Business Administration

Upon completion of this program, the successful student will have reliably demonstrated the ability to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the theory and practice of recording financial events for service and merchandising to prepare financial statements while becoming familiar with account cycles, cash and receivables, inventory valuation, and special journal and subsidiary ledger use.
• Understand the fundamentals of Canadian managerial principles, methods, and skills: organizational structure, strategy and ops, controlling and leading, and managerial decision-making.
• Demonstrate knowledge of spreadsheet and database software applications, including the design and management of spreadsheets and workbooks, managing and analyzing data, macros, queries, reports, relational databases, and Pivots.
• Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of the micro and macroeconomic frameworks of the Canadian economy, including supply and demand, economic goals, monetary policy, fiscal policy, and market structure, with current economic interests incorporated into analysis.
• Demonstrate the concepts involved in marketing functions in a firm or business community while exploring tools and techniques used in developing a marketing strategy.
• Recognize and apply basic financial management principles relating to financial management goals, functions, and decisions by calculating, preparing, analyzing, and projecting economic health, financial leverage, and working capital of a company.
• Demonstrate and understand the fundamentals of accounting abilities regarding acquisitions, depreciations, intangible assets, natural resources, goodwill, liabilities, and methods appropriate to mitigate corporate transactions and net income calculation amongst various partners while accounting for applicable sales taxes.
• Demonstrate and understand the various functions of human resource management, including compensation and benefits, staffing, recruitment and selection, research, labour relations, training and development, health and safety, mediation, influence of government legislation, and human rights and employment equity.