BUS 106 in 2011 uses the text UNDERSTANDING CANADIAN BUSINESS, 7th Cdn Edition
(custom publication for Seneca) ; - published by McGraw-Hill
McGrawHill Connect  http://connect.mcgrawhill.ca/app/login/connect/index.php

Stakeholders video
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Geographic Environment
(did Jan 09)
Weather Extremes
  Global Warming
 (watch the video )
Identity Theft
(just read the intro)
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Chpt 2  (Jan 11, 16)
Economic Environment

- macroeconomics
- microeconomics

Law of Supply - Demand
Supply and Demand p. 35
 (did Jan 11)
Elastic Demand
Inelastic Demand

 

Degrees of Competition p. 37
(did Jan 11)
 o Perfect Competition
 o Monopolistic
 o Oligopoly
 o Monopoly
Competition Basics
(did Jan 11)
Socialism
Communism
Mixed Economies
Price Indexes
GDP
Productivity
Business Cycles
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Taxation (CRA)
Fiscal Policies
Monetary Policies
Government Expenditures\
Government Purchasing
        (fed gov procurement)
 www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca
/app-acq/index-eng.html 

and
The Federal Government
Procurement Guide
 http://www.cbo-eco.ca/en
/?linkServID=473F0C22
-925F-777F-5FEBBF
2A67DBDB8E 
READ AGAIN for APRIL

Gov't Services
oIndustry Canada
    o  IRAP program
o Dept. of Foreign Affairs
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Chpt 4 Ethics
()
Ethics effected by the 6 Environments - video

CBC backgrounders 
 o Whistleblowersp. 90 
()
     Bill C-25, Disclosure Protection
.
Social Responsibilityp. 94 
- responsibility to the environment
- pollution
- rights of consumers
        www.consumer.ca
- consumerism
- unfair pricing

-Insider Trading p. 98
Social Auditing
Sustainable Development
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Chpt 5 (Feb 9)
Forms of Business Ownership

how to register a business
(Feb 9)
o Sole Proprietorship p. 115
o Partnerships p. 117
  oGeneral Partner
  oLimited Partner
  oLimited Liability
o Corporations p. 120
  oPublic
  oPrivate
Mergers and Acquisitions
Franchising p. 131
- 43% of all retail sales
Co-operatives, SWP, UCO
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Chpt 6 (Feb 11, 16)
98% of all business is small business
Entrepreneurship and Small Business
Self assessment tools online
 owww.bdc.ca
self-assessment quiz online
(do this online)

Business Plans p. 164

obtaining financing
  o debt, borrow
  o equity, sell shares
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CASE to read for the MID TERM EXAM Oct 2011
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Appendix A
Entrepreneur Readiness Questionnaire in the 2010 text

Supply Chain Management
 (Mar 21 - READ AGAIN for APRIL)
Process Mfg
o assembly process
o continuous process
o intermittent process
Materials Requirement Planning
J.I.T.p. 261  ( (Mar 21))

Purchasing
Flexible Mfg
Lean Mfg
Mass Customization
CAD CAM CIM
TQM (Mar 21)
Total Quality Management

Role of the central Bank of Canada

CDIC deposit insurance
Money - Banking
M1, M2
Prime Rate
Banking Industry www.cba.ca
Insurance Industry  ibc.ca
Securities Industry
 www.securities-administrators.ca

Canadian Securities Course

Stockbrokers
Bonds
Mutual Funds

Exchange
TSX www.tmx.com
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Chpt 11

Chpt 11 summary on YouTube
(uploaded Nov 30)

Financial Management
  o short-term forecast
  o cash flow forecast
  o long-term forecast

Budgets
  o operating budget
  o capital budget
  o cash budget

acquiring inventory
capital expenditures

Sources of funds
o debt financing
o equity financing
o short-term financing
o long-term financing

Short Term Financing
 o loans, secured, unsecured
 o line of credit
 o factoring accounts receivable
 o commercial paper
 o credit cards
Long Term Financing
 o debt financing
 o bonds
 o equity financing
 o IPOs , stocks
 o VCs, venture capitalists
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Risk Management
READ for APRIL
Appendix B in the text
 o Risk Threat Intro
 o Political Risk
 o Contingency Planning
 o Third Party Risks

FINAL EXAM CASE Dec 2011 

FINAL EXAM CASE April 2011

FINAL EXAM CASE April 2012
 

Sky was in my "intro to business" class Jan-Apr 2009. In the beginning he was shy, but... once we got him talking about his job working at Cinnabon, he was a business genius and we were able to work that into many concepts of the course - in fact one class we had to stop early cause it was getting into too much distracting detail about how good the product tastes - anyhooo, Sky said because we talked about it so much, maybe he could bring some to the last class, I said sure, so he showed up the last class with 4 big boxes, + paper plates + napkins and forks - it was awesome - we all ate and spent only 5 min on the review.
Sky got A++++ and is now at Harvard ;-)