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ACCOUNTING
MGMT-810* Survey of Accounting Thought and Practice
This course is intended to expose students to a breadth of accounting theory, models, and research dealing with normative and empirical issues in financial accounting, financial reporting, conceptual frame-works, auditing, managerial, and behavioral accounting. Emphasis will be placed on the origins of these issues and current state of the art research and corresponding paradigms.
MGMT-811* Management Accounting Research
This seminar provides a broad overview of contemporary research in management accounting. Emphasis is placed on competing theories of the role of management accounting in organizations and society, as well as the issues and problems surrounding the implementation of management accounting techniques in practice. A background in traditional cost and management accounting techniques is assumed.
FINANCE
MGMT-820* Introduction to Finance
This course studies the theoretical foundations of the financial problems faced by individuals and firms under conditions of uncertainty. Contemporary theory is examined as it related to portfolio selection by individuals, equilibrium market values of capital assets, the behaviour of capital asset prices and yields over time.
MGMT-821* Financial Derivatives
This course is intended to introduce students to a number of substantive and, in some cases, specialized topics in the broadly defined area of empirical research in finance. Topics may include characteristics of financial asset returns, tests of market efficiency and empirical tests of asset pricing models.
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MGMT-870* Conceptual Foundations in MIS
This course surveys the major research areas in information systems, including the design, implementation, use, and management of information systems within organizations. Its purpose is to expose students to the classic Management Information Systems literature that has been influential in the development of the field and to introduce students to the breadth of the field. To do so, it explores the linkages between Management Information Systems and its various reference disciplines such as computer science, psychology, organizational theory, economics, and communication.
MGMT-871* Research Methods in MIS
This course examines various research methodologies and analytical techniques commonly used in the MIS field. The emphasis of the course is both on reviewing existing empirical MIS research and on students developing their own research expertise and plans. Students learn how to design, conduct, evaluate, and present good research in the MIS area.
MARKETING
MGMT-840* Marketing Strategy and Management
This course provides an overview of marketing strategy and management. The role of marketing within the firm is also discussed along with issues in structuring and implementing marketing programs. Marketing strategy focuses on the tools, concepts and processes that firms use to achieve competitive advantage through the creation of superior customer value. We discuss competitive and relational strategies, market dynamics, innovation and first mover advantage. Marketing management topics include branding, the marketing mix, international marketing, marketing ethics and social responsibility, and not for profit marketing.
MGMT-842* Consumer Behaviour
This course seeks to enhance students' appreciation of the interdisciplinary and varied methodological nature of the field by providing an overview of issues concerned with "consumption," in a broad sense, as well as individual level consumer behavior, information processing and consumer decision-making. Topics include sociological and cultural influences on consumers, context effects that influence how consumers interpret and respond to marketing phenomena, and psychological and psycho-social influences on consumer choice and consumer decision processes.
MGMT-844* Quantitative Research in Marketing
This course assumes students have previously taken courses in statistics and marketing research. With this background, students in this course review classic and current papers to the extent they inform the topics of philosophy of science, causality, theory construction, theory testing, experimental design, moderation, mediation, measurement and validity. Students are introduced to the terminology and practice of structural equation modeling.
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
MGMT-850* Foundations of Organization Theory and Research
The purpose of the course is to introduce you to the process of theory building in the field of organizational behaviour. The course examines several prominent theories in the field and explores recent evidence that assesses central claims made by the theory. The course also provides opportunities to develop skills in theory building.
MGMT-851* Seminar in Micro-Organizational Behaviour
The aim of this course is to examine the individual in the organization. Topics include work stress and workplace safety, organizational commitment, trust in management, organizational justice, aggression and violence in organizations, absenteeism, attendance and withdrawal from the organization, motivation, leadership, part-time employment, young workers, and job design.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
MGMT-860* Deterministic Operations Research Models
This course reviews and extends the student's familiarity with deterministic model formulation, solution, and applications. Topics may include linear, non-linear, and integer programming, dynamic programming, spreadsheet modelling, network and transportation models, and project management models.
MGMT-861* Probabilistic Operations Research Models
This course reviews the formulation, solution, and application of a range of probabilistic modelling techniques. Topics may include inventory models, queueing, simulation, decision analysis, Markov models, forecasting, and stochastic dynamic programming.
MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
ECON-810*Microeconomic Theory
This course provides an in depth review of theories of demand, production, general equilibrium, market failures and welfare economics. In addition, selected topics in decision theory and game theory will be covered.
MGMT-882* Economics of Organizations
This course discusses elements of the economics of organizational design and decision processes. Using concepts and techniques from applied microeconomics, it provides an analysis of organizational form, structure, and boundaries. Examples are drawn from the literature to illustrate the theoretical concepts and to demonstrate how they can be used to predict organizational performance and aid in changing organizations effectively.
MGMT-885* International Economic Policy and Global Management
This is a seminar course in which recent publications and studies will be used to highlight various key issues in managerial economics and policy. The specific topics covered may vary from year to year but will be representative of the major areas in which economics informs managerial decision-making.