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Click on the name of an online course offered at Cardean University to view the detailed information; you can also find out about the college or university offering the course by clicking on "School's Profile". |
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Advanced Assurance Topics (80150) |
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Accounting |
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This seminar explores different trends in the assurance area. Assurance services include professional activities that improve information quality for decision makers. Major course topics include assurance services and corporate governance, continuous auditing, international assurance models, earnings management, and fraud detection.
A core project scenario will frame the learning and topics throughout the seminar. In addition to weekly online discussions, students will apply the seminar concepts to their own organizations. |
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Advanced Information Systems Risks and Controls (80010) |
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Information Technology |
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This seminar is designed for professionals who are familiar with basic information systems, risk, and control concepts but would like to learn more about risk assessment and control recommendations in advanced information systems environments. Students will have the opportunity to examine the issues surrounding common financial, operational, and strategic risks, including the applicable controls for a wide variety of organizations.
A core project scenario will frame the learning and topics throughout the seminar. In addition to weekly online discussions, students will apply the seminar concepts to their own organizations. |
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Business Communications (62510) |
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Effective communication is crucial for anyone who wants to add value to an organization. By conveying your messages and ideas clearly and persuasively, you can turn ideas into action and generate desired results.
Cardean's "Business Communications" is designed to help you become more effective on the job by developing your writing and communication skills. The course teaches practical writing techniques and provides guidance on specific forms of business documents, including memos, e-mails, and PowerPoint presentations. |
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Business Ethics (80170) |
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Business |
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People in business encounter many moral or ethical challenges. The question "What is the right thing to do?" can arise in the context of personnel decisions, advertising, financial reporting, environmental and health concerns, and product liability, to name just a few cases. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to ethical theories and ethical analysis in the context of business. We will use case studies, legal rulings and other examples of real-world business problems to debate the underlying ethical issues involved. In addition to weekly online discussions, students will analyze the ethical practices of an actual company-Ben & Jerry's. After taking the course, students should be familiar with the basic tools of ethical analysis and be better equipped to make ethical decisions in their work. No prior formal study of ethics is assumed. |
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Corporate Finance (60010) |
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Finance |
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Cardean?s "Corporate Finance" introduces the fundamental financial concepts managers use to make crucial corporate investment decisions. Students will also encounter important concepts such as free cash flow and the cost of capital.
During this course the student plays the role of a financial analyst, hired by Houston-based Blue Mesa Industries. Blue Mesa Industries has recently sold its agricultural chemicals business and wants to use the proceeds to expand its railroad business and its oil and gas business. Students will value four potential projects and identify which would be the most profitable investment for Blue Mesa Oil and Gas. In evaluating the projects the student will use two different methods for valuing investments: net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR). Next students will explore the concepts of capital budgeting while evaluating a potential acquisition for the Blue Mesa Rail business. From evaluating growth assumptions and forecasting future cash flows to calculating a firm's cost of capital, managers in this course can gain important skills and knowledge to help companies invest their limited resources wisely. |
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Creating Visionary Organizations (61040) |
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The research summarized in the best-selling book, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, demonstrates that visionary organizations outperform their peers on many dimensions, including financial return and longevity. But how does an organization become visionary?
Cardeans's "Creating Visionary Organizations" addresses this question. The course explores the dimensions or principles underlying visionary status, as well as the practical guidelines for how to move one?s organization toward that status. This course elaborates on the visionary frameworks identified in book Built to Last. The material emphasizes the organizational change principles necessary to implement the Built to Last vision framework. |
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Data Mining (60520) |
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Information Technology |
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Advances in technology and data collection have dramatically increased the volume of data available to business professionals. As the mount of information grows, so does the challenge of securing meaningful analysis from the data. To meet this challenge and gain competitive advantage, many companies have turned to data mining, a process that helps businesses explore and analyze their ever-growing databases to make more effective business decisions.
Cardean's "Data Mining" presents you with data mining concepts, techniques, issues, and applications, and helps you understand and plan how to put data mining to work at your company. |
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Decision Models (62010) |
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Information Technology |
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Decision modeling is a highly sought-after method of quantitative computer analysis used by today's top business professionals to help analyze and develop solutions to complex business problems. Cardean's "Decision Models" introduces the concepts and applications of two common decision-modeling techniques: constrained optimization and Monte Carlo simulation. The course is designed to help you understand what these techniques are; recognize appropriate opportunities for their use; design and build effective models; analyze the outcomes; and make relevant decisions that can help companies dramatically reduce costs, maximize profits, and gain a competitive edge. |
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Decision-Making for Managers (62020) |
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Managers face tough operational and strategic decisions every day, both big and small. And even though there is no guarantee that their choices will always result in the desired outcomes, using the appropriate decision strategy will ensure that they have made the most accurate choice using the necessary time and effort. Cardean's Decision-Making for Managers presents decision analysis models of multicriteria evaluation, probability and probability distributions, decision tree models, and resource allocation. The course is designed to help you understand what these techniques are; recognize opportunities fro their application, including situations of certainty, risk, and uncertainty; use decision support software to aid in analysis; use decision conferencing to generate the best information and create consensus in cross departmental decisions; and become aware of the behavioral traps and errors that prevent managers from making good decisions. |
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Derivative Securities (80190) |
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Finance |
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This course involves study and analysis of various forms of derivative securities. Explanation of various risk-transfer devices such as options and futures contracts, valuation of and strategies involved in trading these securities, hedging and speculating with options and futures. |
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Financial Accounting (60020) |
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Managers must understand financial profitability and risk to make effective business decisions. If interpreted properly, financial statements and accounting information can reveal important information about an organization's financial performance.
Cardean's "Financial Accounting" focuses on how managers use corporate financial accounting information for making business decisions. |
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Game Theory and Information Economics (61540) |
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Cardean's "Game Theory and Information Economics" applies tools and concepts from microeconomics to competitive decision making. In particular, the course takes a deeper look at the microeconomic concepts required for setting prices and deciding whether to enter or exit a market.
You will also explore how game theory can be helpful in analyzing complex strategic situations. Finally, you will gain an understanding of the challenges associated with information-intensive products and services, as well as evaluating pricing strategies in the presence of these information asymmetries. |
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Implementing Marketing Strategy (61560) |
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Marketing |
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This course builds on the concepts presented in the Principles of Marketing course and offers the knowledge and tools marketers need to design and implement a marketing plan and an integrated marketing communications strategy. From surveying the business landscape for opportunities and threats to evaluation methods to measure the success of your efforts, this course covers the information marketers need to position their company for success. Implementing Marketing Strategy takes an in-depth look at the fundamental concepts of marketing, including analysis methods for market research, brand positioning, integrated marketing communication strategies, and methods of qualitative and quantitative research, and it challenges you to apply your learning to real-world problems as you play the role of a marketing analyst for a fictional greeting card company, Shomei Cards.
A marketing plan is the blueprint a company follows when implementing a marketing strategy for new or existing products. These activities include conducting the marketing research to determine consumers' wants and needs in a new greeting card product and their motivations for purchasing greeting cards. In addition, you will conduct post launch research to measure the success of the introduction. Finally, you will develop a branding strategy for the new product and the marketing communication strategies to communicate the benefits of the new product to the marketplace. |
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International Finance (80180) |
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Managers in multinational corporations (MNCs) are competing in global environment where they need to manage their exposure to various kinds of risks. In particular, exposure is significant in developing countries where macro-economic variables are volatile. This course covers the financial decision-making process in a multinational environment, effects of devaluation of foreign exchange, translation and transaction exposure and hedging techniques using currency derivatives. |
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Internet Marketing (60540) |
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Marketing |
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Despite the hype and subsequent investor disillusionment with e-commerce, web-based sales are steadily increasing their share of total retail sales. Cardean's "Internet Marketing" shows how the power of the Internet can be leveraged to acquire, retain, and delight consumers. You will gain a strategic and tactical marketing perspective, with an emphasis on integrating online and offline marketing activities. |
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Internet User Experience (60530) |
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Information Technology |
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The explosive growth of the Internet has been a technological wonder. Yet too often the focus on technology has eclipsed its real purpose: to make our lives easier, not more difficult.
Cardean's "Internet User Experience" course is designed to introduce students to the development and management of corporate web sites, addressing strategic business problems as well as the needs of users. The concepts in the suite are guided by the principles of human-centered design, the idea that technology should be so easy that users are unaware of its complexities and can quickly fulfill their needs and goals. |
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Leadership (80200) |
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According to Hughes et al, oftentimes the only difference between chaos and a smoothly functioning operation is leadership. Recent problems in well-known organizations in the United States (like Enron, Tyco, and Andersen to name a few) point to lapses in leadership in terms of ethical and moral components. As you have chosen to study this topic in this seminar, you probably have an inkling of the power of leadership, or at the very least you have had many experiences with what you would describe as "good" leaders-people who have been able to decipher chaos, set a vision, and get things done in a meaningful way. Perhaps you have also been subjected to "bad" leaders and have committed to not being like them.
The purpose of this course is to dig a little deeper into the topic of leadership in such a way that you'll have the opportunity to explore what leadership is about. This exploration will rely on your experience (both personal and professional) with leaders, a heavy dose of readings, and application through a series of papers and analyses. At the end of the course, and through rigorous study, you should understand more about what you believe constitutes good leadership. This course is focused on enhancing your understanding and application of leadership in both your personal and professional roles.
A high level of energy is expected from students taking this course. There is a good deal of reading to do and discussions to participate in. In learning about leadership, the combination of these two methods, coupled with your own reflection, are key to mastering the subject. |
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Leading Change (61020) |
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Managers are often presented with plans for changing various aspects of organizations, such as policies or structures, and told to implement the changes. Very often, this fails because of barriers and resistance to change.
Organizational problem solving often stalls in the implementation stage because leaders believe that coming up with the solutions is the difficult part of the process, and that the actual implementation should be easy. However, this is only true if the implementation phase is well planned and incorporates techniques to cope with resistance. If leaders do not plan properly, they may in fact be worse off than when they started.
Cardean's "Leading Change" outlines the relationship between effective leadership and the creation of a flexible organization. Leaders need to understand how change works in organizations and build a level of dissatisfaction with the current state of the organization that will motivate people to change. Leaders must apply a variety of techniques to overcome resistance and other barriers. Each leader has a different style, must understand his or her own style, and select techniques that will work effectively with that style. Finally, leaders must know when organizations and people have changed too much, and be able to adapt the change process to implement dynamic stability. |
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Managerial Economics (61510) |
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Business decisions are often made for reasons that do not fully or accurately consider fundamental economic principles. Cardean's "Managerial Economics" describes the basic economic models of costs, prices, and market structures, and analyzes several strategies based on these models that can lead to increased profitability. The course also demonstrates how to apply economic reasoning to many critical business decisions. |
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Managing in the Global Economy (62520) |
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Understanding global strategy and organization is a key to success for managers working in the global economy. A manager must understand the company's competitive advantage and environment, and how they relate to strategy and organization choices. Managing in the Global Economy provides a framework to explain the interrelationships among organizational structure, environment (market and nonmarket), and strategy issues that affect a firm in global competition. This approach offers managers a systematic way of thinking about basic global strategy, organization decisions, and key tradeoffs. It also provides a systematic way of thinking about organizational issues that become more significant when operating across borders.
Managing in the Global Economy first places you in the role of an employee at WhiteRiver Telecomm, a fictional U.S. telecommunications firm that is thinking of expanding into new markets. You will head up research and intelligence gathering for the project. Using a case study about AT&T's expansion into China in 1993, you will explore AT&T's reasons for expanding beyond the U.S. market and its strategic reasons for entering China. Then, to focus on global organization issues, the course places you in the role of an employee at ZAK-Squared, an enterprise resource planning company that is having difficulty maintaining its historical performance after expanding globally. |
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