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Course ID
Course
BUSI 111
BUSI 111
Introduction to Business and Management
Course Credits: 3
In this course, modern business is studied in its various aspects: economic and social setting, business classifications and financial requirements, business structure and functional areas, basic concepts and techniques, practices and responsibilities, and career opportunities in business.
BUSI 121
BUSI 121
Financial Accounting
Course Credits: 3
Accounting fundamentals, techniques, principles, and concepts. Other topics include the complete accounting cycle, including adjusting and closing entries, the preparation and interpretation of simple financial statements, inventory treatments, capital assets, and partnership accounting. Students are also required to complete a computer based accounting lab.
BUSI 176
BUSI 176
Introduction to Business Research & Decision Making
Course Credits: 3
Business research allows managers to make effective decisions in today's organizations. This class will assist students in understanding the research questions to ask in business and will prepare them to analyze and present the data they gather. Students will gain extensive skills in the use of spreadsheets and in spreadsheet modeling - an indispensable tool in the business world.
Cross-listed: ECON 176
BUSI 222
BUSI 222
Financial and Managerial Accounting
Course Credits: 3
The first half of the course focuses on financial accounting with topics such as shareholder equity, investments, the cash flow statement, the comprehensive income statement, and financial analysis. Students learn to analyze and extract key information from corporate financial statements. The second half of the course focuses on managerial accounting covering topics such as cost-volume-profit analysis and budgeting.
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 121 (3-0; 3-0)
BUSI 231
BUSI 231
Principles of Marketing
Course Credits: 3
This course explores basic considerations affecting the domestic and international marketing of goods and services. Topics include: the nature of marketing activities and marketing institutions, the function and responsibility of an effective marketing system, as well as its role in the economy, the manner in which various forces influence the marketing process, and the analysis of marketing concepts, policies, and practices.
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 111
BUSI 245
BUSI 245
Foundations of Business Law in Canada
Course Credits: 3
A general overview of business law with specific focus on the law of contracts. Attention is given to offer and acceptance, consideration, assignment, discharge, breach, and remedies available at law.
Prerequisite(s): Second year standing. (3-0; 3-0)
BUSI 280
BUSI 280
Organizational Behaviour
Course Credits: 3
This course focuses on the nature of individuals and behaviour in organizations. The emphasis of the course is on building a set of conceptual and pragmatic skills useful in understanding and managing interactions among individuals and groups within organizations. By providing a knowledgebase of organizational and managerial concepts, and by using cases, videos, exercises, and personal inventories, this course develops a student's analytical, diagnostic, and interpersonal skills.
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 111
BUSI 311
BUSI 311
Global Issues in Business
Course Credits: 3
The focus of this course is on understanding the institutions (e.g. political, economic, and cultural) and the resources (e.g. natural, human, technology, and innovation) that are present within home and host countries that influence the decision making of business owners and managers as they consider going global with their product or service. Discussions centre around understanding culture, ethics, and global sustainability that relate to being a responsible and ethical global citizen.
Cross-listed: ECON 311
Prerequisite(s): ECON 202. (3-0; 3-0)
NB: May not be offered every year.
BUSI 334
BUSI 334
Sales Management
Course Credits: 3
This course looks at case studies, textual material relating to various aspects of sales management (such as marketing strategy, planning the sales function, and controlling of the sales effort) sales analysis, and evaluation management of the sales force and personal selling.