This course breaks down cost accounting, which represents an important bridge between financial and managerial accounting, and will allow you to learn how businesses predict, record, and control their costs.
Objectives:
- Describe the fundamental concepts underlying cost accounting
- Use cost management systems
- Analyze management control systems
This course will provide you the opportunity to explore statistics and how they affect business.
Objectives:
- Interpret and present data.
- Analyze frequency distribution, averages, dispersion, and index numbers.
- Conduct time series analysis.
- Forecast business.
- Apply the theory of probability and statistical inference.
This course is an introduction to the legal environment of business. Topics covered include American court practice and procedure, alternative dispute resolutions, employment law, business organization and regulation, contract law, and agency relationships.
Objectives:
- Explain the sources of law.
- Discuss the judicial process and alternative dispute resolution.
- Describe different forms of business organization and their characteristics.
- Explain the elements of contracts and rules pertaining to contracts.
- Explain the law of agency and laws concerning employment.
This course builds on concepts learned in Financial and Managerial Accounting and covers Sage 50® Accounting. Combines real-world accounting systems and examples with computer-based solutions. The course is a blend of problem solving, reading, case projects, and computer applications to problems encountered in today’s accounting environment.
Objectives:
- Explain how to install, register, and update the Sage 50® accounting software
- Print reports and back up data files using Sage 50®
- Record, post, and complete the accounting cycle for a service and merchandising enterprise using an automated accounting system
- Analyze the business flow of transactions in automated accounting systems, including customer lists, vendor files, inventory records, and employee files
- Demonstrate knowledge of the voucher system, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll systems, and departmentalized accounting
- Analyze and solve management accounting problems relating to operations and business profitability and financial reporting
This course provides students with a foundation in the basic concepts of public speaking. Students will learn how to research, organize and write effective speeches, incorporate presentation aids, and rehearse and deliver speeches effectively. Students will prepare, rehearse, record and submit speeches in a number of rhetorical styles to be graded.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the importance and benefits of public speaking
- Demonstrate knowledge of communication apprehension, identify the causes of communication apprehension, and apply strategies to overcome communication apprehension
- Identify the audience for a speech
- Identify the purpose of a speech, select a topic and write a thesis, plan supporting materials and organize a speech effectively
- Use research and presentation aids appropriately and effectively
- Prepare speeches in different rhetorical styles, including narrative, informative and persuasive
- Identify and develop effective delivery and presentation techniques through practice and rehearsal
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SSC130 - Essentials of Psychology
This course will introduce you to the relationship between biology and behavior. You will learn about human development throughout the life span.
Objectives:
- Identify major psychological theories.
- Discuss consciousness, memory, thought, and language.
- Define intelligence, personality, and stress.
- Analyze the role of gender in psychology.
- Explain how community influences behavior.
SSC105 - World Civilizations
This course will allow you to understand the importance of studying history as it relates to the individual and society as a whole.
Objectives:
- Discuss the major events of the sixteenth through twentieth centuries.
- Explain the consequences of events and the trends that they cause.
SSC125 - Introduction to Sociology
This course is designed to introduce you to social structure and social interaction through groups, networks, and organizations. Study politics, the economy, population, social movements, technology, and social change.
Objectives:
- Describe deviance, crime, and social control.
- Discuss the effects of stratification, racial and ethnic inequality, sex, gender, and sexuality.
- Examine the role of health, family, education, and religion in human behavior.
Proctored Exam
You will be required to complete a proctored exam on selected courses each semester. These assessments will evaluate the knowledge and skills that you learned during the semester. You choose the time, the location, and the qualified exam supervisor.
