Principles of Accounting and Finance
This course will cover the basic elements of corporate finance and accounting, and prepare students to become an entrepreneur or a manager with the required knowledge and skills in finance and accounting, and the ability to using financial analysis to make strategic decisions. The learning objectives include understanding the financial statements, evaluating financial health of a business, understanding the basic accounting standards, and trying to prepare financial forecasts for strategic decision-making, value a venture, a project or an investment and perform a sensitivity analysis.
Fundamentals of Business Analysis
As an introductory course, the Fundamentals of Business Analysis (FBA) will systematically introduce the basic concepts, perspectives, and data analytic tools through lectures, case studies, and in-class practices. The FBA course is organized by three important sections: (1) Business Logics. This section will equip you with canonical theoretical lenses and basic research social research methods as well as the newly-developed analytic frameworks/tools; (2) Data Analytics. The second piece of FBA begins with basic data management and progresses to statistical inference through simple regression analysis; (3) Capstone Project. The FBA course ends with a final capstone project, and you will participate in professors’ research-related business analysis projects. In general, you will have 8 weeks’ time to complete the projects and hand in a research report to project-supervising professors by the end of the semester.
