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AN INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

Brian J Bushee
Begins Sep 16th 2013 (10 weeks long)
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Accounting is the language of business. Companies communicate their performance to outsiders and evaluate the performance of their employees using information generated by the accounting system. Learning the language of accounting is essential for anyone that must make decisions based on financial information.


AN INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Christian Terwiesch
Begins Sep 30th 2013 (8 weeks long)
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In this course you will learn how to improve productivity, increase responsiveness, provide more choice to the customer, and deliver higher quality standards. In short, you will learn how to analyze business processes and how to improve them. Along the way, you will learn about topics such as Lean Operations, Six Sigma, and the Toyota production system, you will hear about bottlenecks, flows rates, and inventory levels. And, much, much more.


AN INTRODUCTION TO MARKETING

David Bell, Peter Fader and Barbara E. Kahn
Begins Oct 14th 2013 (9 weeks long)
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This course will teach the fundamentals of marketing by getting to the root of customer decision making. The course will focus on branding strategies, customer centricity and new market entry. It is taught by three of Wharton’s top faculty in the marketing department, which is consistently ranked as the #1 marketing department in the world. This course features on-location videos and debates between the three professors.


AN INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATE FINANCE

Franklin Allen
Begins Oct 28th 2013 (6 weeks long)
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This course serves as an introduction to business finance (corporate financial management and investments) for graduate level business school students preparing for upper-level course work. The primary objective is to provide a framework, concepts, and tools for analyzing financial decisions based on fundamental principles of modern financial theory.