Taught as seminar where students participate in preparing and presenting discussion material. Includes brief overview of business curriculum, self assessment using interest, skills inventories. Specific topics include accounting concepts, recording transactions, financial statement preparation, accounting systems, cash, receivables, inventory, long-term assets, liabilities, corporations, and analysis of financial statements. Junior standing, CS 150, BUS 221, and for business majors, formal admission to the College. A survey of the uses of information in organizational management, with emphasis on systems to support managerial decision making.
Students apply concepts in practical application projects using currently available software.
Junior standing, BUS 311, and for business majors, formal admission to the College. Introduction to the topics and methods of production and operations management. Emphasis is given to critical thinking, business analyses and computer modeling. Application areas include accounting, finanace, marketing, and management. The behavioral, legal, ethical, competitive, technological, and economic environments as they affect decisions in the domestic and international organization.