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This course shows you how financial and management accounts work. Get the finance and accounting background you need to make well-informed human resources decisions that align closely with your organization. You'll learn about accounting tools, principles and policies, financial ratios, costing, budget preparations, balanced scorecards, ways to assess investment opportunities and more. Understand the foundations of accounting and their relevance to your work. Get tools that help you with your reporting and other financial needs. Know which financial information has the deepest implications for an organization and its strategy. Use financial information to understand and resolve current human resources issues.

This course teaches you how to make better trading and investment decisions through technical analysis. You'll learn about charting patterns, quantitative indicators and risk management techniques and undergo trading or simulation exercises that use real-life examples. You'll apply the techniques you learn using charting tools available on the Internet. If you are pursuing the Certificate in Derivatives Market Strategies administered by the Canadian Securities Institute (CSI), this course will help prepare you to write the Technical Analysis Course Exam. Develop securities-trading strategies through chart construction and pattern recognition.Apply the Dow theory and perform analysis through recognition of trend lines and channels.Determine entry and exit points by using different quantitative indicators.Apply trading tactics and risk management techniques to manage a stock portfolio.

Learn the terminology and principles of accounting and finance in clear, practical terms. Working in a friendly, supportive environment, you'll develop the skills you need to understand financial statements. Once you understand the information in an income statement, balance sheet or cash flow statement, you can analyze your organization's financial performance with confidence. Even if you have no formal accounting training or experience, this course will teach you the language of finance. Read financial statements with confidence and skill. Improve your knowledge of basic accounting terminology and data. Analyze your organization's financial performance.

If you're a manager, entrepreneur or professional who has already seen how strong negotiation skills can advance your career, this course is for you. Picking up where 2072 Be an Effective Negotiator left off, it shows how to achieve more win-wins in internal and external negotiations. This hands-on experiential course will give you the tools and techniques for success in any negotiation, personal or professional. Develop, strengthen and refine your skills to confidently handle ever more challenging negotiations. Recognize and respond to common barriers to negotiation Use “breakthrough strategies” to overcome barriers Identify negotiating power and interests – yours and your counterpart's. Learn how to deal with power-based strategies. Learn how to change adversaries into partners.

This course provides a more conscious process for making decisions, whether operational, tactical or strategic, and for communicating with others in your organization. Einstein stated, and we paraphrase, “You cannot resolve an issue using the same thinking that got you here in the first place!”  We must learn how to think our way through decision opportunities and make them work more effectively for us. Better, more creative decisions will improve your organization’s success: The only sustainable competitive advantage is your ability to innovate and implement faster than your competitors can imitate. Over the six sessions you will understand how you currently make, communicate and implement decisions and learn how to do it even better. Determine your decision-making style and the styles of others Discover the pitfalls of some decision making “processes” Determine what stakeholders want to achieve Generate better solutions through the creativity and innovation of the team Evaluate solutions to choose the best possible solution (benefits, costs and risks) Build commitment for the best possible solution Consider how to get the buy-in of others in and outside the organization Implement flawlessly

We continue to follow the characters and story line of the famous Cambridge Latin Course.  The action moves to the city of Rome, and new tenses and uses of cases met in the stories will enable you to read original Latin. We'll have a  brief introduction to a variety of Roman authors, and during each class we'll devote some time to the reading of unadapted Latin.  Understand the ancient Romans in their own words. Build on the grammar components of the prerequisite courses Translate quotations from many sources, such as Roman wisdom in aphorisms, maxims, mottoes, proverbs, and lines attributed to famous Romans such as Caesar, Cicero and Juvenal Translate excerpts from Martial, Petronius, Ovid, Catullus, Vergil and Horace. We will read some passages in English translation in order to get a more complete sample of each author Read poetry aloud with an appreciation for metre Continue to explore the rich influence of Latin vocabulary on the English language

Learn about the exciting field of operations and supply chain management (OSCM) from the ground up. This foundational course introduces such key topics as strategy, Six Sigma quality and lean supply chains. You'll learn key elements of project management, facilities layout, logistics and forecasting. Your instructor and guest speakers, all practising professionals, will keep you up to date on careers, certification and current trends in the field. Know about operations and supply chain management (OSCM) and how it developed over time. List the parameters of a sustainable supply chain strategy. Identify features of Total Quality Management, Six Sigma and lean supply chains. Know the tools and techniques used in forecasting, capacity management, logistics and facilities layout.

Once you've completed 2121 Principles of Operations & Supply Chain Management, this course will teach you advanced concepts and topics such as sustainable strategy, ISO 9000 and 14000 certification, value-stream mapping and lean services. You'll learn about location, process design and analysis, strategic capacity management, logistics and forecasting. Your instructor and guest speakers, all practising professionals, will keep you up to date on careers, certification and current trends in the field. Explain operations and supply chain management strategy implementation, sustainability and associated risks. Describe project management information systems and apply appropriate techniques. Know the Six Sigma approach and the International Standards in Total Quality Management (ISO 9000 and 14000). Use basic techniques and models in logistics, capacity management and distribution. Apply sales and operations planning, inventory control, forecasting and process design and analysis.

Organizations need employees who know how operations and supply chain management (OSCM) works right across the business. This high-level course gives you that knowledge. Advance your career in OSCM by adding global sourcing and procurement, material requirement planning and enterprise resource planning to your skills. You'll learn the theory of constraints as well as advanced applications in inventory management, risk pooling and distribution strategies. Understand the rationale for strategic sourcing and outsourcing. See how an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is used to integrate business units. Know about material requirement planning and the theory of constraints. See how risks in the supply chain can be managed and controlled through distribution strategies.

Writing about nature, for any genre, involves deep engagement with our relationship with what Scott Russell Sanders calls "the great realities": seasons, landscapes, animals, and cosmos. Writers focusing on nature are motivated by many personal, political, and aesthetic interests. This course will consider different approaches to nature writing and how to avoid clichés of nature. We will also explore our responsibility as writers (and humans) to nature, particularly in the post-colonial context and under the pressing urgency of climate change. The class will consist of meaningful discussion, close readings, self-guided nature walks/observations, and workshopping.   Gain a deeper understanding of our responsibility to and relationship with nature, and how it impacts our writing. Study nature writers from a variety of genres and approaches to further develop our writing styles.  Develop our observational skills through the practice of nature journaling.  Workshop our writing in a supportive environment with fellow writers who also share a reverence for nature.  Work on a piece of nature writing in any genre, with the intention of completing it by the end of the course.