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Commerce courses in this section are listed in numerical order. The applicable headings are abbreviated as follows:
Accounting  – ACC
Business Law  – BUSLW
Finance  – FIN
General Commerce Courses  – GEN
Health Care Administration  – HCA
Human Resource Management  – HRM
Industrial Relations  – INDRL
Management  – MGT
Marketing  – MKT
Production and Operations Management  – POM
Quantitative Analysis  – QUANT
Taxation  – TAX

For Honours seminar courses see the respective subject headings in this section.

Note: Space in upper-year courses is restricted to students in Commerce and those colleges that have Commerce courses as part of their degree requirements.

*300 and 400 level ACCOUNTING, FINANCE, and MARKETING courses require permission from the applicable Department.  Students are advised not to take 400 level accounting or finance courses prior to their fourth year.

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE COURSES
COMM 101.3 (GEN)
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Introduction to Business
1/2(3L)

Successful enterprises must effectively integrate a variety of managerial processes and functions within the organization, while also maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholder groups. This course helps students develop an understanding of the issues affecting business, the complex web of interrelationships involved in successfully dealing with these issues, and the organizational and managerial challenges involved in managing contemporary business organizations.

COMM 102.3 (GEN)
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Introduction to Business Management
1/2(3L)

Examines the management processes including environment and business analysis, planning, decision making, execution and performance measurement. This course will make major use of case analyses, simulations, organizational audits or other instructional methods that allow the student to assume the role of manager of the organization.

Note: This course may not be used for credit toward the B.Comm. degree.

COMM 104.3 (QUANT)
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Statistics I
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): MATH 110.

Descriptive statistics, index numbers, probability concepts, probability distributions, sampling distributions, statistical inference - estimation and hypothesis testing. Introduction to time series forecasting (moving averages and exponential smoothing).

Note: Students who wish to use this course toward an Arts & Science credit should first refer to Statistics Course Regulations in the Arts & Science section of the Calendar.

COMM 109.0 (GEN)
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Library Research I

Introduction to the University of Saskatchewan libraries and the wide variety of electronic resources available.

COMM 110.0 (GEN)
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Computer Skills

Introduction to the computer skills necessary to successfully use computers and software in upper year courses. Consists of three modules: General Computing, Spreadsheets and Word Processing.

COMM 200.3 (MKT)
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Introduction to Agribusiness Marketing
1/2(3L)

Introduction to the principles and concepts of marketing as applied to the agribusiness industry. Business activities are analyzed from the point of view of recognition, stimulation and satisfaction of customer demand. Specific topics include market segmentation, consumer behaviour, marketing mix strategies, marketing research and marketing ethics. Agribusiness cases and examples are used extensively to illustrate effective marketing principles, strategies and practices.

Note: This course is an alternative to COMM 204 and students will not receive credit for both COMM 200 and 204.

COMM 201.3 (ACC)
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Accounting and Business Decision Making
1/2(3L)

Helps the student understand, use and appreciate the limitations of information provided in an organization's financial statements. As such, the course examines what financial statements are, what they include and the means of deriving information for and from them. Specifically, the course will enable the student to: (1) link the results of management's financing, investing and operating decisions to financial statement reporting; (2) understand the boundaries and limitations of information in the financial statements; (3) demonstrate a basic but real awareness of financial accounting systems; and (4) use information in financial statements to help make various decisions about an organization.

COMM 202.3 (HRM)
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Introduction to Organizational Behaviour
1/2(3S)

Introduces various behavioural concepts and tools that will assist the administrator in both understanding behaviour in organizations and enhancing organizational effectiveness. Topics include the role of the administrator, schools of management thought, forces affecting employee and work group behaviour, leadership and supervision, interpersonal and organizational communication, and organizational change.

COMM 203.3 (FIN)
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Introduction to Finance
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): COMM 104.

Deals with the functions of the financial manager, including the problems and techniques of financial decision-making. Topics include: goals of the firm, management of working capital, financial problems and decisions involving intermediate and long-term financing, capital budgeting under certainty, and capital structure as it relates to weighted average cost of capital.

COMM 204.3 (MKT)
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Introduction to Marketing
1/2(3L)

Introduction to the marketing concept in business. Business activities are analysed from the point of view of recognition, stimulation and satisfaction of consumer demand.

Note: Students will not receive credit for both COMM 200 and 204.

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