Course Name: Business Management

Course Code: S2293018

Semester: 3

Credit: 2

Program: All

Course Module: Business & Management

Responsible: Jeanette Mar

E-mail: marjeanette@hotmail.com

Department: School of Management, University of Queensland

Time Allocation (1 credit hour = 45 minutes)

Course Description

Awareness of business management.

Prerequisite

Some general notions of economy.

Course Objectives

• To become familiar with the basic concepts of business management, balance sheet, and income statement, accounting balances, cash, stocks.

• To understanding the impact of the level of activity on the results of the company.

• To understand the difference between costs and income, leading to a difference between accounting income and cash.

• To learn how to build a simplified way essential to the company accounting documents.

Course Syllabus

1. Introduction to the economic environment of the company,

2. The management of the company,

3. The economic analysis of the company.

Textbooks & References

Handouts

Grade Distribution

Attendance and Participation: 10%

Group Presentation: 20%

Report: 30%

Final Exam: 40%

Capability Tasks

CT5: To have the basic concept about how the company functions and the capability to understand economic problems such as quality management, competitiveness and productivity and commercial demands.

CT8: To understand social demands.

CT9: To be competent for a job position in a company and have a good career path; To have sense of responsibility, teamwork spirit, cooperation and leadership capacity, project management capacity, and capacity of communicating and working with experts and non-experts, and carry out innovation management.

Achievements

• To know and be able to differentiate between many economic and financial terms (turnover, profit, capital, dividends, expenses, products). - Level: A

• To understand and build documents simplified synthesis (Balance Sheet and Income Statement). - Level: A

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