including structuring models, hybrid strategies, and contingent strategy under uncertainty; and marketing models, such as brand-switching dynamics. One class day will be treated as a real-time modeling studio, where the class works together on a task provided in a one-page case at the beginning of class. New methodology will treat risk preference, risk management, correlated variables and scenarios, risk exposure, dynamic uncertainty models, Optquest for optimization within simulation models, and the decision quality process used in decision consulting. Students will use Excel and a number of add-in software products.
Credits: 1.5
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GBUS 8910 - Managerial Quantitative Analysis
This course will review, reinforce, and extend the basic concepts gained from the required Decision Analysis course, such as spreadsheet construction, simulation, regression, decision trees, and optimization. The two primary objectives of the course are to improve students’ basic analytical skills and to strengthen their ability to integrate quantitative analysis into their general decision-making process. This course and Management Decision Models are intended for students interested in further core Decision Analysis instruction and is designed for those students who were comfortable with Decision Analysis and wish to pick up where it left off without significant overlap. Students who feel the need for significant review and reinforcement of the Decision Analysis content with modest extensions will benefit from this course. Thus, those students who made an A or B+ in Decision Analysis probably will find that this course does not meet your educational objectives and should consider a course that is more appropriate. Please contact the instructor if you have questions in this regard.
Credits: 1.5
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GBUS 8930 - Bargaining and Negotiating
This course focuses on two-party negotiations in a wide variety of settings ranging from simple buyer-seller bargains to complex, multi-issue strategic relationships. Most class sessions revolve around the results of negotiations between class members that are conducted prior to class, as preparation for the session. The results of these negotiations are displayed each day and provide an opportunity for explicit feedback on each student’s negotiating performance. Class discussion reviews the wide variety of experiences in the specific negotiation and develops and tests hypotheses regarding effective behaviors, tactics, and strategies. The resulting ideas are reinforced and further developed through a series of weekly readings. Finally, the course offers several frameworks for codifying each student’s negotiation toolkit and for describing each student’s negotiation behavior.
Credits: 1.5
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GBUS 8970 - Investigations into the Nature of Strategy
This course is intended for the student whose interest in strategy is intense and who would like to understand and practice strategy as an art. It is based on the logic to be established in class that developing strategy cannot be a deterministic, linear process. Students will discover that the reasons why strategy cannot be a ‘positive doctrine’ form the pillars for its proper understanding. The course relies heavily on reading material from fields that at first may not seem directly related such as biology, military strategy, history, game theory, and games. The course is conducted in the manner of a seminar.
Credits: 1.5
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GBUS 8995 - Research Elective
Each research elective is a course of faculty supervised study for students with particular interest in contributing to the knowledge base of a specific area of business administration. The research elective should be consistent with the objectives of the SY Program and not overlap with courses offered in the MBA Program.
Credits: 1.5 to 3
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GBUS 9020 - Foundations of Business Ethics
This course provides students with a doctoral-level introduction to the normative discourse of business ethics. We will read a variety of texts from classic philosophical works as well as contemporary counterparts who illustrate how these ideas are being used in recent research in business ethics. Prerequisites: Restricted to Darden students.
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9130 - Readings:Theories in Organizational Behavior
This is a survey course for PhD students designed to introduce them to research in some of the central literatures & topics in organizational behavior. It is designed to expose them to some of the breadth necessary to be conversant in the field of organizational behavior, to being their preparation for qualifying examinations, & to begin developing their skills in coming up with, writing about, & critiquing research ideas in org. behavior topics. Prerequisites:Restricted to Darden students.
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9330 - Seminar in Entrepreneurship I
This course will survey the field of entrepreneurship and introduce the students to the classic books and ideas in the literature. The course will use a seminar format and will attempt to understand the meaning and content of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, its processes and its consequences - for individuals and economies. Requirements include position papers on various topics and authors. Prerequisites: Restricted to Darden students.
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9340 - Seminar in Entrepreneurship II
This course will survey the field of entrepreneurship and introduce the students to the classic books and ideas in the literature.
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9710 - Markets in Human Hope
This course will explore the feasibility of con structing financial markets for firms in the social sector as well as in countries currently without capital markets.
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9740 - Seminar in Corporate Governance
This is a doctoral seminar focusing on academic research that touches on issues pertaining to corporate governance and business ethics.
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9852 - Independent Study: Bounded Rationality
This independent study will coincide with the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in psychology and economics at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, under the direction of Prof. Gerd Gigerenzer. The Institute intends to provide a view of human rationality that is anchored in the psychological possibilities of actual humans rather than in the fictional construct of Homo economicus. Prerequisites: Restricted to Darden students.
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9853 - Reading Seminar in Leadership
The Reading Seminar in Leadership is designed to expose students to a wide range of literature and concepts related to the field of leadership through seminar activities such as reading, critical evaluation, discussion, reflection, and writing. Participation in the seminar will allow a student to develop a framework for the analysis of leadership concepts on a personal, professional, as well as an organizational level. Prerequisite: Restricted to Darden students.
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9854 - Foundations of Management: Pragmatism and Stakeholder Theory
The purpose of this seminar is to provide a critical introduction to scholarly reading and writing concentrating on one portion of the foundations of management theory; namely, pragmatism and stakeholder theory. While we will address some ‘classic’ texts in management and ethics, you should understand that the syllabus is idiosyncratic to me, rather than systematic.
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9855 - Seminar in Macro Organizational Behavior
This seminar is intended for Ph.D. students seeking a broad understanding of macro organizational behavior and theory. We will review classical theoretical perspectives by reading the original literature that helped to shape the field. We will also identify areas in need of additional investigation by reconsidering key assumptions and theoretical positions.
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9856 - Strategy Doctoral Seminar
The Strategy Doctoral Seminar is designed to introduce students to the strategy literature and the research approaches that strategy research uses. The course is geared towards first-year PhD students in business, though it is open to doctoral students from any discipline. We wil discuss the nature of scientific thought and inquiry, particularly as it applies to the social sciences.
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9857 - Advanced Qualitative Methods
This is an advanced graduate level course in Qualitative Methods.
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9858 - Doctoral Seminar on Leadership
The purpose of the course is to learn and develop areas for future leadership research and scholarship.
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9859 - Independent Study
An independent study course is a faculty supervised study in which students explore a specific topic in the area of business administration..
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9860 - Reading Seminar: Moral Philosophy II
This seminary will explore more contemporary philosophers such as Kar Marx, Adam Smith, and Amartya Sen.
Prerequisites: Restricted to Darden Students
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9861 - Independent Study
An independent study course is a faculty supervised study in which students explore a specific topic in the area of business administration.
Credits: 1.5
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GBUS 9930 - Pedagogy & Higher Administration
Pedagogy and Higher Administration is a course for doctoral students about teaching technique and leading in institutions of higher education. The course addresses preparation before courses begin (e.g. developing syllabi), techniques and issues while class is in session (e.g. alternative teaching techniques), and things that occur after class (e.g. student grading and counseling).
Credits: 3
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GBUS 9999 - Non-Topical Research, Doctoral
For doctoral research taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Credits: 1 to 12
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LAW 8637 - Law and Business Transactional Clinic
The clinic involves instruction and practical training on advising start-up companies and drafting basic corporate documentation. As part of the clinic, students will work with and advise Darden students who have been accepted to participate in the Darden Business Incubator.
Credits: 2
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GCOM 5211 - Basic Assurance Services
This includes the planning, processes (gathering evidence), and judgments required to render an opinion on an entity’s financial statements. Deals with evidence theory, risk identification, and professional judgment. Audit methodology is examined through a study of auditing standards and the concepts and procedures developed to implement those standards. Other topics include professional ethics, auditor’s liability, and other issues.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 5231 - Special Topics in Advanced Accounting
This purpose of this course is to expand your knowledge of financial reporting, from a user’s perspective. To achieve this we discuss how analysts use financial information to value the firm, how management sometimes attempts to alter perceptions of firm value, and how accounting rules can impact perceptions of firm value. Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students
Credits: 3
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GCOM 5871 - Communication Strategies for Business Professionals
Participants will sharpen speaking and writing skills for professional situations related to their areas of concentration. We’ll learn strategies for structuring and delivering persuasive material for a variety of audiences and engage in some of the most important conversations taking place in business today that cut across all areas. These may include globalization and emerging communication technologies. Restricted to MS in Accounting students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7010 - Global Strategy and Systems
Global Strategy and Systems provides an overview of global business from both a strategic process perspective and the organization as a system. It introduces a broad conceptual framework involving strategic and critical thinking, business planning, and general management functions. It provides a foundation for the other core modules that develop more specific concepts and techniques. Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7020 - Strategic Cost Management
This course covers the use of cost data in strategic planning and control to facilitate the development and implementation of business strategies. Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 1
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GCOM 7030 - Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting incorporates the perspectives of accounting, corporate finance, and economics to help students understand financial statements and the judgments and incentives underlying accounting choices. The course will use an integrated, cross-disciplinary view of financial reporting and will include major accounting topic including assets, liabilities, equity, off-balance-sheet financing, measurement issues, valuation, and the analysis. Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 1.5
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GCOM 7040 - Marketing and Quantitative Analysis
Marketing and Quantitative Analysis introduces the marketing management processes that can be applied to various global markets. Topics include understanding market metrics, consumer market dynamics, consumer behavior and social/cultural trends, organizational buying behaviors, market segmentation, global branding, management of goods and services in diverse markets, and marketing decision systems. Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7050 - Organizational Behavior and Communication
Organizational Behavior examines human behavior both within the organization and within the global business environment. It discusses personal effectiveness and interpersonal skills in a global climate. Topics include cross-cultural differences, global and virtual teams, leadership, conflict resolution, decision making, creating high-performance teams. Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 2
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GCOM 7060 - Financial Management
Financial Management covers basic corporate finance including cost of capital, capital budgeting, valuation of stock and bonds, working capital management, and international finance. Pre-requisites: Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7070 - Seeking Authenticity and Thinking as a Leader
Seeking Authenticity and Thinking as a Leader aids students in leveraging their non-business academic background, and provides guidance on integrating across the functional areas in the masters program. Leaders tend to think in a particular way. This active-learning course will focus on developing more careful thinking and problem solving approaches. Students will be positioned to formulate a ‘personal brand’ toward a career best-suited for them. Pre-Requisites: Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 2
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GCOM 7080 - Seeking Authenticity and Thinking as a Leader
Seeking Authenticity and Thinking as a Leader course continues from first term. Pre-requisites: Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 1
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GCOM 7100 - Marketing Research
Marketing Research
Credits: 1.5
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GCOM 7120 - Customer Value
GCOM 7120 is a research-oriented class that focuses on understanding how a company’s strategic operations and resources can influence customer experiences and business performance outcomes (e.g., market share, average receipt values, and sales per square foot). The class provides marketing managers and operational business leaders with the analytical tools to deliver memorable customer experiences that connect with customers and enhance loyalty.
Credits: 4
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GCOM 7130 - Brand Management
Brand Management covers key strategies for identifying, building and defending brands. Brands are among companies most valuable assets. Through lectures, case discussions, exercises and group projects, the course examines the art and science of leveraging, extending and positioning brands into value-creation. Pre-requisites: Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7211 - Advanced Business Law
Advanced Business Law. Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7220 - International Finance
This course takes an integrated approach to the study of the global financial system, capital and foreign exchange markets, risk management, and the dynamics that impact investors, financial institutions, corporations and other market participants. Drawing on a combination of theory, practical experience, and case studies, we also try to understand the behavior of global financial markets within a broader set of economic and geopolitical considerations. Restricted to MS in Accounting students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7250 - Project Management
The primary objective of Project Management is to provide a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary for the effective management of projects. To this end, the course is closely tied to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK, as espoused by the Project Management Institute) and consists of seminars on such topics as planning, stakeholder management, human resource management, global/virtual teams, risk management. Prerequisites: Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7261 - Management Writing for Accounting Professionals
This course covers management writing strategies essential for clear, organized, specific messages. We’ll focus on the importance of audience, occasion, and style which are the foundation for successful and persuasive writing. Topics include effective emails and memos, the two most commonly used business messages. Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students.
Credits: 1
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GCOM 7310 - Strategic Business Advising and Communication
This course covers the entire spectrum of business risks facing companies in a global economy. The course focuses on how to build an enterprise risk management process that includes: understanding risk and decision making, strategy and objectives, risk identification, risk assessment, risk response, controls, and monitoring. The course looks at international risk frameworks, international and US regulatory requirements related to risk, and international and US stock exchange requirements. The course also ties the enterprise risk management process into corporate governance, shareholder value and disclosures to shareholders.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7311 - Strategic Business Advising
This course explores the dynamics of the business advisory services’ segment of the global consulting market and a common structured methodology to identify, create a framework to solve, and ultimately resolve any type of business-advising problem.
Credits: 1.5
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GCOM 7320 - Accounting Policy
This course will cover the theory and practice of corporate financial reporting. It will highlight the development of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and accounting policy choices from two perspectives. Restricted to MS in Accounting students
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7330 - Enterprise Risk Management and Consulting
The course looks at the strategic, operational, and financial risk that organizations face. Through case discussions, the process of risk identification, risk assessment, and risk monitoring is covered.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7340 - Special Topics in Accounting
The purpose of this course is to expand your knowledge of financial reporting and to familiarize you with topics currently of interest to the accounting profession, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. To achieve these objectives, the course will examine accounting issues from two perspectives. First, we will explore financial reporting and financial reporting issues from a user perspective. This perspective should enable you to understand the significance of financial statement components more completely and will facilitate your future performance in your financial statement analysis course. Second, we will examine the authoritative accounting literature underlying acceptable accounting choices. As an accounting professional, you will often be faced with ambiguous or unclear accounting issues. This perspective will improve your ability to conduct financial reporting research and to provide concise and thoughtful resolutions to theses issues. The perspective will also provide a foundation for your future graduate course in accounting policy. The pedagogy for the course will include lectures, readings, illustrative class examples, research cases, memorandum preparations and class presentations.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7341 - Accounting for Derivatives
This course develops a framework for understanding the nature, uses, and financial reporting of derivatives. The first section of the course discusses the various types of derivatives, including their uses in business settings and the methods used to determine their ‘fair value.’ Pre-Requisites: any Graduate Commerce student
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7350 - Special Topics in Auditing, Assurance and Ethics
This course provides students with an integrative exposure to topics that reflect current professional practices and best practices as identified by regulatory bodies, other profession-related organizations, academics and practitioners. State-of-the-art topics will be covered primarily through (a) professional and academic readings and (b) exposure to practitioners and other experts. The course will focus on the integration of new topics with material learned in other courses and placing topics in the context of auditing and assurance.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7351 - Special Topics in International Accounting
The role of accounting in international contexts will be explored, with the objective to help students become familiar with regulatory, cultural and business environment issues that affect and are affected by accounting and the accounting profession. Specific topics will vary from semester to semester, but the course will likely include an international travel component and interactions with many international parties.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7361 - Accounting for Mergers and Acquisitions
The purpose of this course is to explore mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate control transactions within an accounting and valuation framework. This course also serves an integrative purpose. Mergers and acquisitions represent significant changes that involve the entire enterprise. As such, this course provides an opportunity to link financial decision-making with the overall strategy of the firm. Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7370 - Financial Statement Analysis
The course centers on the fundamentals of valuation, and how accounting and other information affect perceived and managed value. The course begins by establishing value maximization as the goal of the firm. The process and fundamentals of valuation are explored. Second, students explore how to analyze the decisions that affect firm value (e.g., investing, financing, etc.). Third, students explore the impact, on perceived value, of accounting alternatives (e.g., U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Standards).
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7371 - F/S Analysis and Valuation
This course will provide students with a framework that uses financial statement data to analyze a company’s business and determine an intrinsic value for that company. The framework developed can be applied in a variety of decision contexts including those faced by creditors, security analysts, investment bankers, firm managers and auditors who must judge the firm’s performance and communicate with external investors.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7381 - Ethics in Business, Accounting, and Auditing
This course examines ethical considerations within the specific contexts frequently encountered by accountants to recognize common ethical situations faced in business (by auditors and their clients) and those unique ethical issues faced by auditors. We will study ethical frameworks and professional rules and practice applying analyses to real-life and fictitious cases to learn from the mistakes of others and to avoid mistakes. Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7390 - Negotiations
This course introduces students to the theory and practice of negotiation. Students will develop an understanding of the structure of the negotiation, the interests of the other party, the opportunities and barriers to creating and claiming value on a sustainable basis, and the range of possible moves and countermoves.
Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Commerce
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7400 - Leading for Results in the Accounting Profession
The course will focus on key issues facing professionals, professional service firms and the entire profession. We will hear from many leaders in the profession about keys to success-both in today’s environment and in the future. A primary objective of the course will be to expose students to important issues that will be critical for success in the future in terms of both personal career issues and profession-wide developments. Restricted to MS in Accounting students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7410 - Tax Research
This course is designed to equip students with the special investigative skills, and the technical tools, techniques, and insights required to analyze, interpret, summarize, and present complex financial, tax, accounting, and business related issues in a manner that is both understandable and supported by documentary evidence. This course has been designed to expose students to the various statutory, administrative, and judicial sources of the tax law. Case studies are used throughout the course to assist students in developing and refining their proficiency in identifying issues, locating and interpreting pertinent authority, and effectively and professionally communicating their conclusions. Students learn how to use several commercially available research tools (LEXIS/NEXIS, RIA CheckPoint, etc.), analytical tools (e.g., financial modeling tools and simulation tools), and presentation tools more creatively, more efficiently, and more effectively.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7420 - Taxes and Business Strategy
The course will provide a framework for understanding how taxation influences asset prices, equilibrium returns, and the form and content of contractual agreements. This is achieved by integrating the tax law with fundamentals of corporate finance and microeconomics. In addition, the course focuses more clearly on the economic consequences of alternative contractual arrangements than on the precise tax laws governing the arrangements. Restricted to MS in Accounting students,
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7430 - Taxation of Partnerships and Flow Through Entities
This case-oriented, transaction-based course addresses the various legal, business, and tax issues arising in connection with the start-up of new business and with the formation, operation, distributions, reorganization, and termination of liability companies, partnerships, S corporations and other conduit entities (e.g., real estate investment trusts and mutual funds). The course provides in-depth coverage of the technical rules of Subchapters K and S and places special emphasis on the identification and implementation of tax-planning strategies available to conduit entities and their owners. The course contains modules on entrepreneurship and accounting for partnership transactions.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7440 - Taxation of Corporations and their Shareholders Transactions
This case-oriented, transaction-based course addresses the various business, tax, and accounting issues arising in connection with the formation, operation, and termination of domestic corporations and their shareholders. The course provides in-depth coverage of the technical rules of Subchapter C, and places special emphasis on the identification and implementation of tax planning strategies available to corporations and their shareholders.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7450 - Corporate Mergers, Acquisitions, Divisions and Recapitalizations
This eclectic, case-oriented, transaction-based course addresses the various financial, tax, and accounting issues arising in connection with corporate mergers, acquisitions, divisions, and recapitalizations. It presents a detailed introduction to the qualitative and quantitative valuation techniques used in analyzing proposed transactions. Students are exposed to the vast array of legal, tax, and accounting issues that arise in connection with negotiating, structuring, closing, and reporting these transactions and how these various factors impact corporate value. Tax due diligence and financial statement analysis are also covered. This course also examines the conceptual themes and the technical rules that govern the filing of consolidated tax returns and compares and contrasts the those rules with the generally accepted accounting principles that govern the preparation of consolidated financial statements. SFAS 109 (tax provision) is also covered in this course.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7460 - Tax Strategies for the Executive and the Entrepreneur
This is an eclectic course that addresses the federal income, estate, and gift tax issues and strategies that arise in connection with executive compensation (stock options, nonqualified deferred compensation strategies, etc.), planning for the death or incapacity of the owners of a closely held business (buy-sell arrangements, succession planning, etc.), gratuitous inter vivos and testamentary transfers of large wealth. The course provides in-depth coverage of federal estate and gift taxes, the generation-skipping transfer tax, and the use of trusts. Related business issues non-tax aspects of executive compensation and business succession planning and related financial accounting principles are also covered.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7470 - International Business and Investment Transactions
This eclectic, case-oriented, transaction-based course addresses the various financial, accounting, and tax issues arising in connection with a wide range of international business and investment transactions. It presents a detailed introduction to international finance (e.g., accessing international financial markets, managing foreign exchange risk, and using various financial instruments), and comprehensive coverage of international taxation and tax planning strategies (including transfer pricing, foreign tax credit planning, Subpart F, etc.). The course also contains a module on U.S. accounting principles applicable to multinational transactions and operations, and on the managerial accounting aspects of control systems for multinational business operations. Students are exposed to international accounting standards promulgated by the International Accounting Standards Committee. The tax and accounting systems of several countries are compared and contrasted with those of the United States. The course also contains a module on state and local taxation.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7480 - Legal Liability and the Regulation of Accountants
This course aims to assist you in achieving that goal by familiarizing you with the AICPA’s Code of Professional Conduct that will guide much of your professional life. The course also introduces you to a web of state and federal laws–including especially federal securities laws administered by the SEC and the newly-created PCAOB, and federal tax laws administered by the IRS.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7600 - Consulting to Management
Consulting to Management is designed to expose students to the dynamics of management consulting and better prepare them to develop and deliver valuable advice that is aimed at improving organizational performance. Given the diversity of business issues that organizations face, the course will introduce students to a common structured methodology to identify, create a framework to solve, & ultimately resolve any type of management-consulting problem. Pre-requisites: Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7610 - New Venture Development
The course will teach students the process of creating, financing, and sustaining new ventures. It will combine classroom instruction on the functional disciplines with knowledge from practitioners to teach students how to think through and launch a new venture. Student teams will work with faculty and practitioners to develop venture concepts and these will be judged on the viability of the venture and their successful application of concepts.
Credits: 2
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GCOM 7641 - Communicating Effectively as Accounting Professionals
This course centers on the vital role communication skills play in the professional success of accountants, who communicate with colleagues and clients about complex issues. The course examines the impact of audience and occasion on speaking strategy; develops oral presentation skills; helps increase public speaking confidence; develops the ability to create high-impact visuals; and develops skill in group presenting and responding to questions.
Credits: 1.5
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GCOM 7700 - Introduction to Financial Services
Introduction to Financial Services
Credits: 2
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GCOM 7710 - Advanced Corporate Finance
Advanced Corporate Finance sharpens corporate valuation and corporate financing skills in a wide variety of cases and contexts. It is intended to extend the theoretical knowledge gained in financial management (GCOM 7710) to numerous applied settings including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, capital structure decisions, and leveraged buyout/ private equity investments. Pre-requisites: Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7720 - Information Management
Teaches analytical consulting competencies focused on the fast-paced financial industry: 1) PROCESS AUTOMATION: being able to automate repetitive tasks to increase individual productivity; 2: FINANCIAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: being able to access & manipulate information stored in organizational databases using commercial-strength tools; 3) FINANCIAL ENG: being able to design & implement financial computations & to think in terms of financial info
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7730 - Markets & Financial Advisors
This course covers the topics of financial engineering and security design, security issuance, structured finance, risk management, and corporate governance. Pre-requisites: Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7740 - Global Finance and Accounting
The course explores how firms manage multinational operations. The course first sensitizes students to the challenges confronting global enterprises (e.g., culture, laws, etc.). Second, macroeconomic issues are explored (e.g., exchange rate determination). Third, we examines the nature & framework of international finance decisions (e.g., investing, financings, etc.). Fourth, the impact of differing accounting standards & tax laws are explored. Prerequisite: Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7750 - Capital Markets
Capital Markets introduces students to the global capital market environment, including the burgeoning over-the-counter markets for derivative securities, and to the valuation of capital market instruments. The valuation component of the course will give special attention to models for structuring and valuing derivative securities. Pre-requisites: Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 4
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GCOM 7760 - Real Estate Investments and Analysis
Develops an analytical framework by which individuals and institutions can make real estate investment and financing decisions. Emphasizes theory, concept building, financial modeling, and practical real estate applications. Uses the case method to illustrate implementation of an analytical framework. Prerequisite: Restricted to MS in Accounting students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7770 - Information Technology in Finance
This course provides students with an introduction to business systems with a particular emphasis on applications in Finance and Accounting. It introduces students to the systems development process and the challenges involved in building high-quality systems efficiently and reliably while providing hands-on skills in state-of-the-art technologies (e.g., C# and Visual Studio .Net).
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7780 - Project Management
This course covers the basic processes related to the effective management of projects including feasibility assessment, resource analysis, estimation of time, effort and cost, scheduling, team management, risk management, and implementation planning. The course is taught in the context of analyzing and managing the design of business processes in support of business strategy including business requirements analysis, process modeling, and design. Prerequisite: Restricted to GCOM Students
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7790 - IT Architecture
This course provides broad foundations for understanding the core information technologies that support today’s businesses. The class provides long lasting knowledge of enterprise architectures, databases, business processes, and networks, at a level of detail that is appropriate for IT managers. Students in GCOM 7790 learn how to envision IT infrastructures and applications that meet the needs of the business enterprise and add economic value.
Credits: 6
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GCOM 7800 - Advanced IT Architecture
Building on the foundations in GCOM 7790, this class fosters insights into contemporary IT architectures trends. Topics include security, components architectures, and emerging technologies. Students envision a business-value-adding initiative using modern information technology, describe their initiative by creating several architectural artifacts (e.g., process and information models), and present it to an audience of tech-savvy leaders.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7810 - Strategic Management of IT
GCOM 7810 develops an understanding of how to manage IT to create business value through a focus on strategy and finance. IT professionals must understand the specific kinds of value created by IT for their firm’s end consumers, and how it in turn produces financial returns. By analyzing a firm’s industry and its competitive position within that industry, students learn how to produce technologies that can impact the firm’s competitive position.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7820 - Advanced Strategic Management of IT
GCOM 7820 is a continuation of GCOM 7810. This course will develop your skills in discovering, describing, and securing management support for new IT-based strategic initiatives. Students will become comfortable in the role of internal IT entrepreneur ’ someone who can see how developments in information technologies can open up new strategic possibilities for how their organizations compete, and who can package those ideas in compelling ways.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7830 - IT Project Management I
This course is designed to develop more effective project managers through its coverage of concepts, techniques, and technologies relevant to the manager of an IT project. To this end, the module is closely tied to the requisite body of knowledge espoused by the Project Management Institute (PMBOK), as well as agile project management practices. Student teams conduct a project retrospective over the course of the module for class presentation. Restricted to M.S. MIT students
Credits: 2
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GCOM 7831 - IT Project Management II
GCOM 7831 is a continuation of GCOM 7830. Restricted to M.S. MIT students
Credits: 4
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GCOM 7840 - Innovation and Technology Management
GCOM 7840 is a continuation of GCOM 7820, focusing on the necessary technological, financial, and organizational issues to consider when developing a business case around a transformational, IT-based strategic initiative. Projects of this sort can impact how an organization pursues its strategic goals, and in some cases may also suggest shifts in strategy to pursue new opportunities that are compatible with the firm’s resources and capabilities.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7850 - Enterprise IT Management
GCOM 7850 teaches IT Enterprise Management using enterprise decision making as the conceptual framework. Enterprise IT Management represents a wide range of activities; students will learn how to develop and manage strategies for operations and business continuity, data management, data integration, process integration, and compliance. Lectures, case discussions, projects, and workshops provide students with opportunities to hone their skills.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7851 - Enterprise IT Management
GCOM 7851 teaches IT Enterprise Management using enterprise decision making as the conceptual framework. Enterprise IT Management represents a wide range of activities; students will learn how to develop and manage strategies for operations and business continuity, data management, data integration, process integration, and compliance. Lectures, case discussions, projects, and workshops provide students with opportunities to hone their skills. Restricted to M.S. MIT students
Credits: 2
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GCOM 7860 - Advanced Enterprise IT Management
This course teaches IT Enterprise Management applications and special topics, with an emphasis on using the IT enterprise to deliver value to the organization. Students will experience lectures, case discussions, projects, and workshops to learn about enterprise decision making, knowledge management, business intelligence, and other enterprise management-related special topics.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7861 - Advanced Enterprise IT Management
This course teaches IT Enterprise Management applications and special topics, with an emphasis on using the IT enterprise to deliver value to the organization. Students will experience lectures, case discussions, projects, and workshops to learn about enterprise decision making, knowledge management, business intelligence, and other enterprise management-related special topics. Restricted to M.S. MIT strudents
Credits: 4
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GCOM 7870 - Understanding Global Business I
This course exposes students to the international issues, business practices, and concerns in their respective global immersion location. Prerequisites: Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 0
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GCOM 7871 - Understanding Global Commerce II
GCOM 7871 is a continuation of GCOM 7870.
Prerequisites: Restricted to M.S. Commerce students
Credits: 4
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GCOM 7880 - Global Immersion Experience
Special Topics in International Business. Pre-requisites: Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 4
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GCOM 7890 - International Capstone Project
International Capstone Project
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7891 - Global Commerce in Context-Europe1
This course focuses on doing business in Europe. Coursework consists of classroom instruction, corporate visits, and cultural experiences to help students better understand the global business environment and conducting business in Europe in particular.
Credits: 6
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GCOM 7892 - Global Commerce in Context-China
This course focuses on doing business in China. Coursework consists of classroom instruction, corporate visits, and cultural experiences to help students better understand the global business environment and conducting business in China in particular.
Credits: 6
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GCOM 7893 - Global Commerce in Context-Southeast Asia
This course focuses on doing business in Southeast Asia. Coursework consists of classroom instruction, corporate visits, and cultural experiences to help students better understand the global business environment and conducting business in Southeast Asia in particular.
Credits: 6
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GCOM 7894 - Global Commerce in Context-Europe2
This course focuses on doing business in Europe. Coursework consists of classroom instruction, corporate visits, and cultural experiences to help students better understand the global business environment and conducting business in Europe in particular.
Credits: 6
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