Commerce CoursesFor Distribution Requirement purposes, all MGT courses (except COM 110H1 and MGT 120H1, which have NO degree requirement status) are classified as SOCIAL SCIENCE courses.
Enrolment in all Management (MGT) courses above the 100-series level is exclusively restricted to students enrolled in a St. George Commerce Program. Enrolment in 100-series MGT courses is subject to space availability; students admitted to the Faculty who indicated an intention to enrol in the Commerce program are given preference. Contact Commerce Programs Office for enrolment information.
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COM110H1 Introduction to study of Economics and Management, and their sub-disciplines,
that comprises Commerce. Enrolment in COM110H1 is restricted to first year students admitted to the Commerce admission category
or students newly-admitted to the Commerce program. (A joint course offered
by the Rotman School of Management and the Department of Economics.) MGT120H1 Introduction to the theory and concepts of financial accounting. Students learn
how to construct and interpret financial statements. Topics include an introductory
understanding of accounting and the context within which accounting occurs.
MGT120H1 is a course aimed at students who wish to enrol in the Program in Commerce and
Finance. Enrolment in MGT120H1 is restricted. Priority is given to students entering the University with an expressed interest in studying Commerce. MGT220H1 Expands the analysis of financial accounting beyond MGT120H1. Topics include accounting’s conceptual framework, analysis of a business and financial statements, accounting for assets, and valuation of bonds. MGT223H1 Covers conceptual and analytical foundations of cost accounting and uses of accounting by management. Cost concepts for product costing and decision making provide an understanding of the uses of accounting information by management. Costing and control concepts are analyzed to equip students with tools for establishing costing systems and to make decisions. MGT224H1 Expands the analysis of financial accounting beyond MGT220H1. Technical topics include accounting for leases, financial instruments, revenue recognition, intangibles and contingencies. Emphasis on implication for valuation and analysis. MGT252H1 An introduction to the basic concepts of market definition, consumer behaviour, and the principal marketing functions: product line development, pricing, distribution, promotion, salesforce management, advertising, research, and planning. MGT262H1 Theoretical ideas and practical applications concerning the behaviour of individuals and groups in organizations. We explore relevant problems confronting management: motivation, influence, communication, supervision, decision-making, work force diversity. MGT290H1 Expands the analysis of financial accounting beyond MGT120H1. Cases are used to develop critical thinking and communication skills. Topics include accounting’s conceptual framework, analysis of a business and financial statements, accounting for assets, and valuation of bonds. (Offered only during the summer in Hong Kong.) MGT291H1 Covers conceptual and analytical foundations of cost accounting and uses of accounting by management. Cost concepts for product costing and decision making provide an understanding of the uses of accounting information by management. Costing and control concepts are analyzed to equip students with tools for establishing costing systems and to make decisions. (Offered only during the summer in Hong Kong.) MGT295Y0/296YO The areas of concentration depend on the instructor teaching the course. (Offered only during the summer through the Woodsworth Summer Abroad Program)
Commerce students admitted to the Faculty of Arts and Science in 2002 Summer
or later MUST complete COM110H1 prior
to enrolling in any 300 or 400-level MGT course. MGT321H1 A study of the concepts and theory underlying audit practice. Students are introduced to the CICA Handbook recommendations and guidelines for assurance. Practical examples are used to help students develop skills in exercising professional judgement. MGT322H1 Examines several current measurement and disclosure issues in financial reporting, within a “quality of earnings” framework. Topics include: financial instruments, measuring and reporting pensions, financial reporting of corporate income taxes, corporate reporting via the Internet, etc. The emphasis is on developing judgement. MGT323H1 Introduction to the different contexts in which costs need to be determined for goods sold internally, externally, domestically, and internationally. Other topics include appropriate cost structures for centralized, decentralized, and matrix forms of organizations and costs for long term capital projects. Cases are used to promote understanding of the theories. MGT330H1 Security analysis and portfolio management. Emphasis is placed on an analysis of bonds and common stocks. MGT337Y1 Valuation models, cost of capital, capital budgeting, investment under uncertainty, the use of leverage, dividend policy, and the financial environment within which Canadian companies operate. The characteristics of various debt and equity instruments available in the Canadian capital market. MGT353H1 An applications-oriented course intended to develop the analytic skills required of marketing managers. The course is designed to improve skills in analyzing marketing situations, identifying market opportunities, developing marketing strategies, making concise recommendations, and defending these recommendations. MGT363H1 The course looks at how organizations function as collective social systems, trying to succeed in their environment. An extensive body of research and theory about organizations has developed. Discussion of the theories with a focus on practical applications about managing organizations. Topics include strategy, structure, environment, technology, culture, change and global management. MGT371H1 This course helps students use, develop, and manage computer-based systems. The first half covers the basic features of hardware, software, communications, and databases. The second half examines how users, businesses, the economy, and society are affected by the development of this technology. No previous background in computing is assumed. MGT374H1 Operations management is concerned with the facilities and their operation to deliver the goods and services of the organization. The course develops this theme and gives a theoretical framework for managing operations. Some of the major themes include aggregate planning, materials management, and inventory control. This course introduces students to modern quantitative and computing tools necessary for in-depth operational analysis and planning. MGT393H1 An introduction for commerce students to the Canadian legal system focusing on business entities, the structure of the Canadian court system, the various elements of contract law and the law of negligence. MGT394H1 This course builds on the legal principles developed in Legal I and canvasses other areas of law that impact on a business entity. Topics dealt with are the Sales of Goods Act and relevant consumer protection legislation, employment law, environmental law, the Personal Property Security Act and the rights of the secured creditor. MGT395Y0 The areas of concentration depend on the instructor teaching the course. (Offered only during the summer through the Woodsworth Summer Abroad Program) MGT401H1/402H1 Open when a faculty member is willing and able to supervise. Students must obtain the approval of the Director of Commerce and the supervising faculty member before enrolling. Enrolment is restricted to St. George Commerce students. MGT403Y1/404Y1 Open when a faculty member is willing and able to supervise. Students must obtain the approval of the Director of Commerce and the supervising faculty member before enrolling. Enrolment is restricted to St. George Commerce students. Consult the Commerce Programs Office. MGT410H1/411H1/412H1/413H1/414H1/415H1/416H1/417H1/418H1/419H1 Topics and issues in Management. Content in any given year will depend on the instructor. Consult the Commerce website for course description and Prerequisites . Enrolment is restricted to 4th year St. George Commerce students. MGT420H1 This is a capstone case course stressing the pervasive competencies and critical thinking skills required from Commerce graduates, professional accountants and advisors. The course integrates the technical and practical knowledge obtained in previous courses by applying this knowledge to case type situations. Aimed at students seeking an accounting designation. MGT421H1 The course focuses on the reasoning and evidence theory underlying audit decision making. Coverage includes professional judgement, statistical auditing, assurance engagements, and public sector auditing. MGT422H1 This course investigates strategies and procedures used to audit computerized accounting systems based upon their special control characteristics. Special attention is devoted to computerized statistical procedures. MGT423H1 This is the first of two courses in federal income tax law. It is designed to give the student a basic understanding of the Income Tax Act and its administration. This is achieved by applying the law to practical problems and case settings. Topics covered include: residence, employment income, property income, business income, capital gains, computation of taxable income and tax for individuals. MGT426H1 The emphasis in this course is on accounting issues and practices relating to long-term investments, consolidations, foreign transactions and foreign investments. International accounting issues are also introduced. Assigned material includes cases to ensure that the user impact of accounting choices is appreciated. MGT427H1 Covers financial analysis of firms in the financial services industries: accounting and disclosure rules for financial instruments. Gives an in-depth understanding of how financial reports provide fairly accurate information about the risks and performance of banks and other financial services firms. MGT428H1 Management control includes all the processes and systems, many accounting-based, by which key managers allegedly ensure that resources are acquired and used effectively and efficiently in the accomplishment of an organization’s goals. The case method is used to provide an understanding of the issues and environment of management control. MGT429H1 This is the second of two courses in federal income tax law. It is designed to give the student an understanding of the more complex issues of Canadian Income Tax Law and tax planning. This is achieved through a combination of lectures and the application of the law to practical problems and case settings. Topics include computation of corporate taxes, integration, corporate reorganizations, surplus distributions, partnerships and trusts. MGT430H1 The objective of this course is to describe important fixed income securities and markets. The course emphasizes traditional bond and term structure concepts crucial to understand the securities traded in these markets. Students are required to work in the Rotman Financial Research & Trading Lab to solve the assigned problems using real time data. MGT431H1 Application and development of the ideas in MGT337Y1 to corporate finance problems such as initial public offerings and project evaluation.
Focus is identifying and managing the risks of a portfolio of financial
assets. These risks include credit, liquidity, interest rate, currency, market
and
country risks. The course addresses the measurement problems attached to
infrequent as well as continuous risks, current risk management techniques,
and the management problems in implementing them. MGT438H1 Analysis of derivative instruments such as futures contracts, put and call options and swaps. Emphasis is placed on the valuation of these instruments as a foundation for valuing complex securities. MGT439H1 International Financial markets, exchange rates, forward markets, interest rate parity. International dimensions of investment, including both portfolio and foreign direct investment. International dimensions of corporate finance, including valuation and the cost of capital of foreign investments. MGT452H1 The emphasis in this course is on marketing decision making in a dynamic environment. Building on the concepts and skills developed in MGT353H1, the course focuses on the major decisions facing marketing managers in the attempt to harmonize the resources of the organization with the opportunities in the market. MGT453H1 Marketing research is studied from the perspective of the marketing manager. The course focuses on the initiation, design, and interpretation of research as an aid to marketing decision making. Case studies and projects are used to provide students with some practical research experiences.
Marketing begins and ends with the customer. Formulating a successful marketing
strategy requires an accurate understanding of customers’ needs, values, judgments, feelings and choices. Students will learn how to generate knowledge about customers, interpret consumer reactions to marketing stimuli, and develop skills in marketing alalysis and decision making. MGT460H1 Human resource management is studied from the perspective of the manager/practitioner. The course focuses on current theory and practices in the major functions of human resource management. Class exercises and projects are used to provide students with some practical HR experience. MGT461H1 Students learn to recognize, understand, analyze, and practice essential concepts in negotiations required for understanding more complex relations within and between organizations. The main objective is to learn how to analyze the critical factors of a negotiation situation and then to be able to prescribe a course of action. MGT475H1 Introduction to Management Science methods dealing with decision making situations. The goal of these methods, which are quantitative in nature, is to obtain an objective evaluation of available alternatives and select the ‘best’ one with respect to pre-defined criteria. Topics include: Decision Analysis, Linear Programming, Integer Programming, Network Methods and Waiting Line Models.
Application of the analytic framework of international trade, foreign
investment and exchange rate economics to management of business. Special topics
include
the industrial effects of trade liberalization, the role of the World Trade
Organization, foreign exchange risk management, competition policy and
international taxation. MGT481H1 Explores the issue of outsourcing, broadly defined: which activities should a firm do “in house” and which should it take outside? Using a combination of cases and economic analysis, it develops a framework for determining the “best” firm organization. MGT482H1 Applies game-theoretic reasoning to analyze business strategy problems, focusing specifically on pricing, advertising, product positioning, product introduction, and relationships with upstream and downstream firms. MGT491H1 Focuses on developing an understanding of the fundamentals of doing business in an international environment. Based on the application of management theory (trade theory, modes of entry, foreign direct investment, theory of the multinational) to the strategic management problems of organizing business in the international arena. MGT492H1 Focuses on industry analysis and different models of the firm. The key questions addressed are: “why do some firms succeed where others fail?” and “what strategy should a firm employ to reach its goals?” MGT493H1 Skills needed to set up and run a small business. Development of a business plan. Securing financing. Finding and keeping customers. Operations management. Aspects of legal, financial and taxation concerns of smaller businesses. MGT494H1 Teaches about technological evolution and how evolutionary stages impact firms’ strategic choices. Important issues in technological evolution are technological discontinuities, standards wars, dominant designs and patenting. Important strategic decisions concern innovation management, product versus process focus and intellectual property strategies. Project oriented coursework based on patent and business data bases.
An experiential business simulation in which students form the executive committee of a fictitious company and compete in a virtual computer simulation. Students interact and work together as a team, guide a company to success and communicate with stakeholders by reporting to a board of directors composed of business executives. |
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