If no course title appears, that listing is another section of the same title as the course imediately proceeding it. Staff listed as Instructor usually indicates that an instructor has not yet been assigned to the course - this information will be updated as it becomes available. Introduction to basic concepts, standards, and practices of financial reporting. Basic financial statements, inventories, long-term productive assets, bonds and other liabilities, and stockholders' equities. Microeconomic topics include supply and demand analysis, pricing policies, competitive and monopolistic markets, and government regulation.
Macroeconomic topics are employment, inflation, economic growth, and fiscal and monetary policies.
Global perspective of economics emphasized. Off campus course. Examines effects of computers on business communication, including email, the World Wide Web, document conferencing, hypertext links, and computer graphics. Finance at the elementary level emphasizing basic concepts and techniques. Topics covered include the forms of business ownership, derivation of the firm's cash flows from financial statements, the time value of money, nominal and real interest rates, valuation of bonds and stocks, criteria for investment in real assets, and analysis of investment projects.