This course focuses on principles of effective business communications, both written and spoken, including mechanics, style, tone, organization and APA style referencing. Specific topics include composing business letters, memoranda and emails; writing formal reports; principles of graphic design; and conducting effective business meetings.

As well as examining the formulation of business plans, this course examines the function of management concerned with organization, staffing, directing, and controlling. Objectives for effective management, such as profit, service, personnel and operation, are examined. Case analysis is used to integrate course material.

This course emphasizes a range of mathematical calculations used in business. Students will be introduced to simple interest, compound interest, annuities, amortization and sinking funds. Practical applications will be emphasized in the course.

This course provides an introduction to the field of marketing. The principles of product, price, promotion, and place along with understanding customer's needs are covered.

This course provides an introduction to accounting procedures and statements and their underlying concepts and principles. Within this framework, accounting practice is integrated with the development of accounting information for effective decision-making.

The course provides further examination of accounting procedures and their underlying concepts and principles. Additional standards and problems of valuation, income measurement, and disclosure in financial statements are introduced.

This course is a practical introduction to software applications commonly used in business. Students will develop a working knowledge of an operating system and various software applications which supports coursework, as well as prepares students for the business environment.

The focus of this introductory course will explore the relationship between human behaviour and organizational effectiveness. Contemporary management trends will be examined. Specific topics include perception, personality, motivation, group behavior, teamwork, organization culture, and change.

The nature of microeconomic systems are examined in relation to the function of markets, market failure and consumer utility, the costs of production, pricing under competitive and monopolistic conditions, markets for the factors of production and selected topics in analysis and policy. Current economic problems will be discussed throughout the course.

Through a seminar approach, this course explores the many ethical dimensions of business and includes a major group project for which class time is allotted.

The course focuses on the formulation, implementation and evaluation of advertising and sales promotion programs. Highlighted are the practicalities of media selection, local resource availability, budgets, and measures of effectiveness.

The objectives of financial management and financial decision making are explored in this course. The approach is practical in nature with an emphasis on cash flow analysis, working capital management, and financial planning.

This course covers the fundamental investment concepts of risk and return, portfolio diversification, asset allocation, portfolio evaluation, ratio analysis, and innovative types of investment products available in the marketplace.

This is an introduction to the use of random variables, descriptive statistics, probability, the binomial and normal probability distributions, estimation, small and large sample theory, analysis of variance, tests of hypotheses, regression analysis, forecasting, time series and linear programming is provided. Practical applications are emphasized in the course.

This course is designed to familiarize students with the principles, concepts and terminology of personal selling. Lectures examine the sales process, paying particular attention to developing a relationship approach to the sales transaction. Students will participate in a marketing project that will allow them to experience the process of prospecting, presenting and closing the sale.

This course provides a practical approach to project management. It explores terminology, technique, method, communication, and skill of effective and efficient actions. Emphasis to define the scope, plan the project, and design execution contribute to practical learning. An ongoing term project will apply the principles and knowledge integral to the successful administration of a project. Students navigate complexity, risk, challenges, and disruption to manage resources and time constraints to reach project milestones.

The course is an in-depth examination of financial accounting topics. Recent developments in accounting valuation and income determination and the related disclosure practices and reporting procedures, as recommended by professional accounting associations and applied in business today, are emphasized. The primary focus is on a comprehensive treatment of assets and liabilities. Special topics are introduced where considered appropriate.

This course continues the in-depth examination of financial accounting introduced in BA2110. Issues in accounting valuation and income determination and the related disclosure practices and reporting procedures, as recommended by professional accounting associations and applied in business today, are emphasized. The focus is on the capitalization of Canadian corporations and the individual reporting problems associated with corporate income taxes, pensions, leases and the Statement of Cash Flow. The application of accounting concepts to these special areas is discussed.

This is the first of a two part, in-depth course examining the concepts of cost and managerial accounting. Major topics include the following: cost-volume profit-analysis, relevant costs and short-term decision making, responsibility accounting, standard costing and variance analysis, and product costing and cost flow.

This course is the second of a two part, in-depth course examining the concepts of cost and managerial accounting initiated in BA2130. Topics include the following: cost-volume-profit analysis, relevant costing and short-term decision making.