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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