Courses

• GSM AC 710: Financial Reporting and Control
  An introduction to accounting, and an examination of how it helps in decision-making. Financial accounting (information needs of stockholders, creditors, and analysts) and managerial accounting (information needs of managers) are stressed equally. Topics covered include income statement and balance sheet format, purposes, and limitations; statement of cash flows; analysis of financial statements; cost behavior; use of relevant costs in decision making; budgeting; and divisional performance measurement.
• GSM AC 711: Financial Reporting and Control
  An introduction to accounting, and an examination of how it helps in decision-making. Financial accounting (information needs of stockholders, creditors, and analysts) and managerial accounting (information needs of managers) are stressed equally. Topics covered include income statement and balance sheet format, purposes, and limitations; statement of cash flows; analysis of financial statements; cost behavior; use of relevant costs in decision making; budgeting; and divisional performance measurement.
• GSM AC 814: Financial Statement Analysis & Investor Decisions
  This course is designed to develop skills in interpreting and analyzing the financial reports prepared by firms for investors and creditors. The following topics are covered: 1) analyzing profitability and risk , (2) understanding the major accounting choices affecting financial statements and managerial incentives that influence these choices, (3) assessing the quality of earnings, (4) using cash-flow based and earnings-based valuation models. The course also includes a brief review of some important accounting principles, emphasizing areas that were not covered in AC710. [Lectures, exercises, exams, and project.]
• GSM AC 840: Nonprofit Financial Management
  This course will build on the fundamentals of accounting and finance introduced during the first semester, and allow students to apply that learning in a nonprofit context. Cases will involve a broad array of entities, including charter schools, human-service providers, international economic development agencies, universities, environmental groups and youth development organizations. Students will be challenged to hone their financial analysis skills by examining the strategic financial implications involved in capital projects, growth, debt financing, turnarounds, and collaboration and mergers. In addition, the course will look at how nonprofit leaders build critical financial capacities such as budgeting, working with the board, fundraising, and investing.
• GSM AC 841: Advanced Accounting
  Examines accounting principles and practices related to business combinations and foreign operations (accounting for mergers and acquisitions, constructing consolidated financial statements, recording foreign currency transactions and hedging exchange risk, translating foreign subsidiaries' local currency financial statements), business segments, reporting for local governments, and the impact of the SEC and international standards on financial reporting. Meets w/undergraduate AC541
• GSM AC 847: Intermidiate Accounting I
  Topics covered: 1) Review of generally accepted accounting principles, especially matching concept and revenue recognition rules. 2) Consideration of balance sheet and income statement classification issues. 3) Accounting and reporting issues related to cash, accounts receivable, inventories, investments, intangibles, and plant assets.
• GSM AC 848: Intermediate Accounting II
  This course focuses on the recognition and measurement of issues in accounting related to income taxes, lease obligations, and pension liabilities and equity. It focuses further on the preparation of, and uses for, statement of cash flows; calculating, reporting, and interpreting financial measures, including earnings per share; the nature and purpose of segment and interim reporting; and accounting for changing prices. The course also provides a brief overview of the auditor's opinion.
• GSM AC 865: Auditing Issues & Problems
  Introduces the basic concepts underlying auditing and assurance services (including materiality, audit risk, and evidence) and demonstrates how to apply those concepts to audit and assurance services through financial statement audits.
• GSM AC 869: Principles of Income Taxation I
  Federal income tax law common to all taxpayers--individuals, partnerships, corporations. Tax returns for individuals. Topics include tax accounting, income to be included and excluded in returns, tax deductions, ordinary and capital gains and losses, inventories, installment sales, depreciation, bad debts, and other losses.
• GSM AC 909: Contemporary Accounting Topics
  This course, required of accounting doctoral students, introduces several fields of contemporary accounting research and research methodologies which are not covered in the financial accounting, managerial accounting, and research methods seminars. This seminar is also intended to provide an opportunity for students to study interdisciplinary research involving accounting.
• GSM AC 919: Managerial and Cost Accounting
  This course, required of accounting doctoral students, covers contemporary research in managerial accounting. We review major trends in analytical and empirical research, including agency theory. Students are required to design a research project around a managerial accounting question.
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• GSM DS 907: Tech Pub Dis Kn
  
• GSM DS 915: Pro Seminar 1
  
• GSM DS 916: Pro Seminar II
  For doctoral students in IS, OB, and S&I. Building on DS915, the goals of this seminar are two-fold. First, the seminar discusses the norms, challenges, and experiences associated with management scholarship; included are readings and presentations by visiting faculty experts. Second, we continue building our understanding of leading-edge management scholarship through attendance of and subsequent discussion of research presentations. Students are also expected to discuss and analyze their own ongoing development as practitioners in the field.
• GSM ES 700: Executive Presentation
  A presenter's delivery skills impact the audience's image of the presenter and the clarity of the message being communicated. A combination of lecture, discussion, and hands-on practice and simulation, this course is designed to help you exercise leadership through verbal communication.
• GSM ES 701: Executive Written Communication
  This course is a combination of lecture, discussion, and hands-on practice. It's designed to help you exercise leadership through writing and understand how strategies of written communication are an essential aspect of effective management, working relationships in the network era, and overall business strategy.
• GSM ES 707: Managing Career Growth
  The MBA is simply a step along the path of a career. It provides the skills and tools necessary to take many steps forward, but you must manage where those steps lead and how. Managing Career Growth will provide you the understanding of how to managing your own career going forward. The class will cover: -Career self-assessment (interests, values and skills) -Networking and developmental relationships -Career management/advancement strategies -Developing your career marketing plan and professional portfolio. All with the purpose of providing a foundation to not only manage your next steps but continuously assess, network, market and manage yourself. You are indeed a business of one and you are the one responsible for managing that business. Students who took ES711, ES713, ES715 or ES717 may not take this course.
• GSM ES 740: Career Management
  The Career Management course is jointly sponsored by the faculty, the Feld Career Center staff, and student clubs. This professional development course is designed to assist you in transforming your personal interests into professional goals, and these goals into an MBA level, candidate-driven internship and job search. The Career Management course integrates a set of complementary resources and activities: self-assessment, career management tools, skill building opportunities, and active involvement in a career development community. The overall objective is to help you: 1. Determine your professional goals, 2. Develop and implement a plan for achieving them, 3. Acquire the specific skills and experiences needed to become market ready, and 4. Build your personal brand and professional network.
• GSM ES 741: Career Community I
  Early in semester 1, students will enroll in one section of ES741 that best aligns with their career interests and needs (ES741). There are nine career communities to choose from, as listed in the syllabus for ES740. Each Career Community will have a minimum of two meetings during each semester. Students will enroll in ES742 for second semester, and ES743 for the third semester. Generally, students will sign up for the same Career Community each term, unless they decide that another community aligns better with their evolving career interests and needs. Credit for participation in a Career Community is given for ES743 as students near the end of their MBA program.

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