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Spring 2006 ACCT 102. Principles of Accounting II. Moers, F.
The first part of the course presents alternative methods of
preparing managerial
accounting information, and the remainder of the course
examines how these methods
are used by companies. Managerial accounting is a
company's internal language,
and is used for decision-making, production management,
product design and pricing,
and for motivating and evaluating employees.
Unless you understand managerial accounting, you cannot have a
thorough understanding of a
company's internal operations. What you learn in
this
course will help you
understand the operations of your future employer (and
enable you to be more
successful at your job), and help you understand other
companies you encounter in
your role as competitor, consultant, or investor.
CHIN 492. First Year Classical Chinese II. Mair. V. Formerly AMES474.
Introduction to the classical written language,
beginning with Shadick, First Course in Literary
Chinese, followed by readings in a wide selection of
texts with Chinese commentaries. Readings are in part
chosen to reflect student interests. This course is
taught in English and there are no prerequisites. CHIN 510. Topics in Chinese Culture. Chiang, M.
The
reading materials for the course are mainly original
articles related to Chinese history and society. EALC 254. Tales of the Heike. Chance, L.
Our
subject is Tale of the Heike, a multifaceted narrative
of the twelfth-century battles that brought the Taira
clan down and led to the establishment of Japan's first
military government. We will read the Heike tales with
an eye toward how they fictionalize history and idealize
certain types, most notably loyal women and warriors;
the development of the warrior tale genre; central
aspects of the Japanese ethos; and later works of
literature based on episodes and characters from the
Tale of the Heike. All material is in English
translation. (Students of Japanese language may learn to
read a famous section in the original.) There are no
pre-requisites. FNCE 101. Monetary Economics and the Global Economy. Souleles, N.
This is an intermediate-level course in
macroeconomics and the global economy, including
topics in monetary and international economics.
The goal is to provide a unified framework for
understanding macroeconomic events and policy,
which govern the global economic environment of
business. The course analyzes the determinants
and behavior of employment, production, demand
and profits; inflation, interest rates, asset
prices, and wages; exchange rates and
international flows of goods and assets;
including the interaction of the real economy
with monetary policy and the financial system.
The analysis is applied to current events, both
in the US and abroad.
MKTG 276. Applied Probability Models in Marketing. Fader, P. This course will expose students to the theoretical and empirical "building blocks" that will allow them to construct, estimate, and interpret powerful models of consumer behavior. Over the years, researchers and practitioners have used these models for a wide variety of applications, such as new product sales, forecasting, analyses of media usage, and targeted marketing programs. Other disciplines have seen equally broad utilization of these techniques. The course will be entirely lecture-based with a strong emphasis on real-time problem solving. Most sessions will feature sophisticated numerical investigations using Microsoft Excel. Much of the material is highly technical. Fall 2005 ACCT 101. Principles of Accounting I. Richardson, S.
This
course is an introduction to the basic concepts and
standards underlying financial accounting systems.
Several important concepts will be studied in detail,
including: revenue recognition, inventory, long-lived
assets, present value, and long term liabilities. The
course emphasizes the construction of the basic
financial accounting statements - the income statement,
balance sheet, and cash flow statement - as well as
their interpretation. CHIN 481. Advanced Commercial Chinese I. Yuan. F. Formerly AMES 375.
This course is an advanced course to the
Chinese language and culture in the
field of business and commerce. The
conversation component is aimed to
introduce the language common to a wide
range of Sino-American business
communication situations. The reader
serves as an introduction to basic
Chinese economic terminology in its
written form.
EALC 223. Language, Script and Society in China.
Mair,
V. Formerly AMES479.
The
Chinese writing system is the only major surviving
script in the world that is partially picto-ideographic,
Egyptian hieroglyphic and Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform
having passed out of use about two millennia ago.
Partly because it is so unique, a tremendous number of
myths have grown up around the Chinese script. In an
attempt to understand how they really function, this
seminar will examine the nature of the sinographs and
their relationship to spoken Sinitic languages, as well
as their implications for society and culture. We will
also discuss the artistic and technological aspects of
the Chinese characters and the ongoing efforts to reform
and simplify them. The use of sinographs in other East
Asian countries than China will be taken into account.
FNCE 100. Corporate Finance. Roberts, M.
This course provides an introduction to the
theory, the methods, and the concerns of
corporate finance. The concepts developed in
FNCE 100 form the foundation for all elective
finance courses. The main topics include: 1)
the time value of money and capital budgeting
techniques; 2) uncertainty and the trade-off
between risk and return; 3) security market
efficiency; 4) optimal capital structure, and 5)
dividend policy decisions. MKTG 101. Introduction to Marketing. Fader, P. & Niedermeier, N.
The objective of this course is to
introduce students to the concepts,
analysis, and activities that comprise
marketing management, and to provide
practice in assessing and solving
marketing problems. The course is also
a foundation for other Wharton courses,
and for advanced electives in Marketing.
Topics include marketing management,
pricing, promotion, channels of
distribution, sales force management,
and competitive analysis. Spring 2005 AMES 225 Modern Middle Eastern Literature in Translation. Allen, R. This course is team-taught by
four professors with specialties in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and
Turkish literatures, and is conducted jointly with Rutgers
University, New Brunswick via videoconferencing. The course
deals with the modern literature within each tradition and
focuses on poetry, short story and the novel (novels to be
studied this semester are: Al-Shaikh's The Story of Zahra,
Yehoshua's The Lover, Rachlin's Foreigner, and Pamuk's The White
Castle). The readings are all in English. The course is
conducted in a seminar format. Students are expected to
participate in classroom discussion of the materials assigned
for each session, and evaluation is partially based on the
quality of that participation. A short paper is assigned on the
poetry and the short stories, and there is a final, longer term
paper. AMES 574. Topics in Chinese Culture: Readings in Modern Documents. Chiang, M. The class will begin with a
sketch of the historical background of this golden era of modern
Chinese culture. A major focus will be placed on the changes in
writing style from Classical Chinese to Vernacular Chinese
reflected in literary theories and creative writings by authors
such as Hu Shi and Lu Xun. There will also be a glimpse at new
trends in poetry, drama, art, and thought. BPUB 250. Managerial Economics. Waldfogel, J.
This
course introduces students to "managerial economics,"
the application of microeconomic theory to management
problems. Microeconomic theory is a remarkably useful
body of ideas for
understanding and analyzing human behavior in a variety
of contexts. My goal in this course is to get you to
internalize this body of theory well enough so that you
can analyze management problems. While this is a "tools
course, we will be mindful of applied business problems
throughout the course. After presenting the competitive
model we will dwell on other market structures more like
those encountered by typical firms (monopoly, oligopoly,
monopolistic competition). We will spend some time on
microeconomic lessons on the development and use of
market power, as well as strategic interaction among
firms. Finally, we will spend some time on the theory
of market failure. OPIM 101. Introduction to the Computer as an Analysis Tool. Lee, T.
OPIM
101 provides a solid foundation in both computers and
modeling for use in subsequent courses at Wharton as
well as for the students professional career. The course
is intended to build student skill and comfort using the
computer to solve problems, teach management software
tools for course work and professional life, and provide
an understanding of the role of computers in modern
organizations. Topics include budgeting, analytical
modeling, sensitivity analysis, database management,
inventory control analysis, decision analysis,
optimization, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and
simulation. Students complete six realistic cases
playing the role of solving a problem for a client.
Cases require model solutions using Microsoft Excel and
an executive slide presentation of results and
management recommendations using Microsoft Excel or Powerpoint. No prior background in either computers or
operations and information management is expected. STAT 430. Probability. Low, M. Discrete and continuous sample spaces and probability; random variables, distributions, independence; expectation and generating functions; Markov chains and recurrence theory. Fall 2004 AMES 473. Advanced Chinese Reading and Writing. Chiang, M. The second semester of AMES 374
or permission of the instructor. Designed for students with
advanced level Chinese language training but who need some
further refinements on pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary
usage, this course stresses oral discussion, composition, and
accuracy of language performance. By reading texts written by
contemporary writers, students will also gain knowledge of China
from an analytical and comparative perspective. FNCE 103. Business Economics. Asher, M.
The
course covers introductory microeconomics and
macroeconomics with particular attention given to global
and long-run growth issues. The microeconomic portion
introduces the discipline and fundamental tools of
economics. It proceeds to study the workings of a price
system and theories of consumer and firm
decision-making. It further analyzes particular market
structures characterized by perfect and imperfect
competition, reviews the strengths and weaknesses of a
market economy, and considers the government's role in
correcting market failures and promoting competition.
The macroeconomic portion studies the domestic and
international forces that govern the determination of
the aggregate level of economic activity, and pays
particular attention to the determinants of long-run
economic growth and stabilization policies used to
dampen business cycles. The course concludes with
global issues including the determinants of trade, trade
policy, capital mobility, international financial
instability, and international economic integration and
the extent of globalization. HIST 107. Evolution of Industrial Capitalism. Drew.
The
course follows the evolution of industrial capitalism
since the beginning of the English industrial revolution
in the late 18th century. It ranges from the problems
of the first industrial revolution in England to the
problems of building a market economy in eastern Europe
today. In particular, it examines the process of
industrialization and explores the sources of sustained
economic growth from a comparative perspective. Most of
the world, especially in so-called emerging economies,
is still confronted with the challenge, and often pain,
of creating a modern industrial capitalist society. The
course attempts to build a conceptual apparatus for
understanding models of industrialization and is built
around issues such as law, anti-trust, corporate forms,
banking institutions, industrial relations, etc. By
definition, the course tends to concentrate on
successful industrializations around the world, but
questions regarding continuing underdevelopment will be
addressed.
Functions of several variables, vector-valued functions,
partial derivatives and applications, double and triple
integrals, conic sections, polar coordinates, vectors
and analytic geometry, first and second order ordinary
differential equations. Applications to physical
sciences. Use of symbolic manipulation and graphics
software in calculus. MGMT 100. Leadership and Communication in Groups. Greenhalgh, A.
As a
Wharton undergraduate, you are in a position to become a
future business leader. Management 100 is designed to
increase your understanding of leadership and
communication in teams and to help you build skills that
are necessary for professional success. You will study
literature on leadership, management communication, and
group dynamics and also complete a field project, an
integral part of the course. Your field project
provides the context in which you will develop as a
leader, practice communication skills, learn about the
nature of group work, and enhance your sensitivity to
community issues. Management 100 will enrich your
Wharton experience by providing many opportunities for
interaction with peers, advanced students, alumni,
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