Utica College Course Descriptions

Utica University Class Information:

Course descriptions from the Utica University course catalog for anyone interested in knowing specifics about what I learned. I’ve included this information to help potential employers see how my education may make-up for any hands-on experience I may lack. Utica College became Utica University on February 17, 2022. 

Financial:

  • ACC 501 Intro to Accounting
    • Course Description: Introduction to financial statement communication, information processing, measuring business income, and introduction to use of accounting information for managerial decisions. Topics include financial statements, cash flows, budgeting, and performance evaluation.
  • ECN 511 Economic Analysis of Public Policy Issues
    • Course Description: Basic tools of economics to examine and analyze selected contemporary public policy issues.
  • FIN 533 Corporation Finance
    • Course Description: Principles, concepts, and analytical tools of finance; corporate governance; cash flow analysis for capital budgeting; hurdle rates; raising capital through investment banks; financial restructuring; acquisitions. Semester project: estimating the value of a company.

Fraud:

  • ECM 535 Legal and Investigative Issues in Fraud Management
    • Course Description: Case study analysis of business and economic crimes, including cybercrime, criminal liability of business entities, management and employees, investigation and prosecution.
  • ECM 623 Advanced Fraud Investigation & Analysis
    • Course Description: Types of criminal fraud, methods used to detect and analyze occurrence of fraud, techniques of fraud investigation, interviewing and interrogation, file and case management, interaction with external investigation, regulations, and law enforcement.
  • ECM 603 Management of Fraud Prevention & Detection
    • Course Description: Development of counter-fraud technology. Proactive programs and tools for fraud detection and prevention in face-to-face transactions, e-commerce, and e-business. Business models for production of prevention and detection products.
  • ECM 604 Seminar in Fraud Management
    • Course Description: Research and discussion of current policy and legal issues affecting fraud management, including privacy, security, ethics, auditing, and compliance.

Management:

  • MGT 501 Management & Marketing
    • Course Description: Basic principles in managerial and marketing functions and processes in business environments. Interdisciplinary approach to identifying key issues and developing appropriate solutions. Case study methodology.
  • MGT 601 Core Topics in Management I
    • Course Description: Strategy and analysis of the value chain; macroeconomic issues in business; monetary theory and financial institutions; financial statement analysis.
  • MGT 602 Core Topics in Management II
    • Course Description: Business planning and strategic management; capital structure; cash flow analysis; operational, capital, and cash budgeting; demand theory; cost theory; business simulation experience.
  • MGT 619 Strategic Management & Leadership
    • Course Description: Case study based course focused on developing skills in strategic competitive analysis, assessing business risk, effective implementation and execution of strategies, and developing an effective leadership style based on current theories and research.
  • ECN 607 Quantitative Analysis for Management
    • Course Description: Scientific approaches to decision making; descriptive and inferential statistics, probability distributions, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, analysis of variance and process control.