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Contreras, Jeremiah

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  • ACCT 3220 - Corporate Financial Reporting 1
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
    First of a two-course sequence intended to provide students with increased fluency in the language of business. Focuses on U.S. and international accounting concepts and methods that underlie financial statements and the related implications for interpreting financial accounting information.
  • ACCT 3320 - Cost Management
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022 / Spring 2024
    Provides cost analysis for the support of management decision making. Analyzes activities, cost behavior, role of accounting in planning, financial modeling,and managerial uses of cost data.
  • ACCT 4850 - Senior Seminar - Accounting Ethics
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
    Examines the nature of accounting theory and practice from perspectives of economics, law, globalization, accounting, ethics, and moral reasoning. Explores issues including implications of institutional factors, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC, FASB, IFRS, and capital markets.
  • ACCT 6350 - Current Issues in Professional Accounting--Accounting Ethics
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
    Examines the nature of accounting theory and practice from perspectives of economics, law, globalization, accounting, ethics, and moral reasoning. Also explores issues including implications of institutional factors, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC, FASB, IFRS, and capital markets. Counts as senior seminar for Concurrent degree students.
  • BASE 2101 - BCOR Applied Semester Experience 1: Early Stage
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
    Builds on material covered in BCOR 2001, BCOR 2002 and BCOR 2003. Provides students the opportunity to apply tools from the functional business disciplines. Business problems, solutions and decisions are addressed in the context of an early stage business. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
  • BASE 2102 - BCOR Applied Semester Experience 2: Growth Stage
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
    Builds on material covered in BCOR 2001, BCOR 2002 and BCOR 2003. Provides students the opportunity to apply tools from the functional business disciplines. Business problems, solutions and decisions are addressed in the context of a growth stage business. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
  • BCOR 2002 - Principles of Accounting and Finance
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018
    Provides students with an overall appreciation for coordinated efforts within the business world. Builds a basic understanding of how information regarding a firm's resources and obligations is conveyed to decision makers outside the firm. Examines the use of the tools in financial forecasting, as well as the valuation of projects and assets in the context of time and risk. Credit not granted for this course and BCOR 2000 and BCOR 2200.
  • BCOR 2203 - Principles of Accounting I
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2023
    The course builds a basic understanding of how information regarding a firm's resources and obligations is conveyed to decision makers outside the firm. Students will be exposed to both a user-perspective (how to read and analyze financial accounting reports) and a preparer-perspective (how business transactions affect the financial statements). Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding the accounting cycle, or the system with which businesses process and record their business events to create the financial statements. Credit not granted for this course and BCOR 2000, BCOR 2002.
  • BCOR 2303 - Principles of Accounting II
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2023
    This course provides an introduction to various uses of accounting information that are available to managers. Specifically, students will be exposed to decision-making models aimed at assisting managers in planning, operating, and controlling business functions. Topics include job costing, cost-volume analysis, budgeting, cash flows, performance evaluation/compensation, break-even analysis, and relevant costs. Credit not granted for this course and BCOR 2000.
  • BUSM 2020 - Principles of Accounting
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Summer 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Summer 2021
    Focuses on the development and interpretation of external financial reports. Topics range from the fundamentals of bookkeeping, to more complex accounting issues such as intangible assets, impairments and stock-based compensation. Degree credit not granted for this course and BUSM 2002.
  • MBAE 6021 - Financial Accounting I
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
    This course introduces the basic concepts and practices of the financial reporting system used by companies to convey the results of their operations to stakeholders. Students will develop fluency in accounting terminology and better understand how the intersection of business activities and accounting principles affect corporate financial statements. By the end of the course, students will have the ability to read and interpret real-world financial statements.
  • MBAE 6022 - Financial Accounting II
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
    This course builds on the foundations from Financial Accounting 1 to explore the complexity of accounting due to the discretion and judgment involved in choosing among alternative methods of accounting. Students will also explore how controls are utilized to mitigate potential risks from misstatements caused by errors, omissions, or fraud. By the end of the course, students will understand how management and accounting decisions affect financial reporting.
  • MSBC 5020 - Financial Accounting
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
    Introduces the financial reporting system used by business organizations to convey information about their economic affairs. Develops an understanding of financial reports and what they tell about a business enterprise. Focuses on how alternative accounting measurement rules represent different economic events in financial reports.

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