B.S. in Accounting Online

What is Principles of Management?

Principles of Management introduces business management fundamentals including planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. The course combines traditional management process approaches with contemporary systems and behavioral approaches. You'll develop understanding of management at all organizational levels and examine manager-environment interactions and social responsibilities.

This course provides introduction to principles of business management including planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling of businesses. The course combines traditional management process approaches with contemporary systems and behavioral approaches. You'll develop an end-to-end understanding of the research process alongside skills to conduct formal presentations using technology. The course creates awareness of manager-environment interactions and related social responsibilities, emphasizes the importance of managers at all organizational levels, and reviews key management theories including their historical development.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Understand the research process, from idea formulation to comparative data analysis

• Conduct a formal presentation using PowerPoint technology

• Understand the interactions of manager and environment and related social responsibilities

• Recognize the importance of managers at all levels in all organizations

• Understand key theories in the study of management including their historical development

What is Principles of Marketing?

Principles of Marketing examines basic principles and concepts in the marketing process including market research techniques, advertising functions, and marketing's economic role. You'll explore customer-driven strategies, branding, pricing, sales, competitive advantage, and ethical considerations. The course covers sociological and ethical aspects of current marketing practices.

This course provides a study of basic principles and concepts in the marketing process, techniques of market research, and the function of advertising in business operations and its economic role. You'll examine sociological and ethical aspects of current marketing practices. The course covers key components of the marketing process, elements of customer-driven strategy, marketing management functions, power of branding, pricing strategies, sales techniques, competitive advantage in the global marketplace, and social responsibility and ethics in marketing.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Understand the key components of the marketing process

• Identify key elements of a customer-driven strategy and list the marketing management functions

• Identify the power of branding, pricing strategies, and sales techniques

• Identify competitive advantage and the global marketplace

• Understand social responsibility and ethics in marketing

What is Introduction to Business Analytics?

Introduction to Business Analytics teaches you to address data-driven business problems using analytical tools and techniques. You'll learn fundamentals of business analytics combining business knowledge, information systems, machine learning, and statistics. The course features hands-on approaches with R and RStudio, covering supervised and unsupervised machine learning for predictive and descriptive analytics.

This course introduces you to concepts and applications of business analytics. Most companies collect overwhelming amounts of data, yet gaining insight continues to elude many organizations. Business analytics requires knowledge of business fundamentals (knowing the right questions to ask) as well as disciplines from information systems, machine learning, and statistics. To meet market demand for analytics professionals, this course provides analytical toolsets for addressing data-driven business problems. The course features case studies and hands-on approaches demonstrating analytics concepts used in the business world using leading tools: R and RStudio.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Use a decision support framework to integrate technology that supports systems into managerial decision-making

• Identify and use various business analytics tools to solve and communicate business problems and solutions

• Summarize data using visualization and descriptive analytics

• Apply statistical and data-mining techniques for predictive analysis and decision-making

• Foster an interdisciplinary approach of analytics applications to accounting, finance, marketing, and supply chain management

What is Quantitative Methods?

Quantitative Methods examines business and econometric modeling techniques through Windows-based spreadsheet construction and analysis. You'll learn practical applications including inventory simulation, capital budgeting, decision analysis, break-even analysis, database management, and regression analysis. The course emphasizes using Excel for business environment applications.

Business and econometric modeling techniques are examined through Windows-based microcomputer spreadsheet construction and analysis. Emphasis is placed upon practical application in the business environment. Topics include inventory simulation, capital budgeting, decision analysis, break-even analysis, database management and record keeping, and single and multiple linear regression analysis. You'll develop proficiency in using Excel for business analysis and decision support.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Utilize basic and advanced Excel functions for data analysis, including mathematical, statistical, and logical functions

• Apply statistical tools such as regression analysis, descriptive statistics, and hypothesis testing using Excel

• Present data summaries in charts or tables using Excel

• Implement optimization, forecasting, and simulation techniques to support data-driven decision-making

What is Business Law I?

Business Law I introduces basic concepts, terminology, and principles of the American legal system. You'll explore civil dispute resolution, constitutional law, administrative law, criminal law, torts, negligence, contracts, and remedies. The course teaches you to analyze cases, solve legal problems, and understand court systems and ethical issues.

This course provides introduction to basic concepts, terminology, and principles of the American legal system. Topics include civil dispute resolution, constitutional law, administrative law, criminal law, intentional torts, negligence, introduction to contracts, mutual assent, illegal bargains, contracts in writing, contract remedies, performance, breach, and discharge. You'll learn to analyze actual cases and hypotheticals, understand federal and state court systems, apply law to facts, and examine ethical problems within the legal system.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Report on the major legal principles in tort law, specifically looking at the difference between intentional torts and negligence, as well as distinguishing between common law and statutory law and between the federal and state court systems

• Explain the structure of the Federal and State court systems, and in particular, the court system of New York State

• Analyze actual cases as well as hypotheticals (case problems)

• Solve legal problems by recognizing legal issues and applying the applicable law to a given set of facts in order to reach a reasonable solution

• Analyze and synthesize information from a variety of sources to effectively evaluate and address legal issues.

• Examine real world ethical problems and prepare responses within the legal system

• Review and analyze the elements of making a proper contract and what to do when a contract is breached

What is Business Law II?

Business Law II provides an overview of commercial law emphasizing contracts, sales, property, partnerships, corporations, commercial paper, secured transactions, bankruptcy, and intellectual property protection. You'll evaluate business entity formation and governance, analyze cases, solve legal problems, and identify ethical issues regarding businesses and legal counsel.

This course provides an overview of commercial law with emphasis on law of contracts, sales, property, partnerships and corporations, commercial paper, secured transactions, bankruptcy, and protection of intellectual property. You'll explore major legal principles relating to Agency, Construction Law, Labor Law, Business Organizations, Corporations, International Law, Legal Ethics, and Real Property. The course teaches you to evaluate business entities' formation, rights, duties, and governance structures, analyze cases, and apply law to reach reasonable solutions while understanding ethical issues.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Report on the major legal principles in relation to Agency, Construction Law, Labor Law, Business Organizations, Corporations, International Law, Legal Ethics, and Real Property

• Evaluate various business entities' formation, rights, duties, and governance structures, including partnerships and corporations

• Analyze actual cases as well as hypotheticals (case problems)

• Solve legal problems by recognizing legal issues and applying the applicable law to a given set of facts in order to reach a reasonable solution

• Analyze and synthesize information from a variety of sources to effectively evaluate and address legal issues.

• Identify ethical issues regarding businesses and legal counsel

What is Fundamentals of Information Systems I?

Fundamentals of Information Systems I surveys computer information systems and their relationship to administration and management in modern business. You'll explore choosing systems for office environments, software types and applications, hardware-software integration, networking, information retrieval through the Internet, email, encryption, and emerging trends in information systems.

This course surveys computer information systems and how they relate to administration and management in modern business organizations. Topics include choosing the right system for office environments, site selection and preparation, types of software and applications, integration of hardware and software, networking techniques and theory, centralized versus decentralized and networked information systems, network topologies, information location and retrieval through Internet and World Wide Web, message exchanging through email, message privacy techniques incorporating public key/private key encryption, and emerging trends in information systems.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Define MIS and describe how MIS relates to your future career as a business professional

• Discuss the structure and operation of IT function

• Discuss the terms and concepts of IT

• Explore how the Internet has affected Business & MIS

What is International Business?

International Business explores theories and applications explaining international business transactions and influencing institutions. You'll study social, cultural, political, and regulatory environments; foreign exchange systems; and business-government relationships. The course covers trade and investment theory, monetary policy, and management implications of international business strategy and operations.

This course explores major theories and applications that explain international business transactions and institutions influencing those activities. It studies social, cultural, political and regulatory environments within which international business transactions occur; foreign exchange systems facilitating or constraining transactions; and dynamics of international business government relationships. You'll understand challenges businesses face internationally, examine cultural, political and legal issues impacting international business, and develop insights into management implications of international strategy and operations.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Understand the different challenges businesses face when they operate in an international environment

• Examine the various cultural, political and legal issues that impact international business activity

• Examine the institutions and practices that impact international business

• Understand trade and investment theory, monetary policy, foreign exchange, and factors that enter into determining foreign exchange rates

• Appreciate the interaction of business and government as they relate to international commerce

• Develop insights into the management implications of international business strategy and operations

What is Operations: Methods and Systems?

Operations: Methods and Systems surveys stochastic and deterministic quantitative methodologies for managing business organizations and allocating scarce resources. You'll learn linear programming, transportation models, project management, inventory theory, simulation, queuing, forecasting, and decision theory. Computer-based software tools for management decision-making are integral to the course.

This course surveys frequently used stochastic and deterministic quantitative methodologies in management of business organizations and allocation of scarce resources. Topics and applications include linear programming with graphical and simplex solving, transportation, transshipment, assignment, network models, project management techniques, inventory theory, simulation, queuing, forecasting, and decision theory. Computer-based software tools for management decision-making are integral to the course. You'll learn to apply concepts of process improvement and reengineering while building analytical forecasting models.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Understand the importance of operations to the firm

• Explain the principles of managing business operations and how operations management executes a firm's strategy and interacts with marketing, finance, information technology, and accounting

• Apply the concepts of process improvement and reengineering

• Build analytical forecasting models to predict operational demand, understand the role of the forecasting function, and assess the likely accuracy of forecasts

• Manage inventory and supply chains, including using tools and techniques for handling perishable and nonperishable inventories, and making strategic and tactical supply chain decisions

What is Principles of Finance?

Principles of Finance introduces basic concepts, practices, terminology, and theories of financial management. You'll learn financial management as central to business operations including planning funding needs, selecting cost-effective sources, and allocating use to maximize owner investment value. Topics include ratio analysis, yield curves, and financial risk measurement.

This course introduces basic concepts, practices, terminologies, and theories of financial management. It provides an overview of financial management as central to the operation of a business enterprise: planning the firm's needs for funds, selecting least costly sources and allocating their use to maximize value of owner's investment. Topics include ratio analysis of financial statements, yield curves and rates of return, and measurement of risk of financial assets. You'll understand the role of proper financial management, time value of money, valuation of financial assets, and risk measurement.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Understand the basic concepts, practices, terminologies, and theories of financial management including: the time value of money, yield curves and rates of return, the valuation of financial assets, the ratio analysis of financial statements, and the measurement of risk of financial assets.

• Understand the role of proper financial management as central to the operation of any business enterprise

What is Human Resources Strategy?

Human Resources Strategy examines principles of personnel administration and processes of recruitment, placement, development, evaluation, compensation, and effective utilization of human resources. You'll explore workplace issues, strategies to address them, and understand theories, laws, regulations, and concepts through case studies.

This course examines principles of personnel administration and processes of recruitment, placement, development, evaluation, compensation, and effective utilization of the firm's human resources. Case studies are utilized throughout. You'll understand human resource management components as practiced today, explore issues and problems present in the workplace and strategies used to address them, identify and explain various functions within a human resource department, and understand theories, laws, regulations and concepts of human resource management.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Understand human resource management components as they are practiced today

• Explore the issues and problems that are present in the workplace and strategies used to address them

• Identify and explain the various functions within a human resource department

• Understand the theories, laws, regulations, and concepts of human resource management

What is Business Strategy?

Business Strategy is a capstone course that provides a framework for problem identification and strategy formation within organizations. You'll integrate knowledge from accounting, economics, finance, marketing, and management using case studies and readings. The course emphasizes judgment and decision-making, qualitative and quantitative factors in policy formulation, and impact of social and moral values.

This capstone course for seniors provides a framework for problem identification and strategy formation within organizations. Emphasis is placed on interplay of judgment and decision-making, use of both qualitative and quantitative factors in policy formulation and execution, and impact of social and moral values. The course provides opportunity to integrate and apply previously acquired knowledge in accounting, economics, finance, marketing, and management. It utilizes the case approach as well as readings from other disciplines to develop strategic thinking and managerial judgment skills.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Think strategically about a company, its present business position, its long-term direction, its resources and competitive capabilities, the caliber of its present strategy, and its opportunities for gaining sustainable competitive advantage

• Conduct strategic analysis in a variety of industries and competitive situations and, especially, demonstrate understanding of competitive challenges of a global market environment

• Demonstrate the ability to craft business strategy, reasoning carefully about strategic options, using what-if analysis to evaluate action alternatives, and making sound strategic decisions

• Perform the managerial tasks associated with implementing and executing company strategies, and demonstrate working knowledge of the range of actions managers take to promote competent strategy execution

• Integrate the knowledge gained in earlier core courses in the business curriculum, demonstrate understanding of how various pieces of the business puzzle fit together, and explain why different parts of a business need to be managed in strategic harmony

• Demonstrate ability to make managerial judgments, assess business risk, and create result-oriented action plans

• Articulate the reasons why exemplary ethical principles, sound personal and company values, and socially responsible management practices are important

• Demonstrate effective critical thinking and analytical skills by being able to develop business solutions to problems and opportunities under conditions of considerable ambiguity

What is Principles of Microeconomics?

Principles of Microeconomics examines how individual economic units—consumers, businesses, and workers—make decisions and interact in markets. You'll learn about supply and demand, market efficiency, pricing, production costs, and market structures from perfect competition to monopolies. The course explains government intervention and provides analytical tools for understanding economic behavior.

This course introduces you to basic economic principles and analytical techniques necessary to understand how market economies function and what market efficiency means. It explains why government intervenes and how intervention affects markets. The course focuses on behavior of individual economic units including consumers, investors, business firms, and workers. You'll examine how these units make economic decisions and interact to form larger units—markets and industries. This introductory course equips you with basic tools of economic analysis to better understand the world.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Explain the production possibilities frontier model, the comparative advantage model, and the circular flow model of the economy

• Determine the meaning of market equilibrium through demand and supply analysis

• Examine the strengths and weaknesses of the market system and the implications of market efficiency on the economy

• Discuss the different types of elasticity and their relevance to business decision-making

• Analyze the production function and cost functions of a firm

• Compare and contrast the different types of market structures and analyze perfect competition

• Examine the characteristics of a monopoly, an oligopoly, and a monopolistic competitive industry

What is Principles of Accounting I?

Principles of Accounting I introduces the financial accounting process including measuring, processing, interpreting, and using accounting information for business decision-making. You'll examine principles and methods of financing business organizations, evaluating internal control problems, and applying analytical techniques to identify and solve financial management problems.

This course provides introduction to the financial accounting process: measuring, processing, interpreting, and using accounting information for business decision-making. It examines principles and methods of financing business organizations and evaluating internal control problems. The course discusses concepts and analytical techniques applicable to identifying and solving financial management problems. You'll define accounting and its role in business decisions, explain the double-entry system, understand recognition, valuation, and classification concepts, and learn to use financial statements for calculating ratios and cash flows while using technology as an integral part of the learning process.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Define accounting, identify business goals and activities, and describe the role of accounting in making informed decisions

• State and explain the double-entry system and the usefulness of T accounts in analyzing business transactions

• Explain how the concepts of recognition, valuation, and classification apply to business transactions and why they are important factors in ethical financial reporting

• Define the major areas of finance as they apply to corporate financial management

• Demonstrate how to use a firm's financial statements in order to calculate comparative financial ratios and cash flows

• Provide an overview of finance as the theoretical background for investment activities and wealth management

• Describe organizational structure, functional elements, and interdependence of global financial markets

• Explain the agency problem and the necessity of corporate governance while critiquing regulation monitoring of financial market participants

• Use technology as an integral part of the learning process

What is Principles of Accounting II?

Principles of Accounting II examines identification, measurement, accumulation, analysis, preparation, interpretation, and communication of financial information used by management to plan, evaluate, and control within organizations. You'll learn to prepare financial reports for non-managerial groups including shareholders, creditors, regulatory agencies, and tax authorities.

This course examines the process of identification, measurement, accumulation, analysis, preparation, interpretation, and communication of financial information used by management to plan, evaluate, and control within an organization, and to assure appropriate use of and accountability for its resources. The course introduces you to preparation of financial reports for non-managerial groups such as shareholders, creditors, regulatory agencies, and tax authorities. You'll develop a comprehensive understanding of management accounting processes while learning to apply accounting principles to diverse organizational contexts.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Define accounting, identify business goals and activities, and describe the role of accounting in making informed decisions

• State and explain the double-entry system and the usefulness of T accounts in analyzing business transactions

• Explain how the concepts of recognition, valuation, and classification apply to business transactions and why they are important factors in ethical financial reporting

• Define the major areas of finance as they apply to corporate financial management

• Demonstrate how to use a firm's financial statements to calculate comparative financial ratios and cash flows

• Provide an overview of finance as the theoretical background for investment activities and wealth management

• Describe organizational structure, functional elements, and interdependence of global financial markets

• Explain the agency problem and the necessity of corporate governance while critiquing regulation monitoring of financial market participants

• Leverage technology effectively to support professional practice

What is Intermediate Accounting I?

Intermediate Accounting I provides in-depth study of financial accounting principles and recording procedures. You'll learn to evaluate and prepare financial statements including income statements, retained earnings statements, and balance sheets. The course covers analysis of financial statement components, valuation issues, and proper form.

This course provides in-depth study of financial accounting principles and recording procedures. It includes evaluation and preparation of financial statements including statements of income and retained earnings, and the balance sheet. The course covers analysis of financial statement components, issues of valuation, and form. You'll identify major policy-setting bodies and their role in the standard-setting process, explain generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), understand issues related to financial reporting and ethics, and prepare financial statements from adjusted trial balances.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Identify the major policy-setting bodies and their role in the standard-setting process

• Explain the meaning of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)

• Understand issues and challenges related to financial reporting and ethics

• Understand the objective of financial reporting

• Define the basic elements of financial statements

• Describe the impact that constraints have on reporting accounting information

• Record transactions in journals, post to ledger accounts, and prepare a trial balance

• Identify the steps in the accounting cycle

• Prepare adjusting and closing entries

• Prepare financial statements from the adjusted trial balance

What is Intermediate Accounting II?

Intermediate Accounting II provides in-depth study of accounting procedures and systems related to a firm's financial structure and corporate securities. You'll examine detailed aspects of income statements including earnings per share and presentation, cash flow statement preparation, and financial statement analysis through advanced accounting standards and principles.

This course provides in-depth study of accounting procedures and systems related to a firm's financial structure and the issuing and evaluation of corporate securities. It examines more detailed aspects of the firm's income statement, such as earnings per share and its presentation, preparation of cash flow statements, and analysis of financial statements. You'll lay theoretical foundation for preparing and presenting financial statements, gain working knowledge of professional standards and principles, identify key components of stockholders' equity, familiarize yourself with financial accounting standards, and develop the ability to handle problems associated with current and non-current liabilities, leases, and income taxes.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Lay a theoretical foundation for the preparation and presentation of financial statements of various types of business entities

• Gain working knowledge of the professional standards, principles, and procedures of accounting and their application to different practical situations

• Identify the key components of stockholders' equity and accounting procedures for issuing shares of stock, and accounting for the issuance, conversion, and retirement of convertible securities

• Leverage expertise in fundamentals of Financial Accounting and Accounting Standards, Financial Statement and Related Information, and three categories of debt securities while describing the accounting and reporting treatment for each category

• Apply the revenue recognition principle, capital and operating leases

• Gain increased knowledge of advanced inventory valuation, accounting changes, and errors

• Effectively address problems associated with current and non-current liabilities, statement of cash flows, leases, and income taxes

• Demonstrate knowledge of the requirements associated with reporting stockholders' equity, earnings per share, pensions and postretirement benefits, and full-disclosure in financial reporting

What is Cost Accounting?

Cost Accounting examines how managerial accounting information is utilized within organizations for planning, control, motivation, and decision-making. You'll focus on cost information including accumulation of costs, use for planning and control, cost allocation, and identification of relevant costs. The course covers various cost accounting systems and budgeting techniques.

This course examines how managerial accounting information is utilized within an organization for planning, control, motivation, and decision-making. It focuses on cost information: the accumulation of costs within organizations, the use of costs for planning and control, cost allocation, and the identification of relevant costs for decision-making. The course examines various cost accounting systems, including job, process, and standard cost systems and budgeting techniques. You'll prepare to sit for the CPA Exam, understand different methods for managing costs, evaluate the organizational role of management accountants, and enhance ability to understand the business and regulatory environment.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Analyze and interpret managerial accounting reports that provide both objective measures of past operations and subjective estimates about future decisions

• Be prepared to sit for the CPA Exam, especially as it relates to the revised 1/1/24 CPA exam requirements

• Understand and identify different methods for managing costs and how they impact decisions in the business environment

• Understand the objectives and tools associated with various costing systems including Job Order Costing, Process Costing, and Target Costing

• Evaluate the organizational role of management accountants and describe accounting systems

• Gain expertise in the business and regulatory environment to be aware of the broad implications of accounting principles, ethical issues, and procedures

• Describe the basic elements of the budgeting process, its objectives, and its impact on human behavior

What is Advanced Accounting?

Advanced Accounting reviews the complete accounting cycle and deals with specialized topics associated with an accountant's work. You'll study uncollectible accounts, handling of plant assets, promissory notes, deferrals and accruals, and accounting control systems. The course introduces techniques for interpreting financial statements and analyzing financial trends.

This course reviews the complete accounting cycle learned in basic accounting. The course deals with specialized topics associated with the work of an accountant including uncollectible accounts, handling of plant assets, promissory notes, deferrals and accruals, and accounting control systems. It also introduces techniques used in interpretation of financial statements and trends in financial statements of firms which are not always readily available from financial statements. You'll develop advanced skills in financial analysis and interpretation while mastering specialized accounting procedures.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate mastery of the complete accounting cycle and its applications

• Apply specialized accounting procedures to complex scenarios

• Analyze uncollectible accounts and plant asset management

• Understand and implement accounting control systems

• Interpret financial statements and identify trends

• Apply advanced financial analysis techniques

What is Accounting Research?

Accounting Research introduces you to research of current accounting issues using various online databases. You'll emphasize research techniques using the Financial Accounting Research System (FARS) database, plus databases from the Securities and Exchange Commission, FASB, and IASB. The course prepares you for the computerized CPA examination format.

This course introduces you to research of current issues in accounting using various online databases. Special emphasis is placed on research techniques using the Financial Accounting Research System (FARS) database, and those of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and the International Accounting Standards Board. The course prepares you for the new computerized format of the uniform CPA examination. You'll develop professional research skills essential for accounting practice and learn to navigate authoritative accounting literature effectively.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Conduct effective research using accounting databases

• Navigate and utilize the FARS database system

• Research accounting standards from SEC, FASB, and IASB

• Apply research findings to accounting problems

• Prepare for the computerized CPA examination format

• Demonstrate professional accounting research competency

What is Corporate Financial Analysis?

Corporate Financial Analysis is a second course in financial theory examining problems, procedures, and concepts for managing corporate assets and liabilities. You'll study analytical approaches and financial theory covering control of financial structure, capital budgeting, risk analysis, valuation theory for corporate securities, dividend policies, and long-term financing options.

This second course in financial theory examines problems, procedures, and concepts utilized in managing the assets and liabilities of the corporation. Emphasizing analytical approaches and financial theory, topics covered include control of the firm's financial structure, capital budgeting, risk analysis, the theory of valuation for corporate securities, dividend policies, and long-term financing options. You'll define major areas of corporate finance, demonstrate use of financial statements for calculating ratios and cash flows, understand valuation principles, appreciate the role of financial management in competitive advantage, and understand risk-return relationships influencing financial asset pricing.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Define the major areas of finance as they apply to corporate financial management

• Demonstrate how to use a firm's financial statements in order to calculate comparative financial ratios and cash flows

• Understand the basic valuation principles of real and financial assets

• Provide an overview of finance as the theoretical background for investment activities and wealth management

• Appreciate the role of financial management in enhancing and maintaining the firm's competitive advantage

• Understand risk-return relationship and its influence on the pricing of financial assets