This course teaches students how to maximize spreadsheets as a data management tool using advanced functions and formulas. Students will learn how to efficiently manipulate, format, and automate data, and use spreadsheets to build customized reports, dashboards, amazing charts, pivot tables and macros. This course is applicable to all business disciplines. Prerequisites: basic spreadsheet knowledge.

This course teaches students how to maximize spreadsheets as a data management tool using advanced functions and formulas. Students will learn how to efficiently manipulate, format, and automate data, and use spreadsheets to build customized reports, dashboards, amazing charts, pivot tables and macros. This course is applicable to all business disciplines. Prerequisites: basic spreadsheet knowledge.

This course is based on an alternative paradigm of sustainability-oriented innovation. Adopting a triple bottom line approach to entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly important as investors question risks in our hotter, scarcer world. The first step is Systems Thinking, mapping the system of a sustainability challenge such as climate change, and learning opportunities for leverage. Next, students will be introduced to and apply biomimicry, a product development process based on biological intelligence, to create a solution for their leverage point in the form of a sustainability-oriented innovation.

This course is designed to bring together concepts from Business Strategy and from traditional investments courses-in order to develop the thinking and techniques behind what is called "value investing." Unlike traditional investments curriculum, however, the emphasis here will be on individual company analysis and stock portfolio construction. That is, although understanding market dynamics remains important, we will mostly look at the capital markets from the vantage point of investors evaluating the investment prospects of one company at a time. In all, the course will develop concepts that help understand how and why stock prices fluctuate-or behave-so badly, and how careful individuals and companies ought to navigate through wildly unpredictable financial markets. In order to develop useful concepts and ways of thinking about the financial markets, therefore, this course will go beyond the textbook to practices, principles, and methods of investing as suggested by such value investing greats as Ben Graham, Phil Fisher, Warren Buffet, and Charlie Munger.

Continuation of Accountg 521. A conceptual framework for accounting for a firm's reported liabilities. Focus on the nature of liabilities, and issues regarding their recognition, measurement, and disclosure. Liabilities covered include bonds, leases, pensions, other postretirement benefits, and current and deferred income taxes. Also, accounting for stockholders' equity, earnings per share measures, and statement of cash flows. Motivations of management in choosing among acceptable accounting alternatives in each of these areas examined, along with the economic consequences of such choices. Prerequisite: SCH-MGMT 521 or equivalent.

A conceptual framework for accounting for a firm's reported assets. Focus on the nature of assets and issues regarding their recognition, measurement, and disclosure. Assets covered are cash, receivables, inventory, plant and equipment, intangibles, and investments in equity securities. Motivations of management in choosing among acceptable accounting alternatives in each of these areas examined, along with the economic consequences of such choices.

This course is designed to help you develop and polish essential career and professional development pieces. The idea is that, whether you are looking for a new job, aiming for a promotion, or happily working in your current position, you need certain items in your career toolkit. Those items include resumes, cover letters, elevator pitches, LinkedIn profiles and behavioral interviewing techniques. We'll use assigned readings, instructional videos, and other guidelines to establish criteria for meeting today's standards. Rubrics establish criteria for meeting expectations of each assignment and provide a framework for instructor feedback. Discussions are optional. Successful completion of the course is based on quality submission of assignments.

This course is designed to help you develop and polish essential career and professional development pieces. The idea is that, whether you are looking for a new job, aiming for a promotion, or happily working in your current position, you need certain items in your career toolkit. Those items include resumes, cover letters, elevator pitches, LinkedIn profiles and behavioral interviewing techniques. We'll use assigned readings, instructional videos, and other guidelines to establish criteria for meeting today's standards. Rubrics establish criteria for meeting expectations of each assignment and provide a framework for instructor feedback. Discussions are optional. Successful completion of the course is based on quality submission of assignments.

This course is designed to help you develop and polish essential career and professional development pieces. The idea is that, whether you are looking for a new job, aiming for a promotion, or happily working in your current position, you need certain items in your career toolkit. Those items include resumes, cover letters, elevator pitches, LinkedIn profiles and behavioral interviewing techniques. We'll use assigned readings, instructional videos, and other guidelines to establish criteria for meeting today's standards. Rubrics establish criteria for meeting expectations of each assignment and provide a framework for instructor feedback. Discussions are optional. Successful completion of the course is based on quality submission of assignments.

This course explores key issues in fixed income markets. It develops tools for valuing and modeling the risk exposures of fixed income securities and their derivatives.