Courses Taught by Business School Faculty for Non-GSB Students
ACCT 090. Accounting I
(Economics Department)
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.
ACCT 091. Accounting II
(Economics Department)
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
Law School)
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
(Law School)
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.
POLECON 111. Game Theory and Mathematical Models of Politics
No description available at this time.
PUBLPOL 104. Economic Policy Analysis
This course covers relationship between microeconomic analysis and public policy making; how economic policy analysis is done and why political leaders regard it as useful but not definitive in making policy decisions; economic rationales for policy interventions, methods of policy evaluation and the role of benefit-cost analysis, economic models of politics and their application to policy making, and the relationship of income distribution to policy choice and theoretical foundations of policy making and analysis, and applications to program adoption and implementation.
PUBLPOL 145. Globalization and Labor Conditions
(Undergraduate Course)
This course covers the politics and economics of alternative private and public
policies aimed at improving labor conditions around the world. The course
attempts to answer questions such as do international trade, offshore
outsourcing, international migration, and multinational corporations undermine
working conditions and labor rights.
