Business

Delve into the fundamental legal and regulatory parameters that define, promote, and limit business activities. Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of litigation, mediation, and arbitration; explore ethical issues; and learn to apply laws and regulations to various case studies. Gain an understanding of the legal system, administrative agencies, constitutional law, consumer protection, contracts, criminal law, employment law, environmental law, ethics, forms of business organizations, product liability, property, and torts.

Create and interpret reports needed for data driven decision making through applying concepts of descriptive statistics, probability, and inferential statistics directly to real life business operations. Explore topics such as methods to collect, present, and interpret data; interpretation of probability distributions; and variance, regression and time-series analysis. Learn to use both basic and advanced commands in Excel and other commonly used software to perform your analysis and reports.

Create and evaluate a personal financial plan that will help you achieve your short and long-term financial goals. Explore topics such as budgeting, financial statements, banking, time value concepts, obtaining and managing credit, identity theft, interest rates, insurance, investments, retirement planning, taxation, and more.

Identify ways to solve problems that routinely cause businesses to fail so that you, as a decision-maker for your business, can protect yourself and your company. Learn practical applications and principles for business mathematics that you will use in your everyday business practices such as bank reconciliations, present value, markup and markdown, simple and compound interest, trade and cash discounts, sales and property taxes, payroll, overhead, and the analysis of financial reports.

Identify ways to solve problems that routinely cause businesses to fail so that you, as a decision-maker for your business, can protect yourself and your company. Learn practical applications and principles for business mathematics that you will use in your everyday business practices such as bank reconciliations, present value, markup and markdown, simple and compound interest, trade and cash discounts, sales and property taxes, payroll, overhead, and the analysis of financial reports.

Identify ways to solve problems that routinely cause businesses to fail so that you, as a decision-maker for your business, can protect yourself and your company. Learn practical applications and principles for business mathematics that you will use in your everyday business practices such as bank reconciliations, present value, markup and markdown, simple and compound interest, trade and cash discounts, sales and property taxes, payroll, overhead, and the analysis of financial reports.

Effectively communicate in your business operations as you learn common written and oral communication strategies that you can apply in any workplace environment. Discover best practices to help with employment searches and/or career advancement as well as in the preparation, evaluation and interpretation of various workplace communication tools.

Effectively communicate in your business operations as you learn common written and oral communication strategies that you can apply in any workplace environment. Discover best practices to help with employment searches and/or career advancement as well as in the preparation, evaluation and interpretation of various workplace communication tools.

Improve your letter and report writing skills as you explore proper word choice, tone, structure and more. Cover best practices used in today's businesses for inductive and deductive business letters, memorandums and reports.

Your ability to communicate effectively is crucial to your business success. Practice delivering a variety of individual and small group presentations in a safe environment as you learn to improve your listening skills, grammar, effective speech construction and more.