Distance Learning

Financial Planning and Investment Management

Credits:  2

This course provides the foundation for studying and applying personal financial planning techniques for a lifetime.  This course will focus on six broad key steps to personal financial success:

1. Financial planning- focusing on establishing and achieving long-term goals through planning and budgeting
2. Money management- centering on minimizing income taxes and efficient utilization of cash and credit
3. Managing expenditures- especially for “big-ticket” items such as vehicles and housing,
4. Income and asset protection through insurance- so that hard-earned resources and assets are not placed at undue risk,
5. Investment planning- with its focus on selecting the appropriate investment vehicles based on objectives at hand and the relative levels of investment risk,
6. Retirement and estate planning- with the ultimate goal of being able to live off of one’s financial nest egg and plan for the transfer of assets to heirs.

Students who successfully complete BUSA 1100 will be able to:

• Apply the techniques of personal financial planning and its implementation throughout this course.
• Practice the cash flow and budgeting process.
• Explain debt management techniques.
• Find the best way to select a financial services institution.
• Identify some of the common risks in everyone’s life and discuss different means to protect against those risks.
• Identify the tools and techniques of investments.
• Explain retirement planning.
• Discuss various steps about buying a house.
• Define federal income taxes and discuss how to minimize these taxes.

Course Requirements:

• Online Quizzes and assignments
• Basic knowledge of computers and computer applications

Additional Requirements:

• A computer with Microsoft Word and appropriate plug ins to successfully run GeorgiaView.  See https://albanystate.view.usg.edu/d2l/login – click System Checker.

Introduction to Business

Credits:  3

Prerequisites: READ 0099, ENGL 0099, ENGL 0989 or satisfactory English scores to place into co-requisite remediation or higher; MATH 0099, MATH 0987, MATH 0989 or satisfactory math scores to place into co-requisite remediation or higher.

BUSA 1105 is an integrative study of the functional areas of business (finance, operations, marketing, human resources, etc.)

Students who successfully complete BUSA 1105 will be able to:

• Describe the terms used in business
• Identify the forms of ownership, social responsibility, ethical influences, and the legal system that regulates business
• Explain the concepts and scope of international business
• Compare and contrast management styles and organizations, and to apply the aspects of productions and operations to particular products
• Analyze the aspects of marketing such as products, lines and role of pricing, distribution, and promotion
• Evaluate the financial aspects of business, including the role of money and financing, risk management, and insurance
• Describe the role of research and development in the product development process
• Identify the fundamentals of information for business including accounting, the need for computers, and the management of information

Course Requirements:

• Online Quizzes and assignments
• Basic knowledge of computers and computer applications
• Instructor YATES: Proctored Tests – This course requires 1 proctored tests. Students may test at Albany State’s Albany or Cordele campuses or online through Proctor U. Testing through Proctor U requires a computer (not a mobile device) with a webcam and microphone.

Additional Requirements:

• A computer with Microsoft Word and appropriate plug ins to successfully run GeorgiaView.  See https://albanystate.view.usg.edu/d2l/login – click System Checker

Survey of Computer Applications

Prerequisites: None

3 credit hours

An introduction to computers and computer applications at a level appropriate for basic academic and professional needs.

Business Internship

Credits:  3

This course introduces junior or advanced sophomore business students to working environments in their aspiring professional careers with an opportunity to gain valuable insights into actual organizational and managerial practices and operations. Through such experiences students can better correlate their academic experiences with their future professional careers.

International Business

Prerequisite: ECON 2105

Credits: 3

Contemporary problems, issues, and opportunities in international business from conceptual and practical viewpoints. Extensive use of case studies to develop student abilities to diagnose and develop solution to management situations facing the multinational executive.