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Program Requirements

The Diploma in Management with an Entrepreneurship Concentration is open to those who have completed an undergraduate degree other than a Bachelor of Commerce (or equivalent) and wish to obtain a solid understanding of the entrepreneurial skills required to launch a sustainable venture. The course selections are designed to provide a broad range of theory along with fundamentals, soft skills and practical issues presented by experienced entrepreneurs. Students who complete the Entrepreneurship Concentration will acquire the tools necessary to considerably increase their odds of successfully launching and maintaining a new business venture.

Note: Corequisite courses are not included in the total credit requirement for the program.

Corequisites

• CEC2 532 Business Economics (3 credits) *

  Offered by: Management & Entrepreneurship (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Economics (CCE) : Introductory micro and macro economic theory and practice in profit and non-profit organizations from a managerial perspective. Topics include: demand and supply analysis, production costs, firms' pricing and output determination, aggregate demand and supply, national income, output and employment determination, inflation, interest rate, exchange rate determination, fiscal and monetary policies.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.

• CMS2 500 Mathematics for Management (3 credits) *

  Offered by: Technology & Innovation (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Management Science (CCE) : Basic mathematics needed for business applications, including graphs of functions, series summation, mathematics of finance, annuity, discounted cash flow, internal rate of return, permutations, combinations, maxima and minima of functions with business applications in optimization, introductory statistics and probability

  Terms: Fall 2023, Winter 2024

  Instructors: Comeau, Vincent (Fall) Kamali, Vahid (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: CMSC 000

  • Note: "Mathematics for Management" must be completed in the first semester of the Diploma in Management program.

* or the Exemption by Examination Test

Required Courses (27 credits)

• CACC 520 Accounting for Management (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Accountancy : This course covers financial and managerial accounting. The course provides an understanding of the various financial statements as well as cost behaviour, cost/volume/profit relationships, budgets, responsibility accounting and relevant costing.

  Terms: Fall 2023

  Instructors: Cecere, Ralph (Fall)

  • Corequisite: CMS2 500

• CEN2 500 New Venture Formation (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management & Entrepreneurship (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Entrepreneurship : Essential business acumen required to plan and launch a new venture. The various facets of entrepreneurship dealing with idea generation, valuation techniques, funding, data sources, intellectual property, legalities and business plan development will be explored.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.

• CEN2 510 Practical Entrepreneurship Management (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management & Entrepreneurship (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Entrepreneurship : This application-based course provides students with hands-on experience in planning a new venture in its entirety. Students will work in teams to develop a new start-up idea project during the term.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.

  • Prerequisite: CEN2 500, CEN2 506 and CMG2 520

  • Note: The course includes live case studies by the 'Dobson Fellows' (Presidents, CEOs and industry leaders).

• CFIN 512 Corporate Finance (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Finance (CCE) : Fundamental finance theory as applied to the firm's short and long-term financing and investment decisions and the sources of funds available to it (stocks, bonds, derivatives). Exposure to critical concepts of "firm value maximization" emphasizing capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, derivatives, dividend policy, risk and return.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.

  • Prerequisite(s): CACC 520 or CACC 521

  • Corequisite(s): CMS2 621

  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fourth lecture day.

• CGM2 520 Sales Management and Negotiation Strategies (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management & Entrepreneurship (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Management : Application of principles and theories of sales management for large, medium, and small-sized enterprises. Focus on crystallizing a venture’s customer value proposition to develop effective sales strategies to achieve business and marketing objectives. Strategies for personal selling, team selling, and online and offline selling as well as B-to-B and B-to-C models. Business negotiation strategies.

  Terms: Fall 2023

  Instructors: Sacksner, Jeffrey (Fall)

• CPL2 553 Small Business Management (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Policy : This course will focus on the concepts and activities of entrepreneurship in the small business environment. Through the analysis of small business situations and the study of related case material, students will learn the fundamental actions required in practice to start and manage a small business. Skill acquisition will be oriented toward learning to prepare a business plan.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.

  • Prerequisites: CACC 520 and CMR2 542

Complementary Courses (3 credits)

3 credits from the following:

• CMR2 566 Global Marketing Management (3 credits)

  Offered by: Global & Strategic Comm. (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Marketing : Marketing management considerations of a company seeking to extend beyond the confines of its domestic market. A review of product, pricing, channels of distribution and communications policies to develop an optimum strategy (between adapting completely to each local environment and standardizing across them) for arriving at an integrated and profitable operation. Particular attention to international marketing and exporting in the Canadian context.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.

  • Prerequisites: (CMR2 542 or CMR2 642) and CMR2 548 or CMR2 648 or CMS2 521.

• CPL2 524 Introduction: International Business (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management & Entrepreneurship (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Policy : This course deals with fundamental international business issues: the international business environment, foreign exchange risk, multinational corporations, international organizations, international sources of financing, international marketing policies, essential factors to be considered when entering foreign markets (licensing and exporting) and international management.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.

  • Core Program

Or any other 500-level course offered and approved by Career and Professional Development.