All B.Com. students take the 42-credit core curriculum set out below, except where modifications are specifically required by a major or honours program.*
A grade of C or better is required for all core courses. If a D is obtained in a core course, the course must be repeated.
Core Course Distribution
Note: Students admitted to the Bachelor of Commerce program prior to Fall 2024 need to complete 39 credits of Core courses.
Required Courses (42 credits)
Course List
Course
Title
Credits
MGCR 211
Introduction to Financial Accounting.
3
Introduction to Financial Accounting.
Terms offered: Summer 2025
The role of financial accounting in the reporting of the financial performance of a business. The principles, components and uses of financial accounting and reporting from a user's perspective, including the recording of accounting transactions and events, the examination of the elements of financial statements, the preparation of financial statements and the analysis of financial results.
Individual motivation and communication style; group dynamics as related to problem solving and decision making, leadership style, work structuring and the larger environment. Interdependence of individual, group and organization task and structure.
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.
Statistical concepts and methodology, their application to managerial decision-making, real-life data, problem-solving and spreadsheet modeling. Topics include: descriptive statistics; normal distributions, sampling distributions and estimation, hypothesis testing for one and two populations, goodness of fit, analysis of variance, simple and multiple regression.
The course focuses on the application of economic theory to management problems and the economic foundations of marketing, finance, and production. Attention is given to the following topics: price and cost analysis; demand and supply analysis, conditions of competition.
Topics and tools of macroeconomics such as national accounting, the IS-LM model, the drivers of output and business cycles, and the basics of monetary policy and
inflation. Emphasis on financial markets, the role of expectations, and the reasons for possible deviations from full information market efficiency.
Introduction to principles and concepts of information systems in organizations. Topics include information technology, transaction processing systems, decision support systems, database and systems development. Students are required to have background preparation on basic micro computer skills including spreadsheet and word-processing.
An introduction to the principles, issues, and institutions of Finance. Topics include valuation, risk, capital investment, financial structure, cost of capital, working capital management, financial markets, and securities.
Introduction to marketing principles, focusing on problem solving and decision making. Topics include: the marketing concept; marketing strategies; buyer behaviour; Canadian demographics; internal and external constraints; product; promotion; distribution; price. Lectures, text material and case studies.
Design, planning, establishment, control, and improvement of the activities/processes that create a firm's final products and/or services. The interaction of operations with other business areas will also be discussed. Topics include forecasting, product and process design, waiting lines, capacity planning,
inventory management and total quality management.
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.
An introduction to the world of international business. Economic foundations of international trade and investment. The international trade, finance, and regulatory frameworks. Relations between international companies and nation-states, including costs and benefits of foreign investment and alternative controls and responses. Effects of local environmental characteristics on the operations of multi-national enterprises.
An integrative and interdisciplinary introduction to strategy formation and execution. Concepts, tools, and practical application to understand how firms leverage resources and capabilities to gain competitive advantage in dynamic, contemporary industries. Strategic positioning, organizational design, and managerial action for the long-term success of businesses and positive social and ecological outcomes.
Examination of how business interacts with the larger society. Exploration of the development of modern capitalist society, and the dilemmas that organizations face in acting in a socially responsible manner. Examination of these issues
with reference to sustainable development, business ethics, globalization and developing countries, and political activity.
* Students admitted to the Bachelor of Commerce program prior to Fall 2024 cannot take MGCR 233 Data Programming for Business. They take 39 credits of Core courses. The total of 42 credits of Core courses listed as part of the Course Catalog entries for Majors and Honours apply to students admitted starting in Fall 2024. Consult MyProgress to view your required credits and degree breakdown.
** Students who completed ECON 295 prior to Fall 2024 may not take MGCR 294 and will meet their Core requirement with a grade of C or higher in ECON 295.
Program Footnotes:
Students considering the following program:
Major Program in Economics for Management Students:
replace MGCR 294 The Firm in the
Macroeconomy. withECON 332 Macroeconomic
Theory: Majors 1. and ECON 333 Macroeconomic Theory - Majors 2. (taken in the second year).
