Fast-Track MBA Program Requirements for Students with an Undergraduate Business Degree The Fast-Track MBA program is open only to students who have completed an undergraduate business degree from an AACSB-accredited business school within the past 10 years. Required Courses (24 credit hours) MBA 6110 MBA 6210 MBA 6120 MBA 6130 MBA 6140 MBA 6150 MBA 6310 MBA 6410 Electives (select: MBA 6160 MBA 6170 MBA 6420 MBA 6510 MBA 6520 MBA 6530 MBA 6540 MBA 6550 MBA 6560 MBA 6570 MBA 6580 MBA 6590 MBA 6630 MBA 6640 MBA 6680 MBA. Tools for the Ethical Manager (3) Management Accounting and Control (3) Organizational Behavior (3) Financial Management (3) Marketing Management (3) Operations/Supply Chain Management (3) Information Technology in the Enterprise (3) Global Macroeconomic Conditions (3) credit hours) Applications of Decision Modeling (3) Corporate Communications (3) The Economics of Industry (3) Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management (3) International Business Field Study (3) E-Business (3) Negotiations (3) Managing and Improving Quality (3) Business/Market Planning Using Online Resources (3) Business Strategies for Environmental Sustainability (3) Project Management (3) Strategic Business Tax Planning (3) Networking and Information Systems (3) Information Assurance in the Enterprise (3) Graduate Consulting Project (3) Direded Study (1-3) Capstone (3 credit hours) MBA 6180 Strategic Management (3) Please refer online to goddard.weber.edu/dp/mba for a sequence. MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION COURSES - MBA Prerequisite for all MBA courses: Admission to the MBA Program MBA 6010. Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business (3) This course is an introduction to business law, emphasizing basic legal principles and the broad application of domestic and international public and private law. Its overriding objedive is to provide a working understanding of the legal environment of business for MBA students. Its focus is on regulatory law, business organizations, and other legal topics of spedal importance to managers of businesses. MBA 6020. Financial and Managerial Accounting (3) A general study of the use of accounting information by internal and external dedsion makers with emphasis on the use of accounting information by managers of an entity. Topics covered include the accounting cycle, the basic financial statements, inventories, long-term liabilities, cost concepts and behaviors, cost-volume- profit analysis, and financial statement analysis. MBA 6040. Managerial Economics (3) This course develops the basic concepts and analytical tools of economics which include opportunity cost, marginal analysis, constraints, and optimizing behavior. Applications indude theories of the firm, its organizational architedure, transactions costs, markets, pridng, and other managerial issues. MBA 6050. Quantitative Methods I (3) This class will give students the opportunity to learn how to write, read, and analyze statistical data as it pertains to business and society. The basic premise of this course is to provide the student with an understanding of statistics as it is used in business and economics. This course will give special emphasis to understanding, interpreting and communicating statistics. Topics covered indude descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, sampling distributions and hypothesis testing. Additional course work in College Algebra may be required prior to course registration as per department advisement and student's program of study requirements. MBA 6051. Quantitative Methods II (3) This course will build on the first foundation course on descriptive statistics by emphasizing inferential statistics. This course will be application oriented and will focus on hypothesis testing and regression analysis. Students will leam how to design a survey and evaluate the data in order to test theories learned in other MBA classes. Students will also leam basic concepts and methods of optimization using elementary concepts in differential calculus. Additional foundation course work in statistics may be required prior to course registration as per department advisement and student's program of study requirements. MBA 6110. Tools for the Ethical Manager (3) This course is designed to be taken at the beginning of formal course work in the MBA program. Students will explore various aspects of moral reasoning and apply these concepts to common ethical issues faced in business. Students will work individually and in groups to explore issues of personal values, self-awareness, teamwork, communication, managing differences, and career management. Students in this course will be introduced to analytical, communication, and technological tools used throughout the program. MBA 6120. Organizational Behavior (3) This is a course for graduate students who have already been exposed to the prindples of management and organizational behavior and who are now seeking a more advanced preparation for the behavioral role of the manager. It offers a critical review of the factors that influence behavior within the organizational setting. Behavioral concepts are emphasized which particularly relate to group dynamics, interpersonal relations, and ultimately, organizational effectiveness. In short, this course deals with the human aspects of management-the kinds of problems most frequently experienced in day-to-day interadion with others. The format will include discussions, group and individual exercises, case studies, and student reports. MBA 6130. Financial Management (3) Financial Management is a detailed presentation of the practices, techniques, and applications of theory in corporate finance. The focus is an understanding of how companies operate and acquire the tools necessary to analyze and evaluate corporate financial policies. Cases and applied research in the form of outside readings will assist students to focus on key issues. The purpose of the course is to assist current and prospective managers in making better investment and finandng decisions. The course addresses (1) the investment decision (capital budgeting) as well as (2) the financing decision. Class discussion and cases will focus on capital budgeting and specifically on the establishment of goals, development of strategy, identification of investment opportunities, evaluation of projeds, implementation of projects, and the monitoring processes. Shareholder wealth maximization is the standard for determining why one dedsion is "better" than another. The ethical considerations of wealth maximization will also be Weber State University 2009 - 2010 Catalog