The Reid School focuses its undergraduate professional courses in the last two years of the four-year degree program, ensuring that students build a strong foundation in business principles before diving into specialized studies. Our Management program provides a broad educational base through a common body of business knowledge, complemented by in-depth exploration of management theories and practices.
As a Management major, you will engage with critical topics such as organizational behavior, strategic planning, project management, and human resource development. Our faculty continually assess and update the curriculum to align with the evolving demands of the business world, ensuring you acquire relevant competencies and skills necessary for effective leadership.
Acc 201: Principles of Accounting I
An introduction to financial accounting that explains the accounting principles and procedures used to record and report economic events of a business entity. Financial accounting focuses on the preparation of accounting information for users outside the business entity.
Acc 202: Principles of Accounting II
A continuation of the introduction to financial accounting principles and an introduction to managerial accounting. Managerial accounting focuses on the preparation and use of accounting information by management.
BAd 103: Introduction to Software Applications
Survey of the Windows operating system and business software applications, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software. Fulfills computer competency for Business or Accounting majors.
BAd 301: Business Law
A basic course dealing with the history and operation of the law, the law of contracts, and some description of other important segments of law useful to business students.
BAd 318: Business Statistics
Fundamental concepts and methods of statistics covering frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability, probability distributions, sampling, estimation, statistical quality control, quantitative decision making, hypothesis testing, correlation analysis, regression analysis, and non-parametric statistics.
BAd 405: Management Information Systems
Examination of information needs of a business and how to plan, design, and implement a system to meet those needs.
BAd 499: Business Policy
A capstone case course with an emphasis on integrating the various functional areas of business. As cases are discussed, consideration is given to topics such as decision making, strategic planning, and organization theory.
Eco 202: Economic Concepts II (Microeconomics)
An introduction to the functions of an economic system with an emphasis on decision-making by individuals and firms in a market economy.
Fin 308: Financial Principles
An introduction to the basic principles, concepts, and analytical techniques of finance. Major topics include financial analysis and planning, working capital management, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and sources of capital.
Mgt 306: Management Concepts
The study of principles of management focused around a central core of planning, organizing, directing, controlling, and staffing.
Mkt 307: Marketing Concepts
The study of the principles of marketing around the themes of product, price, place, and promotion.
Acc 304: Advanced Managerial Accounting
An investigation of the current trends in the practice of managerial accounting with an emphasis on the concepts and practices of information gathering, monitoring, and management control in manufacturing and service-oriented businesses.
Eco 304: Intermediate Economics
Intermediate analysis of microeconomic theory and concepts. Topics include consumer behavior and demand, production and costs, price and output under both perfect competition and pure monopoly.
Fin 314: Managerial Finance
This course uses cases to reinforce finance principles and to develop further areas such as financial analysis and planning, working capital management, capital budgeting, and capital structure.
Mgt 308: Organizational Behavior
This course explores the field of organizational behavior from both internal and external perspectives. Key areas include organizational processes, change and development, organizational structures, and outcomes. Organizational theory will be highlighted so that learning can be applied to real world settings and situations.
Mgt 403: Marketing Management
An integrative course utilizing the case method approach to develop experience in creating alternative strategic responses to problems facing a marketing manager.