St Cloud Technical and Community College · Courses
BUSM
6 courses with the subject BUSM, 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.
BUSM 1260Applied Business Mathematics
This course covers math functions for the solution of business problems. This course emphasizes practical approaches to prepare students for careers in busi- ness with a focus on real-world application. Students in this course develop math PLEASE NOTE: All program plans are preliminary and curriculum ma 2026-2027 St. Cloud Technical & Community College competency in business applications of interest, financial statement analysis, discounts, merchandise inventory, inventory pricing, credit financing, fixed asset costs, future and present value, operation ratios, corporate stocks, government, and corporate bonds. Applied Business Math prepares students for the math requirement of future business courses and business careers. Student Learning Outcomes: * Calculate base, rate and percentage of business transactions. * Measure increases and decreases in financial data and allocate overhead expenses using percents. * Determine the proper amount to pay on invoices utilizing cash, series, and trade discounts. * Demonstrate pricing procedures related to markup based on cost or selling price. * Calculate the correct value of ending inventory and cost of goods sold using FIFO(first in first out), LIFO(last in first out), and average cost methods. * Demonstrate the use of various depreciation methods as they impact assets on the financial statements. * Calculate the impact of simple and compound interest on various purchase decisions, installment loans and investments. * Determine interest earned and deposits required for business investments using future and present value concepts. (3 C: 2 lect/pres, 1 lab, 0 other)
In this course, students will take a comprehensive approach to career decisions and planning. Students will develop job-search strategies as well as the crucial attitudes and skills needed for keeping jobs and growing in their chosen career. Student Learning Outcomes: * Demonstrate effective and efficient ways to search for jobs in online databases and publications. * Develop appropriate and personalized communications used during job search and interview processes. * Describe effective interview skills, dress, and behaviors. * Define critical practices and persona necessary for job keeping and career growth. (1 C: 1 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
This course prepares students with the foundations needed to understand how companies gain and sustain competitive advantage in a fast-changing world. Students will develop skills to become successful leaders that are able to make well-reasoned formal decisions for use in day-to-day management as well for the development, communication and implementation of business strategy and vision. Students will culminate their learning by researching a local business and applying the strategy development process to the proposal of new strategies for this business. Student Learning Outcomes: * Apply the criteria of formal decision making through case problems and real business examples for general business decisions in the strategic development process. * Implement situational leadership models in case problems and real business scenarios to determine the appropriate management approach and decision- making style. y change without notice. Page 128
BUSM 2230Intro to Operations and Supply Chain Management
Organizations must provide something of value to the customer. The operations function of any organization, be it manufacturing or a service organization, is where inputs from the supply chain get transformed into outputs for its cus- tomers. This course looks at organizations as entities that must also match the supply of what they produce with the demand for their product. Students will be introduced to a number of quantitative models and qualitative strategies, which collectively refer to 'the tools of operations management.' Students will recall components such as supply process, evaluating process capacity, estimating, and reducing labor costs, batching, flow interruptions, learn operations, waiting time, scheduling, forecasting, and control mechanisms for management review. This course teaches students how and when to implement the tools of operations management. Student Learning Outcomes: * Apply the process flow of an organization to measuring inventory, flow time, flow rate, and other performance measures. * Demonstrate the components of process flow by creating a process flow dia- gram for a business. * Analyze the process flow diagram to estimate and reduce labor costs and production time. * Explain the scheduling of the production process as it relates to the focus on meeting demand. * Recall examples of lean operations. * Apply risk-pooling strategies to reducing and hedging uncertainty. * Recall supply chain mitigation and coordination strategies that reduce supply chain and inventory management issues. Prerequisite(s): SAMG1215. (3 C: 3 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
