This hands-on course equips students with the technical and conceptual tools to build robust financial models that support decision-making in corporate finance, investments, and risk management. Using Excel as the primary platform, students will learn to structure dynamic models that integrate core financial principles with real-world data. Topics include time value of money, financial statement modeling, valuation techniques, bond pricing, portfolio theory, and option pricing. Students will apply Excel functions such as lookups, conditional logic, charts, and interactive controls to analyze financial scenarios and forecast outcomes.

An applications-oriented course intended to develop the analytic skills required of marketing managers. The course is designed to improve skills in analyzing marketing situations, identifying market opportunities, developing marketing strategies, making concise recommendations, and defending these recommendations.

Formulating successful marketing strategies requires an understanding of consumers' cultures, motivations, cognitions, and emotions. Students will learn how to use theoretical perspectives from psychology, economics, anthropology, and other disciplines to generate predictions about consumers, interpret consumer reactions to marketing stimuli, and develop rigorous skills in marketing analysis.

Approaches pricing decision as an intersection of economics and psychology. Using product categories as diverse as financial services, healthcare, industrial products and consumer packaged goods, students study dynamic pricing, value pricing, price customization, price bundling and multi-part tariffs, menu costs and price stickiness, sales promotions, and pricing in two-sided markets.

The course covers the relationship between design and effectiveness; the impact and determinants (environment, technology, competitiveness, size, life-cycle, communication needs) of an organization's form as well as the difficulties of re-framing organizations.

This course covers the principles that firms should use when formulating strategies in modern, technology-mediated markets. The emphasis is on understanding fundamental conceptual frameworks that underlie these business environments. The course will provide relevant theoretical concepts and relate them to real-life examples and case studies.

Delve into machine learning and its technical applications, obtain a conceptual understanding of prediction problems and algorithms, learn to interpret results using statistical software, and complete a challenging prediction project using real data that will put your knowledge to the test.

This course will introduce students to a diverse collection of big data and machine learning techniques. These techniques are often aimed at identifying and quantifying various structures in data to answer business problems and provide managerial insights.

Operations management is concerned with the facilities and their operation to deliver the goods and services of the organization. The course develops this theme and gives a theoretical framework for managing operations. Some of the major themes include aggregate planning, materials management, and inventory control. This course introduces students to modern quantitative and computing tools necessary for in-depth operational analysis and planning.

An introduction for commerce students to the Canadian legal system focusing on business entities, the structure of the Canadian court system, the various elements of contract law and the law of negligence.

This course provides senior undergraduate students who have developed some knowledge of a discipline and its research methods an opportunity to work in the research project of a professor in return for course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, develop their research skills and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Project descriptions for participating faculty members for the following summer and fall/winter sessions are posted on the ROP website in mid-February and students are invited to apply at that time. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

This course provides senior undergraduate students who have developed some knowledge of a discipline and its research methods an opportunity to work in the research project of a professor in return for course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, develop their research skills and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Project descriptions for participating faculty members for the following summer and fall/winter sessions are posted on the ROP website in mid-February and students are invited to apply at that time. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

Open when a faculty member is willing and able to supervise. Students must obtain the approval of the Director of Commerce and the supervising faculty member before enrolling.

Open when a faculty member is willing and able to supervise. Students must obtain the approval of the Director of Commerce and the supervising faculty member before enrolling.

Topics and issues in Management. Content in any given year will depend on the instructor. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

Topics and issues in Management. Content in any given year will depend on the instructor. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

Topics and issues in Management. Content in any given year will depend on the instructor. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

Topics and issues in Management. Content in any given year will depend on the instructor. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

Topics and issues in Management. Content in any given year will depend on the instructor. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

Topics and issues in Management. Content in any given year will depend on the instructor. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

(Formerly MGT419H5) This is a capstone case course stressing the pervasive competencies and critical thinking skills required from business school graduates, future professional accountants and advisors. This course provides students with an opportunity to integrate the technical and practical knowledge obtained in the prerequisite and other University courses and to apply this knowledge to case type situations. Because of the integrative nature and content of the course, the course will be directed towards students who have completed most of their required courses and who are seeking an accounting designation.

The course focuses on the reasoning and evidence theory underlying audit decision making. Coverage includes professional judgement, statistical auditing, assurance engagements, and public sector auditing.

This course is an extension of the study of areas covered in the introductory audit course and will include the application of risk and materiality to more advanced topic areas with a focus on digitized information. Other topics include special reports, future-oriented financial information and prospectuses. The course will incorporate the use of data analytics in auditing and will explore how to analyze financial data in order to assist in audit engagements.

This is the first of two courses in federal income tax law. It is designed to give the student a basic understanding of the Income Tax Act and its administration. This is achieved by applying the law to practical problems and cases. Topics covered include administration of the tax system, employment income, business and property income, capital gains, other income and deductions, computation of taxable income and taxes payable for individuals. The GST/HST implications, where relevant, will also be discussed. The two course sequence ( MGT423H5 and MGT429H5) have been designed to provide participants with coverage of the tax content required by the professional accounting bodies.

Management control includes all the processes and systems, many accounting-based, by which key managers allegedly ensure that resources are acquired and used effectively and efficiently in the accomplishment of an organization's goals. The case method is used to provide an understanding of the issues and environment of management control.

This is the second of two courses in federal income tax law. It is designed to give the student an understanding of more complex issues of Canadian Income Tax law and tax planning. This is achieved through a combination of lectures and the application of the law to practical problems and case settings. Topics include computation of corporate taxes, integration, corporate reorganizations, surplus distributions, partnerships and trusts.

This interdisciplinary course considers the ways in which human psychology influences financial decision making. Topics may include prospect theory, overconfidence, mental accounting, emotions, and neurofinance.

Application and development of the ideas in MGT231H5, MGT232H5 to corporate finance problems such as initial public offerings and project evaluation.

The main focus is to develop a solid understanding of the valuation of mergers and acquisitions from the perspective of a variety of stakeholders including: acquiring and target firm management, directors, and shareholders; financiers; consumers, and; competition regulators and policymakers. Themes to be explored include M&A and corporate strategy, motivations for M&A, corporate restructuring and divestitures, financing of M&A activity, dealing with competition authorities, and M&A 'waves' over the past century.

This Li Koon Chun Finance Learning Centre (FLC) based course uses a case-based format to provide a hands-on introduction to security markets, the pricing of financial securities, and the trading of financial instruments. Cases will cover fixed income, equities, futures, and options, allowing students to study key risks, including liquidity, market, downside, crash, and credit risk. Students will learn to identify and formalize trading problems using finance theory, analyze and solve them systematically, and implement solutions in practice. This includes developing and applying trading algorithms while managing the risks of their strategies.

This course covers concepts in strategic management and focuses on the role of corporate governance in formulating, implementing and monitoring a firm's strategic objectives. Although the course will cover economic foundations of strategy, market, industry and competitive analysis, the main focus will be on the internal operations of an organization. Corporate governance will be examined in the broad sense of the term and will include an overview of country-level legal environment, regulatory agencies, stock market, and the firm's board of directors. The objective of the course is to enhance students' understanding the operating tensions facing firms and the means of addressing such tensions through country-level and firm-level corporate governance systems.