Examines the use of management accounting systems to solve problems and manage activities in an organization. Blending contemporary theory with practical applications and actual company experiences, the course provides a framework for understanding management accounting and control systems and how their design and operation create value for the organization.

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Focuses on information technology management in the workplace. The course explores the role of information technology as a tool for communication and control of all functions of product or service providers. IT is examined from a variety of viewpoints including its position in the digital economy, concepts and management, and strategic information systems used to gain competitive advantage. Ethical issues such as abuse by employees and preservation of privacy are also examined.

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Analyzes traditional and emergent practices in marketing to the global consumer. Learners examine key marketing concepts such as branding, target marketing, and consumer behavior in the context of cultural markets, alternative messaging, and product mutation and migration.

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Explores foundational theories, models, and applications of quantitative analysis in business. Examines key topics including hypothesis formulation and testing, regression models, analysis of variance, correlation analysis, and the estimation of non-linear models. Learners apply multivariate analysis to business problems in marketing, finance, and economics.

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Examines change and transformation in global organizations. Learners explore theories, models, and methods of influencing, managing, and measuring change. Key topics include origins of change, change as a strategic asset, and managing change in chaos. Study includes organizational adaptation and adoption models associated with organizational productivity.

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Financial analysis strategies, methods, and tools involved with corporate financial management theory. Learners examine accounting data in financial analysis, including financial ratios, and analyze relevant corporate financial documents. Key topics include time value of money, capital budgeting techniques, cost of capital, leverage, optimal capital structure, and dividend policy.

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Examines enterprise-wide workforce engagement and management from a multi-cultural perspective. Learners study how people make decisions, learn, solve problems, innovate and create human synergies to increase productivity. Areas of focus include employee expectations and work styles examined from the perspective of varied cultures.

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Survey of the roles, influences and impact of leaders in global organizations. Analyzes significant psychological, sociological, and anthropological theories and models relative to leadership behaviors. In addition, learners engage in supervised qualitative fieldwork focused on leadership best practice relative to organizational productivity, growth, and sustainability.

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Examines executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government relative to business law and operations. Key topics include forms of business enterprise, international laws, business torts, contracts, the Uniform Commercial Code, negotiable instruments, bulk sales, and product liability. Learners also study employment, intellectual property, securities regulations, and financial reporting and disclosure regulations.

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Examines management decisions concerning real options, cost determination, pricing, and market entry and exit. This course also develops and applies models of the world's economies to explain long-term trends and short-term fluctuations in key macroeconomic variables, such as: GDP, wage and profit rates, inflation, interest rates, employment and unemployment, budget deficits, exchange rates, and trade balances.

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Focuses on theoretical and practical dynamics of negotiation and conflict in organizations. Analyzes theories, models, and best practices used in enabling agreement and resolving conflict. Explores the psychological and sociological literatures, with a focus on key organization variables including culture, capability building, power, and communications. In addition, learners acquire negotiation and conflict resolution skills through case-based simulations, and an understanding of the dynamics of interpersonal and intergroup conflict and their resolution.

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Examines the evolution of human resource management, labor, law, and human capital management. Areas of focus include trends and issues influencing the development and application of these elementes within contemporary organizations. Effects of legislative thought and action on today's workplace are also examined.

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An introduction to the legal system as it influences workplace employment. Areas of focus include key employment legislation, interrelation of federal, state, and local employment law, trends and issues in contemporary employment law theory and practice, and the roles and responsibilities of organizational managers in maintaining legally-compliant workplaces.

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Talent management theories, models, and best practices using a human capital management approach. Explores seminal and contemporary talent and performance management literatures and best practices which focus on strategies for acquiring and retaining high performing employees. In addition, learners evaluate talent management models using common financial metrics, including cost benefits analysis and return-on-investment.

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Examines entrepreneurship, the essential component of business building and growth. Explore key concepts including risk and reward, business planning, and venture capitalism. Main topics include market analysis, business identification, financing, market entrance, and growth strategies. Learners create entrepreneurial business ventures.

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Explores the advantages and disadvantages of franchising. Learners analyze readiness conditions and effective ways to franchise. Key areas of focus include laws and regulations, different forms of franchising, and types of businesses that comprise the franchising field. Learners also study domestic and international growth, entrepreneurship, capital leverage, equity creation, and risk.

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Focuses on venture initiation and preparation of a business plan to generate financing and begin operations. Learners study the critical factors involved in conception, initiation and development of new business ventures. Key areas of focus include identification of characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, examination of innovative adaptations, market potential analysis for new products or services, acquiring seed capital, obtaining venture capital for growth or purchase of an existing business, and organization and operation of a new business.

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Explores the unique challenges of newly-formed businesses experiencing rapid growth. Analyzes allocation of limited resources within small business setting. Learners examine innovative adaptations of a company's organizational structure, building management teams, employee hiring practices, raising equity capital, and managing the strategic growth of a business.

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A professional internship experience with a start-up or growth business. Learners create, explore, network, and gain valuable insights into business and the entrepreneurial process.

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Explores three key real estate functions: sales, marketing, and practice building using an interdisciplinary strategy. Examines these functions from practical and theoretical perspectives by comparing and contrasting these elements to more effectively customize market engagement strategies. Key areas of focus in the course include understanding consultative selling skills, data-based development and internet-based social networking capabilities, and networking strategies in stratified target markets.

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Provides the student with an integrated overview of real estate-oriented legal and ethical best practices. Foundational legal, philosophic, and social theory informing real estate law and ethics are examined. Major topics include real estate-based legislation, guiding principals of real estate law, contracts, federal, state and local real estate provision, and the role of ethical thought and behavior in real estate transactions and client engagement.

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Analyzes the economics, financing, and credit markets associated with real estate transactions. Important government entities involved in the process, and legislative trends influencing real estate markets, are examined. Areas of focus include contemporary governmental credit legislation, traditional and innovative financing models, and the dynamics of international credit markets. Legislators, bankers, and real estate professionals appear as guest lecturers throughout the course.

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The psychology of leadership in its rational, emotive, and behavioral dimensions. Learners explore the psychology of leadership through the cognitive-behavioral work of Dr. Albert Ellis. Evaluates the influence of rationality, emotion, and behavior on leaders as they attempt to make informed decisions concerning the roles of human capital management, organizational design, and organizational strategy relative to business, organizational, and cultural goals.

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Contemporary structures, trends, and issues affecting the business and professional challenges within the healthcare industry are explored. An examination of the economics, policies, and delivery mechanisms associated with healthcare management. In addition, learners analyze the complex interrelationship of vital healthcare industry constituents: government, insurance companies, and providers.

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Surveys the evolving practice of managed care. Learners analyze historic and contemporary trends and applications in medical care organizations and insurance providers. Key topics include the HMO Act of 1973, the advent of primary care physicians, and network-based managed care programs such as HMO, IPA, PPS, and POS. Learners engage in field research.

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Introduces learners to the legal and ethical environments of healthcare management. Examines select legal and ethics topics from an industry policy perspective with special focus on the problems of reconciling healthcare quality with cost. In addition, learners analyze the interrelation and influence of crucial legal and ethical considerations including legislation governing healthcare management, legal requirements and ethical guidelines for healthcare providers, healthcare system abuses, and professionalism versus commercialism.

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Explores the fiscal management of health care systems. Analyzes key economic and funding models, formulae, and practices relating to healthcare organization mergers and acquisitions, revenue and funding management and investment decision models. Learners explore key healthcare management organization structures including: hospitals, insurers/ managed care plans, neighborhood health centers, physician groups, home health agencies, and individual healthcare providers. Case studies are used.

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The role and potential of organizational development in building organizational capacity. Learners explore contemporary theories and best practices associated with designing, implementing, and evaluating programs focused on promoting individual and organizational marketplace competitive advantage. Organization development initiatives are designed and implemented through assigned and supervised fieldwork.

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Introduces learners to key organizational development assessments and interventions associated with building high-performance business cultures. Analyze assessment tools including the MBTI, Kilmann Conflict Instrument, and FIBRO-B to identify organizational characteristics and practices aligned with high performance.

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Exposes learners to a broad range of group dynamics literature as related to organizational effectiveness and business development. Explores seminal literature and generally-accepted best practices relative to managing group dynamics, facilitation, process consultation, and high performance coaching. Key areas of focus in the course include aligning individual behaviors with achieving business, organizational and individual goals, high performance theories and best practices, and client consultation contracting, diagnosis, and feedback.

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Strategic planning, implementation and measurement in organizations. Learners analyze strategic planning methods and models in order to develop strategic planning capabilities. Key topics include organizational goals, financial position, marketing capabilities, information technology planning, and human capital management. Learners develop strategic plans to promote organizational growth, competitive advantage, and sustainability.

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Learners synthesize key theoretical and applied business knowledge acquired throughout the program. A strategic analysis project demonstrating the applicability of business knowledge and critical thought to an innovative business situation is required.

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A professional internship experience within a business. Learners create, explore, network, and gain valuable insights into business and the work process. Prerequisite: completion of 12 credits in the program and approval of the Academic Director.

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Presents management theory and practice in a global context. Learners examine the world-class management models, emerging trends in management, and best practice applications and solutions in the workplace. Key content areas include management style assessment, manager behaviors, and management modeling.

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Ethical issues faced by managers in the conduct of corporate business. Classical and contemporary ethical thought is surveyed and the application of these principles to contemporary business problems and environments is considered. The course also focuses on the special problems of multinational businesses. Culturally-based ethical norms are discusses. Trends and issues associated with government legislation, interventions, and mandates addressing the ethics of business are also explored.

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Foreign exchange management, exchange risk, structure and operation of foreign stock markets, evaluation of foreign securities, and the impact of multinational flows on market liquidity are topics presented. Portfolio management practices and constraints in different countries are examined and evaluated. Comparative analyses of financial markets in free-enterprise countries and command economies and security analysis in general as applied to foreign security markets are discussed.

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Integrated approach to learning and applying core accounting, finance, and economic principals and practices used in strategic planning and business management. These concepts are explored through the use of case studies and best management practices.

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Discusses fundamental principles and practices associated with developing a corporate culture that inspires high performance by employees. Explores the alignment between values and organizational practices or behaviors than can influence productivity and profitability goals. Class projects focus on ways to create and maintain a motivational environment where people can be, and do, their very best.

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Through a survey of workforce productivity and economic models, best practices associated with organizational learning are explored.

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Examines models and tools available to employers to attract, motivate, and retain employees. Study of how the context, components and contributions of total rewards, i.e. compensation, benefits, performance and recognition, development and career opportunities, are part of an integrated business strategy.

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A systems approach integrating key theories and applied knowledge of human resource management. Discussion areas include staffing, ethics, employment law, compensation, rewards and recognition, and strategic planning. The final research project requires students to examine the alignment of human resource strategies within a selected business.

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Students gain practical experience by working in a human resource department of organization or a human resource firm under the supervision of a workplace manager and a human resource faculty member.

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The traditional, contemporary and developing issues of international law and regulations. The impact of these laws and regulations on the maintenance of national and international order and commerce is explored. Particular attention is given to government regulation of business enterprise and legal liabilities.

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Examines the environments in which international business activities take place. Topics such as manufacturing, marketing, international finance and the growth and functions of the multinational corporate enterprise are discussed.

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The international dimensions of accounting, including comparative accounting practices, foreign currency translation, risk analysis and financial statement analysis. Explores the functions of accounting in the modern business world and how the international environment affects those functions.

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Focuses on the topics of foreign exchange management, exchange rates, international capital budgeting, international tax planning and financing of foreign trade. Learners explore key financial concepts: international investments and capital flows, trade deficits, futures, options, and currency swaps.

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The methodology for evaluating multinational risks and return in a variety of international markets is presented. Forecasting and planning for changes in foreign exchange markets, currency futures, options and swaps, and anticipating currency devaluation around the world are discussed. Forecasting price changes and returns on equities and bonds in the international setting are examined.

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Emphasizes the application of marketing principles to a multinational environment by examining the development of marketing carried out by companies overseas or across national borders. Learners explore the marketing strategy of extending techniques used in the home country of a firm.

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Issues related to the strategic management function as it addresses international business considerations, dynamic global trends, and the pursuit of gaining strategic advantage. The case study method and selected readings are used to present theories, concepts, and practical applications.

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The internship affords a unique opportunity for students to integrate classroom study with on-the-job experience in a foreign country. The internship is documented and a research paper is written which discusses business theories and relates them to this business experience. Prerequisites: Approval of the Director.

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The Graduate Business Preparatory Course is a 6-credit, one-semester course that gives prospective graduate business students the opportunity to prepare for entry into the MBA or MS in International Business Finance programs at Touro Graduate School of Business.

The course integrates the key foundation business content of accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing, and quantitative analysis. It is designed for non-business majors to gain a basic understanding of these essential business concepts and practices. Students who lack the prerequisite undergraduate courses for either these programs, or have taken them yet desire additional preparation, or students who are just considering enrolling in either business program, can benefit from this introductory course.

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Students gain practical experience by working for a public accounting firm, corporation, or government entity under the supervision of a workplace manager and an accounting faculty member. Prerequisite: completion of 12 credits in the program and approval of the Director.

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Topics include audit sampling, auditing of EDP/MIS, and inventory and payment cycle. The course covers internal and governmental auditing. Extensive use is made of case studies to provide students with a fuller understanding of real-world problems faced by auditors.

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Focuses on the federal taxation of regular and small business corporations, as well as partnerships and estates. Complex corporate issues, including stock redemption, liquidations, reorganizations, and tax penalties are examined. Includes a review of gift and death taxes and an introduction to tax and estate planning is presented.

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Topics focus on the methods firms and individuals use to evaluate financial instruments and investment projects and develop optimal portfolios. Debt versus equity, optimal hedge contracts, and understanding derivatives are explored.

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Analysis of financial statements from the perspective of equity and credit analysts. Among the topics covered are analysis of investment, long-lived assets, liabilities, pension and other post-employment benefits, business combinations, multinational operations and income tax.

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An examination of the ethical issues faced by accounting professionals as they manage their careers and consider their ethical philosophies. Reference is made to American federal and state law as well as to professional association regulations dealing with these matters.

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The comprehensive capstone course for the MS in Accounting curriculum. The course provides a framework for students to understand and evaluate current accounting practice. A conceptual basis for evaluating accounting alternatives is developed and applied. Students are encouraged to understand historical developments, evaluate accounting research and read professional publications. A major research paper is required. Prerequisite: completion of 24 credits in the program.

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Focuses on fraud detection for auditors and business managers. Beginning with an understanding of the sociology of white collar crime, investigation techniques are explored in depth. Fraud-related standards as promulgated by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), General Accounting Office (GAO), and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE) are analyzed.

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Examines the effect of computers and emerging technologies on business and accounting. Students have hands on exposure to computer-based accounting systems as they impact accounting and auditing.

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Advanced and emerging issues in managerial accounting. Topics include inventory management, capital budgeting, transfer pricing, and activity based costing.

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