This class explores key principles for handling finances and for starting, managing, and marketing a sustainable enterprise. This can be vital for bi-vocational leaders who minister while earning income by other means.
This course presents basic principles for achieving financial freedom. Emphases include confident expectancy, setting goals, preparing personal financial spreadsheets, escaping debt, managing cash flow, investing, and generous giving.
This course is an introduction to financial accounting concepts and financial reporting, with the focus being on how decision makers analyze, interpret, and use accounting information. Emphasis is given to how accounting measures, records, and reports economic activities for corporations and on the relationship between accrual and cash flow measures in interpreting accounting information.
A comprehensive survey of the principles of management as they are currently being applied in the United States and abroad. The two continuing themes throughout the course: (1) the never-ending effort by managers and organizations to meet or exceed the consumers needs (2) the need for effective leadership in organizations. Emphasis is placed on determining the role of a manager through the leadership process.
This course provides a brief introduction to the fundamentals of finance, emphasizing their application to a wide variety of real-world situations spanning personal finance, corporate decision-making, and financial intermediation. Key concepts and applications include: time value of money, risk-return trade-off, cost of capital, interest rates, retirement savings, capital budgeting, asset valuation, discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, net present value, internal rate of return, payback period, etc.
This class integrates biblical insights on leadership with contemporary principles of management, applying
best practices for ministry contexts. It includes in-depth study of leadership insights found in the book of Philemon.
This course teaches the biblical foundations and standards for each of the major disciplines of business in order to equip people to glorify Christ in the marketplace and make disciples of their companies, industries, and communities.
A primary task of marketing is to develop and maintain a base of people who are being served. This course explores marketing strategy, promotion, market planning, segmentation, social media, demographics, and other topics relevant to corporate and non-profit enterprises.
This course explores theoretical and practical dimensions of entrepreneurship by considering case studies and insights from accomplished business leaders.
This course introduces essential principles and practices of online marketing, such as well-designed websites, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), email, and social site marketing.