USF is proud that its EMBA curriculum is the both comprehensive and rigorous. The twenty required courses provide a framework through which students learn to broaden and enrich their management skills, expand their knowledge of modern business techniques and to further their understanding of the social, political and economic forces that shape the business environment. USF EMBA students develop excellent technical skills, managerial expertise, fiscal proficiency, and an understanding of world markets.
Financial Accounting for Managers
Financial accounting is concerned with the information made available to external users, primarily investors and creditors, in the form of interim and annual reports on income, financial position, and changes in financial position.
Faculty: Bei Dong
Managerial Accounting and Control
Managerial accounting is concerned primarily with the internal use of accounting information for planning and control. This course emphasizes how managers can use accounting information to improve profit planning, cost control, short and long range planning and decision making.
Faculty: Mike Robinson
Managerial Economics
This course utilizes the concepts and tools of microeconomic analysis for decision making with different market structures.
Faculty: Brad Kamp
Global Economic Environment of Business
The primary focus of this course is the effect of foreign trade on the US economy. Particular emphasis is placed on exploring the balance of trade and balance of payments, as well as the determinants of foreign exchange rates. The course is also concerned with the overall national level of economic activity and related issues of unemployment, inflation, and monetary and fiscal policy.
Faculty: Mark Herander
Financial Management I
The use and allocation of funds is studied in Financial Management I. Decision models and approaches are utilized in both certain and uncertain situations. A logical framework for asset management is developed and applied to problems and cases.
Faculty: Chris Pantzalis
Marketing Management
This course explores the application of marketing functions to business management. Market driven approaches are examined as they apply to industrial products and services in profit and not-for profit sectors. Students learn how to assess market opportunities and how to create marketing product/ service planning, pricing policy, communication strategy, sales strategy, distribution system management and promotion strategies.
Faculty: Paul Solomon
Social, Legal, and Ethical Systems
This course provides an analysis of the important legal and social principles affecting the business environment and decision making. The influence of social, cultural, political, and legal environment of institutional behavior, including the changing nature of the business system is explored. The public policy process, corporate power, legitimacy and managerial autonomy, and organizational reactions to environmental forces are topics covered in this class.
Faculty: Sharon Hanna-West
Human Behavior in Organizations
Examines the basic factors involved in managing organizations in a business environment. Both individual and group behavior are analyzed. Individual behavior is discussed from the perspectives of learning, perception, attitudes, personality, stress, and motivation. Social behavior and organizational processes include group formation, structure and processes, leadership, communication styles and structures, decision making, power, politics and conflict. This course represents a foundation for the ongoing sequence of management courses in this program.
Faculty: Jerry Koehler
Managerial Decision Analysis
Application of statistical methods to business problems includes a review of basic statistics, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, simple and multiple regression, and correlation. As each topic is developed, emphasis will be placed on applications to business problems. In addition, students will be given instruction and experience in the use of a standard software package to perform regression analysis and analysis of variance.
Faculty: Ronald Satterfield
Operations Management and Quality Enhancement
Principles and concepts of operations management, including the foundations of quality, are presented. The study of applications concerning strategic operations planning with the goal of quality enhancement and continuous improvement, in both the service and manufacturing environments, are also discussed.
Faculty: Ronald Satterfield
Management Information Systems
The impact of business data and information systems on decision making, analysis and management of information resources, and the utilization of computer-aided management tools are presented. The terminology and concepts used in information technology and alternative methodologies for developing information systems are also discussed.
Faculty: Rosann Collins
