“The Admissions Representatives are so informative and helpful. I came in for basic course information and ended up leaving as a Business Administration student.” - Melissa H., Business Administration Graduate, CDI College
You need the most relevant, up-to-date skills in order to succeed in business management and administration. CDI's Business Administration program reflects best practices and up-to-the-minute skill requirements of the business world.
The program will teach you the accounting, computer, and project management skills you need to excel in any office environment. Courses include Professional Skills, Marketing, Business Essentials, and Effective Business Writing. This diploma program can be applied to a variety of career options such as office management, finance, administration, and more.
The program will teach you the accounting, computer, and project management skills you need to excel in any office environment. Courses include Professional Skills, Marketing, Business Essentials, and Effective Business Writing. This diploma program can be applied to a variety of career options such as office management, finance, administration, and more.
This program is 37 weeks in length.
Job Opportunities
- Finance
- Banking
- Marketing
- Accounting
- Management
- Human Resources
Business Administration - BC
Also offered in Ontario as Business Administration - Ontario At:
Ajax Hamilton Mississauga North York Scarborough TorontoFor programs offered in Alberta:
Calgary City Centre Calgary North Calgary South Edmonton City Centre Edmonton North Edmonton South Edmonton WestProgram Courses
The program outline below is for British Columbia. Click here to see the outlines for Ontario.
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- This course will introduce students to skills and concepts that will help them achieve personal, academic, and career success.
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- This course covers working with the Windows operating system to manage files and folders, customize the desktop, create documents, and use the Internet for communication and research.
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- In this course students develop keyboarding speed and accuracy and practice using the most common features of Microsoft Word while working on typical office documents.
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- This course offers a case-oriented, problem-solving approach for learning Microsoft Excel. Students explore both basic and advanced features while creating a variety of documents such as budgets, marketing and sales reports, forecasts, and statistical tables.
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- This course emphasizes analyzing and recording business transactions using the rules of double-entry bookkeeping. In addition, adjusting journal entries and everyday transactions for both service and retail businesses are recorded coupled with the preparation of basic financial statements. Topics include introduction to Accounting, financial statements, accounting transactions, analyzing and recording transactions, adjusting accounts for financial statements, and completing the accounting cycle and classifying accounts.
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- Accounting procedures in a computerized environment are examined using the General, Payables and Receivables modules of Simply Accounting.
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- Business Essentials provides an overview of business management today, including forms of ownership and the ways managers carry out their basic management functions in a skillful and inventive way.
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- An introduction to Canadian business law is provided by using the case study approach that leads to a grasp of the key elements. The emphasis is on the application of the law to practical business situations.
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- Major economic variables affecting a business including interest rates, GDP growth, and forces of supply and demand are examined.
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- Marketing and sales are the key elements in the success of a business. This course provides an overview of the many elements of marketing, including: developing, pricing, promoting, selling, and distributing various types of goods and services nationally and internationally.
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- The workplace of the twenty-first century demands excellent communications skills. The focus of this course is on learning writing techniques that ensure effective business communication.
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- Employees are the most valuable asset of a business and all aspects from hiring to performance appraisal are examined utilizing the case study approach.
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- Management of the financial transactions of a business firm are absolutely critical to its survival. This introduction to finance will examine financial statements, profit planning, budgeting, the cost of capital, and forms of financing.
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- A business plan is critical to a new business venture. Students will examine the step-by-step process of logical analysis of every aspect of the proposed business, and develop strategies to combat the principal risks that will face the business owner-manager.
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- Project Management is of paramount importance to all organizations to improve effectiveness and efficiency. This course utilizes the popular Microsoft Project application program with realistic case studies and step-by-step guidance.
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- This course is designed to equip students with interpersonal skills identified by employers as essential for success in the professional world. Using a variety of instructional methods including case studies, group exercises and discussion, students learn and practice key communication skills.
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- This course looks at the planning, preparation, execution, and follow-up stages of an interview. Students will learn about how people find jobs, employment expectations, transferable skills, effective telemarketing, job search management and many other helpful, career strategy topics.
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- This program includes a practicum component consisting of 100 hours of work at a job site.
This practicum work experience is a mandatory diploma requirement and the business organization does not pay for the services of the student during the practicum.
- This program includes a practicum component consisting of 100 hours of work at a job site.