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ACC 150

Principles of Accounting I: This course introduces students to the accounting cycle and methods to record and report financial information through application of procedures used to classify, record and interpret business transactions and prepare financial statements. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the Accounting equation and explain the purpose of the closing process.

ACC 151

Financial Accounting: This course is a continuation of ACC 150, with emphasis on the corporate setting and fundamentals of financial accounting. Topics will include long-term investments, liabilities both current and long-term, and stockholders’ equity. Students will analyze financial statements by using horizontal, vertical, and ration analysis.

ACC 152A

Payroll and Income Tax: This course provides an overview of federal and local income taxation with emphasis on individual business taxes. Student will study and perform the recording process and reparation of payroll and tax filing using the American Samoa System and the Federal Tax bracket system.

ACC 210A

Managerial Cost Accounting: The course focuses on the in-depth study of manufacturing cost accounting with emphasis on the job order process, cost systems, the development of managerial costs, labor costs, and manufacturing overhead costs will lead into the understanding of the cost-profit analysis in determining the breakeven points and the fixed and variable costs involved in cost accounting.

ACC 220

Automated Accounting: This course reinforces students’ knowledge of accounting concepts and principles through the use of computers. Instruction will be provided in computer operations using commercially available accounting software such as QuickBooks. Students should be able to utilize skills in entering data for the software to create financial reports, closing statements, and payroll accounting that will assist them in being hired for middle-level business jobs. A worksite experience of 25-30 hours is required for completion of the course.

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ACC 230

Government and Not-For-Profit Accounting focuses on the development and use of financial information as it relates to governmental and not-for-profit entities. This course includes identifying and applying appropriate accounting and reporting standards for governments and private, not-for profit organizations, preparing financial statements for private not-for-profit organizations, and describing auditing requirements for these entities. (Offered Sp 2020)

BUS 103

Introduction to Business: This course provides an overview of the American free enterprise market system. The course introduces students to entrepreneurship and the business process, with a balanced overview of the interwoven nature of basic business discipline and principles. Topics to be explored include business formation and practices, small business management, market dynamics, economic systems, competitive strategies, business ethics and social responsibilities.

BUS 150

Financial Math: This course strengthens the theory and applications of commonly used business calculations such as simple and compound interests, face value, maturity value, and present value computations by using the 10-key calculators and electronic-displaying printing calculators. Emphasis will be placed on hands-on skills through the completion of the Assimilation Package (18 hands-on jobs).

BUS 160

Business Communication: This course is designed to provide knowledge and skills needed for effective communication to achieve personal and business goals. It will challenge students to think, create, and analyze verbal and non-verbal communication. Students will prepare business correspondences and written reports, deliver oral presentations, and use electronic writing and presentation tools. The course will also focus on the career employment process and the communicating with a diverse and global workforce. Skills in grammar, punctuation, and business vocabulary will be developed throughout the course.

BUS 170

Ethics in the Workplace: This course introduces students to the contemporary issues of ethics, morality, and social responsibility that face the business community, both locally and globally. Students completing the course will be able to define various theories of the ethics, appreciate the importance of ethics framework for analyzing and resolving real-world ethical issues, and to gain the knowledge and critical thinking skills to analyze and resolve ethical in business and management. The course will examine such components as the nature and purpose of professional standards and codes, the role played by individual character in professional life, and the demands and pressures encountered by professionals within their institutional settings.

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BUS 180

Applied Business Statistics: This course provides and introduction to both the theory and applications of statistical methods used for a description and analysis of business problems. The course develops a student’s analytical skills by introducing basic statistical concepts and techniques, including probability and sampling, descriptive statistics, inference, regression and one-way analysis of variance. The course will rely on business case scenarios for practical applications and conclude with how statistics are used in society and business.

BUS 260

Business Law: This course explores the US and American Samoa legal environment in which businesses operate, and studies the interaction between business and the legal system. Students examine various areas of the law which are important to business. Topics include the court system, government regulations, torts, contracts, agency, ethical and criminal implications of business actions, property laws, and the legal aspects of different business entities.

ECON 250A

Principles of Microeconomics: This course introduces students to economics as a way of thinking, observing, analyzing and identifying problems and their possible solutions. Topics include demand and supply, scarcity and prices, maximizing utility, production and costs, perfect competition, monopoly, antitrust and regulations, distribution of income, unions, market failure, public goods, international trade and financing, gross domestic product (GDP), gross national product (NPD), the FED.

ECON 250B

Principles of Macroeconomics: This course introduces students to the overview of economics and its key categories. Students will be familiarized with concepts and principles of the American economy. Topics include opportunity cost, economic activities in producing and trading, supply and demand, prices and unemployment, real GDP, monetary and fiscal policies , economic stability, taxes and deficits, public debts, money and banking, natural and unemployed resources, and applying modern technology in solving and interpreting numbers and graphs.

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MGT 250

Principles of Management: This course introduces students to an overview of reaching organizational goals by working with people. Students are familiarized with the principles of management, the four functions of management, classical approaches to system management, and the theories and concepts related to human motivation in management careers.

MGT 255

Human Relations and Organizational Behavior: This course introduces students to the development of individual and inter-personal relationships applied to business and industry. Emphasis is placed upon values, communication, problem-solving, motivation, leadership, and how individuals interact with each other within a group environment. In addition, human relation skills and organizational behavior concepts are examined within organizational environments to better understand behavior, performance, learning, perception, values and diversity. Communication skills, conflict resolution, power, politics, and team dynamics are presented and analyzed within modern organizations.

MKT 195

Principles of Marketing: This course provides a general overview of the field of marketing, including price, product, place, and promotion of consumer goods. Marketing strategies, channels of distribution, marketing, retailing, research, products promotion and advertising, and consumer attitudes as they relate to marketing will be studied. Students will learn that marketing is not just advertising, retailing, or selling; it encompasses a myriad of concepts, techniques, and activities all directed toward distribution of goods and services to chose consumer segments.

MKT 212

Marketing and Management Practicum: This course offers opportunities for students to earn credit in directed work experience of 30 to 40 hours in either marketing and/or management within an approved business (private or public) agency approved by the department chair or instructor. Students will be required to file an exit report on work experience together with an approved Performance Evaluation by the work site employer. An off-island field trip or e-marketing research project is included for students to obtain direct observation or in-depth understanding on how various products are produced, packaged, stored, an distributed locally and globally. Emphasis is placed on the completion of a Business Plan being viewed and approved by a local or off-island business owner.

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Course Descriptions:

BUS 140

This course provides business and non-business majors with the skills necessary to succeed as an entrepreneur. The fundamental of starting and opening a business plan, obtaining financing,

marketing a product or service and developing an effective accounting system.

ECON 150

This course will cover introductory micro and macroeconomic principles as factors determining

the general level of employment, inflation, and other key economic topics relevant and a concern to all

people and their way of life. To be examined in the context of practical economic topics will be an

analysis of markets, price and production. Current economic problems will be used to illustrate these

concepts.

MKT 210

This course is an overview of the social, economic and marketing environment in which advertising

functions. It introduces the role of advertising and integrated marketing communication in society,

business and economics. Topics include historical perspectives, ethics, research and evaluation,

objective-setting, and strategies to planning the creation of campaigns for the mass and new media.

It provides an opportunity for students to discuss and define their values within the practice of advertising.

MKT 212

This course offers opportunities for students to earn credit in directed work experience of 30 to 40 hours in

either marketing and/or management within an approved business (private or public) agency approved by the

department chair or instructor. Students will be required to file an exit report on work experience together with an approved Performance Evaluation by the work site employer. An off-island field trip or e-marketing research project is included for students to obtain direct observation or in-depth understanding on how various products are produced, packaged, stored, and distributed locally and globally. Emphasis is placed on the completion of a Business Plan being viewed and approved by a local or off-island business owner.

Course Alpha:

Course Descriptions:

ACC 150

Principles of Accounting I: This course introduces students to the accounting cycle and methods to record and report financial information through application of procedures used to classify, record and interpret business transactions and prepare financial statements. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the Accounting equation and explain the purpose of the closing process.

ACC 151

Financial Accounting: This course is a continuation of ACC 150, with emphasis on the corporate setting and fundamentals of financial accounting. Topics will include long-term investments, liabilities both current and long-term, and stockholders’ equity. Students will analyze financial statements by using horizontal, vertical, and ration analysis.

ACC 152A

Payroll and Income Tax: This course provides an overview of federal and local income taxation with emphasis on individual business taxes. Student will study and perform the recording process and reparation of payroll and tax filing using the American Samoa System and the Federal Tax bracket system.

ACC 210A

Managerial Cost Accounting: The course focuses on the in-depth study of manufacturing cost accounting with emphasis on the job order process, cost systems, the development of managerial costs, labor costs, and manufacturing overhead costs will lead into the understanding of the cost-profit analysis in determining the breakeven points and the fixed and variable costs involved in cost accounting.

ACC 220

Automated Accounting: This course reinforces students’ knowledge of accounting concepts and principles through the use of computers. Instruction will be provided in computer operations using commercially available accounting software such as QuickBooks. Students should be able to utilize skills in entering data for the software to create financial reports, closing statements, and payroll accounting that will assist them in being hired for middle-level business jobs. A worksite experience of 25-30 hours is required for completion of the course.

Course Alpha:

Course Descriptions:

BUS 103

Introduction to Business: This course provides an overview of the American free enterprise market system. The course introduces students to entrepreneurship and the business process, with a balanced overview of the interwoven nature of basic business discipline and principles. Topics to be explored include business formation and practices, small business management, market dynamics, economic systems, competitive strategies, business ethics and social responsibilities.

BUS 150

Financial Math: This course strengthens the theory and applications of commonly used business calculations such as simple and compound interests, face value, maturity value, and present value computations by using the 10-key calculators and electronic-displaying printing calculators. Emphasis will be placed on hands-on skills through the completion of the Assimilation Package (18 hands-on jobs).

BUS 160

Business Communication: This course is designed to provide knowledge and skills needed for effective communication to achieve personal and business goals. It will challenge students to think, create, and analyze verbal and non-verbal communication. Students will prepare business correspondences and written reports, deliver oral presentations, and use electronic writing and presentation tools. The course will also focus on the career employment process and the communicating with a diverse and global workforce. Skills in grammar, punctuation, and business vocabulary will be developed throughout the course.

BUS 170

Ethics in the Workplace: This course introduces students to the contemporary issues of ethics, morality, and social responsibility that face the business community, both locally and globally. Students completing the course will be able to define various theories of the ethics, appreciate the importance of ethics framework for analyzing and resolving real-world ethical issues, and to gain the knowledge and critical thinking skills to analyze and resolve ethical in business and management. The course will examine such components as the nature and purpose of professional standards and codes, the role played by individual character in professional life, and the demands and pressures encountered by professionals within their institutional settings.

Course Alpha:

Course Descriptions:

BUS 180

Applied Business Statistics: This course provides and introduction to both the theory and applications of statistical methods used for a description and analysis of business problems. The course develops a student’s analytical skills by introducing basic statistical concepts and techniques, including probability and sampling, descriptive statistics, inference, regression and one-way analysis of variance. The course will rely on business case scenarios for practical applications and conclude with how statistics are used in society and business.

BUS 260

Business Law: This course explores the US and American Samoa legal environment in which businesses operate, and studies the interaction between business and the legal system. Students examine various areas of the law which are important to business. Topics include the court system, government regulations, torts, contracts, agency, ethical and criminal implications of business actions, property laws, and the legal aspects of different business entities.

ECON 250A

Principles of Microeconomics: This course introduces students to economics as a way of thinking, observing, analyzing and identifying problems and their possible solutions. Topics include demand and supply, scarcity and prices, maximizing utility, production and costs, perfect competition, monopoly, antitrust and regulations, distribution of income, unions, market failure, public goods, international trade and financing, gross domestic product (GDP), gross national product (NPD), the FED.

ECON 250B

Principles of Macroeconomics: This course introduces students to the overview of economics and its key categories. Students will be familiarized with concepts and principles of the American economy. Topics include opportunity cost, economic activities in producing and trading, supply and demand, prices and unemployment, real GDP, monetary and fiscal policies , economic stability, taxes and deficits, public debts, money and banking, natural and unemployed resources, and applying modern technology in solving and interpreting numbers and graphs.

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Course Descriptions:

MGT 250

Principles of Management: This course introduces students to an overview of reaching organizational goals by working with people. Students are familiarized with the principles of management, the four functions of management, classical approaches to system management, and the theories and concepts related to human motivation in management careers.

MGT 255

Human Relations and Organizational Behavior: This course introduces students to the development of individual and inter-personal relationships applied to business and industry. Emphasis is placed upon values, communication, problem-solving, motivation, leadership, and how individuals interact with each other within a group environment. In addition, human relation skills and organizational behavior concepts are examined within organizational environments to better understand behavior, performance, learning, perception, values and diversity. Communication skills, conflict resolution, power, politics, and team dynamics are presented and analyzed within modern organizations.

MKT 195

Principles of Marketing: This course provides a general overview of the field of marketing, including price, product, place, and promotion of consumer goods. Marketing strategies, channels of distribution, marketing, retailing, research, products promotion and advertising, and consumer attitudes as they relate to marketing will be studied. Students will learn that marketing is not just advertising, retailing, or selling; it encompasses a myriad of concepts, techniques, and activities all directed toward distribution of goods and services to chose consumer segments.

MKT 212

Marketing and Management Practicum: This course offers opportunities for students to earn credit in directed work experience of 30 to 40 hours in either marketing and/or management within an approved business (private or public) agency approved by the department chair or instructor. Students will be required to file an exit report on work experience together with an approved Performance Evaluation by the work site employer. An off-island field trip or e-marketing research project is included for students to obtain direct observation or in-depth understanding on how various products are produced, packaged, stored, an distributed locally and globally. Emphasis is placed on the completion of a Business Plan being viewed and approved by a local or off-island business owner.

Course Alpha:

Course Descriptions:

BUS 140

This course provides business and non-business majors with the skills necessary to succeed as an entrepreneur. The fundamental of starting and opening a business plan, obtaining financing,

marketing a product or service and developing an effective accounting system.

ECON 150

This course will cover introductory micro and macroeconomic principles as factors determining

the general level of employment, inflation, and other key economic topics relevant and a concern to all

people and their way of life. To be examined in the context of practical economic topics will be an

analysis of markets, price and production. Current economic problems will be used to illustrate these

concepts.

MKT 210

This course is an overview of the social, economic and marketing environment in which advertising

functions. It introduces the role of advertising and integrated marketing communication in society,

business and economics. Topics include historical perspectives, ethics, research and evaluation,

objective-setting, and strategies to planning the creation of campaigns for the mass and new media.

It provides an opportunity for students to discuss and define their values within the practice of advertising.

MKT 212

This course offers opportunities for students to earn credit in directed work experience of 30 to 40 hours in

either marketing and/or management within an approved business (private or public) agency approved by the

department chair or instructor. Students will be required to file an exit report on work experience together with an approved Performance Evaluation by the work site employer. An off-island field trip or e-marketing research project is included for students to obtain direct observation or in-depth understanding on how various products are produced, packaged, stored, and distributed locally and globally. Emphasis is placed on the completion of a Business Plan being viewed and approved by a local or off-island business owner.

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Course Alpha:

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Course Alpha

Course Title

Prerequisite

Justifications

BUS 150

Financial Math

MAT 90

The Business department proposed to add a pre-req MAT 90 to the course to resolve the issue that they are currently encountering between student taking courses with the CAPP courses. Students are entering this course and other Business major courses with completing any or all college accelerated prep courses. The Business department encourages that all student entering in BUS 103 and BUS 150 to complete these CAPP courses as specified.

BUS 103

Introduction to Business

ENG 90, ENG 91

Recommend to add CAPP ENG courses to prevent any students coming into this course with no college level reading and writing skills and competencies.

MGT 255

Human Relations and Organizational Behavior

BUS 140, ECON 150

Recommend to remove MGT 250 from the prereq pf MGT 255. It was presented that this pre-req hinders the with other program recommended courses.

MKT 195

Principles of Marketing

ENG 151, BUS 103

Recommend to remove BUS 150 and replace it with BUS 103.

ACC 230

Government and Not-For Profiting Accounting

ACC 151

Recommend to remove ACC 210A and replace to ACC 151 as the pre-req of this course.

The Business department had encountered an issue that the content that was taught in this course was similar to the ACC 230..

Business Courses

Accounting Courses

Economic Courses

Marketing Courses

Total of Business Department Courses

7

6

3

5

21

ACADEMIC DEGREES and CERTIFICATES

Associate of Arts Degree

1

Associate of Science Degree

2

Certificate of Proficiency

2