Courses for Non-GSB Students Taught by Business School Faculty
ECON 190. Introduction to Financial Accounting
This course covers how to read, understand, and use corporate financial statements. Oriented towards the use of financial accounting information (rather than the preparer), and emphasizes the reconstruction of economic events from published accounting reports.
ECON 191. Introduction to Cost Accounting
This course covers the use of internal financial data for managerial decision making.
FINANCE 221. Finance for Non MBAs
This course is equivalent to the core finance course in the MBA program, FINANCE 220. It is intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students who are interested in understanding the basic ideas of modern finance.
LAW 226. Accounting
This is an introductory course in financial accounting. In general terms, financial accounting is the process of measurement and disclosure of the financial condition and results of operations in business entities. The course is aimed at developing students' ability to read, understand, and use corporate financial statements. To this end, the course provides an introduction to: (1) essential accrual accounting concepts, principles and conventions; (2) the mechanics of preparation and presentation of the accounting records and financial statements prepared by a business; (3) the use and misuse of accounting information; and (4) elementary financial analysis of financial statements.
LAW 262. Corporate Finance
There are many contexts in which lawyers need an understanding of finance. For example, many of the disputes that give rise to litigation center on the financial valuation of firms and the securities they issue. In addition, an understanding of firms' capital structures and the design of corporate securities is necessary in analyzing many legal issues, especially those arising in corporate transactions, executive compensation, and bankruptcy proceedings. This course is designed to provide students with a rigorous conceptual understanding of finance and to give students the analytical tools needed to make financial decisions and value financial securities.
PUBPOL 301A. Microeconomics
Microeconomic concepts relevant to decision making. Topics include: competitive market clearing, price discrimination; general equilibrium; risk aversion and sharing, capital market theory, Nash equilibrium; welfare analysis; public choice; externalities and public goods; hidden information and market signaling; moral hazard and incentives; auction theory; game theory; oligopoly; reputation and credibility. (Same as IPS 204A.)
PUBPOL 201B. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Evaluation
Ex ante and ex post evaluation of projects and policies, value of life calculations, and welfare evaluation of public and private decisions. Welfare measures; tradeoffs between efficiency and equity. Second best. Behavioral economics: psychological mechanisms behind static choice, intertemporal choice, choice under risk and uncertainty, choice in social situations, and hedonics. Statistical decision theory. Use of incentives in implementing policies. Relationship between microeconomic analysis and public policy making. Economic rationales for policy interventions. Economic models of politics and application to policy making. Relationship of income distribution to policy choice. (Same as IPS 204B.)
GSBGEN 111Q. Seminar in Entrepreneurial Communication
College campuses have been the incubators for thousands of new business ventures. What makes the difference between a successful entrepreneur and an initial failure out of the gate? It's often not the quality of the idea, but rather the ability of the entrepreneurs to successfully communicate their vision to potential investors, employees, and customers. This seminar will explore successful and failed entrepreneurial communication. Students will learn the basics of persuasive oral and written communication, and then apply these principles to their own ideas.