Master of Business Administration (Financial Services)

Appendix 6.3.2 Course DescriptionsCOURSES OFFERED BY Dalhousie UniversityBUSI 5103.03: Business Accounting.This course introduces the principles and practices used to process and communicate financial informationabout an organization to various stakeholders. It is designed to be useful to those who aspire to be generalmanagers or management consultants, as well as those who wish to be specialists in specific areas such asfinance, marketing, international business, or strategic management and leadership.BUSI 5503.03: Quantitative Decision Making.This is an introductory course in quantitative methods with emphasis on business applications. Throughout thisclass an emphasis is placed on helping the student to recognize situations and areas in business in whichquantitative analysis might be useful.BUSI 5511.03: Management Information Systems.This class is meant to provide the student with a basic knowledge of information systems and their role inbusiness organizations. Fundamental to this basic knowledge is an understanding of the variety of informationsystems in business. An understanding of the use of computers in current and future information systems isstressed.BUSI 5703.03: Business Economics.Domestic and international markets, governments policy and central bank decisions present opportunities,challenges and threats to the operating and competitive decisions of business owners, managers and investors.This class provides a framework for the economic analysis of these issues.BUSI 5801.03: International Business.This class provide a survey treatment of international businesses that will benefit all MBA students and build afoundation for those proposing future study in this area. For students not going on in the field, it provides thetools needed to manage the interdependence between domestic and international markets.BUSI 6207.03: Advanced Corporate Finance.In the Advanced Corporate Finance course, students develop the special analytical techniques involved incorporate financial decisions. Equal emphasis is placed on theory and the application of theory to financialproblems. Students develop increased skills in conducting financial analyses and evaluating long-term financialstructure, dividend policy, management of working capital, lease financing, and international corporate finance.By the end of the course, students are able to integrate these issues with the basic theoretical principles ofcorporate finance.BUSI 6326.03: Management Skills Development.This class exposes students to key knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) considered critical to managerialsuccess. Such exposure is designed to provide the student with behaviours that will help ensure that, whenmanaging human resources, staff will perform at or near peak capabilities. This is a skill-building class.Significant amounts of classroom time are devoted to behaviour modeling exercises, role-plays, case studies,and group discussions.77