The fourth course in the Financial Accounting sequence providing an overview of consolidated financial statements, non-controlling interest and the consolidation process; understanding the components of comprehensive income, other comprehensive income and accumulated other comprehensive income and clean surplus; an overview of fund accounting; valuing and reporting derivatives and other complex financial instruments. The course includes a research component and an introduction to the FASB Accounting Standards Codification system requiring students to research and opine on highly-technical financial reporting cases.

This course helps students to apply their knowledge of financial accounting, business strategy, and finance in the evaluation of corporations using financial reports. Decision settings include stock evaluation, credit analysis, bankruptcy prediction, and general-purpose evaluation. The course is a mixture of concepts underlying financial statement analysis and their application to real companies' financial statements.

This course is designed to introduce students to the policy considerations that underlie labor and employment law. Students will also develop an understanding of how these policies and laws apply to human resource management. This class will introduce students to the major federal and state statutes, case law, and administrative rules that are essential for effective human resource management. Topics will include: employment contract issues, anti-discrimination law and unlawful harassment (including the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Title VII and Massachusetts Chapter 151B), labor law statutes (including the Fair Labor Standards Act and the National Labor Relations Act), wage and hour regulations, benefits law (including the Family and Medical Leave Act and ERISA), unionization rules, and privacy issues (including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996), among others. Ethical decision-making in the business context and the interplay between law and ethics will be a central focus. The role of sustainable business practices and social responsibility in corporate decision-making will be incorporated into our discussions about law and the legal environment of business. In addition to familiarizing students with the relevant law governing human resource management, the course will also allow students to strengthen their research and writing skills and engage in critical analysis. Application of the material to current human resource issues will be a core component of the course.

Organizations?whether businesses or non-profits?are increasingly reliant on information technology (IT) and operations excellence to achieve strategic goals, drive innovation, and maintain competitive advantage. This course provides a broad survey of the strategic and operational roles of Information Systems Management (IS) and Operations Management (OM) in modern organizations. Over the first seven weeks, students explore how information systems support business processes, decision-making, and competitive advantage. Topics include digital transformation, digital strategy, implementation of information systems, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies. The second half of the course focuses on operations management, emphasizing operations strategy, supply chain strategy, process design, capacity planning, and process improvement. Through case studies and discussions, students learn to evaluate and apply IS and OM concepts to improve organizational performance and resilience. By the end of the course, students will be equipped to critically assess how information systems and operations strategies?when aligned with distinctive competencies and competitive priorities?can enhance the positioning and effectiveness of their organizations.

This is an introductory course in analytics tailored for accounting professionals. Through hands-on work, students learn to ask the right business questions, extract and transform relevant data from an enterprise system, evaluate the integrity of the data, detect patterns and anomalies, apply data analytic techniques, and interpret and present results in order to make data-driven decisions.

This course provides an overview of statistical analysis and inference. The language and methods of statistics are used throughout the MBA curriculum, both in the classroom and in assigned readings. In addition, the language and methods of statistical analysis have permeated much of academic and professional writing as well as media reporting, both inside and beyond the business community. The goal is to present a broad introduction to statistical thinking, concepts, methods, and vocabulary. The course has an emphasis on business applications.

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the area of corporate finance and investments. Students will learn about the basic concerns and responsibilities of financial managers, and gain an appreciation of the methods of analysis employed by them. Students will learn both theory and practice of corporate finance and investments.

An overview of the concepts and language of financial and managerial accounting that covers how accounting information can be used as an effective tool for communication, monitoring, and resource allocation. Topics include the principles and methodologies underlying financial statements and the inherent limitations of that information. Additional topics include behavior, cost analysis, and tools used to motivate and coordinate business activities.

This course exposes students to how core business concepts are implemented in real-world organizational settings. Key business processes covered include procurement (materials management), fulfillment (sales), and production (manufacturing). The class meets in a computer lab and enables hands-on experience, with instructor guidance, to the ERP solution from SAP, the world's largest business software company. Using the system's core modules and data warehouse, students will gain insight into online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP). A detailed case study with supporting data and structured in-class exercises will prepare students for the SAP graded assignments. Students may download the SAP web-based client to their personal computers.

This course is designed to teach future leaders what they need to know in order to build high-performance operations with world-class processes, continuous improvement and innovation. We cover the most cutting-edge methodologies and tools, together with the most important soft skills required, to create lean and responsive operations that deliver the highest quality services and products.