Your studies will focus on labour relations, including union history and philosophy, certification procedures, union structure, managing in unionized environments, environmental factors which influence labour relations, applicable legislation affecting labour relations, collective bargaining (public and private sectors), job action, dispute resolution methods and recent developments in the labour relations field. You will be encouraged to discuss and debate labour relations issues, to critically explore case studies and to monitor and report on current labour relations events. Through these activities, you will gain an understanding of the labour relations realm.

You will develop fundamental employability skills by studying the principles of communication. 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.

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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.

 

The course is an introduction to the study of cost accounting theory and practice. You will focus on the differences between cost accounting and financial accounting, various cost accounting terms, an introduction to costing systems and responsibility accounting using master and flexible budgets.

Prerequisites: Introductory Financial Accounting 2

From an organizational and employee point of view, you will examine coaching, counselling, equity and fairness. The course emphasizes the major influences on employee relations and the impact on individual managers and the organization. You will examine the importance of sound employee relationship practices in the role of reaching organizational objectives. The course content includes interpersonal communication, inter/cross cultural issues, harassment, employee/family assistance programs, diversity and equity. You will research and develop a proposal that management can implement to enhance corporate employee relations.

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.

The course provides an in-depth study of generally accepted accounting principles as applied to accounting for current assets, capital assets, temporary and long-term investments, leases and accounting changes, and correction of errors.

Prerequisites: Introductory Financial Accounting 2

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.

You will be provided with an overview of the development of management theory and practices. Course content includes organizing, planning, leading and controlling functions, and focuses on decisions in different types of environments.

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.

Your studies will focus on an introduction to financial accounting building on the skills you learned in ACCT 122 (Introductory Financial Accounting 1). You will study accounting for payroll and accounting for other assets and liabilities. The course covers accounting for capital assets, liabilities, partnerships and corporations.

Prerequisites: Introductory Financial Accounting 1

Your studies will focus on how production and consumption decisions are made in a market economy. You will learn how to analyze supply and demand, cost, price determination, response to price changes and income distribution.

You will be introduced to statistical concepts and techniques (including elementary probability, random variables and their distributions, frequency distributions, measures of location and variability, sampling theory, point and interval estimation, tests of hypotheses and correlation and regression analysis). You will also learn to perform statistical calculations using calculators, spreadsheets and statistical computer software packages. Equivalent to STAT 260.