
- Lessons: 229
- Duration: 40 weeks
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Become a Business Administrator in just 42 weeks!
Are you ready for a new career? The EPIC College of Technology’s Business Administration Diploma Program may be just what you are looking for.
The area of business administration is the foundation of most business professionals; from accounting to human resources to finance to marketing and even entrepreneurship. By building a strong foundation of business knowledge; you can prepare a course for a challenging and rewarding career.
In the Business Administration Diploma Program, you master the competences through team projects assignments, exercises and decision making challenges. As a result, you develop innovative and critical thinking abilities. You also build analytic, decision-making, problem solving and communication skills that are crucially important to business professionals.
This program provides you with a thorough knowledge of business operations and builds fundamental understanding of business practices, functions and processes. Emphasis is placed on administration, staffing, finance, accounting, sales, marketing, communication and legislative compliance of businesses. The new and current curriculum gives you the latest knowledge in the area of computerized accounting and bookkeeping.
Curriculum
- 21 Sections
- 229 Lessons
- 40 Weeks
- 1. Student’s success strategies10 Items
- 2. MS Office Word Level I10 Items
- 3. MS Office Word Level II10 Items
- 4.1Enhanced editing
- 4.2Using illustrations and graphics
- 4.3Proofing documents
- 4.4Applying references and hyperlinks
- 4.5Performing mail merges
- 4.6Maintaining documents and working with templates
- 4.7Protecting and sharing documents
- 4.8Using advanced options
- 4.9Using word HTML feature
- 4.10Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
- 4. MS Office Excel Level I10 Items
- 5. MS Office Excel Level II10 Items
- 6.1Working with advanced filters
- 6.2Advanced charting
- 6.3Using auditing tools
- 6.4Using scenarios & goals seeking
- 6.5Solving problems
- 6.6Using automatic formatting & styles
- 6.7Using advanced formulas and securing workbooks
- 6.8Creating charts and pivot tables
- 6.9Adding pictures and shapes to a worksheet
- 6.10Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
- 6. MS Office Access Level I9 Items
- 7. MS Office Project Level I8 Items
- 8. MS Office Outlook14 Items
- 9.1Getting to know outlook
- 9.2Email basics
- 9.3Advanced email tools
- 9.4Managing E-mail messages
- 9.5Automating message processing
- 9.6Working with contacts
- 9.7Advanced contact management
- 9.8Calendar basics
- 9.9Managing meetings
- 9.10Advanced calendar management
- 9.11Managing tasks
- 9.12Categories and outlook data files
- 9.13Managing notes and journal entries
- 9.15Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
- 9. MS Office PowerPoint12 Items
- 10.1Power point essentials
- 10.2Presentation basics
- 10.3Working with texts
- 10.4Designing a presentation
- 10.5Adding tables to slides
- 10.6Using charts in a presentation
- 10.7Creating SmartArt graphics
- 10.8Adding graphics to a presentation
- 10.9Using animations and multimedia
- 10.10Securing and sharing a presentation
- 10.11Delivering presentation
- 10.12Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
- 10. Business Communication skills10 Items
- 11.1Foundation of business communication
- 11.2The writing process
- 11.3Memos, letters, Email and brief messages
- 11.4Report structure
- 11.5Spoken communication
- 11.6Giving speeches and oral presentations
- 11.7Project proposals
- 11.8Negotiations and persuasion skills
- 11.9Ethics of documentation
- 11.10Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
- 11. Office Administration procedures13 Items
- 12.1Understanding office environment
- 12.2Developing professional skills
- 12.3Issues in the office
- 12.4Time management
- 12.5Telecommunications
- 12.6Building communications skills
- 12.7Processing mail
- 12.8Records management
- 12.9Banking and accounting and receiving visitors
- 12.10Making travel arrangements
- 12.11Planning meetings and conferences
- 12.12Developing effective oral presentations
- 12.13Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
- 12. Business mathematics9 Items
- 13.1Review of arithmetic
- 13.2Review of basic algebra
- 13.3Ratio, proportion and percent
- 13.4Trade discount, cash discount, markup, and markdown
- 13.5Breakeven and cost-volume-profit analysis
- 13.6Mid-term exam
- 13.7Simple interest
- 13.8Simple interest applications
- 13.9Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
- 13. Financial accounting Fundamentals15 Items
- 14.1Accounting and the business environment
- 14.2Recording business transactions
- 14.3Measuring business income: the adjusting process
- 14.4Completing the accounting cycle
- 14.5Merchandising operations and the accounting cycle
- 14.6Mid-term review
- 14.7Accounting for merchandize inventory
- 14.8Mid-term exam
- 14.9Accounting information systems
- 14.10Internal control and cash
- 14.11Receivables
- 14.12PP & e, Goodwill, and intangible assets
- 14.13Current liabilities and payroll
- 14.14Course overview and exam preparation
- 14.15Exam
- 14. Project management13 Items
- 15.14Introduction, project life cycle and management processes
- 15.15Initiating a project
- 15.16Project scope planning
- 15.17Project scheduling and budgeting
- 15.18Planning project integration
- 15.19Executing a project
- 15.20Monitoring and controlling a project-part 1
- 15.21Monitoring and controlling a project part 2
- 15.22Closing a project
- 15.23Negotiating
- 15.24Law for project managers
- 15.25Soft issues in project management
- 15.26Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
- 15. Business law and ethics14 Items
- 16.1Introduction to legal system in Canada
- 16.2Overview of the Canadian legal-system- the machinery of justice
- 16.3Contract law-impeachment
- 16.4Contract law-the effect of breach
- 16.5Contract law-remedies for breach
- 16.6The law of torts
- 16.7Trots-professional liability
- 16.8Mid-term exam (open book)
- 16.9Competition law-government regulation of business
- 16.10LLP—limited liability partnerships, company law, director/officer’s liability
- 16.11Employment law-contract of employment
- 16.12Business ethics
- 16.13Case studies in business ethics
- 16.14Course overview, exam preparation and final examination
- 16. Business planning7 Items
- 17.1Entrepreneurial thinking and the challenges of starting A business
- 17.2Porter’s industry analysis model and the business ideas
- 17.3The business plan-A complete framework
- 17.4Marketing & advertising strategy
- 17.5Managing your business
- 17.6Financial, legal and tax issues
- 17.7Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
- 17. Sales and marketing12 Items
- 18.1Introduction to marketing
- 18.2Fundamentals principals of marketing—managing customer value
- 18.3Fundamental principles of marketing—continued
- 18.4Marketing planning and marketing environment
- 18.5Consumer buying behavior 7 market segmentation
- 18.6Business-to-business marketing and organizational buying behavior
- 18.7Product strategy and product management
- 18.8Pricing
- 18.9Distribution and logistics
- 18.10Wholesaling and retailing
- 18.11Marketing communications
- 18.12Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
- 18. Human resource management14 Items
- 19.1Development foundations of HRM
- 19.2Government influences
- 19.3Staffing the organization—planning
- 19.4Staffing the organization—staffing
- 19.5Training and developing
- 19.6Motivation and job design
- 19.7Performance appraisal
- 19.8Mid-term appraisal
- 19.9Mid-term exam
- 19.10Rewards and compensation
- 19.11Employee benefits
- 19.12Communications—maintain a positive work
- 19.13Introduction—maintaining a positive work environment
- 19.14Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
- 19. Finance and investments10 Items
- 20.1Time value of the money future value and present value
- 20.2Time value of money continued-further topics
- 20.3Introduction to annuities—ordinary simple annuities
- 20.4Ordinary simple annuities
- 20.5Annuities due, deferred annuities, and perpetuities
- 20.6Mid-term exam
- 20.7Amortization of loans, including residential
- 20.8Bond valuation and sinking funds
- 20.9Investments decision applications
- 20.10Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
- 20. Economics13 Items
- 21.1The subject matter of economics
- 21.2Useful mathematical tools and the economic problem
- 21.3Demand, supply and consumer choice
- 21.4Elasticity and application of demand and supply
- 21.5The theory of production
- 21.6The cost of production
- 21.7Mid-term exam
- 21.8The firm: organization and finance
- 21.9The firm in pure competition
- 21.10Theory of monopoly
- 21.11Monopolistic competition and oligopoly
- 21.12The market for resources and income distribution and poverty
- 21.13Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
- 21. Employment success strategies6 Items
