100x Economic Foundations of Finance (2) Economic concepts underlying finance: scarcity, choice, and market resource allocation. Basics of financial asset valuation. Consideration of time-value of money and evaluation of risk. Graded CR/NC.
101 Freshman Honors Colloquium (2) Colloquium of leading researchers, authors, and administrators in the School of Business Administration and other schools at USC. Graded CR/NC.
250ab Core Concepts of Accounting Information (a: 3, Fa; b: 3, Sp) a: Accounting information in decision-making from the perspective of users and preparers; development of the basic accounting model and issues concerning income and cash flows. Corequisite: PDP 101x, ECON 203. b: Continuation of financial and managerial accounting information in decision making, focusing on accounting issues involving economic resources, debt, and equity capital. Duplicates credit in former BUAD 280, BUAD 301 and BUAD 305x. Prerequisite: BUAD 250a; corequisite: ECON 205.
294 Survey of Business Administration (3, FaSp) This course is a survey of the important topics in business administration, including marketing, accounting, finance, management information systems, leadership, business communication, and human resource management.
302 Business Communication (4, FaSpSm) Theory, practices, and techniques essential to external and organizational communication; interpersonal communication; development of skill in presenting oral and written reports.
302T Business Communication (4, FaSp) (For Accounting majors only) Theory, practices, and techniques essential to external and organizational communication; interpersonal communication; development of skill in presenting oral and written reports. Prerequisite: concurrent registration is required in ACCT 350 and ACCT 351.
304 Organizational Behavior (4, FaSpSm) The environments and technologies of business and industrial organizations, processes of work group development and management, and their effects on individual behavior.
305x Abridged Core Concepts of Accounting Information (4, FaSp) Uses of accounting information in decision-making; accounting issues concerning income and cash flows, economic resources and capital. Duplicates credit in BUAD 250ab. Open only to students with two transferable "Principles of Accounting" courses from a two-year or four-year institution.
306 Business Finance (4, FaSpSm) Financial problems of business enterprise; function of financial manager; sources of funds; instruments, institutions, and practices of finance; problems of financial management using case studies. Prerequisite: BUAD 250a or BUAD 305x.
307 Marketing Management (4, FaSpSm) Develops a managerial viewpoint in planning and evaluating marketing decisions of the firm: products, pricing, channels, promotion, information processing, legal implications, and marketing in contemporary society.
310 Applied Business Statistics (4, FaSpSm) Statistical methods for business analysis; data exploration and description; sampling distributions; estimation; hypothesis testing, simple and multiple regression; model building. Extensive computer applications. Prerequisite: MATH 218.
311 Operations Management (4, FaSpSm) Develops key concepts in making operations decisions to cost-effectively deliver products and services of high quality; continuous improvement; just-in-time; service delivery; facility locations; process reengineering; project management. Recommended preparation: BUAD 310.
350 Macroeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions (4, FaSpSm) Behavior of economic indicators over business fluctuations, economic growth, monetary and fiscal policy, exchange rate movements. Prerequisite: ECON 203, ECON 205.
351 Economic Analysis for Business Decisions (4, FaSpSm) Theory of the firm in the enterprise system; profits, demand, and cost analysis; market competition and resource allocation; problems of size efficiency and growth. Prerequisite: ECON 203, ECON 205 and MATH 118.
390 Special Problems (1-4) Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
403 Legal Environment of Business (4, FaSpSm) Legal principles in a business framework; theory and problems involving the present and future legal environment within which business operates.
403T Legal Environment of Business (4, FaSp) (For Accounting majors only) Legal principles in a business framework; theory and problems involving the present and future legal environment within which business operates.
490x Directed Research (2-8, max 8, FaSpSm) Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit. Prerequisite: departmental approval.
491 Senior Honors (4-8) Selected problems of business administration; specific topic to be announced each term. Open only to honors students with departmental approval. May be repeated for credit.
492 Global Business: Country Risk Assessment (4, Sm) Business and management issues in a global setting with emphasis on country risk assessment and its relationship to decision making. Prerequisite: BUAD 306 and departmental approval.
493x Dean's Seminar (2-3) Overview of starting and developing a new business. Discussions with successful business leaders and entrepreneurs. Not available for students admitted to the Entrepreneur Program. Senior or graduate standing in business or engineering or departmental approval. Graded CR/NC.
494 Executive Development (2-4) Problems and cases in contemporary management and business economics in American society. Open only to participants in managerial institutes and executive programs sponsored by the USC School of Business Administration. Unit credit based on length of course.
495 Practicum in Business Issues (Internship) (2) Combined classroom discussion and field application of business theories and practices; part-time employment. Project to be jointly defined by student, employer and professor. Junior or Senior standing. Graded CR/NC.
497 Managerial Decision-Making and Planning (4, FaSpSm) Examination of managerial decision-making, planning, and policy under changing environments; readings, cases, exercises, simulations. Prerequisite: BUAD 250b or BUAD 305x, BUAD 302, BUAD 304, BUAD 306, and BUAD 307; corequisite: BUAD 311.
499 Special Topics (2-4, max 8, Irregular) Examination of current literature relevant to the total and changing environment in which business operates. Prerequisite: departmental approval.
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