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      <pubDate>2022-03-29 16:17:15 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Accounting (~15%)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>A.&nbsp; Financial accounting</strong><br><br>1.&nbsp; Conceptual foundations&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Income statement and statement of retained earnings&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Balance sheet&nbsp;</div><div>4.&nbsp; Statement of cash flows&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>B.&nbsp; Managerial accounting</strong>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Cost concepts&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Product-costing systems&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Activity-based costing&nbsp;</div><div>4.&nbsp; Cost, volume, and profit analysis&nbsp;</div><div>5.&nbsp; Budgeting (except capital budgeting covered under Finance)&nbsp;</div><div>6.&nbsp; Standard costing&nbsp;</div><div>7.&nbsp; Nonroutine decision making&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>C.&nbsp; International accounting</strong></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-03-29 16:20:54 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Economics (~13%)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>A.&nbsp; Basic Economic Concepts&nbsp;</strong></div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Scarcity and opportunity cost&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Production possibilities frontier&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Comparative advantage and specialization&nbsp;</div><div>4.&nbsp; Economic systems&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>B.&nbsp; Microeconomics</strong>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Supply and demand&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Models of consumer choice&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Production and costs&nbsp;</div><div>4.&nbsp; Product market structures&nbsp;</div><div>5.&nbsp; Resource markets&nbsp;</div><div>6.&nbsp; Market failure and the role of government&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>C.&nbsp; Macroeconomics</strong>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Measurement of economic performance&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Aggregate demand and aggregate supply&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Money and the banking system&nbsp;</div><div>4.&nbsp; Monetary policy and fiscal policy&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>D.&nbsp; International economics</strong>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; International trade and policy&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Exchange rates&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Balance of payments</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-03-29 16:28:29 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Management (~15%)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>A.&nbsp; Management principles&nbsp;</strong></div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; History and theory&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Functions (organizing, leading, planning and controlling)&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Group/team dynamics<br><br><strong>B.&nbsp; Organizational behavior&nbsp;</strong></div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Leadership and motivation&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Communication&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Managing diversity&nbsp;</div><div>4.&nbsp; Human resource management&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>C.&nbsp; Operations Management</strong>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Operations design&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Operations execution&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Total quality management&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>D.&nbsp; Strategy and policy</strong>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Strategic analysis&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Policy determination&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>E.&nbsp; International/cross cultural management&nbsp;</strong></div><div><br></div><div><strong>F. Entrepreneurship</strong></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-03-29 16:31:13 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Quantitative Business Analysis (~11%)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A.&nbsp; Probability and statistics&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Measure of set operations&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Conditional/joint probabilities&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Counting rules&nbsp;</div><div>4.&nbsp; Measures of central tendency and dispersion&nbsp;</div><div>5.&nbsp; Distributions (including normal and binomial)&nbsp;</div><div>6.&nbsp; Sampling and estimation&nbsp;</div><div>7.&nbsp; Hypothesis testing&nbsp;</div><div>8.&nbsp; Correlation and regression&nbsp;</div><div>9.&nbsp; Time-series forecasting&nbsp;</div><div>10.&nbsp; Statistical concepts in quality control&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>B.&nbsp; Quantitative Operations Management Techniques</strong>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Linear programming&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Project scheduling (including PERT and CPM)&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Inventory modeling&nbsp;</div><div>4.&nbsp; Statistical process control&nbsp;</div><div>5.&nbsp; Special topics (including queuing theory, simulation, and decision analysis)</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-03-29 16:35:09 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Information Systems (~10%)</title>
         <author>brennasmith014</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>A.&nbsp; Information Systems in Business and Society</strong>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Information management in a global society&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Security, privacy, and ethical issues&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>B.&nbsp; Information Technology Concepts&nbsp;</strong></div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Hardware technology&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Software technology&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Database management systems<br>4.&nbsp; Network and internet technology&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>C.&nbsp; Business Information Systems&nbsp;</strong></div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Automation and support systems&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Transaction processing systems&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Management information systems&nbsp;</div><div>4.&nbsp; Decision support and expert systems&nbsp;</div><div>5.&nbsp; Enterprise systems (ERP)&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>D.&nbsp; Systems Development&nbsp;</strong></div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Systems investigation and analysis&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Systems planning development and implementation</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-03-29 16:38:49 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Finance (~13%)</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/brennasmith014/lbal5ibqwstbogxb/wish/2119761625</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>A.&nbsp; Corporate Finance</strong>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Time value of money&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Capital budgeting&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Working capital management&nbsp;</div><div>4.&nbsp; Financial statement analysis&nbsp;</div><div>5.&nbsp; Cost of capital&nbsp;</div><div>6.&nbsp; Capital structure&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>B.&nbsp; Investments</strong>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Risk and returns&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Valuation of securities&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Financial markets and environments&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>C.&nbsp; International Finance</strong></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-03-29 16:41:04 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Marketing (~13%)</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/brennasmith014/lbal5ibqwstbogxb/wish/2119765384</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>A.&nbsp; Identifying attractive markets</strong>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Strategic marketing planning&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Scanning marketing environment&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Marketing research and information technology tools&nbsp;</div><div>4.&nbsp; Consumer and organizational buyer behavior&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>B.&nbsp; Serving Selected Markets&nbsp;</strong></div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; The marketing mix (Product, Price, Place and Promotion)&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Segmenting consumers and organizational markets&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Marketing services&nbsp;</div><div>4.&nbsp; Marketing for not-for-profit organizations&nbsp;</div><div>5.&nbsp; Marketing of social causes&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>C.&nbsp; International Marketing</strong></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-03-29 16:42:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title> Legal and Social Environment (~10%)</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/brennasmith014/lbal5ibqwstbogxb/wish/2119770550</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>A.&nbsp; Legal environment <br><br></strong>1.&nbsp; Courts and legal systems&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Constitution and business&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Administrative law&nbsp;</div><div>4.&nbsp; Tort law&nbsp;</div><div>5.&nbsp; Crimes&nbsp;<br><br></div><div><strong>B.&nbsp; Regulatory environment&nbsp;</strong></div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Employment law&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Labor law&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Antitrust law&nbsp;</div><div>4.&nbsp; Consumer protection&nbsp;</div><div>5.&nbsp; Environmental and international law&nbsp;</div><div>6.&nbsp; Security regulation&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>C.&nbsp; Business relationships&nbsp;</strong></div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Contract and sales law (UCC)&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Business organizations&nbsp;</div><div>3.&nbsp; Law of agency&nbsp;</div><div>4.&nbsp; Intellectual property&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>D.&nbsp; Ethics and Social Responsibility&nbsp;</strong></div><div><br></div><div>1.&nbsp; Ethics&nbsp;</div><div>2.&nbsp; Social responsibility</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-03-29 16:45:31 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>How scores are reported</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Total Score</div><div>&nbsp;— Reported for each student and summarized for the group&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Assessment Indicators</div><div>&nbsp;— Reported for the group* only&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>–&nbsp; Accounting (18 questions)&nbsp;</div><div>–&nbsp; Economics (16)&nbsp;<br>–&nbsp; Management (18)&nbsp;</div><div>–&nbsp; Quantitative Business Analysis (13)&nbsp;<br>–&nbsp; Information Systems (12)<br>–&nbsp; Finance (16)&nbsp;</div><div>–&nbsp; Marketing (16)&nbsp;</div><div>–&nbsp; Legal and Social Environment (12)&nbsp;<br>–&nbsp; International Issues (~9, drawn from other content areas)&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-03-29 16:47:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Quizlet</title>
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         <pubDate>2022-03-29 16:52:25 UTC</pubDate>
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