Examples of learning from other courses



Examples of learning from other courses

that you will rely on in Business 189

Introduction to Business, Accounting, Finance, other courses – Reading an annual report. The focus in this course will be not so much on analyzing financials but on reading the report for what it can tell us about what the company is doing and how things work inside it.

Introduction to Economics – The benefits of competition, the concept of “perfect competition,” the concept of “market power.”

Accounting, Finance – Return on equity and (just a few) other key ratios.

Operations Management – How producing a higher-quality product can result in lower costs, etc.

Marketing – What is marketing? Why is it central to a competitive company?

English (any English course, or other humanities or social science courses) – How do you write a clear sentence? a clear paragraph? How do you judge whether a piece of information in a book or on the Web is likely to be reliable? How do you indicate the sources of information in a paper?

Most important: 100W writing courses (and other writing courses) – The 7 Cs of Good Communication:

Clear

Concise

Concrete

Complete

Cohesive

Courteous

Correct in grammar, punctuation, spelling

Also – how to properly cite information obtained in research.

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