Senior Year, Last Semester
Friday, January 15th, 2010Well, it’s here. Senior year with only a few months until graduation. It seems pretty unbelievable. I’ve loved being here at Covenant, and I wouldn’t trade my four years here for the world. But I’m definitely ready for the next stage of life. Let me rephrase that – i’m looking forward to the next stage of life. Whether or not i’m ready is a different question.
I’m taking a full load this semester – 20 credits. Here is a little bit of an overview of the courses i’m taking, for anyone who’s interested.
- Industrial Organization (ECO 330 – class on corporations/firms and how they interact with each other in the economy)
- Strategic Management (BUS 400 – discussing the differences between operational decisions and strategic decisions for higher management in various corporations and how those decisions affect those firms)
- Human Resource Management (BUS 320 – reaffirming people as a firm’s most valuable resource and how to manage them within a large corporation; work-life balance)
- Auditing (ACC 410 – discussing the details and processes involved with auditing a firm’s financial statements and internal controls; GAAP regulations and SOX compliance; Gleim CPA review)
- Corporate Financial Management (FIN 345 – the second semester of Corporate Finance; dealing with detailed discussions of how any given firm manages their assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity; creativity in financial management)
- Senior Integration Paper (SIP – BUS 492 – my topic is “Corporate Ethics and Values: Ethical Decision-Making for Management Accounting”; 25-30 page research paper)
- Advanced Accounting (ACC 4022 – through LSU correspondence, issues with mergers and acquisitions, governmental and international accounting, etc.)
For May term, I’m heading up to New York City with my accounting professor, Chris Dodson, and about 7 other business/finance students. Dodson is teaching an investments course to us, along with visits to many of the major investment, banking, and financial firms in the greater New York/D.C. area – hopefully the New York Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs, the Deutsche Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank, Ernst and Young Headquarters, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, etc.