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HKUST MBA Sample Class
Topic: The Motivating Power of Numbers: Do Numbers, Finance, and Accounting Control our Business, Social, and Personal Decisions?
The objective of the fields of accounting is to reflect the essence of a complex situation in one number. Market prices, such as the price of oil or the pound/dollar exchange rate, summarize worldwide economic realities in just one number.
In our modern world, we have become so fixated on these numbers that the numbers themselves change our behavior, make us work harder, encourage us to lie, and influence our emotions. To what extent do numbers, finance, and accounting control our decisions?
- Basic principles of financial statement analysis.
- The shocking accounting truth about Facebook’s IPO.
- The impact that accounting measurement has on marathon times.
- The why and how of corporate Earnings Management.
- How to construct your own Balanced Scorecard.
Faculty Profile
Derrald Stice has been a professor in the accounting department at HKUST for over seven years. Derrald's main research expertise relates to how accounting is used in the capital markets, with a particular emphasis on the debt markets.
His research has been published in top accounting and finance journals and has been cited in The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. He has presented his research at many universities in many countries around the world.
In addition to his research focus, Derrald has taught various graduate courses in accounting in Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, and Russia and has provided corporate training for employees at Goldman Sachs.
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