Business Administration/ Courses

This course is the first of two courses focusing on the nature and use of managerial and financial accounting information for decision making in the business setting. The courses emphasize the use of accounting information by internal and external users. This course covers the fundamentals of financial accounting.

This course is the second of a two courses focusing on the nature and use of managerial and financial accounting information for decision making in the business setting. The courses emphasize the use of accounting information by internal and external users. This course covers the fundamentals of managerial accounting.

This course covers accounting for entrepreneurs using QuickBooks Online. Topics include setting up a new company in QuickBooks Online, creating a chart of accounts, recording banking, customer and vendor transactions, using QBO inventory, tracking employee time, making adjusting entries, and generating reports.

Intermediate Accounting I covers financial reporting for external parties using generally accepted accounting principles. The purpose of financial reporting is to provide meaningful information to individuals and institutions needing information for financing or investing decisions, or regulating bodies ensuring compliance with applicable laws. A company’s accounting system creates and provides this vital information to the external and internal parties.

This course covers the principles of income tax accounting for an individual. Current tax laws used to complete an income tax return for individuals in various tax situations will be emphasized, as will the forms used to file an income tax return.

This course examines the concepts and procedures underlying the development of a cost accounting system for managerial decisions, control, and performance reporting. Topics include cost measurement and cost control, job costing, activity-based costing, tools for planning and control, cost-volume-profit analysis, master budgeting and responsibility accounting, flexible budgeting and variance analysis, management control systems, inventory costing, management and capacity analysis, cost information for decision making, pricing decisions, cost management, strategic profitability analysis, cost allocation and its impact on revenue, measurement and control of overhead costs, and revenues and sales variances.

This course introduces students to the study of the accounting and reporting concepts, standards, and procedures applicable to city, county, and state government, and not-for-profit institutions.

This course teaches advanced Microsoft Excel skills. The following concepts are covered: advanced formatting and functions; interpreting and integrating data; charting; Pivot Tables; filter capabilities; problems-solving tools; and automating tasks with macros.

The internship is a work experience in business and industry that develops and reinforces the students’ information systems, business, and/or accounting skills. The minimum hours worked will be 160 hours.

This course examines the business system and the environment in which it operates. The student is provided with a basic understanding and overview of the role of business. The types of ownership, management fundamentals, financial control, production, marketing, business law, and human resources management are examined.

Introduction to law and courts; discussion of business relations and their legal aspects; cases and problems on law of contracts, personal property, sales, bailment, agencies, negotiable instruments, real and chattel mortgages.

This course is an introduction to the concepts and theories applicable to a national economy with a major focus on scarcity and how it impacts the welfare of a nation. Topics include gross domestic product (GDP), government spending and taxes, economic growth, unemployment and inflation, exchange rates, and monetary and fiscal policy.

This course is an introduction to specific economic units, individual markets, and individual interactions within an economy. Topics include gains from trade, opportunity cost, efficiency and markets, non-competitive markets, game theory, free trade, the response of the market to economic shock, and government intervention. Simple economic models will be used to analyze the workings of the economy.

This is an introductory course which deals with such aspects of marketing as retailing, wholesaling, advertising, pricing, and merchandising. The course will present a realistic and objective account of marketing.

In this course, students are provided with an overview of the legal and ethical issues of selling. Students will learn how to identify potential buyers, the importance of building positive supportive relationships with buyers, and various forms of effective presentation and communication techniques to secure a sale. Students will be expected to engage in role-playing scenarios to develop a professional sales approach for various consumer markets.

An introductory course on the basic concepts of organization and management with discussion on applications to operations and personnel management.

This course teaches the use of Microsoft Access as a relational database management system with emphasis on business applications. Students will learn to design, create, and manage Microsoft Access databases to track, report, and analyze information.

This course is a study of concepts and application of the finance function in the corporate decision-making process. Topics covered include financial statement analysis, risk, return, valuation, working capital management, cost of capital, the time value of money, and budgeting.

In this course, students learn how to design, layout, edit, and produce a publication electronically, using a personal computer, word processing and graphics software, and a desktop publishing program. In addition to desktop publishing, the student will learn the basics of a presentation software program. This course emphasizes desktop and application of information design and professional presentation for business using microcomputer software.

This course covers Project Management which builds a foundation for tomorrow’s managers. Students gain understanding through project analysis, which includes both successful and failed project examples. Project management methods, tools, and software are applied to group projects.

This course provides an overview of entrepreneurship and the resources available to those considering small business opportunities. Students will be introduced to the essentials of starting a small business.

This course offers an introduction to the principles of visual communication for both print and online publications. Utilizing the computer, students will explore graphic design concepts through the study of color, form, typography, and composition as well as practice integrating language and communicating ideas through text and imagery.

This course is an introduction to the programming languages of the Internet such as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript. Topics covered include the creation of websites, website management, responsive design, and the creation of forms.

This is an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include the presentation of interpretation of univariate and bivariate data using graphical and numerical methods, probability, discrete and continuous probability distributions, linear regression, an understanding of good practice in study design, statistical inference, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.