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Business Management
Course #: 2B22X2
Duration: 30 hours
What Students Learn: Introduction to macroeconomics and basic terms and concepts related to it. Description of a business cycle. Basic theories of economics. The differences between foreign and domestic trade. How the three sectors of the economy -- government, business and households -- interact.
Course #: 0B20X2
Duration: 30 hours
What Students Learn: The functions of management in business. Basic leadership styles. Controlling cost and simplifying work. Management concepts and how they apply to employee morale, behavior, complaints, grievances, training and communication.
Course #: 0B5
Duration: 30 hours
What Students Learn: The role of human resource management (HRM) in the business plan of an organization. Role, responsibilities and qualifications of HRM professionals. Recruiting, staffing and orientation. Compensation and benefits. Employee protection, OSHA, and workplace problems. HRM and legalities. Differences between domestic and international HRM. Role of computers in HRM.
Course #: 1B1
Duration: 30 hours
What Students Learn: The five major factors in distribution: transportation and traffic, inventory procurement and control, warehousing, packaging, and distribution communications. Analyzing, classifying and assigning the costs of distribution.
Course #: 2B6
Duration: 30 hours
What Students Learn: Parts of speech, proper usage, punctuation and capitalization, and sentence structure. Addressing the audience and writing effective business letters. Researching, documenting and preparing visual aids. Developing proposals.
Course #: 3B0
Duration: 30 hours
What Students Learn: Calculating percents, discounts, interest, gross profit and loss, net profit and loss. Identifying positive and negative numbers. Adding, subtracting and multiplying algebraic expressions. Examines interest, installment buying, pricing, investments, depreciation, and the importance of statistics.
Course #: 5B3
Duration: 30 hours
What Students Learn: The functions of management in business. Basic leadership styles. Controlling cost and simplifying work. Management concepts and how they apply to employee morale, behavior, complaints, grievances, training and communication.
Course #: CD0021
Duration: 30 hours
What Students Learn: There are 7 Lessons as follows:
Lesson One - Overview
Includes definition of Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement - what they are and what they measure about a business. Drills allow practice of the main concepts.
Lesson Two - The Income Statement
Takes each item on an Income Statement, and thoroughly covers what the item shows about a business. The student constructs an actual Income Statement step-by-step. Coverage includes the difference between Gross Sales and Revenue, Cost of Sales, Gross Margin, Selling Expense, General and Administrative Expenses, Operating Margin, Depreciation & Amortization, Other Expenses, Taxes and Net Profit.
Lesson Three - The Balance Sheet
Coverage includes all the Asset, Liability and Equity items on a Balance Sheet: Cash, Accounts Receivable, Inventory, Prepaid Expenses, Property Plant & Equipment, Intangibles, Accounts Payable, Notes Payable, Accrued Expenses, Taxes Payable, Deferred Taxes, Long-Term Debt, Preferred Stock, Common Stock, Paid-in-Capital, Retained Earnings.
Lesson Four - The Cash Flow Statement
Coverage includes Cash from Operating Activities - Sales, Payments for Products, Payments for Operating Expenses, Interest Payments; Cash from Investing activities like purchase or sale of Assets; Cash from Financing activities like Short and Long-Term Borrowing, Capital Stock Issue and Dividends to Shareholders.
Lesson Five - Linking the Statements
The student learns how to read all three statements together and how the various items on one statement relate to the other two statements. Also included is a graphical drill on how "accrual accounting" works and how this is reflected on a cash flow statement.
Lesson Six - Analyzing the Statements
The student learns what the various financial ratios are and what they mean. These are the ratios used by investors, bankers, suppliers, etc. in evaluating the relative strengths of a company. These ratios are drilled using the actual numbers input by the student. Included in this lesson is a thorough tutorial on inventory costing and how the selection of different costing methods effects reported profits and assets.
Lesson Seven - Review, Exam and Certificate of Completion
After a complete review of the major concepts, the student takes a final exam and is then eligible for a certificate of completion suitable for framing.
Course #: CD0022
Duration: 30 hours
What Students Learn: There are 7 lessons followed by a quiz:
Lesson One - What is an Investment?
Includes definition of an investment and examples, capital, return on investment and compounded return, future value, setting investment objectives, estimating return.
Lesson Two - The Stock Market
Includes definition of stock, why a company sells shares, initial public offering, use of money raised from sale to public, how a company earns money, use of earnings, buying and selling shares, secondary market, brokers, definition of stock exchange, the major stock exchanges of the world, supply and demand and the impact on stock price, why investors buy or sell.
Lesson Three - The Bond Market
Coverage includes definition of a bond, interest payments and future value, types of bonds, buying and selling bonds, effect of general interest rates on price of bonds, yields - coupon and current, yield to maturity and how it is calculated, bond ratings and what they mean, drill - factors effecting the price of bonds.
Lesson Four - Mutual Funds
Includes definition of a mutual fund, how share value is determined - Net Asset Value, rate of return - gains and costs, difference between open end and closed end, types of fund objectives, answers to common questions, new cash, redemptions.
Lesson Five - Other Investments
Coverage includes bank accounts, real estate, precious metals, commodities and futures, options - put and call, options - price components - value and time, collectibles.
Lesson Six - Barriers to Investing & Handling
Coverage includes understanding the business cycle, bull and bear; long, short and hedge; risk and diversification, volatility and risk analysis, liquidity, inflation and handling inflation, taxes and providing for taxes, fraud and how to avoid.
Lesson Seven - Getting Started
Coverage includes sources of capital, investing with lump sum and periodic payments, planning for periodic withdrawals, investment strategies, measuring performance, data sources, tactical tips, what to do now.
Course #: ELIM07
Duration: 36 hours
What Students Learn: Practical English and the Command of Words is a self-paced study course designed to improve the speaking, writing, and reading skills of today's working adult. The course consists of 48 four-page study units, with each unit containing a variety of topics. All units are structured to enhance the adult's interest and to guarantee organized and orderly learning. Effective communications skills are brought to life with real world examples, using a practical "hands-on" approach.
ELI is an accredited member of the Distance Education and Training Council. Practical English and the Command of Words has been evaluated by the American Council on Education's (ACE) Program of Non-Collegiate Sponsored Instruction (PONSI) and has been recommended for academic credit both as an English course and as a Business Communications course.
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
