Financial Acumen

ACC 611 – Accounting for Managers

• Demonstrate proficiency in basic financial, tax and managerial accounting skills necessary to be an effective manager and improve internal business decisions
• Integrate accounting knowledge and knowledge from other business disciplines to enhance ability to solve both structured and unstructured accounting and related business problems
• Develop research and quantitative skills that facilitate decision making and communicate accounting implications within professional contexts
• Identify accounting and related business ethical solutions to promote long-term value creation at organizations through a stakeholder management framework that integrates integrity, leadership, and transparency

BUS – 647 Business Risk Management

• Understand how risk and return relate to each other for an organization through setting a risk appetite and viewing business as a portfolio of risks and opportunities managed around the appetite to achieve desired returns
• Examine the role C-Suite and Board of Directors to establish strategies to pursue organizational missions and the role of business processes in managing associated strategic risks
• Learn crisis management as an increasingly critical and distinct part of business risk management
• Apply risk management skills to specific key business processes: research and development, human resource management, information technology, financial management, supply chain management, and brand and image delivery.

FIN 625 – Managerial Finance

• Gain perspectives of core finance concepts used by non-finance corporate managers or reasonably sophisticated investors
• Understand financial statement analysis and core concepts associated with time value of money, debt and equity, and risk and return
• Develop problem-solving skills in contexts that include capital budgeting, cost of capital, and capital structure
• Practice fundamental financial skills to be able to apply them in day-to-day activities

BUS 665 – Business Valuation

• Examine the factors that influence the value of a business
• Learn data-driven valuation techniques used in corporate finance, including mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings
• Develop skills for in-depth firm and industry analyses (i.e., due diligence), strategic positioning, and valuation
• Practice communicating results to external constituencies