EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
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Accounting and Finance
To compete and succeed, companies need leaders in every department who can speak the dollars-and-cents language of business. Managers who can interpret financial reports, assess the costs and benefits of decisions, and communicate operating and financial strategies clearly have a real advantage in today's business environment.
If you’re a non-financial manager with limited accounting or finance experience, SMU Cox Executive Education can round out your knowledge. Our programs give you the skills to make informed decisions and take an active role in setting and achieving your company’s goals.
You’ll learn from outstanding professors and guest lecturers. Cox finance faculty members are nationally recognized for the quality of their teaching, authorship of leading finance and accounting textbooks, and extensive publication of articles in scholarly journals. SMU Cox Executive Education programs in accounting and finance include:
The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
This three-day program will provide you with a better understanding of the numbers side of your business. You’ll review basic accounting terminology and concepts and learn how to use financial information to evaluate performance and forecast resource needs. This course gives you an overview and understanding of cost behavior: fixed costs, variable costs, break-even analysis, contribution margin and more.
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Graduate Finance Certificate Program
SMU Cox designed this class for business leaders with demanding schedules. You’ll learn more about financial statement analysis, international corporate finance, insurance and risk management, investment anomalies and ways to fund company growth.
- First trimester: Sept. 9-Oct. 21, 2008
- Second trimester: Nov. 4, Nov. 8, Nov. 18, Dec. 2, Dec. 9, Jan. 13, 2009
- Third trimester: Feb. 3-March 12, 2009
