Classes by department
Download as DOC, PDF0 likes166 views
The document provides course descriptions for courses taken at the Fordham Graduate School of Business across several disciplines, including finance, accounting, business law, business economics, information systems, management, system design, and marketing. Some key courses described are Financial Environment, Principles of Modern Finance, Corporate Finance, Fundamentals of Accounting, Business Law I, Managerial Economics, Management Information Systems, Fundamentals of Management, Operations Management, Business Policy, Mathematical Methods for Business, Statistics, and Marketing Management.
Classes by department
- 1. COURSES TAKEN AT FORDHAM GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FINANCE Financial Environment (MBA required course) – Introduces the key concepts in finance and the environment in which they are applied. Students learn how to gauge the financial health of companies and measure and understand financial return in relation to risk. The course also surveys the uses and characteristics of different financial instruments and the function and operation of global financial markets. Principals of Modern Finance (Finance program required course) – Provides a conceptual framework that allows both corporate finance and portfolio investment decisions to be viewed and understood in a unified context of risk and return. Examines concepts of valuation, risk and return, diversification, asset pricing, and efficient markets. Options & Futures Markets – Examines the institutional aspects of options and futures markets and discusses the strategies of hedgers, arbitrageurs, and speculators. Provides and introductory analytical foundation for pricing futures and option contracts. Investment Analysis – Provides the foundation for choosing sound investment vehicles that meet investors’ objectives. Identifies the wide variety of available investment instruments and examines their risks and benefits. Studies philosophies and techniques of investing, such as fundamental analysis, technical analysis, and uncovering market inefficiencies. Corporate Finance – Studies corporate finance and its specific decisions. Topics include evaluating capital expenditure proposals, forecasting financing requirements, and selecting sources of financing. The course also discusses working capital management, dividend policy, and contingency planning, and addresses the additional challenges of multinational firms Global Finance – Surveys the structure of the international financial environment. Topics studied are world trade and the balance of payments, foreign exchange markets; the long- and short-term determinates of exchange rates, and the major international financial institution. Explores how the international community adjusts to financial shocks and the role of the Eurocurrency markets. A background in macroeconomics is recommended.
- 2. Technical Analysis – This course is designed to inform students about how the markets and individual stocks behave (i.e., technical analysis), and how they differ from the economy and individual companies (i.e., fundamental analysis). The goal is to demonstrate how technical analysis augments fundamental analysis. Four kinds of technical indicators are discussed; they include trend and momentum, psychology, supply/demand, and intermarket analysis. Mr. Philip Roth, current director and past president of the Market Technicians Association, and chief technical market analyst at Miller Tabak & Company, will conduct the class wit the help of other Wall Street professionals, including Ralph Acampora, John Murphy, Allan Shaw, and Ken Tower. ACCOUNTING Fundamentals of Accounting (MBA required course) – this core course in accounting is required of all Business students in every concentration. Provides insights into how accounting information can be used by investors and creditors to measure the results of business operations. Financial Accounting – Gives students an ability to analyze and interpret financial statements. This course focuses on studying the effects of alternative accounting standards and practices on income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flows. Financial Statement Analysis - Gives students in the general MBA program a better understanding of financial statements and the information they communicate on the operating, investing, and financing activities of corporations. Focuses on the impact of financial accounting principles, disclosure standards, and alternative accounting practices on financial reports. Examines and evaluates traditional and non-traditional methods of financial statement analysis. BUSINESS LAW Business Law I (MBA required course) – Introduces the fundamental concepts and legal principals that are applicable to the American legal system, its development, and inherent ethical considerations. Discusses the basis and structure of business contracts; the creation and characteristics of agencies, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations; and the rights and liabilities of agents, partners, directors, and shareholders. Students analyze cases and discuss and solve problems. Business Law II – Examines the legal aspects of business and focuses on personal property, sales, product liability, secured transactions, insurance, negotiable instruments, banking, and bankruptcy. Students analyze applicable provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code and cases and problems on the above topics.
- 3. BUSINESS ECONOMICS Managerial Economics (MBA program prerequisite) – Examines the microeconomic theory and concepts that strive to explain economic decisions of business in the marketplace. The dominant issues addressed in this course are the factors of supply and demand and the relationship of production costs, output, and market structures to pricing. Designed to provide the economic foundation for management decisions. INFORMATION SYSTEMS Management Information Systems (MBA required course) – Helps students participate meaningfully in business dialogues and decisions that involve, or could profit from, information technologies. Because information technologies continually change basic ways of doing business, the course emphasizes the organizational impact of information resource decisions and the challenges in managing information resources. Topics include strategic use of information systems, hardware, software, data resources, networks, systems development methodologies, knowledge management, ethics, and IT in transnational firms. MANAGEMENT Fundamentals of Management (MBA required course) – Presents theories of designing the structure and processes of organizations, as well as the elements of the global competitive environment within which such organizations operate and ways of relating to this environment. Explores critical issues related to the individual and the firm. Focuses on defining management’s role and responsibilities in the continual improvement of quality, productivity, and the competitive position of the enterprise. Operations Management (MBA required course) – Studies the operation of both manufacturing and service organizations with the objective of simultaneously optimizing the quality and productivity of the operations systems. Develops techniques for strategic planning and system design, such as quality control, aggregate and capacity planning, project planning, scheduling and control, material and inventory management, and just- in-time production. Leadership and Change – Prepares students to meet the requirements of today’s economy, where leadership demands a combination of personal capabilities and insights, as well as in-depth knowledge of organizational change processes and practices. Through readings, cases, class discussions, self-assessment exercises, and leader-directed learning projects, participants gain important insights into their own management style and develop essential knowledge and skills for successful implementation of major change initiatives.
- 4. Business Policy (MBA required course) – Focuses on defining an organizations mission, establishing its objectives, developing strategies for achieving those objectives, and assuring implementation and continual updating of long-term plans. As the capstones of the MBA program, this course integrates the knowledge and skills developed in the core courses. SYSTEM DESIGN Mathematical Methods for Business (MBA program prerequisite) – Studies the fundamental methods of mathematics applied in business statistics and operations research. The course concentrates on linear algebra and differential and integral calculus. Statistics (MBA program prerequisite) – Introduces the basic concepts essential for business research and decision-making. These include descriptive statistics, probability distributions, statistical inference, and simple and multiple regression. MARKETING Marketing Management (MBA required course) – Introduces the fundamental concepts and processes essential for marketing goods and services in today’s competitive environment. These include researching, segmenting and targeting markets, and developing a marketing mix: the combination of product, pricing, distribution, and promotion strategies needed to sell a product efficiently and successfully. Issues and variables covered include consumer behavior, government regulation, marketing research, product planning, personal selling, and international marketing. Marketing of Financial Services – Analyzes marketing systems for selling and distributing financial products and services to consumers and businesses. Emphasizes the adaptation of marketing to customers that have regulatory and fiduciary relationships. Discusses marketing strategies for such financial services firms as commercial banks, saving and loan associations, life and casualty insurance companies, mutual funds, pension fund managers, and investment banks. Marketing Research – Demonstrates how marketing research enables the organization to represent the customer in the firm’s decision making structure. Prepares managers to work with professional marketing researchers and obtain customer input for new products, advertising, pricing, and distribution systems. Topics covered include the use of secondary information sources, preparation and evaluation of surveys, basics of data analysis, the marketing research process, and the selection and evaluation of research vendors. Applications discussed include demand estimation and sales forecasting, product concept testing, customer satisfaction analysis, and overall evaluation of a firm’s marketing strategies.