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All eleven courses in the core are in scope.

The numbers courses come first for most students. ACC 201 Financial Accounting takes a student from the first journal entry to a full set of year-end statements. ACC 202 Managerial Accounting moves inside the company: cost behavior, contribution margin, break-even, job and process costing, budgets and variance analysis. FIN 320 Principles of Finance asks what a dollar next year is worth today, then uses the answer to price bonds and shares and to judge whether a project earns its cost of capital. ACC 345 Financial Statement Analysis/Business Valuation applies ratio analysis, common-size statements and discounted cash flow to value a real company.

The people and strategy courses follow. OL 215 Principles of Management covers planning, organizing, leading and controlling. BUS 210 Managing and Leading in Business looks at teams, motivation, communication and leadership styles in practice. BUS 225 Critical Business Skills for Success builds problem solving, decision models and business writing.

The outward-facing courses complete the core. MKT 205 Applied Marketing Strategies covers segmentation, targeting, positioning and the marketing mix, usually through a marketing plan. INT 220 Global Dimensions in Business examines trade, exchange rates, culture and market entry strategies. BUS 206 Business Law I covers contracts, torts, agency, business forms and the Uniform Commercial Code.

BUS 400 Driving Business Opportunities draws the core together: students identify an opportunity, analyze the market and finances and present a plan.

The table below links every course to its four help pages.

The plan starts from your degree audit and your goal. Someone aiming for a management track in retail needs a different emphasis from someone planning to open a landscaping company, and the applied work can reflect that.

Each course goes to a writer with matching work behind them. A CPA takes ACC 201 and ACC 202; a corporate financial analyst takes FIN 320 and ACC 345; a contracts manager takes BUS 206; a marketing manager takes MKT 205; an operations director takes OL 215 and BUS 210; an export manager takes INT 220.

One business can run through the degree. Suppose you manage a coffee shop and want to add a second location. ACC 202 can build its break-even and budget, FIN 320 can run the net present value of the expansion, MKT 205 can write the marketing plan for the new neighborhood, BUS 206 can analyze the lease, ACC 345 can compare your numbers with Starbucks' public filings and BUS 400 can turn it all into a business opportunity plan.

In every 8-week term, posts are ready before each module opens, spreadsheets and papers arrive with time to check them and study sheets come before any quiz you take. Instructor comments are applied to the next piece.

When a course finishes, its writer leaves a short note for the next one on your business, the figures used and how your posts sound.

The writers on this degree work in business every day: a CPA who closes the books for a manufacturing company each month, a financial analyst at a regional bank, a contracts manager who negotiates supplier agreements, a marketing manager for a consumer brand, an operations director at a logistics firm and a small business consultant who has helped dozens of owners write plans.

CPA licenses, CFA charters and MBAs are typical on this bench.

Their work reads like something a manager would actually hand to a boss or a lender: numbers that tie out, plans with clear assumptions and recommendations that answer the question asked.

A reviewer checks every file against the rubric and, for accounting and finance, recalculates the figures.

Writers are matched by experience rather than general business knowledge, so a question about lease clauses goes to someone who reads leases and a question about inventory costing goes to someone who closes inventory each month.

Accounting is the first wall. ACC 201 asks for journal entries that balance and statements that tie, and many students meet debits and credits for the first time here. ACC 202 then switches to cost behavior and variances, a different way of thinking about the same numbers.

Finance follows. FIN 320 depends on time value of money, and errors in a discount rate or a cash flow timeline carry through every answer. ACC 345 then asks students to read a real 10-K and value a company.

Law is the third. BUS 206 cases expect the elements of a contract or a tort applied to facts, not general opinions about fairness.

The capstone is the last. BUS 400 asks for a market analysis, a financial projection and a pitch that fit together.

Most students also work full time, and back-to-back 8-week terms leave little slack around a busy season at work.

Each Business Administration course is priced from its syllabus. ACC 201, ACC 202, FIN 320, ACC 345 and BUS 400 carry the most graded work; OL 215, BUS 210 and BUS 225 are usually lighter.

You choose how much to hand over. Many students keep the management courses, where workplace experience helps, and hand over accounting, finance and the capstone; others do the reverse.

The smoothest start is about a week and a half before a term. Joining partway through costs only the modules left.

Timed quizzes and exams, proctored tests and any real company data you are not free to share stay with you. Your audit also reveals any transfer or military credit.