Non-Core Classes
The following courses are required or recommended for one of the tracks or serve as free electives.
Choose a department or discipline:
Accounting
Business Administration/Environment
Decision Sciences
Finance
Management
Marketing
Sports Business
ACCOUNTING
ACTG 540 -- Auditing Concepts
The audit environment, examinations of financial statements, and the audit process. Includes professional standards, audit sampling, and the audit profession.
ACTG 550 -- Advanced Financial Accounting
Accounting for equity; financial accounting and reporting for corporate consolidation.
ACTG 570 -- Introduction to Federal Taxation
Federal income tax law covering primarily the taxation of individuals. Introduction to tax planning.
ACTG 610 -- International Accounting
This course is designed to expose students to the international aspects of accounting and financial management. Includes an introduction to International Financial Reporting Standards and financial analysis of non-US financial statements.
ACTG 610 -- Management Accounting
Management accounting is the study of how accounting is used in organizations to make planning and control decisions. This introductory course focuses on both strategic and short term planning decisions. In addition, it looks at control decisions in terms of budgeting, performance measures and standard costs.
ACTG 617 -- Taxation of Business
Taxation of business entities (C corporations, partnerships, S corporations, and limited liability companies) as they form, operate, and dissolve.
ACTG 618 -- Taxes and Business Strategy
How to use economic analysis as a tax planning tool, thereby incorporating tax factors in economic decisions.
Prereq: ACTG 617.
ACTG 620 -- Entrepreneurial Accounting
Examines selection of a company’s legal organizational structure; compensation strategies for small-business owners; cash-flow budgeting, management, and forecasting; and financial statement analysis.
Prereq: M.B.A. core courses or equivalent.
ACTG 625 -- Financial Reporting
In-depth coverage of the measurement and disclosure principles used to prepare generally accepted accounting principle–based financial statements.
Prereq: M.B.A. core accounting course or equivalent.
ACTG 630 -- Accounting Measurement and Disclosure
Recent Financial Accounting Standings Board decisions; current measurement and disclosure conflicts facing the accounting profession. Includes exposure to governmental and nonprofit accounting issues.
ACTG 631 -- Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation
Examines the role of accounting information in financial decisions. Highlights valuation’s relationship to accounting earnings and book value.
Prereq: ACTG 625.
ACTG 642 -- Advanced Assurance Services
Knowledge and application of generally accepted accounting principles and generally accepted auditing standards systems, design and flow charting, work paper preparation and review, oral and written presentation, and application of judgment.
Prereq: ACTG 440/540.
ACTG 662 -- Strategic Cost Management
Theory and application of management accounting techniques to decisions made under uncertainty in complex business environments.
ACTG 665 -- Decision Support Systems
Use of technology to create effective decision support systems. Understanding how systems can be created to supply information to managers.
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION/ENVIRONMENT
BA 610 -- Strategic Planning Project
The Strategic Planning Projects are part of the experiential learning that characterizes the Oregon MBA. Teams of three or four second-year students are paired up with Northwest companies pursuing opportunities for growth or facing obstacles to growth. Under the guidance of faculty advisors, team facilitators, and outside consultants, students apply classroom lessons and learn what can't be taught in the classroom as they research the company, analyze their findings, and present their conclusions to senior management. The assignment of students to teams is based on their educational and professional backgrounds, career goals, student self-assessments, and considerations of team dynamics and balance. For more information visit the SPP web site.
BE 510 -- Law for Managers
An exam based class designed to prepare accounting majors for the business law part of the CPA exam, but the content is relevant to everyone in business. The focus is on day-to-day operating transactions. Contract law relevant to buying, selling and financing goods and real property is the core of the class, along with some business organization law.
DECISION SCIENCES
DSC 533 -- Information Analysis for Managerial Decisions
Leveraging information to manage risk and improve decisions; data-driven approaches for discovering business trends and strategic opportunities, including techniques for data-mining and analyzing empirical data.
DSC 544 -- Business Database Management Systems
Techniques for structuring and storing business data; primary focus on relational database theory, with applied skills for business users, including data warehouses, reporting, and normalization.
DSC 566 -- Project and Operations Management Models
Frameworks and solutions for managing complex projects and operations; implementing optimal strategies for producing profitable new products and services in the competitive global business environment.
DSC 577 -- Supply-Chain Operations and Information
Strategic and tactical issues pertaining to the distribution and delivery of products and services. Methodologies and systems for designing, tracking, and managing complex global operations.
DSC 588 -- E-Business
Fundamental principles of electronic business; effect of e-business on business strategies, processes, customers, and suppliers; assessing the impact of e-business technologies on firm performance.
DSC 635 -- Applied Regression Analysis
Theory and application of least-squares regression including model selection and diagnostics. Emphasis on managerial applications and decision-making.
Prereq: Completion of first-year M.B.A. core.
FINANCE
FIN 610 -- Corporate Finance & Valuation
This course introduces students to fundamental issues related to corporate financial decision-making and valuation of businesses. The primary goal is to provide a basic understanding of corporate finance. The topics covered include cash flow budgeting, financing policy (encompassing both the financing mix and cash payout policy), business valuation, financial distress, and mergers and acquisitions.
Prereq: FIN 612 Fundamentals of Finance
FIN 663 -- International Finance and Investment
International monetary system and its implications for exchange rate determination. Determinants of foreign investments, characteristics of international financial institutions, and the relationship between international and domestic markets.
Prereq: FIN 610
FIN 667 -- Corporate Risk Management
Analysis of tools for corporate risk management. Includes options, futures, swaps, and value-at-risk; theoretical rationales of corporate risk management; and management of asset and liability exposures by financial institutions.
Prereq: FIN 683.
FIN 673 -- Problems in Finance
Cases dealing with financial analysis, working-capital management, valuation, and firm investment and financing decisions.
Prereq: FIN 610
FIN 683 -- Concepts of Investments
Securities markets; risk-return characteristics of investment media; concepts of security analysis; investment and portfolio strategies of individual and institutional investors.
MANAGEMENT
MGMT 607 -- Sem Entrepreneurship
First year MBA students with a entrepreneurship focus will enroll in a 1 credit E Seminar class. This class is designed as a speaker series but will also include opportunities to visit off campus entrepreneurial firms through trips to Seattle, Bend and Portland. The fall and winter term seminars will focus on idea generation opportunity recognition and feasibility analysis. The spring term seminar will serve as the basis for introducing the LCE's Asia Study Tour which occurs prior the fall term of the second year.
MGMT 610 -- Life Cycle Analysis & Reverse Logistics
MGMT 610 -- Industrial Ecology
Readings, site visits and hands-on projects address key issues of industrial ecology via a) a systems perspective that encompasses attention to the life cycle of products, b) a focus on multiple, connected levels of activity (facility, firm, region, supply chain, consumption), and c) a multidisciplinary approach that places the analysis of industrial metabolism within an economic, social, political, and technological context.
MGMT 610 -- Sustainable Business Development
The purpose of this course is to bring together students from varied backgrounds to appreciate how economic activity impacts the natural environment, to understand the evolution and role of institutions that influence corporate environmental behavior and to learn how a firm can manage its way to better environmental performance.
MGMT 610 -- Recognizing Business Opportunities
This course introduces the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, including identification of high?potential opportunities, gathering resources such as talent and capital, and managing rapid growth and significant risks using principled decision?making skills. Specific topics covered in this course include idea generation, teams, competitive advantage, entrepreneurial marketing, social ventures, and resource acquisition.
MGMT 610 -- Venture Launch/Business Plan Competitions
Most students who enroll in these two courses participate in one or more of a number of national and international business plan competitions during Winter and Spring terms. Others use the course as a platform for launching a venture through traditional financing options. Prerequisite is successful completion of New Venture Planning, participation in the Venture Quest internal business plan competition, and Instructor's consent.
MGMT 620 -- Managing Global Business
Focuses on the problems of operating across multiple political and cultural boundaries. Possible topics include corporate strategy, the role of multinational corporations, and international joint ventures.
MGMT 623 -- Negotiation
Negotiation theory including distributive and integrative bargaining techniques, economic complements, game theory, and alternative dispute resolution. Extensive in-class negotiation simulations.
MGMT 625 -- New Venture Planning
Students identify and research a business opportunity; develop and present a professional start-up business plan that includes market, competitor, cash flow, and financial analyses.
MARKETING
MKTG 610 -- New Product Development
Students will gain knowledge and experience of the process of identifying issues relating to the challenges of product planning, strategy and implementation. The course will expose students to actual business situations relating to brand and product management and enable students to make a more positive and immediate impact on the organizations they join upon completion of their MBA.
MKTG 660 -- Marketing Research
Marketing research as a tool for decision-making: Planning research projects; design, measurement, experimental and non-experimental techniques, analysis and interpretation of data; reporting research results.
MKTG 665 -- Marketing Strategy
Relationship between marketing and other functional areas of a business. Emphasis on case analysis as a means of acquiring both planning and operational skills.
Prereq: Completion of first-year M.B.A. core.
SPORTS BUSINESS
SBUS 607 -- Sem Sports Business
This 1-credit seminar is designed as a speaker and professional development series but will also include opportunities to visit off-campus firms through trips to both domestic and international destinations. For first-year MBA students with a sports business focus.
SBUS 610 -- Sports Products
Examines the creation and sale of sports products, including design, sourcing, costing, product management, distribution, packaging and merchandising.
SBUS 650 -- Sports Marketing
Examines essentials of effective sports marketing. Includes product or property development, legal aspects, segmentation , pricing, and communication channels (e.g., broadcast media).
SBUS 652 -- Sponsorship
Detailed consideration of the relation between sports, law, and corporate sponsorship programs. Focuses on alignment marketing issues, strategic communication through sponsorship, sponsor value, and sponsorship valuation.
SBUS 653 -- Legal Aspects of Sports Business
Examines social responsibility and legal concepts in sports management including constitutional regulatory powers, individual participation rights, drug testing, antitrust, labor rights, intellectual property rights, sponsorships, product and event liability.
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