COURSE OUTLINE FOR SOME COURSES IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (200L)

BUSINESS FINANCE - BUS 217

- The function Of finance & Scope of financial management 

- Analyzing financial performance 

- Sources and uses of funds

- Ratio analysis 

- Budgeting 

- Working Capital management 

- management of cash & marketable securities 

- management of account receivable 

- inventory management

- cash budgeting 

Financial forecasting 

Proforma statement 

 

BUSINESS STATISTICS - BUS 215

1. Statistic meaning & it's branches 

2. Statistic and business 

3. Sampling and data collection

4. Sources of data collection 

5. Sampling frame and sampling techniques 

6.  Data and data accuracy 

7. Types of data and their measurement 

8. Data and data representation 

9. The use of chat (Bar chart, Pie chart and histogram)

10.  Measures of central tendency for grouped and ungrounded data 

11. The mean as a measure of central tendency (harmonic mean, geometric mean, arithmetic  mean   in the class of mean)

12. Median as A measure of location and it's characteristics 

13. Mode as measures of location and it's characteristics

14. Measures of dispatching 

15. The range variance, standard deviation, mean deviation & quotas deviation  

16. Skewness & kurtosis 

PRINCIPLES MARKETING - BUS 213

Framework of Marketing 

- Definition of marketing 

- evolution of marketing 

- basic concepts of marketing 

- marketing & marketing functions

Marketing Mix

- meaning of marketing mix

- marketing mix elements 

- product: meaning, levels and classification 

-price: meaning, pricing objectives & constraints 

- production: meaning, objectives and need,  promotion tool (advertising, personal  selling, sales promotion and publicity), determinants and factors influencing promotional mix

- place; meaning, influencing factors and types of distribution intermediaries 

MANAGEMENT THEORY - BUS 211

(1) nature and concept of management 

- basic concept 

- importance of management 

- evolution of management thoughts 

  * Frederick Taylor 

  * Henry Frayol

  *  Peter Drunker 

(2) Introduction to planning process 

(3) organizational process 

(4) controlling process 

(5) management by objective (MBO)

(6) Decision Making Process 

(7) organizational design/organizational structure

(7a) Delegation Power Authority 

(7b) Span of control/span of management 

(7c) Departmentalization

(8) management problems in Nigeria