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BUS 6200 - Finance and Accounting

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
In this course, students cover key financial concepts, identify the financial decisions confronting organizations, and learn to analyze an organization’s status using financial tools and techniques. It includes acquiring a knowledge of and working with the financial statement as well as the principal aspects of financial planning and control. Program and organizational budgets and the budget process are included, as well as the evaluation of spending proposals. Students also learn the role of financial planning in an organization’s strategic planning process, including cash flow presentation and analysis, capital investment decision-making and both long-term and short-term financial decision-making. (prereq: admission to graduate program)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Develop the financial and accounting skills managers need to use in nonfinancial roles
  • Identify and relate to the role financial management plays in the management of today’s business organization
  • Work with the 3 key financial statements, knowing what they report, and how to use them to make better decisions
  • Recognize and use cash flow concepts in decision-making
  • Perform business financial planning including the preparation of budgets and pro-forma-financials
  • Expand the concepts of Time Value of Money and use these in the making of investment decisions
  • Identify the concept of Cost of Capital and the various related sources of capital available to business, both short-term and long-term
  • Apply financial tools and techniques to make sound business decisions
Prerequisites by Topic
  • None
Course Topics
  • Introduction to finance
  • Transaction processing
  • Financial analysis
  • Supply chains and working capital management
  • Review of time value of money
  • Capital budgeting
  • Project budgeting
  • Cash flow estimation
  • Risk assessment
  • Risk and return
  • Capital markets and investments
  • Cost of capital
  • Capital structure decisions
Coordinator
Carol Mannino


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