MBA Foundation Courses

The Missouri State University MBA Program requires 24 hours of graduate foundation courses. Many of these courses may have been completed already in baccalaureate programs. Any foundation course not completed before the MBA program is started must be taken at the graduate level. In the descriptions that appear below, the equivalent undergraduate courses at Missouri State are shown in parentheses.

Dr. Keith Denton,
Professor of Management

ACC 500 Financial Accounting Concepts for Managers
(ACC 201 & 211) - Prerequisite: permission of director of COBA graduate program. Comprehensive study of the fundamentals of financial accounting. Designed for graduate students who have not had an undergraduate course in financial accounting. This course will not be counted in the hours required for the COBA undergraduate or graduate degree.

CIS 500 Information Systems in Business Organization
(CIS 429) - Prerequisite: permission of director of COBA graduate program. Comprehensive study of the fundamentals of business information systems. Designed for graduate students who have not had undergraduate information systems courses. This course will not be counted in the hours required for a COBA undergraduate or graduate degree.

ECO 500 Fundamentals of Micro- and Macroeconomics
(ECO 155 & 165) - Prerequisite: permission of director of COBA graduate program. Comprehensive study of the fundamentals of business information systems. Designed for graduate students who have not had undergraduate information systems courses. This course will not be counted in the hours required for a COBA undergraduate or graduate degree.

FGB 500 Managerial Finance
(FGB 380) - Prerequisite: ACC 500 and ECO 500, or equivalent, and permission of director of a COBA Graduate Program. Comprehensive study of the finance function in the business enterprise, including financial analysis-planning-forecasting, capital budgeting, leasing, working capital management, capital structure, dividend policy, and multinational finance. Designed for graduate students who have not had an undergraduate course in financial management in the last five years. This course will not be counted in the hours required for a COBA undergraduate or graduate degree.

MGT 500 Administrative, Organizational, and Operations Concepts for Managers
(MGT 340 & 364) - Prerequisite: permission of director of COBA graduate program. Comprehensive study of the fundaments of the management function, organizational behavior and design, and production and operations management. Designed for graduate students who have not had undergraduate courses in management or organizational behavior and in operations management. This course will not be counted in the hours required for a COBA undergraduate or graduate degree.

MKT 500 Marketing Concepts for Managers
(MKT 350) - Prerequisite: permission of director of COBA Graduate Program. Comprehensive study of the fundamentals of marketing. Designed for graduate students who have not had an undergraduate course in marketing. This course will not be counted in the course required for a COBA undergraduate or graduate degree.

RIL 500 Legal Environment for Business Managers
(RIL 231 & 232) - Prerequisites: permission of director of COBA Graduate Program. Exploration of contemporary legal and ethical issues encountered by business managers including issues related to torts, contracts and U.C.C. sales, products liability, employment discrimination, debtor-creditor rights, environmental responsibility, intellectual property, ethics, and agency implications in various forms of business organizations. Legal dispute resolution mechanisms are also examined. This course is intended for students entering the MBA program who have not satisfied equivalent course work in this area, and this course will not be counted in the hours required for a COBA undergraduate or graduate degree.

QBA 500 Statistical Methods in Business Research
(QBA 237 & 337) - Prerequisite: permission of director of COBA Graduate Program. Comprehensive study of the fundamentals of statistics. Designed for graduate students who have not had an undergraduate statistics course. This course will not be counted in the hours required for a COBA undergraduate or graduate degree.

For MBA information please contact: JamesSimmerman@MissouriState.edu