A historical perspective on various schools of management thought. Students will become familiar with the content and perspective of some of the most influential organization and management thinkers through an examination of management classics.

An introduction to the methods and instruments of business research, including scientific method, research design, and measurement. Basic descriptive and inferential statistics will be covered.

This course surveys accounting theory, models and research in financial accounting, financial reporting, auditing, managerial accounting and tax. Emphasis is placed on the origins of these issues and current state of the art in each area.

This course focuses on current and classic research in financial accounting with particular emphasis on the role of accounting information in capital markets. Topics include valuation theory, studies of the usefulness and value-relevance of accounting information to security market participants, use of the security returns as a tool for validating accounting procedures, earnings management, and analysts' behaviour.

This seminar provides a broad overview of current research in the field of management accounting. Issues to be examined include but are not limited to executive compensation, performance measurement, cost system design and corporate governance issues.

This course focuses on cross-sectional and panel data econometrics applied to asset pricing and corporate finance. The theoretical approach is based on the use of the generalized method of moments (GMM). However, maximum likelihood, estimation and minimum distance estimation are used for specific topics. The course covers basic theory, but focuses on financial applications covering classical contributions, recent developments and ongoing research.

This seminar examines research in accounting based on archival sources. This may include capital-markets-based research in financial accounting as well as research in management accounting, auditing and taxation utilizing data from archival sources.

The economic theory of business decision making and its application to a variety of problems. Strategic decisions are emphasized.

A study of modern macroeconomics, including economic growth, money demand and macroeconomic policy in the short run.

A survey of applied econometrics, including basic regression theory and an examination of a variety of econometric applications in both microeconomics and macroeconomics.

This course covers the theory and principles of corporate finance and asset pricing. The corporate finance topics will include capital structure, agency theory and corporate valuation while the asset pricing theory will cover mean-variance portfolio theory, the capital asset pricing model and the arbitrage pricing theory.

The goals of social sciences vary from discipline to discipline and from researcher to researcher. While these differences may exist, the key objective of the social sciences is to produce an understanding of human nature. When regularities and patterns in human behaviour are found, we not only document them but also try to understand the complex mechanisms that guide those behavioural patterns. It is a tough endeavour which requires exposure to, and appreciation of, a diversity of approaches which help to further knowledge of social behaviour. This course focuses on exploring the understanding of human behaviour via the scientific method.

A historical perspective on various schools of management thought. Students will become familiar with the content and perspective of some of the most influential organization and management thinkers through an examination of management classics.

An introduction to the methods and instruments of business research, including scientific method, research design, and measurement. Basic descriptive and inferential statistics will be covered.

An overview of the micro-level theories of organizational behaviour. This includes the "traditional" areas of micro-OB (e.g. motivation, leadership, job satisfaction) and the areas of special interest to participants.

This course surveys accounting theory, models and research in financial accounting, financial reporting, auditing, managerial accounting and tax. Emphasis is placed on the origins of these issues and current state of the art in each area.

This course focuses on current and classic research in financial accounting with particular emphasis on the role of accounting information in capital markets. Topics include valuation theory, studies of the usefulness and value-relevance of accounting information to security market participants, use of the security returns as a tool for validating accounting procedures, earnings management, and analysts' behaviour.

This seminar provides a broad overview of current research in the field of management accounting. Issues to be examined include but are not limited to executive compensation, performance measurement, cost system design and corporate governance issues.

This seminar introduces students to key theoretical issues in consumer behaviour, provides them with an understanding of the use of various conceptual and empirical approaches to the study of consumer behaviour and enables strong critical thinking when reading academic work. The course includes topics in motivation, personality, self concept, attitude formation, memory, judgment, decision-making and other aspects of consumer behaviour theory.

This seminar provides a broad overview of current research. The seminar examines behavioural and social aspects of accounting. Of particular interest will be research based in social/cognitive psychology and organizational theory.

This course presents the conceptual and statistical foundations of the General Linear Model (GLM) and introduces a number of specific forms of the model.

The main topic for this course is structural equation modelling (SEM), an extremely flexible data analytic technique that incorporates most other multivariate models as special cases. The course will address the two main components of SEM: causal modelling (or path analysis), and measurement models.