Human Resource Management
Training & development, performance appraisals, compensation issues, security issues, personnel legislation & regulation, labor relations and current issues.
Principles of Finance
Financial statements & planning, time value of money, working capital management, valuation and characteristics, capital budgeting, cost of capital, risk and return.
Introduction to Business
Economic issues, international business, government & business, business ownership, small business, entrepreneurship, franchise, management process, HR management, production & operations, marketing management, financial management, risk management & insurance, management and information systems.
Computing and Information Technology
Hardware, software licensing & development tools, development life cycles, data management, connectivity, privacy concerns, intellectual property, telecommunications law, network etiquette, artificial intelligence and globalization.
Principles of Supervision
Management functions, planning, organization & staffing, directing at the supervisory level, legal issues, stress management, union environments, quality concerns
Personal Finance
Credit & debt, major purchases, taxes, insurance, investments and others.
Business Mathematics
Integers, fractions, decimals, round numbers, ratios, averages, business graphs, simple interest, compound interest, annuities, net pay & deductions, discounts and markups, depreciation & net worth, corporate securities, distribution of ownership, stock and asset turnover.
Organizational Behavior
Scientific approaches, research designs, data collection methods, individual processes & characteristics, interpersonal & group processes, organizational processes, change & development processes.
Money and Banking
Role & kinds of money, commercial banks & other financial intermediaries, central banking, Federal Reserve System, money & macroeconomics, U.S. monetary policy, the international monetary system.
Management Information Systems
Telecommunications, network security, systems analysis and design, business decision making, knowledge management, data warehousing and data mining.
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Business Ethics and Society
Moral philosophies and business ethics, social responsibilities of a business, regulation of business, employer-employee relations, ethics of information, ethics in international business, corporations and stakeholders, ecology and global business, business and government.