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Foundations Of Business Course Outline
This course, designed to provide a fundamental understanding of business management, will cover managing, marketing, financing and communicating within a business environment. Skills taught will include communication, problem solving and decision-making, economics, ethics, financials, and basic marketing principles. Students will experience applications supporting the Florida Math Standards. Foundations of Business Elective Course Assignments are individual and project based and will provide a solid foundation for future coursework.
1- Introduction
- Introduction
- Course Description
- Course Links
- MLA Formatting Word 2007
- MLA Documentation Updates
- MLA Citation
- MLA Incorporating Sources
2- Business Operations
- Business Operations
- Transformation
- Production Management
- Business in Our Economy
- Resources
- Goods and Services
- Economic Choice
- Supply and Demand
- Organizational Structure
- Line-And-Staff Structure
- Centralization
- Decentralization
- Departmentalization
- Management: Historical
3- Project 1 – Supply & Demand
- Instructions
- Essay: Project 1 – Supply & Demand
4- Business Organization
- Scientific Management
- Behavioral Management
- Definition of Management
- Planning
- Organizing
- Management Skills
- Human and Computer
- Management Thought
- Contemporary Thought
- Authority and Responsibility
- Authority
- Delegation
- Management/Leadership Styles
- Leadership Traits
- Contingency Theory
- Theory X and Theory Y
- Managerial Grid
- Transformational Leadership
- Japanese Management Methods
5- Project 2 – Management
- Management Skills
- Assignment: Project 2 – Management
6- Marketing Goods and Services
- Goods and Services
- Supply and Demand
- Equilibrium
- Nonprice Determinants of Demand
- Marketing and Business
- Market Segmentation
- Marketing Mix
- Product
- Pricing
- Promotion
- Place
- Marketing Concept
- Marketing Concept Definition
- Social Responsibility
- Code of Ethics
- Social Responsibility
- Social Responsiveness
- International Trade
- Political Environment
- Cultural Environment
- World Trade Organization
7- Project 3 – Market Process
- Project 3 – Market Process
- Assignment: Project – Market Process
8- Advertising
- Advertising
- Cooperative Advertising
- Persuasive Advertising
- Advertising Objectives
- Advertising Budget
- Selecting the Right Advertising
- Advertising Evaluation
9- Project 4 – Advertising
- Project 4 Instructions
- Process
- Assignment: Project 4 – Advertising
10- Consumers in the Economy
- Consumer Behavior
- Consumer Processing
- Attitude Formation
- External Factors
- Cultural and Sub-Cultural
- Decision Making Process
- Consumer Rights
- Consumer Product Safety Act
11- Project 5 – Consumer Behavior
- Instructions
- Assignment: Project 5 – Consumer Bahavior
12- Accounting & Financial Institutions
- Deposit Taking
- Investment and Risk Management
- Historical Development
- Legal and Regulatory Structure
- Early American Finance
- Finance in the 1800s
- Role of Banks through 1920s
- Securities and Exchange
- Impact of Technology
- Accounting
- Professional Organizations
- Securities Act of 1933
- Changing Workforce
- Accounting Cycle
- Computerized Accounting System
- Accounting Information Systems
- AIS
- Design
- Implementation
- Attestation
13- Money & Financial Institutions
- Money
- Functions of Money
- Money Supply
- The Fed
- Decisions
- Credit Cards
- Debit Cards
- Travel Cards
- Personal Financial Planning
- Financial Risk
- Computers & Technology
- Assignment: Financial Institutions Project
14- Stocks and Bonds
- Stocks
- Types of Stock
- Preferred Stock
- Advantages / Disadvantages
- Bonds
- Coupon
- Government Bonds
- Investing in Bonds
- Market Risk
- Capital Market
- IPO
- Venture Capital
- Rose of SEC
- Role of Federal Reserve
- Markets Outside U.S.
- Assignment: Show me the Money
15- Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship
- Business Plan
- Marketing Plan
- Management Plan
- Successful Entrepreneurs
- Factors of Production
- Labor
- Capital
- Franchising
- Advantages and Disadvantages
- Franchising Considerations
- The Franchising Sector
- Global Franchising
- Cottage Industries
- Home Employment Benefits
- Resources
- Assignment: Franchising Project
16- Human Resource Management
- HR Management
- Staffing
- Compensation
- Employee and Labor Relations
- Human Resource Research
- Employee Benefits
- Expanded Benefits
- Perks
- Determinants of Compensation
- Factors to Consider
- Incentive Plans
- Performance Based
- EEO
- Equal Pay Act
17- Information Processing
- Historical Perspective
- Herman Hollerith
- ENIAC I
- Fourth Generation
- Cut/Copy/Paste
- Linking Programs
- Embedding Objects
- Computer Hardware
- Computer Software
- Decision Support Systems
- Computer Networks
18- Final Exam
- Quiz: Final
19- Course Survey
- Course Survey
- Handout: Course Survey
- Assignment: Course Survey
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