BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Course Overview :

Management in business and organizations is the function that coordinates the efforts of people to accomplish goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization or initiative to accomplish a goal. Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources, and natural resources. Management is also an academic discipline, a social science whose object of study is the social organization.

Prerequisites

• ENG 111 eligible

Course Content

• Introduction to Business Management
  • Characteristics and Environment of Business Management
  • Business Ownership
  • Supervision, Decision Making, and Leadership
  • Planning and Organizing
  • Implementation and Control
  • Business Ethics
  • Overview of a Typical Business
  • Desirable Qualities for Successful Business Management
  • Time and Stress Management
• Business Management and Its Application
  • Basic Management Functions
  • Where Business Management Is Used
  • Types of Business Activities
  • The Legal Structure of a Business
  • The Purpose of a Business
  • Starting a Business
• Business Organizational Structures and Functions of Management
  • Types of Organizational Structure
  • A Functional Approach to Business Management
  • Planning
  • Organizing
  • Leading/Directing
  • Controlling/Monitoring
  • Management Information Systems
• Finance Demystified For Entrepreneurs
  • Basic Business Math
  • The Balance Sheet
  • Financial Statement Preparation
  • Using the Financial Statements
  • More Financial Analysis
  • Preparing Budgets
  • Financing Alternatives and Business Valuation
• Business Environments
  • Human Environments
  • Economic Environments
  • Government Environments
  • Global Environments
  • Trade Environments
  • Ethical Environments