MBA Survey Course Descriptions

ACC 8303 Survey of Accounting. Three hours lecture. Introduction to financial and managerial accounting: including accounting process, cash flow, elements, business organizations, analysis of management reports and financial statements, cost planning and control.


BQA 8443 Statistical Analysis for Business Decision Making. Three hours lecture. Review of descriptive statistics, parametric inference procedures, analysis of variance, regression, non parametric methods; business problem formulation for computer analysis using statistical packages.

MGT 8063 Survey of Management. Three hours lecture. Survey of management principles and techniques including: objective, policies, functions, leadership, organization, and production control procedures and systems as applied to all fields of business.

EC 8043 Survey of Economics. Three hours lectures. Introduction to macro and microeconomics, national income accounts, monetary system, macroeconomic policy, international trade, supply and demand, distribution of income, markets, pricing, and output.


FIN 8052 Survey of Finance. Two hours lecture. Survey of financial management, analysis, planning, controls, sources/uses of funds, capital budgeting, and working capital with word processing, spreadsheet and database applications.

MKT 8072 Survey of Marketing. Two hours lecture. Survey of product, price, promotion, and distribution decisions in for-profit and non-profit settings; external environmental factors affecting marketing decisions; focus on strategic decision making.


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