Choice of material has implications throughout the life-cycle of a product, influencing many aspects of economic and environmental performance. This course will provide a survey of methods for evaluating those implications. Lectures will cover topics in material choice concepts, fundamentals of engineering economics, manufacturing economics modeling methods, and life-cycle environmental evaluation.

Continuation of Finance Theory I, concentrating on corporate financial management. Topics: Capital investment decisions, security issues, dividend policy, optimal capital structure, hedging and risk management, futures markets and real options analysis. The objective of this course is to learn the financial tools needed to make good business decisions. The course presents the basic insights of corporate finance theory, but emphasizes the application of theory to real business decisions. Each session involves class discussion, some centered on lectures and others around business cases.

This book is suitable for an undergraduate or MBA level Financial Accounting course.

The authors bring their collective teaching wisdom to bear in this book not by changing "the message"(financial accounting content), but by changing "the messenger" (the way the content is presented). The approach centers around utilizing the Socratic method, or simply put, asking and answering questions. The reason that this approach continues to be glorified after thousands of years is simple - it engages students and stresses understanding over memorization. So this text covers standard topics in a standard sequence, but does so through asking a carefully constructed series of questions along with their individual answers.

This course focuses on financial accounting, a sub-discipline of accounting. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: perform accounting computations through the critical analysis of business transactions; demonstrate an understanding of the foundational principles and objectives of accounting; illustrate the impact of business transactions through the use of the accounting equation and transforming business transactions (data) into useable information; describe the accounting cycle and be able to identify specific debits and credits, journals, t-accounts, a trial balance, and resulting financial statements; identify why adjusting entries are necessary, and be able to distinguish between various types of adjusting entries; discuss and be able to demonstrate the use of the accounting worksheet as a means of preparing the financial statements; explain and execute the closing process for a specified accounting cycle; identify the foundational accounting concepts, assumptions and principles through the analysis of specific business situations; identify and analyze accounting transactions of a merchandising company; define and solve for specific business events involving various inventory methods; define and apply the accounting elements associated with receivables and payables; identify, record, and depreciate property, plant, and equipment. This free course may be completed online at any time. (Business Administration 103)

In today's complex financial world, being financially literate is a critical life skill… as important as reading, writing and arithmetic. So to combine financial education within the teaching of math is an ingenious way to teach both of these subjects simultaneously. Through Money Math: Lessons for Life, middle grade students apply math skills to some of life’s costly challenges, learning important personal finance concepts along the way.

The objectives of this course are to help students: Gain a practical and theoretical understanding of the process in which new business ventures are created. Understand the theory behind the financial aspects of the decision making process and day-to-day operations of a venture. Become familiar with the various debt and equity sources of financing available to new and growing businesses. Understand cash flow and pro forma logic and be able to apply the mechanics to income statement and balance sheet analysis and construction. Apply economic and financial theory in the development and presentation of a financial business plan for the purpose of obtaining financing for a venture. Utilize different valuation techniques to estimate the market value of a venture at various stages. Comprehend what are the different investment harvesting alternatives, understand what theory says about these alternatives, and be able to compare these choices in terms of a venture valuation.