[HELp!]Questions @bout Business Management

BCom Options--Accounting

A business without an accountant is like a hockey team without a goalie: you can play but you sure can't win. Accountants have the expertise to analyze and interpret financial information, to solve complex problems, and to design corporate strategies that help businesses grow and compete. Working alongside marketing, finance, and IT professionals, accountants develop a broad-based view of business. If you have strong problem solving and math skills, and can communicate effectively, investigate a career in accounting. You'll have the opportunity to participate in a five-year co-op program that will prepare you for a number of career options such as financial analyst, auditor and tax consultant. Many graduates choose to continue their training to earn professional designations as Chartered Accountants (CA), Certified General Accountants (CGA), and Certified Management Accountants (CMA).

BCom Options--Finance

Dollars and sense: that's the field of finance. The Finance specialization will prepare you to manage money and solve strategic finance problems. If you are inquisitive, adaptable, and mathematically inclined, consider a career in this highly competitive profession. Finance managers prepare financial reports, manage corporate cash–flow, direct corporate growth, and develop strategies to control financial risks. UBC Finance graduates are highly regarded, and hold positions around the world as global traders, investment bankers, securities dealers, and financial analysts in both business and government.


BCom Options--Human Resources Management
(formerly Industrial Relations Management)

Human resource professionals spark the people power that drives organizations. If you are a creative communicator with excellent interpersonal skills, you may be interested in a career in this fast–growing field. You'll study the culture of organizations, the development of human resources, change management, hiring and salary policies, and union/management relations. In a career such as human resources manager, labour negotiator, or organizational development consultant, you will help to create a motivated and productive workforce for employers in virtually all fields, and at all levels.

I am a student major in Business Administration. In my eyes, accounting and marketing are most useful in investment and money earning.
Something About Accounting:
A Simple Definition of Accounting.
Accounting is a broad and dynamic discipline which concentrates on the analysis of how organisations use their resources and the provision of information about the use of these resources to help people make decisions. Business organisations interact with various groups in society, whether they are shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, competitors, governments or the communities in which they operate. Each is effected economically by the strategies, operations and financial performance of the business.

Accounting (and accountants) seek to improve the economic wealth and welfare of these groups by identifying, analysing and communicating relevant information to assist them to make decisions.

For example, accountants might be asked to advise managers on how much a product or service costs to provide, find ways to organise the business more efficiently and effectively, determine the profit the business is making, or recommend whether or not to invest in a new business.

Something About Marketing:

"Because let’s face it, friends, as marketers we are in the business of mindfully structuring appearances and messages to create an attractive experience that is calculated to persuade." Says Chris Maher in marketingprofs. So marketing is meant to persuade people(commonly known as consumers) through a message.

This precise misconception creates the entire advertising bandwagon, the rich media supporters, flash for websites managers and give me something cool designers. The view that marketing is meant to send messages and convince a customer. The view that marketing starts with your product and ends with a customer purchase. The view that marketing is really sales.

All the above is false and misleading. The real purpose of marketing is to "be a voice for the customer". The profession of marketing starts with the customer and ends at creating the right product for the need. Of course this process is iterative since finding the groups of customer with exact needs is not an easy tasks. But with this view the whole focus of marketing function shifts from advertising focused delivery of appearances and messages to customer service and product design. Opening up channels to get customer feedback, analyzing the feedback to come out with product ideas, talking to customers and listening to them becomes a priority for marketers. Hence web is not viewed by them as a delivery channel for messages but as a medium for conversations. Rich media is not attractive for marketers but the message boards are.

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accounting is primarily concerned with the use of information to support managers in making financial decisions.in my opinion, it is a relatively gut course.:):) it is divided into 3 areas(or more? i am not sure:p:p):financial accounting, management accounting, and taxation.

economic data analysis is analyzing the data like inflation, employment rate, or the gross domestic product etc. that the government releases at a interval during the year. i cannot describe the details any more coz there is no program in my school:):)

finance deals with the worldwide capital market where financial assets are created and traded. this area emphasizes money and is concerned with corporate financial practices. actually bird mentions a part of this area and besides finance also addresses the entire management of financial institutions.
btw my part-time is correlated to this field:):)

human resource management focuses on people and on efforts to advance in the quality of organization. to tell the truth, i do not think it's useful unless u get the position as a administrator.:p:p

international business should be inquired of 浆糊 as bird said:):)

marketing is critical to the success of any corporate. it provides a comprehensive viewpoint of the basic concepts, techniques, and tools for developing strategies.~~

there is no public management program in my school, too. i guess it would be related to the government, policies, legal environment.

strategic management is mostly setting measurable objectives, valuating performance, and making corrective adjustments. consequently it attributes to the responsibilities of the top level in any organization.:):)


actually i do not think a under student needs to take these courses as major. the above gets much useful information already so that i simply restrengthen my points.:p:p