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BA430: Financial Management

Course Description:

Emphasis will be placed upon being able to understand financial information, values, and cash flows. Evaluating investment projects, quantifying relevant risk, assessing cost of capital, developing dividend policy, and determining the optimal capital structure to solve real business problems faced by companies. The course approach will focus on basic theoretical concepts and their application.

Course Objectives:

The objective of the course is to understand:

1. Time value of money concept and its use in valuing cash flows

2. Cash flow and difference between market values and book values

3. Capital budgeting and measures of attractiveness of in-vestment decisions

4. Relationship between risk and return and its implications for financial management.

5. Cost of debt, cost of equity, dividend policy and the cost of capital and their application

6. Difference between financing and investing decisions and their independence.

BA585: Statistical Methods for Business Research

Course Description:

Introduction to probability and statistical analysis and their application to managerial decision problems based on available business data collected. Topics include Descriptive Statistic, Probability Theory, Sampling Techniques, Statistical Estimation, Hypothesis Testing, and Regression Techniques. Exploratory Data Analysis, Analysis of Variance, Contingency Tables and Multiple Regressions will also be covered.

Course Objectives:

This course is designed for graduate students in Business Majors. Students completed this course will have the capabilities of analyzing the data, such as finding the mean and variance from a data set, performing statistical inference from sampling, performing hypothesis testing, establishing correlation between different data sets and analyzing of the variances of the data arising from the industry and business environments.

BA445: Organizational Theory and Behavior

Course Description:

This course offers a survey of behavior within and outside of organizations. It covers issues of individual behavior, interpersonal communication and influence, group dynamics, inter-group relations, complex organizational structure and behavior, and relations between organizations and environments. The course addresses the ways in which organizations and their members affect one another. Issues of motivation, task design, leadership, communication, organizational design, and innovation will be analyzed.

Course Objectives:

To give the student an understanding of human behavior an organizational context. It will examine the three dimensions affecting such behavior: the individual, the group settings, and the structure of organizations themselves. Three particular aspects will be stressed: leadership vs. management, organizational change, and types of organizational settings.

BA 634: Current & Emerging Technologies

Course Description:

This course focuses on the tools and skills needed to evaluate the acceptance and adoption of technology within various types of organizational cultures. The course will show how emerging technologies are identified, how they evolve, and the factors that may encourage or stifle their growth. Students will demonstrate the ability to make sound judgments regarding the selection, adoption, implementation, and evaluation of technologies as they relate to organizational culture, strategy, and objective.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

· Compose comprehensive definition of “emerging technologies”.

· Summarize with a high level of understanding key terminology common to management trends, principles and practices common to contemporary technology-intensive organizations.

· Analyze, compare and assess current and future management models utilized in contemporary emerging technology-intensive organizations.

· Explain how to avoid the pitfalls of emerging technology.

· Create an original analytical research paper that complies with the course writing guides and the APA Publication Manual, 6th Edition.

BA 636: Cyberlaw, Regulations, and Compliance

Course Description:

This course prepares students to participate in the legal analysis of relevant cyberlaws and address governance, standards, policies, and legislation.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

· Identify recent technological changes which have broadened the scope and applicability of legal transactions.

· Using freely available internet sources, search for and download state and federal statutes and case law pertaining to a Cyberlaw subject and cite that law using standard legal notation.

· Describe the legislative process and Court interpretation of statutes by case law with respect to cyber events.

· Identify the constitutional and statutory criteria which are designed to protect rights to intellectual property for copyrights, trademarks, and patents and show how those rights have been protected by Court action in internet transactions.

· Identify and describe statutory and case laws which the government uses to influence commerce on the internet.

· Describe the transition of traditional tort litigation to its use in internet transactions.

· Using freely available internet sources, search for and download state federal statutes and case law pertaining to an internet crime and cite that law using standard legal notation.

· Identify and discuss methods which are used to violate either private or public interest by malicious use of the internet.

· Describe the limitations of venue-based litigation in internet procedures and propose methods of resolution of disputes by new or different technology and procedures.

BA 616: Business Ethics

Course Description:

Principles of ethical thought as they apply to the nature of the organization, work, corporate culture and the role of the individual and the organization in society.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course students are expected to:

1. Review the various schools of thought on ethics and social responsibility in business.

2. Develop critical thinking skills.

3. Provide a means of analysis for cases and ethical issues.

4. Discuss the laws affecting business and its operations.

5. Understand how to integrate law and ethics into business strategy and decisions.

6. Develop personal values and standards and a credo for your professional life.