Quantitative Analysis (3 credit hours)
This course enhances your statistical and mathematical modeling skills, covering the following topics:
- Probabilistic decision making
- Regression analysis
- Forecasting
- Simulation with @RISK
- Optimization modeling
- Making decisions when multiple objectives are involved
- Using neutral networks to improve forecasting
Economics for Managers (3 credit hours)
In this course, you will learn about:
- Economic decision making in the business firm
- The strategic interaction of business firms in industries
- The purchasing and behavior of individual consumers and consumers as a group
- The influence of public policy on market outcomes
You’ll also develop:
- A fluency with the language of economics and a strong “economic intuition”
- The skills to analyze intra-industry rivalry
- An improved understanding of public policy issues
There will be an emphasis on the logical foundations of economic analysis and managerial decision making to promote the understanding and application of various quantitative measures.
Strategic Marketing Management (3 credit hours)
An introduction to the process of creating a market-driven organization. Specific course topics will include:
- Marketing strategy
- Market research and analysis
- Development of products and services, pricing, distribution, and promotion
The course employs lectures, classroom discussion through threaded discussion forums, case analysis, and field research projects.
Quantitative Analysis (3 credit hours)
This course enhances your statistical and mathematical modeling skills, covering the following topics:
- Probabilistic decision making
- Regression analysis
- Forecasting
- Simulation with @RISK
- Optimization modeling
- Making decisions when multiple objectives are involved
- Using neutral networks to improve forecasting
Managing Accounting Information for Decision Making (3 credit hours)
Gain a user-oriented understanding of how accounting information should be managed to ensure its availability on a timely and relevant basis for decision making. The first part of the course reviews financial accounting and reporting while the second part of the course focuses on cost-benefit analysis for evaluating the potential value-added results from planning, organizing, and controlling a firm’s accounting information. The use of cases, forum discussions, and computer support is used extensively.
Financial Management (3 credit hours)
In this course, you will:
- Develop a working knowledge of the tools and analytical conventions used in the practice of corporate finance
- Establish an understanding of the basic elements of financial theory to be used in application of analytical reasoning to business problems
- Explore the interrelationship among corporate policies and decisions
Your coursework will include problem sets, study group preparation of executive summary memos and critiques, and the use of PC spreadsheets to develop a planning model for a case focusing on funds requirement.
Aspects of Practice Transitions (3 credit hours)
This course is designed to serve as a guide through the process of joining a practice as an associate or adding an associate as a practicing doctor. We help students understand and analyze a practice’s financial statements. Students will learn the preferred mechanisms for practice transfer, the assessment of a practice’s lifecycle, the process of establishing true costs for adding associate doctors, strategies for practice growth, associate recruitment/pay options, practice valuation, and common contractual elements to consider.
