D class assignments for undergraduates available in BRI104; phone (213) 740-0690.
D class assignments for graduate students available in HOH103; phone (213) 740-5424.
BUSINESS (UNDERGRADUATE) - Non-Marshall students may enroll in up to three (3) courses prior to being admitted to a Marshall major or minor. BUSINESS (GRADUATE) - Business students may register using USC Web Registration. Non-business students may register for graduate business electives subject to the following restrictions: (1) proof of undergraduate degree; (2) minimum graduate GPA of 3.2; (3) maximum 12 units of graduate business courses; and (4) prerequisites completed. All graduate applications and forms are available in HOH103, (213) 740-5424, email: registration@marshall.usc.edu. For complete list of Business registration policies, please visit www.marshall.usc.edu/registrationpolicies.
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. Not available for major or minor credit. Graded CR/NC.
Colloquium of leading researchers, authors, and administrators in the Marshall School of Business, and other schools at USC. Industry leaders will also be invited to talk about leadership challenges. Registration restricted to freshmen only. Graded CR/NC.
Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen
Note: Seminar for freshman students accepted to the Global Ledership Program
Course examines fundamental concepts of both microeconomics and macroeconomics as they pertain to business and financial decisions. Not available for degree credit to business majors.
Principles and practices of modern financial management; use of financial statements; valuation of investment; asset pricing under uncertainty; elements of financial decisions.
Accounting information in decision-making from the perspective of users and preparers; accounting issues concerning income and cash flows. Duplicates credit in BUAD 280 and BUAD 281 and BUAD 305.
Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen, Sophomore, Junior, Senior
Note: Taught using web-based instructional methods. On-site classes will meet on alternate weeks
Continuation of accounting information in decision making, focusing on accounting issues involving economic resources, debt, and equity capital. Duplicates credit in BUAD 280 and BUAD 281 and BUAD 305.
Accounting information useful for decision-makers surrounding issues concerning income, expense and cash flows; economic resource, debt and equity capital decisions by managers. Duplicates credit in BUAD 250ab and BUAD 305.
Starting and managing a technological business: developing a viable concept, market and financial planning, product development, organizing the venture, protecting intellectual property rights.
Note: Engineering students - Go to RTH110 to pick up D clearance form. Marshall students - Contact Marshall Undergraduate Student Advising in Bridge Hall 104 or call them at (213) 740-0690.
Theory, practice, and techniques of business communication strategy essential to external and organizational communication; group and interpersonal communication; development of skill in oral and written communication.
(For Accounting majors only) Theory, practices, and techniques essential to communication by accounting professionals; interpersonal communication, written and oral presentations; communication technologies; development of communication strategies for varied audiences. (Duplicates credit in BUAD 302.) Recommended preparation:WRIT 340
Restriction: Registration open to the following major(s): Accounting, Business Administration
The role of leadership in business organizations; concepts and skills for managing oneself and others.
Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen, Sophomore, Junior, Senior
Note: Lecture sections meet on alternate weeks; discussion sections meet weekly; includes web-based instruction methods. Register for one Lecture and one Discussion listed immediately below that Lecture.
Uses of accounting information in decision-making; accounting issues concerning income and cash flows, economic resources and capital. Open only to students with two transferable "Principles of Accounting" courses from a two-year or four-year institution. Duplicates credit in BUAD 250ab, BUAD 280, and BUAD 281.
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.
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.
Statistical methods for business analysis; data exploration and description; sampling distributions; estimation; hypothesis testing, simple and multiple regression; model building. Extensive computer applications.
Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen, Sophomore, Junior, Senior
Learn the fundamentals of operations management and acquire skills to analyze, manage and improve production processes. Topics include: project/quality/materials management and just-in-time production.
Note: Sections 14900, 14902, 14904, 14906, 14912, 14914, and 14916 must follow the final exam schedule as listed in the exceptions final schedule for BUAD 311
Learn the fundamentals of operations management and acquire skills to analyze, measure, control, and improve production processes. Open to accounting majors only.(Duplicates credit in BUAD 311.)
Restriction: Registration open to the following major(s): Accounting
Theory of the firm in the enterprise system; profits, demand, and cost analysis; market competition and resource allocation; problems of size efficiency and growth.
Combined classroom discussion and field application of business theories and practices; part-time internship employment. Project to be jointly defined by student, employer and professor. Junior or senior standing. Graded CR/NC
Restriction: Registration closed to the following class level(s): Junior, Senior
Note: For specific meeting dates, please click on the yellow triangle icon at the very end of the line of the section you are registered.
