Curriculum
Course Descriptions
ACCT 122 Introductory Financial Accounting 1
Your studies will focus on an introduction to financial accounting designed to provide you with accounting skills to handle business transactions. The course will include bookkeeping techniques, accounting for a merchandising concern and an introduction to accounting for current assets. ACCT 122 is a companion to ACCT 125 (Introductory Financial Accounting 2) which continues the study of basic financial accounting.
4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours
Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Work Based Delivery, Prior Learning, Correspondence-Structured Time
ACCT 125 Introductory Financial Accounting 2
Your studies will focus on an introduction to financial accounting building on the skills you learned in ACCT 122 (Introductory Financial Accounting I). You will study accounting for payroll and accounting for other assets and liabilities. The course covers accounting for capital assets, liabilities, partnerships, and corporations.
4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours
Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Independent Study, Work Based Delivery, Prior Learning
Prerequisites:
ACCT 122 Minimum Grade of 60
ADMN 126 Introduction to Management
You will be provided with an overview of the development of management theory and practices. The course content includes organizing, planning, leading, controlling functions, and focuses on decisions in different types of environments.
4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours
Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Work Based Delivery, Prior Learning
BCOM 120 Business Communications 1
You will develop fundamental employability skills by studying the principles of communication. The course content includes developing effective writing skills. You will apply the principles and skills by writing letters and memorandums for routine and negative purposes. You will develop teamwork employability skills and examine ways to apply communication skills to team and cross-cultural situations.
3.0 Credit Units
48.0 Lecture hours
Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Independent Study, Work Based Delivery, Prior Learning, Correspondence-Structured Time, Correspondence
Equivalent Course(s): BCOM 104 BCOM 134 COMM 141
BCOM 121 Business Communications 2
You will continue to develop effective business writing skills and employability skills. The course focuses on writing business reports in informal and formal styles. Your classroom study and experience will help prepare you for a business career by developing your presentation skills.
4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours
Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Independent Study, Prior Learning, Correspondence
Equivalent Course(s): COMM 149
Prerequisites: BCOM 120 Minimum Grade of 60
COAP 137 Introduction to Simply Accounting
You will learn how to use a computerized accounting software package. Your studies will focus on self-guided exercises using the general, payables, receivables and inventory ledgers.
2.0 Credit Units
32.0 Lecture hours
Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Prior Learning, Online/Blackboard
Equivalent Course(s): ACCT 135 SYST 147
Prerequisites: ACCT 122 Minimum Grade of 60 (concurrent)
COMP 120 Information Systems 1
Your studies will focus on the practical use of Microsoft Word (word processing), Excel (spreadsheets), PowerPoint (presentation) and Access (database) software. You will be introduced to computer concepts including hardware, software, network basics, file management and Internet technology.
4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours
Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Independent Study, Prior Learning, Correspondence
Equivalent Course(s): COMP 140
ECON 120 Microeconomics
Your studies will focus on how production and consumption decisions are made in a market economy. You will learn to analyze supply, demand, cost, price determination, response to price changes, and income distribution.
4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours
Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN
Equivalent Course(s): RT 191
ECON 121 Macroeconomics
The course is designed to familiarize you with how an economy is analyzed and how economic policy is used to prevent or ameliorate potential economic problems faced by modern economies. Your studies will focus on national income accounting, consumption and saving, government spending and taxation, interest rates and investment, the role of money and the banking system, and foreign trade.
4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours
Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN
Prerequisites: ECON 120 Minimum Grade of 60
FIN_ 120 Mathematics of Finance
You will deal with commercial problems involving simple interest, discounts and markups, partial payments, and commuting a series of obligations. It continues with a wide variety of problems involving compound interest, ordinary annuities, amortization of debt, sinking funds, and valuation of bonds. Practical applications are stressed throughout the course. Use of the Financial calculator is shown throughout the course.
4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours
Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Prior Learning
Equivalent Course(s): FIN 140
MKTG 120 Marketing
You will discover the dynamic field of marketing. You will explore what marketing is, how it works, and the effect it can have on consumers and on society. At the end of the course, you should have a strong sense of how to market yourself, your skills, your ideas, as well as more traditional products and services. Marketing concepts you will learn include: the strategic marketing planning process, segmentation, positioning, forecasting, consumer behaviour, and the marketing mix.
4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours
Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Independent Study, Work Based Delivery, Prior Learning
STAT 120 Business Statistics
You will be introduced to the elements of statistics used in business. The course content includes frequency distribution, measure of central tendency and dispersion, probability distributions (discrete and continuous), sampling, sampling distributions, estimations, regressions, correlation and elementary hypothesis-testing.
4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours
Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Prior Learning
Equivalent Course(s): ACP 374
Electives - One of the following:
HR__ 120 Introduction to Human Resource Management
Your studies will focus on an overview of human resource management and practices. You will learn the impact of job analysis; planning, recruiting, and selection processes; training, developing and compensation considerations, and management performance and labour relations. Employee and organizational ethics are discussed throughout the course with an emphasis on using human resource management to achieve high organizational performance.
4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours
Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Prior Learning
Equivalent Course(s): ADMN 222
INS_ 100 Principles and Practices of Insurance
Your studies will provide an introduction to the principles and practices of the insurance industry. You will examine the multi-faceted nature of the insurance business, develop an understanding of risk and strategies to respond to it, and examine contract law as it relates to the industry. You will be introduced to the terms and practices of the insurance business.
4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours
Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory
NOTE: INS 100 is only available during the day at SIAST Palliser Campus in Moose Jaw. However, transfer credit for this course is also available for students who have taken Principles and Practices of Insurance (C11) through the Insurance Institute of Canada.
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