Associate Degree in Business Administration

Introduces the language of financial accounting, designed to capture, summarize, and communicate the economic facts about an organization in a set of financial statements and related descriptive notes. The focus is on the principles of accounting and reporting to various users that are external to the organization and will emphasize what information is provided in financial statements and the uses and limitations of this information.

This course prepares students to consider how sound ethical decisions are made and to identify, analyze, evaluate, and construct thoughtful arguments using a critical voice. The course focuses on the concept of logic to build the critical thinking skills of students and introduces them to basic models for effective decision-making. The course is intended to develop competencies in students that will allow them to apply critical thinking skills in their reading, research, and assessments in future courses.

This university writing course introduces students to foundational strategies for university reading, thinking, and writing. By exploring topics such as information literacy, literature reviews, citation formatting, case analysis, and research methods, students will develop the critical thinking and writing skills required for university studies. Students will learn to write and present research and ideas through academic essays and will work in a team to analyze a case study.

This course introduces the basic concept of microeconomics – making choice decisions that give maximum “happiness” or “satisfaction” and still be within the given constraints on income and wealth. Students study how individuals make purchases and consumption decisions based on their income and prices of goods and services and how firms make production decisions based on wages, prices of raw materials and inputs, competitive factors, and their desire to achieve “maximum possible” profit. The course focuses on the role of demand and supply interactions in the context of different market structures (e.g., perfect competition, monopoly, etc.) and how this leads to the determination of prices or wages. In addition, students gain an understanding of the government’s role in influencing consumption and production choices by using taxes and other regulatory tools and the role of microeconomics in solving real-world social and political challenges (e.g., international trade, climate change, poverty, etc.).

This course examines the role of morality within business and explores the legal and ethical obligations required for sustainable business practices in the 21st century. The course will consider how ethics can impact decision-making across various business functions, including marketing, strategy, manufacturing, and accounting.

This course is designed to introduce and reinforce the mathematical skills needed to understand, analyze, and solve mathematical problems in business and financial situations. Topics covered will include algebraic expressions, systems of linear equations, logarithmic and exponential functions, simple and compound interest, annuities, and amortization. Applications will be emphasized within these topics.

This course prepares students to explain and apply the basic concepts of data analysis and to provide students with the pragmatic tools required to both conduct and assess statistical analyses. The course will cover basic descriptive measures, measures of association, probability theory, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.

This course will introduce the foundations for understanding the role of management in an organization. This course will cover general areas such as planning, organizing, influencing, and controlling that are relevant for any industry. We will also review issues of management such as ethics, diversity, and social responsibility.

This course will deal with the fundamental aspects of market analysis, including the management of products, pricing, place or distribution, and promotion activities. Next, this course will present related topics to the understanding and application of marketing. Finally, this course will provide a basic understanding of customer satisfaction, a measurement that is necessary for an organization to survive. By the end of this course, students will understand the importance of the marketing function to any organization.

This course provides an introduction to major concepts in finance and investments, such as the time value of money, discounted cash flows, and risk and return. We also examine further how firms decide to finance projects they assess as being worthwhile, and how to make investment decisions. Consideration is also given to capital structure, dividend policy, financial instruments, risk-return trade-offs, financial planning, forecasting, the cost of capital, asset valuation, working capital management, and performance assessment.

This course focuses on how managers use managerial accounting information to make decisions, emphasizing job and activity-based costing. Course topics include product costing, budgetary control systems, performance evaluation systems for planning, coordinating, and monitoring the performance of a business, flexible budgets, and break-even analysis.

This course is a foundational course that examines the factors that influence individual, group, organizational, and cultural dynamics as it relates to the management of an organization. The topics that will be covered include, but are not limited to, job attitudes, performance appraisals and reward systems, diversity and equity, motivation, leadership, decision-making, dealing with conflict, and organizational power and politics.

This course aims to place students within specific communication scenarios faced by managers across diverse industries. Students will express how to address each scenario in light of business objectives, stakeholder relations, and employee standards. By immersing themselves in crisis scenarios, strategic initiatives, community outreach and risk mitigations, students will be trained on best practices to advance their communications and build strong qualitative and quantitative measures. The course explores digital, print, written, and oral techniques and situates students as leaders in an organization managing the delivery, training, and implementation of communications across the organization.

In this course, students engage with data modelling and analytics techniques to solve business problems and make informed business decisions. Students also gain an understanding of data analysis principles and comparative differences among analytics techniques; students will develop knowledge of when and how to apply them using spreadsheet software.

This course will introduce students to the principles of macroeconomics. Fundamental analytical concepts and techniques of contemporary macroeconomics will be examined further, along with applications to better comprehend observed economic phenomena, current economic issues, and governmental economic policies.

The course provides students with an awareness of federal and provincial legislation as well as current challenges in strategic human resource management. Students are introduced to the employee lifecycle from recruitment, selection, training, and termination. Human resource management is introduced to students as a tool to create an engaging company culture with effective leadership.

This course will introduce students to core operation management theories, concepts and applications with a strong focus on global supply chain, procurement and strategic sourcing, manufacturing process, project management, materials and inventory management, and sustainable production management. Students will learn how to design and implement effective production strategies to maximize productivity and overall business competitiveness.