The Pocket MBA: Concepts and Strategies ON DEMAND

Overview

This course is a one-stop problem-solver for today’s busy executive. It is a working guide to help you quickly pinpoint in the complex world of business.

What to look for

What to do

What to watch out for

How to do it

The course has concepts, guidelines, and rules of thumb to help you conceptualize, analyze, and evaluate many business-related problems. Part I takes covers the world of business strategy, management, marketing, and legal environments of business. Part II covers the economic issues of interest to business managers because they have a significant impact upon corporate success or failure. As companies go global, some relevant issues of concern to businesspeople are foreign exchange rates, currency risk management, political risk, and international sources of financing. It also covers the use of technology. This course has been designed to address the pertinent issues that come up during the course of business.

Highlights

Business Strategies and Operations Management. Managerial Decision Making. Scheduling and Sequencing. General Management. Planning. Total Quality Management. Effective Leadership. Marketing. Market Research, and More.

Prerequisites

None.

Designed For

CPAs.

Objectives

Recognize the key element of a mission statement. Recognize some organizational strategies such as SWOT analysis and Porter’s competitive strategies. Identify the types of management decisions and the steps to be followed in the decision-making process. Recognize some useful management techniques and tools such as break-even and profit analysis, aggregate planning strategies, scheduling, and project management and control. Recognize how the Just-in-Time (JIT) Inventory Management System works as compared to traditional inventory planning concepts. Identify requirements for manufacturing resources planning process. Identify attributes of several different methods of quality control, including Total Quality Management (TQM) and ISO 9000, and more.