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Business Economics

Business Economics is a field that applies economic theory to the business world. In this field, students learn economic theory and tools to examine the internal decision-making of businesses and the external business environment. Students have several business classes to choose from depending on which aspect of the business environment they are interested in studying.

Business Economics – choose two courses from one of the following tracks:*

Analytics and Database Management:

• IS 752 – Issues in the Current Technical Environment
• IS 788 – Issues in Change Management

Financial Economics:

• BADM 740 – Financial and Monetary Economics
• BADM 741 – Financial Management
• BADM 743 – Investment Management

Managerial Economics:

• BADM 720 – Management and Organizational Science
• BADM 760 – Marketing Management
• ECON 765 – Labor Economics
• MATH 786 – Cooperative Game Theory

Operations Research:

• BADM 701 – Production/Operations Management
• BADM 779 – Seminar in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• MATH 751 – Operations Research I
• MATH 752 – Operations Research II
• MATH 753 – Stochastic Models and Simulation

Taxation and Policy:

• ACC 783 – Taxation of C Corporations
• ACC 789 – Federal Income Taxation: Policy Issues
• BADM 780 – Business and Public Policy

* Please note that some of these courses may require you take courses from the following recommended electives due to prerequisites.

Recommended electives include:

• ACC 750 – Accounting Seminar
• ACC 786 – Estate and Gift Taxation
• BADM 729 – Seminar in Management Issues
• BADM 730 – Economics of the Firm
• BADM 745 – Commercial Bank Management
• BADM 746 – Corporate Treasury Management
• BADM 748 – Real Estate Finance
• BADM 772 – Changing Environment of Business
• ECON 651 – Public Finance
• ECON 655 – Industrial Organization
• ECON 751 – Public Economics
• FIN 620 – International Finance
• FIN 693 – Advanced Seminar in Finance
• IS 675 – Database Design and Implementation
• IS 682 – Data Resource Management