School of Management

Financial Statement Analysis and Accounting Information Systems

PWRS – Room 143 | Add this lab to the form
The lab is used to engage students with hand-on activities designed to provide exposure to real-world applications for business analysis and decision-making. It is designed for 35 students and is equipped with the technologies needed for the presentation, analysis and research of business issues and topics.

The Financial Statement Analysis course applies analytical tools and techniques to general-purpose financial statements and related data to derive estimates and inferences useful in business analysis. The goal of this course is to develop the students’ ability to use financial statement information and related disclosures. During the course, students learn how to analyze a company’s financial position and performance as shown in published information to evaluate the underlying economics of a business. Students collect, analyze, and interpret data from the firm’s financial statements, particularly the 10-K, 10-Q, and proxy statements. The lab allows for the utilization of the University’s on-line databases and library for data collection.

The Accounting Information Systems (AIS) course provides students with a hand-on approach for studying the underlying concepts fundamental to accounting information systems used by businesses. Topics studied include how AIS adds value to an organization, application to basic business processes, tools for evaluation and documentation of AIS and the underlying database structure inherent to most common systems are presented. The threats to the reliability of AIS are studied along with controls for mitigating potential threats. Students also engage in study of the revenue, expenditure, production, and payroll cycles, while working with QuickBooks accounting software, culminating with maintaining a general ledger and reporting system. Additionally, Microsoft Excel is emphasized with students delivering presentations and individual assignments.

This lab is in need of updated computer stations for analysis and data collection, additional software applications for recording and reporting business transactions, and additional technologies to assist with the delivery and recording of instructional materials.

Course	Course Name	Number of Attendants
MGMT 21100	Prin of Info Systems	28, 28, 17, 17
MGMT 40200	Financial Statements Analysis	29
MGMT 30900	Acctng Info Systems	35
CIS 26300	Java Programming	10, 10
MGMT 10200	Comptr Utiliz For Mgmt	27, 27
CIS 25200	System Analys & Design	14, 14

 

Strategic Management:
Capstone, Project Management, and Advanced Spreadsheet Applications

ANDR – Room 313 | Add this lab to the form
The room is a multiple-purpose lab designed to provide students with hand-on activities on course work ranging from introduction to information technology, project management, spreadsheet analysis, to our capstone course for strategic management. The room is designed for 28 students and is equipped with the technologies needed for the presentation, analysis, and research of business issues and topics.

Strategic Management: Capstone course is designed to enhance students’ strategic management skills. Students use the lab to run their computer simulated firms. Students in the class are divided into groups, and each group acts as a top management team of a simulated global athletic footwear company and develops a business strategy. Each team implements its strategy by periodically making decisions related to production, plant capacity, compensation and training, shipping, marketing, pricing, financing, and more. Teams compete with each other in producing and selling branded and private label footwear. The objective is to develop and successfully execute strategy that enhances the company performance such as earnings per share, ROE, stock price appreciation, credit rating, and brand image.

Advanced Spreadsheet Applications prepares students to analyze data and solve real-life business problems using Microsoft Excel. Moving beyond the basic “point and click” focus of most computer-applications texts, it challenges students to use critical thinking and analysis to find efficient and effective solutions to real-life situations. Topics include fundamental Excel skills, statistical analysis, data visualization, logic decision making, what-if analyses, goal seek, solver, and trouble shooting. Real-world cases come from multiple business fields including marketing, finance, accounting, and operations management.

Project Management describes the use of projects to support business objectives in modern organizations. Topics to be covered include the selection of projects and their initiation, implementation, control, and termination. Additional topics include the roles of the project manager and team members. The lab materials provide step-by-step instructions on using Microsoft Project 2010. Students should be able to go through the entire process on their own after a brief introduction to the software. Students will understand WBSs, Gantt charts, PERT charts, and so on. The lab exercises are to go through the Overview of Microsoft Project 2010 during class and demonstrate basic functions such as entering task durations and relationships.

Course	Course Name	Number of Attendants
MGMT 10200	Computer Utilization For Management	28, 28, 28, 28, 28, 28
MGMT 45000	Strategic Management:  Capstone	23, 23, 20, 20, 16, 16
MGMT 21100	Principle of Info Systems	28, 28, 21, 21
MGMT 68000	Intro To Info Technology	19
MGMT 48600	Project Management	21, 21
MGMT 32000	Advanced Spreadsheet Applications	13, 13