Cost accounting as utilized in manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors is examined. Major topics include the following: job ordering costing and analysis, costing procedures, cost-volume-profit analysis, budget preparation, standard cost systems, variance analysis, and cost analysis for managerial decision making.
This course examines complexities of accounting principles for corporate financial presentation. Special emphasis is placed on asset management and the various methods used by differing industries.
This course will provide the student with an understanding of the skills generally accepted as necessary and valuable to leaders. Leadership topics include how to set objectives, give praise and instructions, coach followers, lead change, resolve conflicts, and negotiate. Time and stress management will also be covered as necessary supervisory skills for successful leaders.
This course introduces the industry-standard principles for managing projects on time, on budget, and to the organization’s satisfaction. This course will cover the entire project lifecycle from conceptualization to termination, with emphasis on project scope management, project time management, and project management planning and control. The course will provide the basic tools for successfully managing any type of project regardless of the industry, scope, environment, complexity, culture, or whether it is a public or private project.
Business Statistics is an introductory course designed to give students a working knowledge and understanding of descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics covered include uses and misuses of statistics, methods of sampling, collecting and presenting data, measure of average and variation, probability theory and distributions, sampling distributions of means and proportions, confidence intervals, tests of hypotheses (large and small sample methods), analysis of variance, contingency tables, correlations and regression analysis, multiple regression, time series analysis, and forecasting techniques. Emphasis is placed on practical business applications.