THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY’s Master of Business Administration with a concentration in finance gives graduates the expertise to edge out the competition in today’s business climate. Masters of business and finance lead an organization’s goals to obtain, administer and manage funds. Career opportunities may include loss prevention managers, management analysts, investment fund managers and more.
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Master of Business Administration (MBA) – Finance Concentration
The Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) degree equips graduates with a knowledge of business theories, policies, and procedures that prepares them to assume a responsible position within the world of business. In addition to fundamental business and management procedures, graduates also acquire skills in decision-making, problem solving, and leadership.
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Upon completion of the program, students should be able to do the following:
- Evaluate the concepts of professional integrity.
- Analyze processes that influence the control and management of organizations.
- Explain how key international factors affect business.
- Apply the various theories and methods associated with employee motivation and morale.
- Evaluate the financial health of a business.
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program focuses on relevant business concepts, the application of business research skills, and job-related behaviors critical for success in today’s competitive environment. The MBA program provides the training and expertise needed to gain an edge in an ever-evolving, business climate. Courses in the MBA program integrate strategies and theories aligned with organizational operations and business structures.
Designed to help students gain the skills needed to assist organizations in obtaining, administering, and managing funds by focusing on practical content, research skills, and job-related behaviors critical for success in today’s competitive business world.
Major Requirements | Total Required Semester Hours: 24
MBA 5101 Strategic Management and Business Policy
MBA 5101 Strategic Management and Business Policy (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Examines both contemporary and traditional management approaches to determine strategic direction and business policy. Topics include the development of corporate governance; the roles and responsibilities of boards of directors; and the benefits of using strategic planning processes, including formulation, implementation, evaluation, and a comparison of various strategic planning models.
Outcomes
- Compare and contrast different strategic models.
- Compare and contrast the integral functions of corporate governance.
- Explain how the evolvement of the Internet affects corporations based on current worldwide trends.
- Analyze the processes for formulating corporate strategy.
- Evaluate methods that impact strategy implementation, such as staffing, directing, and organizing.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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MBA 5401 Management Information Systems
MBA 5401 Management Information Systems (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Considers the theory and practice of management information systems, including information requirements analysis, design methodology, and system implementation considerations. Topics include new technology convergence, management of disrupted technology, technology impacts, and business continuity planning.
Outcomes
- Summarize the complexities of information technology practices.
- Describe the role of the information technology professional within an organization.
- Evaluate the process of developing an information system for an organization.
- Explain how information technology systems influence organizational strategies.
- Examine information systems decision-making from a managerial perspective.
- Compare and contrast databases and database management.
- Evaluate the driving ethical issues of information systems.
- Analyze the importance of software, hardware, and telecommunications to the business.
- Examine advanced information systems solutions such as ERP (enterprise resource planning) and SAP (software application and products).
- Explain important information systems compliance and security considerations.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Management information systems: Managing the digital firm (Rev: 14th ed.)
Publisher: Pearson (2016)
Author: Laudon, K. C., & Laudon, J. P.
ISBN: 978-0-13-389816-3
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* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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MBA 5501 Advanced Marketing
MBA 5501 Advanced Marketing (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Provides an overview of advanced topics in marketing planning, strategy, analysis, and control. Emphasis on consumer needs and analysis, market position, competition, and public policy environment related to marketing activities.
Outcomes
- Explore the management of marketing implementation and control processes for organizations to predict business outcomes.
- Synthesize the use of marketing research and demand forecasting to predict business outcomes, and contrast the influence of micro and macro environment factors on marketing strategies.
- Compare new product development and competitive product strategies.
- Analyze consumer relationships and buying processes by outlining the development and cultivation of customer relationships considering value, satisfaction, and loyalty.
- Distinguish between market segmentation, market targeting, and brand equity in the market planning process.
- Explore positioning, differentiation, and pricing strategies for effective marketing scenarios.
- Compare holistic, direct, personal selling, retail, and wholesale marketing concepts.
- Examine the key aspects in managing advertising, sales, promotion, events, and public relations.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Marketing management (Rev: 15th ed.)
Publisher: Pearson (2016)
Author: Kotler, P., & Keller, K. L.
ISBN: 9780133856460
Price: (No information available)
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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MBA 5652 Research Methods
MBA 5652 Research Methods (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Guides students in advancing their knowledge of different research principles used to embrace organizational opportunities and combat weaknesses and threats. Students compile a SWOT analysis and develop an understanding of research tools used in business and industry.
Outcomes
- Discuss the importance of research-based decision making in a company.
- Examine the developmental components of a research study.
- Explore quantitative research methods.
- Describe how qualitative research methods are used.
- Appraise experimentation and observation research methods.
- Conduct an environmental scan of an organization to result in an analysis of its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT).
- Appraise current research tools used in business and industry.
- Summarize how a company applies research methods to solve problems within the organization.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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MBA 6001 Organizational Research and Theory
MBA 6001 Organizational Research and Theory (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Examines organizational theory and managerial concepts of human behavior in organizations. Topics include theoretical and practical application of motivation, leadership, power, and reward systems. Provides a balanced view of the structural and human aspects of organization design.
Outcomes
- Analyze the effects and applications of various organizational structures and levels of authority on employee motivation, morale, and culture.
- Compare and contrast the impact of models of leadership on decision making and change within the organizational structure.
- Explore sources and effects of power on managing conflict within an organization.
- Examine the relationship between reward systems, organizational goals, and productivity.
- Apply the practices of research and theory to models for organizational change.
- Distinguish among organizational design models and organizational structures.
- Evaluate organizational design and strategy within the global operations environment.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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MBA 6301 Business Ethics
MBA 6301 Business Ethics (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Explores the role of individual, business, and government activities related to ethically responsible commerce and socially beneficial business activity.
Outcomes
- Analyze the concepts of business ethics from a personal and an organization perspective.
- Assess the ethical issues facing business leaders.
- Differentiate among the concepts of social responsibility, integrity, and business ethics.
- Explain the significance of ethics-based decision making in the business environment.
- Analyze the influence of corporate culture, including leadership, power, and motivation, on business ethics in the workplace.
- Explain the pressures that influence ethical decision making in the organization.
- Evaluate the need for ethical standards, codes of ethics, and practices in business.
- Assess the auditing process for adherence to ethical practices.
- Analyze the role that culture plays in global business ethics.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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MBA 6601 International Business
MBA 6601 International Business (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Examines current patterns of international business and social, economic, political, and cultural systems impacting the conduct of business. Topics include international business transactions, financial institutions facilitating international transactions, and the interface between nation states and the firms conducting foreign business activities.
Outcomes
- Differentiate international business from domestic business operations.
- Analyze the effects of political, legal, economic, and cultural dimensions of international business on an organization.
- Evaluate policies and factors affecting international trade patterns.
- Distinguish between absolute advantage and comparative advantage trade theories.
- Explore the influence of regional trading groups on an organization.
- Examine economic concepts and indicators.
- Calculate the implications of foreign exchange rates.
- Examine the major marketing considerations applicable to international business.
- Compare the accounting concepts of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
- Explore international human resource management and staffing approaches associated with multinational enterprises (MNEs).
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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MHR 6451 Human Resource Management Methods
MHR 6451 Human Resource Management Methods (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Examines personnel administration for line supervisors and managers and integrates a systems approach to government regulation of employment, employment laws, conflict resolution, and performance-based personnel management.
Outcomes
- Propose leadership theories that could advance employee motivation.
- Discuss the impact of employment law on an organization’s policy on equal employment opportunity.
- Assess the role of culture in human resource management practices within a global organization.
- Develop a human resource plan to address employee conflict.
- Evaluate performance-based review processes.
- Appraise the impact of different compensation strategies that relate to employee motivation.
- Create a training and development module for midlevel business managers.
- Analyze the impact of different collective bargaining strategies on employee morale.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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CONCENTRATION | Total Required Semester Hours: 12
MBA 6081 Corporate Finance
MBA 6081 Corporate Finance (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Presents the fundamentals of corporate finance management emphasizing the development of tools of analysis necessary to assess a company’s financial health and value, allocate financial resources, determine cost of capital, assess investment and business opportunities, risk-return relationships, and working capital management.
Outcomes
- Analyze financial statements to assess a company’s financial condition.
- Formulate financial decisions based on financial statements and ratio analyses.
- Identify the impact business opportunities have on firm value.
- Apply basic financial models of asset to business valuation.
- Articulate capital budgeting decisions.
- Assess a company’s management of working capital.
- Describe implications of mergers and acquisitions.
- Explain the nature of the relationship between risk and return.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Corporate finance (Rev: 3rd ed.)
Publisher: Prentice Hall (2014)
Author: Berk, J., & DeMarzo, P.
ISBN: 9780132992473
Price: $195.98
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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MBA 6641 International Economics
MBA 6641 International Economics (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Presents a study of trade and international economics. Considers comparative advantage, production factors, and how growth is influenced by trade and various alternative trade theories. Analysis of trade restrictions and the effect of trade on environment and political policies.
Outcomes
- Distinguish between international and domestic economic issues.
- Explain why seven themes recur in international economics and discuss their significance.
- Explain how the Ricardian model, the most basic model of international trade, works and how it illustrates the principle of comparative advantage.
- Explain how differences in resources can cause international trade.
- Discuss why trade often creates losers as well as winners.
- Explain the effects of tariffs and subsidies on trade patterns and the welfare of trading nations and on the distribution of income within countries.
- Detail the “dumping” arguments used by domestic industries as a basis for protectionism and explain the relationship between dumping and price discrimination.
- Discuss the role of external economies and knowledge spillovers in shaping comparative advantage and international trade patterns.
- Discuss the causes, as well as the winners and losers, from migration and labor mobility between nations.
- Articulate arguments for free trade that go beyond the conventional gains from trade.
- Evaluate national welfare arguments against free trade.
- Summarize the basic ideas behind “economic dualism” and its relationship to international trade
- Discuss the recent economic history of the East Asian countries, such as Taiwan and South Korea, and detail the relationship between their rapid economic growth and participation in international trade.
- Summarize the more sophisticated arguments for interventionist trade policy, especially those related to externalities and economies of scale.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
International economics: Theory and policy (Rev: 9th ed.)
Publisher: Prentice Hall (2013)
Author: Krugman, P., Obstfeld, M., & Melitz, M.
ISBN: 978-0-13-214665-4
Price: $172.58
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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MBA 6651 International Finance
MBA 6651 International Finance (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Presents a study of economics in the international context of foreign exchange and currency markets and their impact on international economics. The interrelationship of exchange rates and economic factors are also discussed.
Outcomes
- Examine the concept of the current account balance.
- Employ the current account balance to extend national income accounting to open economies.
- Apply national income accounting to the interaction of saving, investment, and net exports.
- Evaluate and discuss the national money markets in which interest rates are determined.
- Compare how monetary policy and interest rates feed into the foreign exchange market.
- Discuss the concept of the real exchange rate.
- Analyze the factors that affect real exchange rates and relative currency prices in the long run.
- Explain the role of the real exchange rate in determining the aggregate demand for a country’s output.
- Demonstrate causes and effects of balance of payments crises.
- Evaluate how alternative multilateral systems for pegging exchange rates work.
- Explain how the goals of internal and external balance motivate economic policy makers in open economies.
- Summarize how the monetary and fiscal policies of a large country such as the United States are transmitted abroad.
- Analyze the economic function of international portfolio diversification.
- Explain factors leading to the explosive recent growth of international financial markets.
- Analyze problems in the regulation and supervision of international banks and nonbank financial institutions.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
International financial management (Rev: 2nd ed.)
Publisher: Prentice Hall (2012)
Author: Bekaert, G., & Hodrick, R.
ISBN: 978-0-13-216276-0
Price: $182.85
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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PUA 5305 Public Finance and Budgeting
PUA 5305 Public Finance and Budgeting (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Presents the foundational theories and methodological tools used in public finance and budgeting. Students apply their knowledge to make use of finance and budgeting methodological tools, such as cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis in the application of finance and budgetary theory to practice. Students also create and oversee public sector fiscal processes. Students evaluate a budget and identify important budget items that public managers must consider in preparation and presentation of a budget. The usefulness of finance and budgeting theoretical constructs and methodological tools are applied to solve real-world public finance and budgetary case studies.
Outcomes
- Assess the relationship of historical and contemporary finance-budgeting theory to real-world public administration issues.
- Discuss the ethical implications on the budget process at the federal, state, and local levels.
- Compare contemporary financial management practices at the federal, state, and local levels.
- Identify political factors that influence and determine financial management practice in the public arena.
- Evaluate a model budget.
- Consider the impact of citizen influence on the budgetary process at various levels of governance.
- Describe the impact of budgetary deficiencies on public agencies.
- Apply practical methods to reconstructing finance and budgeting techniques.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Public finance: A contemporary application of theory to policy (Rev: 11th ed.)
Publisher: Cengage Learning (2014)
Author: Hyman, D. N.
ISBN: 978-1-285-17395-5
Price: $266.14
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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