67 courses with the subject BSAD, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This is an introductory course in basic management concepts and practices. This course covers principles and techniques as they relate to planning, organizing, leading and controlling business enterprises.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course discusses the role of marketing in our economic and social structure. It includes the planning, distribution, pricing and promotion of goods and services to consumer and industrial markets in the context of internal activities of the firm and environmental forces.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course introduces the student to computer information science and its applications. The student develops literacy in the computer and its uses. The laboratory work includes an introduction to word processing, spreadsheets databases, and the fundamentals of programming with BASIC. No previous knowledge of computers is required or presumed.
Credit(s) Offered: every other year Introduction to Business is a college-level survey course in business that explores the nature of the American free enterprise system and its business organizations. This course examines the role played by business in American society, as well as its purpose and responsibilities. Furthermore, it introduces the student to the practical operations that must exist if businesses are to create goods and services, and it highlights some of the major problems faced by managers in planning, organizing, directing and controlling these areas. Therefore, this course is intended to give the student a broad overview of the functions, institutions, principles and practices of business.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course provides an overview of financial accounting/reporting in its role as an information system within the socioeconomic environment of business. Financial reporting concepts and practices are presented from a decision perspective in which the content of financial statements and the analysis, interpretation and application of this information in making rational business decisions are examined. Relationships between business events and elements of the financial statements are analyzed. Coverage of accounting procedures is presented to the extent that they are necessary to understand the substance of financial statement information. Internal control of accounting systems will be considered. A base of analytical tools will be provided for interpretation of financial information. Specific financial accounting issues related to current and long-term operational assets, current liabilities, debt instruments and equity are discussed.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course stresses the usefulness of accounting data as it relates to the managerial decision making process relative to planning, control and analysis. Among the multifaceted areas of study are cost volume, profit analysis, budgeting, performance analysis and organizational planning and control.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring Have you ever wondered what it would be like to start your own business? Or maybe you would like to join a start-up someday and help change the world? Students will have the opportunity to learn how to apply lessons from thought provoking entrepreneurs, the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, the changing demographics of entrepreneurs, and the importance of entrepreneurship to the economy and society. This class offers opportunities for students who aim to be entrepreneurs, start non-profit organizations, or simply want to become more innovative within emerging or established companies. Students can supplement their non-business majors with creative entrepreneurial mindsets and skills that will allow them to better identify opportunities for innovation, challenge the status quo in any field, and implement sustainable change.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course is an introduction to the study of business law, its nature and classification, the court systems and their procedures. Contract law, the law of sales and personal property are considered comprehensively.
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course uses the computer as a tool to solve business problems. Problem definition, analysis of problem, solution design and implementation are phases leading toward the development of a business application system.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This hands-on course provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts and various techniques and tools required to successfully manage technology projects. Topics will include the systems development life cycle, with a particular focus on the planning phase. Students will develop project planning documents using multiple tools while investigating the different management styles and tactics used throughout the project’s life cycle.
Credit(s) Offered: fall This course is designed to provide a strong conceptual, analytical and procedural foundation for the study of financial reporting and practice. The historical development of accounting thought and the role of financial accounting in today’s economy are investigated. Socioeconomic, political, legal and ethical influences on financial reporting are considered. Discussions include procedures to record, summarize, and report results of business events; content and presentation of financial statements and specific reporting issues related to cash and receivable. An overview of financial statement analysis is also presented. International issues are addressed as appropriate.
Credit(s) Offered: spring In this course, in-depth discussion of financial reporting theory and practice is continued with respect to inventories, concurrent operational assets, current and contingent liabilities, long-term debt and owners’ equity. Financial statement analysis of these financial statement elements is also continued. Ethical and international issues are addressed throughout the semester.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This is an introductory course in information technology (IT) security with managerial, criminal justice, and IT components. This course focuses on management, legal issues, and implications related to securing corporate information systems, including security threats, security management processes, compliance laws and regulations, risk analysis and response, network and e-commerce security, and disaster recovery. Cross-listed with CSC 3040 and CJ 3040
Credit(s) Offered: every other year The purpose of this study abroad course is to introduce students to the nature and scope of luxury brand management in retail markets, the structure of retailing, merchandising, pricing, brand promotion and organization, insight to consumer behavior, the significance of customer relationship management of the luxury retail firm.
Credit(s) Offered: spring This course discusses job and process costing, managerial decision making using cost estimation and cost-volume-profit analysis, flexible budgeting, transfer pricing and capital investment decisions.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This is an introductory course which surveys human resources practices and procedures involved with recruiting, employment, training and development, job evaluation, compensation, health and safety, labor relations and workplace law. Special topics of student interest are also covered.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course provides an overview of business operations. In light of selected production improvement techniques (automation, incentive wage system, etc.), students review the role of selected staff departments (purchasing, production planning, etc.) that support the line organization. In the process, students become familiar with a variety of control systems (quality control, inventory control, etc.), which are fundamental in any business—whether product or service oriented.
Credit(s) Offered: fall This course familiarizes the student with the consumer decision making processes. It utilizes the concepts of the social and behavioral sciences in order to provide an understanding of consumer buying behavior.
Credit(s) Offered: fall This course concentrates on the marketing activities of firms operating in an international market. It provides the student with an understanding of the factors that influence the selling of products in international markets. The planning, organizing and controlling of international marketing is explored along with its law, history and economics.
Credit(s) Offered: fall In this course students become knowledgeable about the preparation and use of advertising. Topics include the functions of advertising, planning an advertising campaign, copy, artwork and media selection.
Credit(s) Offered: spring This course provides students with an understanding of the unique characteristics required of the successful small business entrepreneur and the specifics relative to the start-up, financing and management of a small business. Emphasis is on a full spectrum of business functions as applied to small firms, including proprietorships, partnerships, corporations and franchised outlets.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course studies the forms and sources of financing business firms, large and small, corporate and noncorporate. The emphasis is on financial planning and financial problem solving.
Credit(s) Offered: every other year The course analyzes stocks, corporate and governmental bonds and other investment media, and studies the secondary stock market mechanism. Students review various investment vehicles and security evolution. Research of individual companies and industries is required. The course is primarily facilitated by lectures and problem solving.
Credit(s) Offered: every other year Using a business perspective this course explores real estate use, ownership and development as well as its social impact and business constraints. The effect of home ownership on executive transfers and company costs is examined. Current terminology in the field is defined, including property rights, ownership, financing, planning for the future, property evaluation and property management.
Credit(s) Offered: every other year The course looks at the business decisions involved in the investment, financing, and management of real estate. This course focuses on real estate as a popular investment vehicle because of the number of income-producing characteristics it possesses. Students learn the principles of cash flow, changing property values, equity investor, decision-making, risk and return and market research in light of current real estate trends.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course is a continuation of Introduction to Business Law and deals with the law of agency, commercial paper, credit and the various forms of business.
Credit(s) Offered: fall This course enhances the students’ understanding of and skills for managing the selling function. The emphasis of the coursework is on personal selling as an element in the marketing mix.
Credit(s) Offered: annually This course provides students with the opportunity to study the many aspects of digital commerce through a managerial perspective. Students will explore what digital commerce is, how it is being conducted and managed, and how to assess its opportunities, limitations, issues, and risks. By the end of the course, students should also gain an understanding of the relationships among digital commerce business concerns, internet technology, and the social and legal context of digital commerce. Lectures, group discussions, internet projects, and real world cases will be used toward achievement of overall learning goals.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall This course provides an overview of employing analytics in business. Students will examine different levels of analytics, investigate various types of business initiatives to determine which level is appropriate, and how to plan a data analytics project. Through the use of an analytics platform, the focus will include data fundamentals, statistical thinking, and communicating with data by creating and interpreting data visualizations to make business decisions.
Credit(s) Offered: fall In this course, in-depth discussion of financial reporting theory and practices are continued with respect to inventories, concurrent operational assets, current and contingent liabilities, long-term debt and owners’ equity. Financial statement analysis of these financial statement elements is also continued. Ethical and international issues are addressed throughout the semester.
Credit(s) Offered: fall This course includes accounting problems involved in the preparation of consolidated financial statements and in home and branch office relationships. The accounting concepts of purchasing and pooling of interests are stressed.
Credit(s) This course introduces students to the nature of the international accounting environment, including accounting for derivatives designated as hedge, re-measurement of financial statements and approaches to reporting interim data. Partnership formation, dissolution and liquidation, and governmental accounting including accounting for general and special funds, and not-for-profit accounting is also taught in this course.
Credit(s) Offered: spring This course will provide an understanding of the international accounting standards and the international taxation rules within the accounting profession. U.S. accounting practices and foreign accounting practices in selected countries will be discussed. Taxation issues will center on U.S. taxes, both corporate and individual, for outbound and inbound transactions.
Credit(s) Offered: fall This course studies the federal income tax laws, as they apply to individuals, in compliance and tax planning opportunities.
Credit(s) Offered: fall This course studies the federal income tax laws and regulations in both compliance and tax planning opportunities applicable to partnerships, corporations, fiduciaries and gift and estate taxes.
Credit(s) Offered: spring The basic concepts of auditing and control are examined in this course. It emphasizes internal control, audit problems and professional responsibilities of the CPA regarding auditing requirements.
Credit(s) Offered: annually This course provides an in-depth discussion of federal income tax laws for individuals and business entities and their applications in compliance and tax planning opportunities. The emphasis is on tax and nontax consequences of multiple parties involved in transactions, and the integration of financial and tax accounting topics. A study of state and local taxes and U.S. taxation of transactions conducted by multinational corporations will be examined. Ethical and international issues are addressed throughout the semester.
Credit(s) Offered: this course may be less than once every two years in the spring This course examines the accounting and reporting principles, standards, and procedures as they apply to governmental and not-for-profit entities, such as governmental organizations, hospitals, colleges and universities.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course is a general descriptive and analytical study of organizations from the behavioral science point of view. It includes problems of motivation, leadership, morale, social structure, group networks, communications, hierarchy and control in complex organizations. The interaction between technology and human behavior is discussed. Alternative theoretical models are considered.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course is a study of the evolution of American business in the context of its changing political and social environment. Analysis of the origins of the American business creed, the concept of social responsibility of business and the expanding role of the corporation are included.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester The analysis of public and business policies, which are necessary as a result of business fluctuations within our capitalist free enterprise system, often require technical forecasting. This course will emphasize this technical forecasting aspect.
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course is designed to explore, discuss and analyze the values and methods that can be used by our future business managers to make ethical decisions in live business situations. It provides a basis for considering the type of corporate policy and environment essential for minimizing the conflict between right and the end justifies the means.
Credit(s) Offered: spring This course introduces the student to the nature and scope of retail marketing and management. The course includes the structure of retailing, merchandising, buying, pricing, promotion and organization, as well as management of the retail firm.
Credit(s) Offered: spring This course centers on the marketing of goods to industrial firms, governmental agencies and other organizations included within the industrial market. The areas covered in the course include distribution channels, pricing policies, product planning and market strategy.
Credit(s) Offered: fall This course emphasizes the importance of research in marketing planning and decision making. Instruction includes the basics of scientific investigation, the search for information, sampling, data collection, data analysis, interpretation and reporting.
Credit(s) Offered: spring Through the use of case studies and, where possible, cooperating businesses and nonprofit organizations, students identify pertinent marketing problems and opportunities, assess the organization’s resources and develop viable marketing programs. The course includes new product development and management strategies for effective marketing policies over the course of the entire product life cycle.
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course covers the analysis and management of the flow of funds through an enterprise. Cash management, source, and application of funds, as well as term loans and types and sources of long term capital, are examined. As an introduction to capital markets, the class explores capital budgeting, cost of capital and financial structure.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall Writing the Business Plan is designed to have a dual emphasis. The first part of the course contains topics such as the role of small business in the United States and the world economy, how company growth affects the entrepreneur, family businesses, etc. The second half of the course is a step-by-step approach to writing a business plan and provides an outline to help the students organize the information.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This capstone course will emphasize the design and implementation phases of the system development life cycle using case studies. A problem solving approach will be used for students to learn strategy and techniques for dealing with complexities in Information Systems Development.
Credit(s) Offered: spring The course provides an analysis of the complexities of doing business overseas. Emphasis is on commerce, trade and investments. Topics include cultural differences, market barriers, business practices, product/market strategies, distribution and organization for small firms and multinational corporations.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This is a capstone course that integrates all organic management functions taking knowledge and theory and applying it to real-world situations. Cases are used as subjects for analysis and systematic decision making practice.
Credit(s) The independent study is for selected students who have approval of both the department head and their advising Instructor.
Credit(s) The independent study is for selected students who have approval of both the department head and their advising Instructor.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester The (1 credit) Business Laboratory Internships operate within the Business and Technology Training Center. The Business laboratory is a learning laboratory that allows students to work on various projects. Students will participate in developing and operating their own consulting firm in the laboratory. They will develop outreach to large, medium and small businesses, organizations, institutions and enterprises.
Credit(s) The independent study is for selected students who have approval of both the department head and their advising Instructor.
Credit(s) The independent study is for selected students who have approval of both the department head and their advising Instructor.
Credit(s) The independent study is for selected students who have approval of both the department head and their advising Instructor.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester The (2 credit) Business Laboratory Internships operate within the Business and Technology Training Center. The Business laboratory is a learning laboratory that allows students to work on various projects. Students will participate in developing and operating their own consulting firm in the laboratory. They will develop outreach to large, medium and small businesses, organizations, institutions and enterprises.
Credit(s) The independent study is for selected students who have approval of both the department head and their advising Instructor.
Credit(s) The independent study is for selected students who have approval of both the department head and their advising Instructor.
Credit(s) Offered: Day course offered every semester. Also offered evenings. The (3 credit) Business Laboratory Internships operate within the Business and Technology Training Center. The Business laboratory is a learning laboratory that allows students to work on various projects. Students will participate in developing and operating their own consulting firm in the laboratory. They will develop outreach to large, medium and small businesses, organizations, institutions and enterprises.
Credit(s) To study specific, advanced topics in the Business Administration area, students must have the approval of the supervising instructor and the department.
Credit(s) To study specific, advanced topics in the Business Administration area, students must have the approval of the supervising instructor and the department.
Credit(s) To study specific, advanced topics in the Business Administration area, students must have the approval of the supervising instructor and the department.
Credit(s) To study specific, advanced topics in the Business Administration area, students must have the approval of the supervising instructor and the department.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course is a part time (18 hour per week) internship in either the private or public sector. The purpose of the course is to allow the student the opportunity to synthesize the theoretical learning of the classroom with a practical work situation.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course is a full semester (36 hour per week) Internship in either the private or public sector. The purpose of the course is to allow the student the opportunity to synthesize the theoretical learning of the classroom with a practical work situation.
Source: Fitchburg State University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
