Program Overview

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Diploma in International Business Administration

Overview

Our graduates will have a combination of useful and object-oriented understanding of business skills. In an international context as a business generalist, they will perform all functions with a flexible and versatile mode of working professionals. The overall course structure of the program will meet the requirements of all types of entry-level positions and let the graduate move into supervisory or managerial roles within either domestic or international business environments.

Admission Requirements

• Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or equivalent with:
  • Grade 12 English: ENG4(C) or ENG4(U)
  • Grade 12 Mathematics: (C) or (U) or Grade 11 Mathematics: (U) or (M)
• Or Mature Student Status (age 18 or older) with the above prerequisite course(s), their equivalent(s), or appropriate qualifying test score of Wonderlic SLE (at least 16).
• Passing SLE test

Diploma Program Highlights

• Business communication skills
• Business mathematics
• Marketing & sales concepts to promote and increase revenue
• Business performance skills
• Strategic plans and business decisions
• Concepts of business laws
• Microsoft office suite to produce professional documents
• E-business strategy
• Project management business plans
• Consequences in business transactions
• Statistical tests to analyze business trends
• Advance accountings fundamentals
• Finance and investment plans
• Micro & macro economics

Diploma Knowledge of Understanding

• Understand the proper use of ethics in a business environment
• Use Microsoft office suite in a professional environment
• Understand international business strategies
• Understand international banking and finance concepts
• Business legal concepts both at the Canadian and international levels
• Sales management and marketing concepts revenue structure
• Canadian management of accounting concepts & records
• Project management budgeting concepts
• Human & management resources
• E-business environment to improve corporate sales
• Good understanding to develop programs policies and practices
• Develop cross-functional business processes which address stakeholder needs

Job Opportunities

• Finance Administrator
• Financial Analyst
• Business Administrator
• Finance and accounting specialists
• International Business Development Manager
• Business Development Associate
• Financial managers
• Management consultants
• Financial Analyst
• Stock Broker
• Product Manager
• Economist
• Consultant Foreign Exchange Trader
• Foreign Service Officer
• Trade Specialist
• Import/Export Coordinator
• Lawyer Marketing Manager
• Public Relations Specialist
• Advertising Executive
• Human Resources/Human Capital Management

Financial Assistance and Funding Options

Students in the International Business Administration Diploma Program may be eligible for different sources of funding and financial assistance, for example, scholarships, bursaries, and interest-free loans programs administered by Epic College and some employers.

Curriculum

1. Management Fundamentals

• Lesson 1.1: Introduction to Management & Organizations
• Lesson 1.2: Environmental Constraints on Managers
• Lesson 1.3: Planning & benchmarking
• Lesson 1.4: Decision Making
• Lesson 1.5: Organizing
• Lesson 1.6: Communication
• Lesson 1.7: Leadership
• Lesson 1.8: Motivating Employees
• Lesson 1.9: Foundations of Control
• Lesson 1.10: Managing Change & Innovations

2. Micro Economics

• Lesson 2.1: Introduction to the concept of Economics
• Lesson 2.2: Demand & Supply Analysis
• Lesson 2.3: Market Organization and Pricing
• Lesson 2.4: Production & Cost
• Lesson 2.5: Theories of Firm

3. Business Law

• Lesson 3.1: Introduction to Law and Canadian Legal System
• Lesson 3.2: Law of Torts
• Lesson 3.3: Law of Contracts
• Lesson 3.4: Business Organizations, Agencies and other methods of carrying business
• Lesson 3.5: Legal Regulations of Business Conduct
• Lesson 3.6: Real Property and Intellectual Property

4. Statistics for Business

• Lesson 4.1: Data Processing & Management
• Lesson 4.2: Cases and Data
• Lesson 4.3: Graphics & Sampling Technique
• Lesson 4.4: Data Analysis
• Lesson 4.5: Tests and Labs

5. English Fundamentals

• Lesson 5.1: Mastering the art of good writing
• Lesson 5.2: Knowing your subject
• Lesson 5.3: Mastering verbs & modifiers
• Lesson 5.4: Perfecting sentence punctuation
• Lesson 5.5: Writing for career success

6. Computer Applications in Business

• Lesson 6.1: MS Word
• Lesson 6.2: MS Excel
• Lesson 6.3: MS Power Point
• Lesson 6.4: MS Access
• Lesson 6.5: MS Outlook
• Lesson 6.6: Calendar and other applications

7. Sales Management

• Lesson 7.1: Sales Management and Strategy
• Lesson 7.2: Developing the Strategic Sales Program
• Lesson 7.3: Implementing the Strategic Sales Program
• Lesson 7.4: Evaluating the Strategic Sales Program

8. Business Ethics

• Lesson 8.1: Case Studies in Business Ethics
• Lesson 8.2: Business Ethics

9. Macro Economics

• Lesson 9.1: An Introduction to Macroeconomics
• Lesson 9.2: The Economy in the Short Run
• Lesson 9.3: The Economy in the Long Run
• Lesson 9.4: Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy
• Lesson 9.5: Macroeconomic Problems and Policies
• Lesson 9.6: Canada in the Global Economy

10. Fundamentals of Marketing

• Lesson 10.1: Analyzing marketing
• Lesson 10.2: Introduction to Marketing Concepts
• Lesson 10.3: Product Mix, Distribution and Communication Strategy
• Lesson 10.4: Emerging and Global Marketing

11. Introduction to HRM

• Lesson 11.1: Managing Human Resources
• Lesson 11.2: Improving Occupational Safety, Health, and Risk Management
• Lesson 11.3: Globalization

12. Fundamentals of Accounting

• Lesson 12.1: Reports
• Lesson 12.2: Setting of Company
• Lesson 12.3: System Database
• Lesson 12.4: General Ledger
• Lesson 12.5: Accounts Payable
• Lesson 12.6: Accounts Receivable
• Lesson 12.7: Inventory
• Lesson 12.8: Payroll

13. Project Management

• Lesson 13.1: Project Life Cycle and Organization
• Lesson 13.2: Project Communications Management
• Lesson 13.3: Introduction
• Lesson 13.4: The Standard for Project Management of a Project
• Lesson 13.5: The Project Management Knowledge Areas
• Lesson 13.6: Project Scope Management
• Lesson 13.7: Project Time Management
• Lesson 13.8: Project Cost Management
• Lesson 13.9: Project Quality Management
• Lesson 13.10: Project Human Resource Management
• Lesson 13.11: Project Risk Management
• Lesson 13.12: Project Procurement Management
• Lesson 13.13: Professional Responsibility
• Lesson 13.14: PMP Test Preparation

14. Strategic Management

• Lesson 14.1: Strategic Management Inputs
• Lesson 14.2: Strategy Formulation
• Lesson 14.3: Strategy Implementation

15. Operations Research

• Lesson 15.1: The Simplex Method and Sensitivity Analysis
• Lesson 15.2: Duality and Post-Optimal Analysis
• Lesson 15.3: Transportation Model and Its Variants
• Lesson 15.4: Network Models
• Lesson 15.5: Goal Programming
• Lesson 15.6: Heuristic and Constraint Programming
• Lesson 15.7: Deterministic Inventory Models
• Lesson 15.8: Decision Analysis and Games
• Lesson 15.9: Markov Chains
• Lesson 15.10: Queuing Systems
• Lesson 15.11: Simulation Modeling
• Lesson 15.12: Classical Optimization Theory
• Lesson 15.13: What Is Operations Research
• Lesson 15.14: Modeling with Linear Programming

16. Organizational Behavior

• Lesson 16.1: What is OB, what are organizations, Levels of OB, Challenges at workplaces
• Lesson 16.2: Motivation
• Lesson 16.3: Groups and Teams
• Lesson 16.4: Organizational Communication
• Lesson 16.5: Power and Politics
• Lesson 16.6: Organizational Conflict
• Lesson 16.7: Leadership
• Lesson 16.8: Organization Change
• Lesson 16.9: Organization Culture

17. International Business Strategy

• Lesson 17.1: Introduction to International Business & Strategy
• Lesson 17.2: The Triad & Intl. Business
• Lesson 17.3: International Trade
• Lesson 17.4: International Politics
• Lesson 17.5: International Financial Markets & Institutions
• Lesson 17.6: The MNE
• Lesson 17.7: Corporate Strategy & National Competitiveness
• Lesson 17.8: Innovation, Entrepreneurship & born Global Firms

18. Intercultural Communication

• Lesson 18.1: An Overview of Culture
• Lesson 18.2: Culture and Communication
• Lesson 18.3: Culture and Identity
• Lesson 18.4: Culture and Power
• Lesson 18.5: Applications for International Communication

19. Leadership

• Lesson 19.1: Framing the Issues: What Is Leadership?
• Lesson 19.2: Becoming A Leader, Preparing For The Opportunities
• Lesson 19.3: Understanding The Territory, Anticipating The Challenges
• Lesson 19.4: Making It Happen
• Lesson 19.5: Sustaining The Leader

20. International Banking & Finance

• Lesson 20.1: Introduction – A Brief History of International Banking
• Lesson 20.2: Banking Systems Around the World
• Lesson 20.3: International Commercial Banking
• Lesson 20.4: International Investment Banking
• Lesson 20.5: International Retail and Private Banking
• Lesson 20.6: Offshore Financial Centers
• Lesson 20.7: Banking on the Foreign Exchange Market
• Lesson 20.8: Risk Management
• Lesson 20.9: Money Laundering
• Lesson 20.10: Derivatives
• Lesson 20.11: Country Risk and Global Debt Crises
• Lesson 20.12: Emerging Trends in Global Banking

21. International Law

• Lesson 21.1: Origins And Foundations Of The International Community
• Lesson 21.2: Creation And Implementation Of International Legal Standards
• Lesson 21.3: Breaches of International Law and Their Consequences
• Lesson 21.4: Contemporary Issues in International law

22. Entrepreneurship

• Lesson 22.1: Debt and Other Forms of Financing
• Lesson 22.2: Legal and Tax Issues, including intellectual Property
• Lesson 22.3: Entrepreneurship Growth
• Lesson 22.4: Social Entrepreneurship
• Lesson 22.5: The Power of Entrepreneurship
• Lesson 22.6: The Entrepreneurial Process
• Lesson 22.7: Opportunity Recognition, Shaping, and Reshaping
• Lesson 22.8: Understanding Your Business Model and Developing Your Strategy
• Lesson 22.9: Entrepreneurial Marketing
• Lesson 22.10: Selling in an Entrepreneurial Context
• Lesson 22.11: Building the Founding Team
• Lesson 22.12: The Business Planning Process
• Lesson 22.13: Building Your Pro-Forma Financial Statements
• Lesson 22.14: Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures Worldwide
• Lesson 22.15: Raising Money for Starting and Growing Businesses

23. E Commerce & Digital Marketing

• Lesson 23.1: The Revolution Is Just Beginning
• Lesson 23.2: E-commerce Business Models and Concepts
• Lesson 23.3: E-commerce Infrastructure: The Internet, Web, and Mobile Platform
• Lesson 23.4: Building an E-commerce Presence: Web Sites, Mobile Sites, and Apps
• Lesson 23.5: Social, Mobile, and Local Marketing
• Lesson 23.6: Ethical, Social, and Political Issues in E-commerce
• Lesson 23.7: Online Retailing and Services
• Lesson 23.8: Online Content and Media
• Lesson 23.9: E-commerce Security and Payment Systems
• Lesson 23.10: E-commerce Marketing and Advertising Concepts
• Lesson 23.11: Social Networks, Auctions, and Portals

24. Cross Cultural Management

• Lesson 24.1: The undertow of culture, Exploring culture, Interacting spheres of culture, Culture and organization
• Lesson 24.2: Culture and strategy, Culture and human resource management, The international manager
• Lesson 24.3: The multicultural team, The global organization, Citizens of the world: business ethics and social responsibility

25. Co-op Placement

• Lesson 25.1: Co-op placement