18 courses with the subject MBA, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
This course is designed to introduce students who have not had accounting courses. The course fosters an understanding of the basic concepts of financial accounting, including accounting information systems. Only applicable for students who require leveling course work.
The purpose of this course is to provide foundations in management and marketing for students who have entered the program with limited exposure to management and marketing. The course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the basis for management theory and marketing. Only applicable for students who require leveling coursework.
This is a course in advanced managerial accounting, focusing on accounting methods and techniques useful in making business decisions. Analysis and interpretation of official statements, analysis of cash flow, cash budgeting, revenue and pricing decisions, product performance are among the major topics explored.
Provides strategies that will be employed through hands-on experiences to enhance critical communication skills emphasizing listening, speaking and writing skills as well as individual and group communication strategies. The goal of this course is to develop managers and leaders who communicate in a creative and effective manner, motivate associates and enhance teamnwork by understanding and strategically applying appropriate managerial communication concepts.
This course examines the strategic issues facing organizations as they develop solutions that satisfy customer needs and create customer value. The course examines the processes and strategies for developing and maintaining customer value, techniques used to gather and analyze market information, innovative approaches for developing marketing solutions, the importance of the supply chain in strategy, and other issues that impact marketing decision makers.
This course is designed to build understanding in compensation and benefit administration utilized in today’s business and government agencies. Emphasis is placed on understanding human resource wage scales, placement development, administrative requirements and remedies and benefit administration. The impact of legislative issues, mandates and discipline practice is identified and reviewed.
This course is designed to enhance development of the knowledge, skills attitudes, behaviors, and values required for effective portfolio management. The goal of the course is to increase your capacity to understand asset pricing, equity strategies, stocks, bonds, and alternative investment strategies. Increasingly, unpredictable environments now require investment managers to learn, adapt and take advantage of new opportunities.
Special Topics in Business Administration
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the fundamental tools and concepts of business analytics. Students learn the essential elements of descriptive analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics. This allows students to communicate effectively with analytics professionals and effectively use the information for forecasting and business decisions.
This course is designed to meet the professional needs of managers who have minimal exposure to the law and enhance their knowledge of the legal and ethical environment of business operations. Laws, policies ethics, and decisions based on current case studies are examined with emphasis placed on vulnerabilities and the appropriate techniques of managing risks. Contemporary issues relating to ethical issues, contracts, governmental regulations, employment issues, and human resource policies faced by leaders in cross-cultural settings are explored.
This course examines the use of economic tools for managerial decision making. Applicable economic, statistical and computer skills are studied. Emphasis is placed on microeconomic theory of organizations and its application.
This course is designed to identify and analyze factors that contribute to the success of new business ventures. Major topics include risk assessment and management, leadership skills, sources of funding and the development of a business plan. Case studies of successful and unsuccessful ventures will be analyzed.
This course promotes the awareness of the operation and supply chain management techniques available for improving the organizational structures which create and deliver value to customers. Students learn key foundational concepts of planning, sourcing, making, delivering, and the expected financial return. Topics include project management, product design, process analysis, electronic commerce, and enterprise resource planning systems. Emphasis is placed on the supply chain.
This course is a reinforcement of core knowledge areas of project management, project selection, project organization, defining projects, risk management, resource scheduling, accelerating projects, leadership, team building, outsourcing, and monitoring progress.
This course integrates the formulation of an organization’s strategic plan with the process of implementation of business policies. Students use a culmination of business theories, practices, strategies, financial, and economic application learned in this and other courses to design strategic plans to assess a total organization and what it must do to compete successfully in the global environment. Case studies will be used to enhance the understanding of strategy concepts and practices. This course is designed to be taken near or at the completion of the MBA program and the major field test will be administered to students in this class. (To be taken with the final 12 credits.)
This course provides students with a step by step selling process. Students learn and understand the order of the steps and how the steps interact with each other. Sales force effectiveness with a strong ethical focus is learned.
This is course is designed to enhance the development of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviors, and values required for one to become an effective, inspirational leader. In addition to case studies, interaction with successful business executives provides students with realistic models of leadership. (To be taken with the final 12 credits.)
Source: Alvernia University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
