Business Administration and Management -MBA Online Masters program at Bellevue University

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As a graduate of the MBA program, you will have built a substantive portfolio and be prepared to:.

Use problem solving skills to critically assess business performance in an international context.

Analyze human capital dynamics and management tactics used to achieve business strategies.

Integrate industry and discipline-specific problem solving skills to analyze targeted business sectors and problems.

Deliver well-formulated appropriate verbal and written communications on business performance, requirements, and outcomes.

Requirements (36-39 credit hours At least 30 graduate credit hours must be taken at Bellevue University).

MBA Core Requirements (27 credit hours) + Concentration (9-12 credit hours) in order of study.

Course numbers MBA 500, 520, and 641 may be waived under certain conditions.

Students develop their knowledge of fundamental business functions and processes, including management of human capital, marketing, operations, and finance, applying this knowledge to realistic business problems in a variety of organizational settings. These business problems address ethical, economic, social, and other environmental factors that impact the creation of value for customers, markets, and society, both domestically and globally. Emphasis is placed on developing effective strategic decision making and communication skills. MBA 500 Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

Students develop skills necessary to understand the performance impact on financial statements and how economic events such as operating activities, corporate investments, and financing transactions affect the three main financial statements the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Cross-listed with MSF 520 MBA 520 Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

This course focuses on the human and structural aspects of organizational management at the individual, group, and organization levels. Students assess, evaluate and apply evidence-based management practices and theory that can lead to tangible organizational performance outcomes, such as increased job satisfaction and organizational commitment, increased revenue and profits, improved motivation and conflict resolution techniques, greater work-life balance, and enhanced leadership effectiveness. Prerequisite: MBA 500.

The use of a variety of business analytics techniques, including quantitative and qualitative descriptive analysis tools, to support informed decision-making serves as a major focus of this course. Techniques addressed include tabular and graphical displays of data such as the bar chart and histogram, numerical measures such as the mean and standard deviation, and linear regression. Critical evaluation of actual business scenarios will be conducted during this course. Cross-listed with MSF 624. MBA 624 Prerequisite: MBA 500 and MBA 520.

Prerequisite: MBA 500.

Students develop the knowledge of accounting information concepts that enable them to develop recommendations for improving the performance of the firm. Students gain skills and knowledge in topics such as cost-volume-profit analysis and the balanced scorecard to support budget preparation and variance analysis to improve company performance. Cross-listed with MSF 641 Prerequisite: MBA 624.

Students acquire knowledge, skills, and abilities to evaluate financial performance and strategies to utilize limited resources to optimize the financial value of a business. Key elements of the course include assessing financial performance, understanding financial and economic markets, computing the value of money and cash flows over time, performing risk analysis and project valuation. Cross-listed with MSF 655 MBA 655 Prerequisite: MBA 624.

Emphasis is placed on the operational activities that successfully create and deliver products and services across the entire chain from the raw material to the final product. Included is the development of those performance skills which enhance the supplier and customer relationships and the order fulfillment activities. Techniques addressed include demand forecasting, quality performance analysis, and productivity measurement. Prerequisite: MBA 641 and MBA 655 Prerequisite for SCMTMS: MBA 670 and MSCM 550.

The capstone course provides an opportunity to integrate and apply strategic performance principles presented in the MBA program. Experience is gained in formulating key strategic, financial, marketing and operational decisions necessary to operate a successful business and measure their success in doing so. MBA 680 Prerequisite: MBA 615, MBA 635 and MBA 675.

You are required to declare your concentration during the first term of your MBA program.

The Accounting Concentration is designed to provide you the opportunity to explore advanced topics in the accounting field. This Concentration alone will not qualify you to sit for the CPA exam. You may take the accounting electives without pursuing the entire Concentration.

This course covers advanced financial accounting topics relevant to professional exams as well as practice. Such topics include: Business combinations and consolidated financial reporting foreign currency transactions hedging and related derivatives partnerships and LLCs and SEC reporting. Authoritative accounting research is also incorporated. Prerequisite: AC 312.

Of the current reporting standards. The course reviews the historical development of accounting theory and explores its impact on current accounting practices. Current reporting standards are reviewed regarding the theoretical rational for such and the tie-in to the conceptual framework. Other areas of discussion will include the policy making process, contemporary accounting issues, and some comparisons of U.S. reporting standards to international accounting requirements. Prerequisite: AC 312.

This course is a continuation of cost accounting and is designed for those interested in gaining a thorough knowledge of advanced managerial and cost accounting concepts and practices. Topics include current managerial and cost accounting issues such as the balanced scorecard, responsibility accounting, inventory and production management, strategic cost management, capital budgeting, and quality and performance measurement. Prerequisite: AC 321 Cost Accounting or MBA 641.

This class covers the creation, formation, and liquidation of C corporations as well as tax practices and ethics as they relate to C corporations. Also covered will be taxation across state lines, business tax credits, and international tax. Prerequisite: AC 1 or AC 631.

This course addresses auditing standards and techniques as prescribed by the PCAOB and ASB. Emphasis is placed on internal control, developing audit evidence, evaluating audit risks, and preparing audit reports. Also covered are professional standards, ethics, and legal liability internal, operational, and compliance auditing and other assurance services such as reviews, compilations, and agreed-upon procedures. 12 credit hours of accounting including AC 312.

This course integrates basic auditing with an advanced application of related concepts and standards. Topics of exploration may include: Audit sampling, ethical dilemmas, professional discipline, fraud detection, special purpose frameworks, and particular assurance engagements, among others. Prerequisite: AC 442.

This course examines current concepts in accounting information systems emphasizing the security control of systems as well as digital forensic information and investigation. Focus is placed on security and control issues from an accounting and auditing perspective along with the related technology issues and the impact on business cycles. The processing of accounting data and the controls necessary to assure accuracy and reliability of data by a responsive accounting system are also emphasized. Technology issues used by auditors and forensic accountants and highlighted by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (i.e. data mining) are an integral part of this course. Prerequisite: AC312.

This course covers governmental accounting and the various funds associated with non-profit enterprises including a study of accounting techniques as applied to federal and state governmental units, public school systems, colleges and universities, hospitals, voluntary and welfare organizations, and other non-profit organizations. Students will be expected to prepare basic financial statements for a sample government using a dual-track computerized accounting software package. Prerequisite: AC 312.

This course provides an opportunity for students to expand their learning by gaining experience in the workplace.

The Acquisition and Contract Management Concentration enables members of the federal acquisition community and its contracting partners to enhance their acquisition managerial practices. Additional emphasis is placed on understanding the acquisition process, as well as statutory and regulatory requirements.

Note: A Level 2 or Level 3 DAWIA certification for the contracting career field through DAU FAI may be used to transfer 9 credit hours to the MBA Acquisition and Contract Management Concentration.

This course focuses on the pre-award business and contracting knowledge necessary to process complex procurement with an emphasis on the following topics: business relationship, strategic sourcing, risk management, contract financing, subcontracting plans, source selection, and contractor responsibility. Students can apply the knowledge learned to practical exercises involving acquisition planning, source selection, and award of technical support service contracts. Additional topics include service case communication, teaming and leadership, customer analysis, spend analysis, multiple award IDIQ, and formal source selection. Prerequisite: MBA 520 and MBA 624.

This course focuses on the legal considerations in the procurement process with an emphasis on contract law, fiscal law, protests, assignment of claims, subcontracting, dispute and claims, fraud, debt, and terminations. Prerequisite: MBA 520 and MBA 624.

This course focuses on cost analysis and negotiation techniques and topics including cost analysis, quantitative techniques, indirect cost, accounting and est. systems audits, FCCM, profit analysis, and negotiations of acquisition planning, cost analysis, negotiation, and contract administration. Prerequisite: MBA 520 and MBA 624.

This course is designed to provide a foundation of SAS analytics programming concepts and environments. It provides the tools necessary to write SAS programs to perform data management, analysis, and reporting. Topics include creating and documenting data sets, managing and reshaping data, writing reports, computing statistics on data set variables, and performing effective SAS programming. Hands-on exercises designed to facilitate understanding of all the topics are included. The course also provides the basis for advanced work in data analytics and advanced programming techniques for data management. This course aligns with the SAS Base Programming certification concepts offered through the SAS Institute, Inc. Prerequisite: None.

This course offers an in-depth exploration of all the major topics in the field of data and information management from an applied perspective with an emphasis on data warehouses. The course is designed to provide not only a strong theoretical foundation, but also the technical skills required in analyzing, designing, implementing, managing, and utilizing information repositories. Topics covered include relational database model, data modeling, logical and physical database design, structured query language (SQL) implementation, procedures and triggers, data integration and quality, data warehouses and other relevant techniques for addressing big data issues in organizations today. The strategic roles that data and information play in business operations, customer relationship management, business decision-making, and strategy development are also discussed.

This course provides an analytical toolset to address modern, data-intensive business problems. To be effective in a competitive business environment, a business analytics professional needs to be able to use analytical tools to translate information into decisions and to convert information past performance into reliable forecasts. Using a case-based approach, the course provides an of the key concepts, applications, processes and techniques relevant to business analytics. The course makes use of the leading software products to illustrate the use of business analytics methodologies to enhance business decision-making. Prerequisite: None.

As business organizations collect and data as a byproduct of their operations, decision-makers are beginning to proactively and systematically analyze these data to improve decision quality. This course focuses on topics relevant to data mining, which is the process that uses a variety of data analysis tools to discover patterns and relationships in data that may be used to make proactive, knowledge-driven decisions. The course provides an in-depth discussion on various techniques of data mining including predictive modeling, pattern recognition, prescriptive analytics, and text mining. Both the theoretical and practical aspects of data mining are discussed in this course. Prerequisite: BAN 600.

This course provides an opportunity for students to expand their learning by gaining new skills and experiences in the workplace.

In today cyber world, professionals need to understand the methods for preventing, detecting, deterring, and responding to real and potential cyber threats and incidents. The Cybersecurity Concentration provides graduate students with an advanced understanding of the technical aspects of information security. Students successfully completing this coursework will attain knowledge and abilities to operate and manage security technologies. Topic areas include security architecture design, computer forensics, penetration testing, and information warfare. Students entering this concentration are required to have an established technical background and knowledge level.

This course is designed as an of the investigative methods and tools associated with computer forensics. Topics include: processing crime and incident scenes, digital evidence controls, recovery of information, network forensics, data acquisition, and legal and ethical issues associated with investigations.

This course addresses the issues relating to successful information security management. Topics include access control systems, network and software security, management practices, risk management, protection mechanisms, business continuity planning, and legal and ethical issues. The course allows for analysis of current security management models.

This course is designed as an of the fundamental processes associated with waging war in an electronic age. Topics include strategic planning and tactical analysis for target identification, reconnaissance, and tool selection. The intent of this course is to focus on individual, corporate and national forms of warfare.

This course focuses on the architecture and security associated with cloud computing. Emphasis in placed on key drivers which lead to cloud computing adoption and issues associated with cloud computing governance. Additional topics will include infrastructure security, identity and access management, cloud services, data security and storage, and auditing and compliance. Prerequisites: Graduate Standing.

This course provides an introduction to the fundamental components of security architecture. Topics include computer organization hardware, software and firmware components open and distributed systems and protection mechanisms. Discussion also includes certification and accreditation formal security models and evaluation criteria. Assigned projects include designing a model secure system.

This course provides a technical study of offensive and defensive techniques for protecting cyber assets. Topics include security testing, risk mitigation techniques, and threat response. Discussion also includes penetration testing theory, techniques, and tools networks, systems, and application vulnerability scanning risk analysis and response and intrusion detection and response. Emphasis is placed on identification of system vulnerabilities and threats and techniques for preventing attacks.

The Entrepreneurship Concentration is designed to prepare students to design, launch, and grow new business ventures, either stand alone or within an existing corporation, including franchising and outsourcing. High-growth ventures (e.g. technology) as well as socially oriented ventures are emphasized. Consideration of the international dimensions and sustainability of new ventures are also highlighted.

This course is designed to introduce students to the entrepreneurial mindset, including the concepts of innovation and newness. Students evaluate a variety of entrepreneurial activities, including outright ownership, franchising, outsourcing and partnerships. Traits and characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial teams will be covered along with aligning organizational design with the business goals, strategy and business model, defining key roles, core competency requirements job specifications, and recruiting and building the team. Prerequisites for MSM program only: MSM 510, MSM 520, MSM 530, MSM 610, MSM 620, and MSM 630.

This course will deal with the sources of capital for early stage companies and the implications of the decisions a company makes to fund its operations. It also explores issues in the valuation of ventures and how the achievement of milestones can impact that valuation. Venture capital and angel investors are also covered. Lastly, the course will explore accounting and finance techniques to monitor the success of the enterprise. It will provide the skills and techniques to manage the business by the numbers exploring methods successful entrepreneurs use to understand their costs and cost drivers, break even point and integrating these into an activity-based forecast for their business. Prerequisite for the MSM program only: MSM 510, MSM 520, MSM 530, MSM 610, MSM 620, and MSM 630.

This course covers promoting and marketing an entrepreneurial idea from its inception to the marketplace. The course is designed for exploring the unique marketing strategies required to exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. It will also focus on issues surrounding companies with high growth potential, an interest in sustainability and the creativity needed to develop innovative marketing for these environments. Prerequisites for the MSM program only: MSM 510, MSM 520, MSM 530, MSM 610, MSM 620, and MSM 630.

This course is centered on the single-person or family business and the issues associated with business transition planning. The course covers development and implementation of strategy for small businesses, and succession planning for the entrepreneur. It also covers valuation issues and timetables for moving profitably out of a business. Prerequisites for the MSM program only: MSM 510, MSM 520, MSM 530, MSM 610, MSM 620, and MSM 630.

This course is designed for anyone who is charged with managing the day-to-day operation of a small to medium firm. It covers planning, budgeting, payroll issues, business taxation issues and use of tools and techniques to ensure that small business owners can comply with established laws keep accurate records and produce helpful reports for managerial decision-making. Prerequisites for MSM program only: MSM 500, 510, 520, 610, 620, and 630).

Financial knowledge and understanding is highly valued in the marketplace and the Finance Concentration provides an opportunity for you to further develop your knowledge and practical application skills in several key finance areas. Prior study is not required to pursue the Finance Concentration and you may take any of the finance electives without pursuing the entire Concentration. You may take the finance electives without pursuing the entire Concentration.

This course includes fundamental principles and practices of risk management and insurance with an applied focus on risk management processes as well as institutional and contractual details of the insurance industry. Topics include risk identification risk characterization pricing of risk reduction techniques risk retention regulatory, legal and tax implications insurance and other hedging strategies. Additionally, personal, business, and public policy perspectives concerning li