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BSA 130 - Business Financial Applications


Description: Foundation and experience in evaluating inventory, preparing financial statements, determining taxes, reconciling bank statements, preparing payroll and solving other financial problems necessary in business fields, including administrative management, accounting, office administration, and finance.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Course Content:
  1. Bank statement reconciliation
  2. Payroll spreadsheet preparation
  3. Consumer credit
  4. Commissions
  5. Principles of pricing
  6. Installment loans
  7. Depreciation schedules
  8. Insurance premiums
  9. Property taxes
  10. Present value and annuities
  11. Data analysis
  12. Line and bar graph analysis
  13. Dividends and rate of return
  14. Spreadsheet analysis
  15. Spreadsheet manipulation
  16. Financial statements
  17. Business statistics

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Use fractions and percents in business situations.
  2. Identify and use bank functions.
  3. Calculate gross earnings and deductions for wages and salaries.
  4. Complete invoices and calculate various types of discounts.
  5. Determine and apply percent markup based on cost and sales.
  6. Calculate maturity dates, values and discounts related to simple and compound interest.
  7. Compare costs of consumer credit.
  8. Calculate personal and property taxes.
  9. Prepare depreciation schedules.
  10. Analyze financial statements.
  11. Define and read various types of stock and bond tables.