Business Management Essentials Specialization

This course is designed for students to develop an advanced financial analysis skill set. Throughout this course, students will be exposed to various quantitative tools and qualitative methods to determine the financial health and risk of selected U.S. public companies. The skills developed in this course will have direct application to credit analysis, financial analysis, and investment analysis.

Pre-Requisites: N/A Required Textbook: International Financial Statements Analysis (4th Edition) Software Requirements: Word, Excel, PowerPoint

The course focuses on teaching students how to successfully analyze a business process, research methods of improving a process, and adapt/integrate the improvement. methods into the business process in a prioritized and actionable manner. The goal of the course is to expose students to a universal set of business processes and provide them with a formal approach to improving and monitoring the health of those processes that they can apply in a current or future opportunity.

To succeed in today’s knowledge intensive organizations managers need to understand how individual differences in personality, learning style and cultural values, group dynamics, organizational culture, and human resource management policies shape employee attitudes and behaviors. This course teaches managers creative problem-solving and ethical decision-making, change management, leadership techniques for enhancing social capital and influencing other organizational members, and management tools for multicultural and geographically dispersed teams.

Pre-Requisites: None Required Textbook: Organizational Behavior. (2017). University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing Edition. Open Textbook Library, https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/30 Other Required Materials: Articles from academic journals and other reputable sources. Software Requirements: Microsoft Office Suite & Google WorkSpace.