2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Aug 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

BSA 130 - Business Financial Applications


Description: Introduction to business financial management, accounting, reporting/analytical concepts, calculations, and problem solving.  Preparation for in-depth study in related topic areas and/or entry-level career opportunities in fields such as financial operations, retail management, bookkeeping, office administration, and general management.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
 

  1. Percentages
  2. Interest and time value of money
  3. Introduction to Accounting
  4. Accounting practices
  5. Financial statements
  6. Financial statements analysis
  7. Business investment decisions
  8. Short term business financial decisions

Learning Outcomes:
 

  1. Solve word problems involving percentages. (1)
  2. Perform simple and compound interest calculations. (2)
  3. Describe the Time Value of Money concept. (2)
  4. Solve for present value and future value for single amount and annuity problems. (2)
  5. Explain the role of financial and managerial accounting, and finance, in business. (3, 4)
  6. Define the five major types of financial accounts. (4)
  7. Explain how key financial statements are structured. (5, 6)
  8. Calculate liquidity, leverage, operating, and profitability ratios. (5, 6)
  9. Calculate Payback, Net Present Value, and IRR for business investment decisions. (6, 7)
  10. Solve short term business financial decision questions using a model. (2, 4, 5, 8)