This course provides a richly rewarding opportunity for students in their third or fourth year to work in the research project of a professor in return for 499H course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Research Opportunity Program (ROP) for more details.

This course provides a richly rewarding opportunity for students in their third or fourth year to work in the research project of a professor in return for 499Y course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Research Opportunity Program (ROP) for more details.

Electronic business, the extensive use of the web and the Internet, is radically changing existing businesses. New Internet businesses are also being created at an unprecedented rate. New business models, e-business technologies, payment mechanisms, legal and regulatory issues (e.g., intellectual property rights, privacy and security) and the economics of e-business will be investigated from a research and practical perspective.

This course explores the methods and frameworks of entrepreneurship through an experiential learning model (learning by doing). Students will begin the process of developing a new business venture, exploring their own business ideas and developing a business plan and pitch while working in teams. Topics include the business model, customers and markets, financial models, competition, intellectual property, funding and investment and characteristics of entrepreneurial teams.

This course will address the identification and management of risks that are specific to digital industries such as network penetration, transaction processing interruption and flow disruption, provision of audit and backup facilities. The course will also integrate technical security issues along with managerial and legal considerations.

This course will build on the foundations established in CCT206H5. Issues relating to the protection of digital rights, taxation, privacy, jurisdiction and regulation will be examined in detail through the use of recent legal scholarship and evolving case law.

This course offers an overview of data analytics principles, approaches, and technologies that allow businesses to generate business intelligence. Business intelligence refers to all the means required to collect, exploit and analyze data in order to provide the right information to decision-makers at the right time. This course is designed for individuals interested in Business Intelligence practices and analysis from a management point of view, without a detailed focus on statistical or programming methods.

This course shows how the principal management disciplines provide analytical tools for understanding organizations and their management, how the disciplines inter-relate and how they underpin the activities of organizations.

This course introduces the environment in which managers operate, and to the managerial role. It explores the Canadian business system, the economic, technological and social trends that are bringing about change in the system, and the basic principles of managing in this environment. Not open to students enrolled in the 3rd or 4th year of the Commerce Major or Specialist program.

This course will provide an understanding of financial reports, and their use for investment and management decisions. Cases will be used to enhance problem-solving skills and will integrate ideas from finance, management and financial accounting and other areas of study. The course focuses on the interpretation and use of financial statement data for the purpose of assessing the financial performance of a business operation, not on the technical details of accounting rules.

This course explores the theory and process of developing compensation systems as part of an organization’s larger system for managing human potential. The course focuses on the major components of compensation strategy design such as legislation, principles of equity and fairness, job analysis, job evaluation, compensation surveys, benefits and incentives. Current events in relation to compensation are explored. Students will also acquire hands-on experience in building a compensation strategy.

The role, structure, and performance of industrial relations within the framework of Canada's socio-economic-political system. Growth and history of the Canadian Labour movement: its philosophy and structure. Management's strategies and tactics in collective bargaining; public policy in the field of industrial relations; strikes in so-called emergency situations: the role of unions and collective bargaining in inflation.

During Human Resource Planning, organizations identify changes in human resources required to meet their future goals. In this course, students will learn about the steps involved in HR Planning including labour market forecasting, goal setting and strategic planning, and program implementation and evaluation.

(Formerly MGM290H5). This course provides an overview of the public institutions, laws and regulations that affect the structure and management of Canadian organizations.

An organization's success depends on its ability to recruit and select top talent. This course is designed to provide students with a deep understanding of the methods and application of various recruitment and selection techniques within organizations. Students will learn to recognize and create effective, resource-efficient recruitment programs, and how to identify the most qualified individuals from a pool of applicants.

As individuals spend more and more time at work, it becomes increasingly important for organizations to protect their employees from harm and to support their physical, psychological, emotional, and social welfare. Students in this course will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to design and foster healthy and safe working environments.

The goal of training and development is to grow the potential of employees within an organization. This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of how to improve job-related competencies through training and how to prepare employees for future job responsibilities through development. Topics covered include needs assessment, design, implementation, and evaluation of training and development programs.

This culminating course offers students in the Effective Business Practices and Leadership Skills Certificate an opportunity to integrate and synthesize their academic learning with their work-integrated learning experience. Students will engage with other students in the certificate program to share their experiences, complete their final workplace reflection exercises, produce a written report of their workplace experience, and exhibit their experience in the form of a final poster presentation. This course is required for all students in the Certificate in Effective Business Practices and Leadership Skills. No credit is awarded for this course.

Introduction to the theory and concepts of financial accounting. Students learn how to construct and interpret financial statements. Topics include an introductory understanding of accounting and the context within which accounting occurs.

This course will cover personal finance topics for individuals at all stages of life. Topics include budgeting, borrowing, investing, insurance and retirement planning. Tax issues associated with these topics is also covered including the basics of personal income tax. Case studies are used extensively to illustrate the material.

Targeted to business students with little or no programming experience, the course provides an understanding of the role computation has in solving business problems and to help students be able to write small programs to accomplish practical tasks in the business world.

Topics and issues in Management. Content in any given year will depend on the instructor. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

Topics and issues in Management. Content in any given year will depend on the instructor. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

Acquaints students with the statistical principles that managers need in order to extract information from numerical data, and to understand the formal principles of decision-making under conditions of uncertainty. Covers descriptive statistics, elementary probability, expected values, sampling distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing for normal and binomial data.

Expands the analysis of financial accounting beyond MGT120H5. Cases are used to develop critical thinking and communication skills. Topics include accounting's conceptual framework, analysis of business and financial statements, accounting for assets, and valuation of bonds.

Covers conceptual and analytical foundations of cost accounting and uses of accounting by management. Cost concepts for product costing and decision making provide an understanding of the uses of accounting information by management. Costing and control concepts are analyzed to equip students with tools for establishing costing systems and to make decisions.

Expands the analysis of financial accounting beyond MGT220H5. Technical topics include liabilities, shareholders’ equity, complex financial instruments, accounting for leases, measuring and reporting pensions and earnings per share. The emphasis is on analysis and developing judgment.

(Formerly MGT338H5) This course analyzes the financial investment decision-making process of individuals and firms. It provides an introduction to present-value techniques, capital budgeting decision-rules, the problem of investment under uncertainty, and portfolio theory.

(Formerly MGT339H5) This course extends material learned in MGT231H5, which is a prerequisite. Topics include the concept of efficiency of financial markets, the optimal financing decisions of firms, and the characteristics of debt, equity and other financial instruments such as options.

An introduction to the basic concepts of market definition, consumer behaviour, and the principal marketing functions: product line development, pricing, distribution, promotion, salesforce management, advertising, research, and planning.