70-122
Introduction to Accounting
Spring
and Fall: 9 units
This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary for the student to understand financial statements and financial records and make use of the information for management and investment decisions. Topics include an overview of financial statements and business decisions; the balance sheet, the income statement, and the cash flow statement; sales revenue, receivables, and cash; cost of goods sold and inventory; long-lived assets and depreciation, and amortization; current and long-term liabilities; owners? equity; investments in other corporations; an introduction to financial statement analysis; and international issues dealing with financial statements.
70-391
Finance
Fall: 9 units
The course examines the role of the financial manager in the overall management and control of a firm. Stress is placed on the use of analytical models for improving the decision-making process. Both the short-term management of working capital and the long-term planning of capital structure and investment strategy are covered.
Prerequisites: (21-257 or 21-292), 70-122, (36-202, 36-226, 70-207, 36-247, or 36-310).
90-717
Professional Writing
6 Units
Enrollment limited to 25 students per section
Successful policy and management professionals constantly use writing to inform, persuade and motivate other professionals and, specifically, to gain acceptance of ideas and decisions, many that lead to contracts, grants, and promotions. This course develops a student's ability to write effectively for professional audiences.
The course is rhetorical in its approach: It is taught in the context of problem solving and critical thinking and it analyzes organizational problems based on the interrelationships of audience, purpose, form, social/organizational context and strategic thinking.
90-718
Professional Speaking
6 units
As a managers and analysts of public policy, you will explain new procedures and advocate specific policies to a variety of listeners. The purpose of Professional Speaking 90-718 is to refine your ability to verbally present and visually display specialized knowledge so that its significance for listeners is clear.
Assignments in Professional Speaking focus on organizational skills, argumentation, extemporaneous delivery, and use of computer graphics. Each presentation is an exercise in "thinking aloud." Presenters are asked to identify the outcomes they want to achieve, cite sources of information they use, and design visual aids that reinforce major points of their presentations.
90-729
Organizational Design and Implementation
Fall: 6 units
This course draws on insights and knowledge about organizational behavior with an eye toward using such information for managing in complex organizations. It is intended to provide managers with skills and perspectives that will enable them to work successfully in organizations. Specific topics will include work motivation, leadership, job design, biases in managerial decision making, understanding group processes, building bases of power in organizations, managing conflict, and the relationship between the organization and its environment.