We will broaden our studies to include concepts of managerial accounting. This type of accounting involves the application of business management tools, including budgeting, cost accounting, performance management, breakeven computations and incremental analysis.
We will expand the discussion of accrual accounting to specific areas of a company’s business and explore the key differences between a company’s income statement and its cash flow statement. We also will review concepts of financial analysis and use analytical tools that use accounting information to assess the financial health of a company.
How to create a strategy that maximizes flexibility and captures opportunities no matter what the future brings? Strategic plans are always about the future. Therefore, you can’t build a great strategy without a better understanding of the immediate and distant future of your industry, your competitors, your customers and the world at large. This webinar shows you how to find opportunities locally and globally by discovering early warning signals and capitalizing on trends before your competitors do.
Campus shutdowns across the United States at the mid-March onset of the coronavirus pandemic included a shutdown of executive education open enrollment and custom programs delivered on campus.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – The question of when to refinance is often a slightly complicated one, but with mortgage rates at years-long lows, you might think that everyone would be gathering up their documents and getting a new loan that will let them draw money out of their homes or pay them off faster.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Few sectors of the economy have been as resilient as retail during the coronavirus pandemic.
The latest indicators show retail sales rising for a third-straight month in July, climbing at a strong but slower pace, even amid high unemployment, the continued spread of the deadly pandemic and decisions across the country to cancel in-person schooling.
P. K. Kannan, Dean's Chair in Marketing Science, will briefly introduce how consumer behavior has changed during the pandemic and what the implications are for marketing strategies in the short term and the longer term.
In March, as hospitals around the country were struggling to equip first responders with the personal protective equipment they needed to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, Hobie Cohen had an idea.
He had a 3D printer at home and wasn’t using it. Why not put it to work making face masks?
Andy Shallal, CEO and founder of Busboys and Poets joins Maryland Smith Associate Dean Victor Mullins in a conversation about pivoting your business strategy in the midst of a global pandemic, economic distress and racial protests. Join us to share your thoughts and ask questions on how to move your business and your career forward in uncertain times.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – For decades, the electric vehicle has been seen as the car of tomorrow but never quite the car of today, says Maryland Smith’s David A. Kirsch.
