Learning Goals
| Learning Goals | Standard | Working Knowledge of Ethics and Legal Compliance | Demonstrate awareness of legal and ethical issues and a framework for resolving them |
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| Disciplinary Competence | Undergraduate will demonstrate competence in their respective discipline |
| Communication Skills | Students will write in a correct business style using proper structure, spelling, language, and grammar |
| Critical Thinking | Students will apply problem solving models to business situations |
| Learning Goals | Standard | Communication | Student will demonstrate effective written communication skills |
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| Cross Disciplinary Competence | Demonstrates ability to integrate different functional areas in solving business problems |
| Critical Thinking | Student will demonstrate ability to analyze business situation and recommend appropriate action |
| Awareness of Environment of Business | Student will demonstrate awareness of the environment of business, e.g., law, politics, culture, technology |
| Ethical Reasoning | Student will demonstrate ability to identify ethical dilemma and be able to recognize and evaluate alternative courses of action |
| Learning Goals | Standard | Communication | Student will demonstrate effective written communication skills |
|---|---|
| Cross Disciplinary Competence | Demonstrates ability to integrate different functional areas in solving business problems |
| Critical Thinking | Student will demonstrate ability to analyze business situation and recommend appropriate action |
| Awareness of Environment of Business | Student will demonstrate awareness of the environment of business, e.g., law, politics, culture, technology |
| Ethical Reasoning | Student will demonstrate ability to identify ethical dilemma and be able to recognize and evaluate alternative courses of action |
| Learning Goals | Standard | Cross-disciplinary competence |
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| Critical thinking | |
| Awareness of environment of energy business | |
| Knowledge of legal issues in the energy industry | |
| Tools for effective leadership | |
| Learning Goals | Standard | Ability to competently apply the appropriate principles of valuation for major financial assets and securities. | Ability to recognize mispricing of securities and assets and arrive at the correct value. |
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| Capacity to engage in research on firms to evaluate if their investment and financial policies maximize firm value. | Ability to assess and use appropriate methodologies and models to solve complex financial analysis problems and to communicate those findings in a clear and concise manner |
| Capacity to evaluate various types of financial risks and devise operational risk management strategies. | Ability to recognize the nature of different financial risks and arrive at appropriate hedging and trading strategies. |
| Ability to understand the trade-off between risk and return in investment management. | Ability to recognize the correlation of risk amongst different securities and utilize this knowledge to form efficient portfolios. |
| Learning Goals | Standard | Establishing a research record | Graduates will publish or present by their fifth year |
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| Function independently as a competent researcher in business discipline and within organizational context | Completed and defended dissertation by fifth year |
| Acquire sufficient knowledge as well as interviewing and presentation skills to qualify for faculty position after degree completion | Offered a faculty position at research-oriented institution |
| Competently teach full semester class at the (college) sophomore or above level | Doctoral students are expected to meet or exceed expectations for teaching competency |
| Learning Goals | Standard | Capacity to identify and diagnose accounting problems (mechanics) | Ability to recognize dysfunctional accounting situations |
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| Capacity to engage in accounting research and to present the findings of such research effectively in both oral and written contexts | Ability to assess and use appropriate professional research sources in solving complex accounting problems and to communicate those findings to other professionals in a clear and concise manner |
| Capacity to work effectively with others in solving accounting problems | Ability to coordinate actions and solve problems jointly with other members of a professional team |
| Understanding of accounting and financial concepts | Ability to demonstrate knowledge of financial conceptual issues |
| Capacity to recognize and respond appropriately to ethical and regulatory dilemmas | Demonstrate an understanding of ethical decision-making, corporate governance, and social responsibility |
| Learning Goals | Standard | Capacity to record, analyze, and interpret financial and other information (mechanics/journal entry) | Ability to recognize and classify accounting-related information and to prepare and evaluate financial and managerial reports |
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| Capacity to identify and diagnose accounting problems | Ability to recognize dysfunctional accounting situations |
| Capacity to verbally communicate business information | Students will be able to verbally communicate business information in a clear and concise manner |
| Capacity to recognize ethical and regulatory dilemmas | Understanding of ethical and regulatory responsibilities |
| Basic understanding of accounting and financial concepts(theoretical) | Demonstrated knowledge of financial conceptual issues |
| Learning Goals | Standard | Capacity to identify and diagnose accounting problems (mechanics) | Ability to recognize dysfunctional accounting situations |
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| Capacity to engage in accounting research and to present the findings of such research effectively in both oral and written contexts | Ability to assess and use appropriate professional research sources in solving complex accounting problems and to communicate those findings to other professionals in a clear and concise manner |
| Capacity to work effectively with others in solving accounting problems | Ability to coordinate actions and solve problems jointly with other members of a professional team |
| Understanding of accounting and financial concepts | Ability to demonstrate knowledge of financial conceptual issues |
| Capacity to recognize and respond appropriately to ethical and regulatory dilemmas | Demonstrate an understanding of ethical decision-making, corporate governance, and social responsibility |
| Learning Goals | Standard | Capacity to produce publishable accounting research | Graduate will present work at accounting or business conference ranked “high” or better, or have original work accepted for publication in academic journal ranked at that level by fifth year |
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| Capacity to function independently as a competent accounting researcher within the broader business organizational context | Graduate will complete and defend dissertation before audience from discipline as well as 1 additional discipline by fifth year |
| Capacity to qualify for an accounting faculty position after degree completion by possessing sufficient knowledge as well as interviewing and presentation skills | Offered a faculty position at a research-oriented college or university offering graduate level coursework in business administration |
| Capacity to competently teach full semester accounting class at the (college) sophomore or above level | Two faculty members will independently rate the student as a competent teacher after one or more unannounced class visits |
| Capacity to evaluate, interpret, and synthesize existing accounting research | Graduate will critique one recent academic accounting paper as part of the written comprehensive exam |