A financial accounting course is designed to acclimate students to analyzing external financial reports, recording economic transactions and making informed decisions based upon the information present in a firm’s financial report. This is usually an introductory course with no prerequisites.
Managerial Accounting is typically an introductory course designed to cover basic concepts and terminology of management accounting. Students are introduced to using budgeting, responsibility accounting and cost allocation to make managerial decisions.
Many undergraduate business programs include economics course requirements. Economics courses like Introduction to Statistical Theory for Business and Economics at Indiana University Kokomo include reviews of basic probability concepts, while the University of Pittsburg’s required Business Economics course explores applications of microeconomics and macroeconomics analysis.
While some undergraduate business program curricula include an introductory finance course--like the Introduction to Finance course at University of Pittsburg --many business finance courses are slightly advanced a require students to fulfill prerequisites. A finance course will cover the duties of a financial manager within a business entity, as well as cover concepts like investment, dividend division and working capital management, among many others.
An introductory marketing course is typically a part of undergraduate business curricula. Students will explore the role of marketing both within the economy and within a business firm. Other topics include product management and market research.
An information systems course intends to help students use business processes along with information technology. At West Virginia University, students matriculated into the Information Systems and Technology course use database software, spreadsheets and the Internet to learn how to operate competitive global firms.
Productivity, forecasting and inventory are all standard topics covered in undergraduate operations management courses. Students will also analysis planning and control decisions made by operations managers in depth.