MGMT 484 - Business Decisions Support Systems (3 credits)

(Prereq: CBAD 364) This course provides an introduction to Decision Support Systems as they pertain to business and managerial decision-making through the use of computer-based systems for creating business intelligence. Visual Basic for Applications is used in this course to create, analyze, and automate business decisions. Topics include DSS definitions and terminology, DSS creation using Excel, the Excel Object Model, introduction to VBA and macros, custom user interface creation, and VBA interface components. Integration of other business data representations such as web data and other external databases will also be included in this course. S.