Teaching Methods
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The Three Business Streams:
The Lordship of Christ extends to all of life including the marketplace. A full appreciation of this will enrich your vision of life and business. After completing required first-year and second-year Business courses that provide a broad introduction to the many areas of Business, you will have an opportunity to specialize in one of three streams:
Accounting
Accountants provide the information needed to measure an organization’s progress against financial and non-financial goals and to make sound business decisions for the future.
The accounting profession provides you with a wide range of opportunities. If you are interested in a career in public accounting, you can join an accounting firm or start your own practice to provide tax, audit, and/or consulting services to clients. Alternatively, working as an accountant in a business or the non-profit sector, your responsibilities could include budgeting and cost management, financial statement preparation and analysis, and internal consulting related to product/service costing or quality improvements. As you rise in the ranks to senior accounting levels, you can become a key decision-maker on the senior management team. Whether in public or private practice, an accountant’s role is to provide timely and accurate operating, financial and strategic information, and to help clients and managers use this information in decision making.
Your studies in accounting will include recording financial transactions; preparing financial statements; measuring the costs of products, services and activities; determining whether a business should undertake investments in product improvements, equipment and facilities; analyzing the performance of a business against its goals; and projecting the financial impact of contemplated business decisions.
Courses taken at Redeemer are recognized towards the requirements for all three of Canada’s professional accounting designations: Chartered Accountant, Certified General Accountant, and Certified Management Accountant.
Marketing
Marketing is central to any business. Marketing is also an integral part of everyone’s life. We all market our ideas, skills, and experience whatever our calling.
Your job as a Marketing practitioner is to strive to understand and satisfy the needs of your customers better than your competitors do and to develop mutually beneficial relationships with customers. The challenge in our fast-paced marketplace is to develop a clear and compelling marketing strategy, and to execute it efficiently and effectively. Product life cycles are shrinking. The Internet provides more choices and more information than ever. Consumers have heightened expectations for customization and shorter delivery times. In a complex marketplace, your role is to provide clear, articulate choices for consumers, and to do it in a God-honouring way.
Your studies in marketing will include assignments in marketing research, brand management, pricing, communications (advertising, sales promotion and public relations), e-marketing, and retail channel management.
General Management
The General Management stream will prepare you to assume a diverse range of responsibilities in a business or not-for-profit organization and to progress towards senior management positions. The general management stream is also a safe route to take if you are not sure where your career interests lie or if you want to keep your workplace and graduate school options open.
In the General Management stream, you have considerable latitude to design a program tailored to your specific interests. It can involve an approach that still involves some specialization in either marketing or accounting, supplemented by a range of general business courses. It can also involve a balanced coverage of courses across all business disciplines to ensure that you have the skills to make decisions at every stage in the process required to provide valuable products and services for an organization’s customers.