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Professional Business Certificate

 

Students who successfully complete all Professional Business Certificate requirements will be able to:

  • Explain the main functional areas of business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management and leadership, and marketing.
  • Use appropriate mathematical structures and processes to make decisions and solve problems in the contexts of logical reasoning, probability, data, statistics, and financial mathematics.
  • Demonstrate effective use of business marketing tools necessary to execute a marketing plan for a client, including social media.
  • Identify trends and new developments in business and employ soft skills and marketing techniques to adapt to market demands.
  • Develop a business plan that includes both conceptual and technical components.
  • Analyze issues relating to inventory, receivables, long-lived assets, liabilities and stockholders' equity and recommend appropriate accounting treatment.
  • Use the budgeting process to prepare budgets and pro forma financial statements.
  • Identify the role of information systems in business processes; e.g., recognize and specify where information technology can be applied; recognize the role of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.

Program Course Requirements

For information on the advised sequence of program courses, see the Professional Business Certificate Program Map.

Required Courses

BA 101ZBusiness Foundations

4
BA 101BSpreadsheet Analysis

3
BA 211ZPrinciples of Accounting: Financial

4
BA 213ZPrinciples of Accounting: Managerial

4
BA 223Principles of Marketing

4
BA 260Entrepreneurship & Sm Business

4
BA 285Organizational Behavior

4
or
BA 224Human Resource Management

3
or
PSY 201ZIntroduction to Psychology I

4
BA 291Business Process Management

4
COMM 111ZPublic Speaking

4
MTH 105ZMath in Society

4
or
MTH 075Variables and Linear Equations

4
or
MTH 111ZPrecalculus I: Functions

4
or higher
Students intending to continue on to the Business Management emphasis, Associate of Science should complete MTH 075 or MTH 111Z. Students who do not intend to continue beyond this certificate should complete MTH 105Z. Speak with an advisor for more information.

Total Credit Hours: 38-39