Core Business Courses, Ball State University

ACC 201 - Principles of Accounting 1.

An introduction to accounting emphasizing the basic principles underlying the accounting cycle. Includes the preparation of reports to management and external users of financial statements. Prerequisite: sophomore standing.

ACC 202 - Principles of Accounting 2.

A continuation of ACC 201 emphasizing financial statement analysis and managerial and cost accounting concepts. Prerequisite: ACC 201.

BL 260 - Principles of Business Law.

The nature, role, structure, and historical development of the legal system. The essential elements of legal liability, contracts, and government regulation of business. Law, ethics, and commercial relations that constitute the legal environment of business.

ECON 201 - Elementary Microeconomics.

A study of why people specialize as producers and exchange what they produce with others. Includes analysis of how market structure affects prices. Discusses the issue of whether self-interested economic behavior promotes or hinders society.

ECON 202 - Elementary Macroeconomics.

Survey of the major explanations for fluctuations in general business conditions. Focuses on how the private sector's economic behavior is affected by various governmental policies and institutions. Prerequisite: ECON 201.

ECON 221 - Business Statistics.

Introduction to various statistical and probabilistic concepts and techniques with application to business problems including random variables and probability distributions, measures of central tendency and ispersion, testing of hypotheses, simple linear regression, and correlation. Prerequisite: C or better grade in MATHS 135; sophomore standing; demonstrated proficiency in computer skills.

FIN 300 - Principles of Finance 1.

Miller College students study financial decision making in a business. The managers decision to invest (capital budgeting), finance (cost of capital), manage on a daily basis (working capital management), and long-term planning is the focus. Prerequisite: ACC 202; ECON 202, 221; junior standing.

ISOM 135 - Business Information Systems.

Introduction to various concepts and techniques of information systems with application to solving managerial problems with emphasis on their scope, use, and evaluation. Topics covered include business systems and information flow, application of computer-based information systems, managerial decision-making processes, and mutual influence of organizations and information systems. Prerequisite: proficiency test required or ISOM 125.

ISOM 249 - Foundations of Business Communication.

Provides pre-business majors with a cornerstone course designed to develop the interpersonal, analytical, written, and presentation skills needed to succeed in upper division business courses and on the job. Prerequisite: ISOM 125; ENG 104; sophomore standing. Open only to pre-business and Miller College of Business majors. ISOM 249 is to be taken concurrent with those courses that complete the admission requirement or taken in the term of enrollment following admission to the Miller College of Business.

ISOM 351 - Operations Management.

Discusses decision making in the operations functions for the creation of goods and services and its relationship with other business functions. Topics include: operations strategy, emerging process technologies, planning and scheduling, inventory management, just-in-time systems, and quality management. Prerequisite: ECON 221.

MGT 300 - Managing Behavior in Organizations.

Examines the challenges of managing human behavior in organizations. Reviews foundations of modern management thought. Discusses current and emerging management topics: emphasizes leadership, motivation, communication, human relations, group dynamics, job design, organizational development, and managing a diverse workforce. Prerequisite: junior standing.

MGT 491 - Business Policy and Strategic Management.

Integration of various functional areas of business. Development and administration of strategy and policy in private and public sector organizations. Case studies focus on strategic decisions that enable an organization to relate effectively to its industrial, national, and international environments. Normally taken during the last semester of a student's program. Prerequisite: senior standing; completion of all Miller College of Business core classes including FIN 300, ISOM 351, MGT 300, MKG 300. No simultaneous enrollment allowed.

MKG 300 - Principles of Marketing.

Introduces marketing principles, functions and contemporary practices essential for attaining organizational objectives. Topics include the marketing environment and technology, marketing research, consumer behavior, market segmentation, product management, professional selling, advertising, pricing, distribution channels, strategy implementation, and the role of marketing in society. Prerequisite: any ECON course; junior standing.