Master of Business Administration

Quantitative knowledge expected at the beginning of MBA 521

• Measures of Central Tendency (Mean, median and mode)
• Measures of Variability (Standard Deviation and Coefficient of Variation)
• Correlation
• Sampling and Estimation including the Normal Distribution and Confidence Intervals
• Basic Hypothesis Testing
• Basic Regression Analysis

If you have this knowledge from a statistics course (MS 251 at SIUE or the equivalent from another school), you are ready to begin MBA 521.

Supplemental Learning

If you do not understand these concepts or would like a refresher, you can complete an interactive online course offered through the Harvard School of Business. The results of your work will be transmitted to the instructor through the Harvard Publishing Website. Admitted students will receive information about this online course in their letter of admission.

In addition to the topics listed above, the online course includes multiple regression and decision analysis. We will be covering these topics in MBA 521. The information available through the online course can serve as a helpful resource as we cover this material.

Accounting skills expected at the beginning of ACCT 524

• Recording asset, liability, and owners’ equity transactions--Solid Footing Chapter 2
• Recording transactions affecting retained earnings --Solid Footing Chapter 3
• Recording transactions in revenue and expense accounts --Solid Footing Chapter 4
• Preparing the Balance Sheet and Income Statement --Solid Footing Chapters 2 and 3
• Closing revenue and expense accounts --Solid Footing Chapter 5
• Steps in the accounting cycle Solid Footing--Chapter 6

If you have these skills from a principles of accounting course (ACCT 200 at SIUE or the equivalent at another school), you are ready to begin ACCT 524.

Supplemental Learning

If you do not have these skills or would like a refresher, you can complete chapters 1 through 6 of Solid Footing (a software package which is available in the SIUE University Bookstore on the Edwardsville Campus). You will not be required to submit the project and it will not be included in your grade for ACCT 524. The main part of the project is “interactive” – the software demonstrates the steps for you.

From Chapter 2 through Chapter 6, the project includes a comprehensive problem that will let you test your understanding. Solutions to that problem will be posted to Blackboard.

Later chapters (7 through 10) of the software could be used as a reference for topics that will be covered in the financial accounting section of the course.

Students may also choose to take an undergraduate course to improve their statistics (MS 251) and accounting skills (ACCT 200). Completion of MS 251 or ACCT 200 will not earn academic credit in the MBA program.