Subject Code: BUS, ACCT, FIN, MGT, MKT • Section 9.12
Undergraduate courses offered by the faculty in Business Administration, supporting major curricula, academic minors, and the Alkimi Core.
Catalog Documentation
Courses in Business Administration are designed around rigorous empirical, theoretical, and applied principles. Coursework builds systematically from 100-level introductory surveys through 400-level advanced capstones and research seminars.
Prerequisites must be completed with a grade of C- or higher (unless specified otherwise by the academic department). Students who have not satisfied course prerequisites may only enroll with explicit written permission of the instructor and department chair.
Catalog Citation
Official descriptions, credit distributions, and prerequisites authorized by the Faculty Senate.
Subject Summary
Complete Listings
Introduction to financial reporting, accounting cycle, transaction recording, balance sheets, income statements, cash flows, inventory valuation, and corporate equity.
Internal cost accounting systems, job-order and process costing, cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting, variance analysis, and managerial decision modeling.
Constitutional law, tort liability, contract formation, commercial paper, agency, business associations, regulatory compliance, antitrust, and ethical corporate governance.
Financial analysis, time value of money, discounted cash flow valuation, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, and working capital management.
Management theory, organizational structures, strategic planning, motivation, leadership dynamics, team decision making, change management, and corporate culture.
Target marketing, market segmentation, consumer behavior, market research, product life cycles, pricing dynamics, promotional campaigns, and global distribution.
Role of information systems in competitive business strategy, enterprise systems (ERP/CRM), relational business databases, business intelligence, and predictive dashboard analytics.
Integrative senior capstone utilizing comprehensive case studies and business simulation games to synthesize accounting, financial, marketing, and operational strategies into cohesive corporate competitive advantages.
