Financial Development and Resource Management

Catalog description

This course explores the skills necessary for budgeting, stewardship, funding, accountability, and the ethical use of resources. While not an accounting course, the differences between for-profit, not-for-profit, and cash flow accounting requirements are examined. Leaders learn how to ensure budgetary income streams for planned programs to accomplish the mission of the organization. ML 5353 Decision Making and Data Analytics (3 cr .) Leadership decisions must often be made with incomplete evidence. This course provides an understanding of various forces which influence the process of making and implementing decisions. Students will learn leadership decision making from individual, small group, and social environment contexts, as well as values of good decisions and the unintended consequences of poor decisions. Besides, students will be introduced to the study of frameworks and analytic tools (types, forms and uses of data, data tools, data technologies and platforms) to build decision-making competency into an organization.