Small Business Management

Effective: Spring 2019
Certificate of Achievement Program Map
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This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.

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Program Description
The certificate of achievement in Small Business Management is intended for students who would like to develop the most critical Small Business Management skills in a short period of time. The program is fast and flexible. It consists of only 7 classes. None of the courses have prerequisites, so they could be taken simultaneously or in any desired order. The program can be finished in 2 semesters attending college part-time. All classes are available online, so you can complete this program fully online.

What can I do with this major?
The Small Business Management program will prepare you for a career in a small business. You may currently work in a small business. You may be interested in starting or purchasing your own business, joining a small family business, or working as an employee or a consultant to a small business. If your career interest in non-profit organizations, you'll also find the skills you develop in these courses to be very applicable to non-profit management. The program will develop the critical skills needed to successfully manage a small business: financial management, supervision, computerized accounting, and law. You can then customize your certificate with electives that best meet the needs of your small business by choosing electives/options you find most useful. If you are interested in exploring future business opportunities and starting a business from a scratch, consider earning certificates in Entrepreneurship instead (found in the catalog under Entrepreneurship, not Business).

Learning and Career Pathway
  • Business, Economics & Information Technology

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Semester 1

11 units

BUS 10
Business Law

4 units
Fundamental legal principles pertaining to business transactions. Introduction to the legal process. Topics include sources of law and ethics, contracts, torts, criminal law, intellectual property, agency and employment law, and business organizations.
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BUS 36
Introduction to Marketing

3 units
Survey of marketing, including consumer behavior, company and environmental analysis, market segmentation, product development, pricing, promotion, and distribution. Marketing for small and large businesses, startups, governments, and institutions. Personal, consumer, business to business and digital marketing are included.
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Options Courses (Select 4 units from the Options List below)

4 units
Choose 4 units from the list below.
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Semester 2

8 units

BUS 7
Accounting for Small Business

3 units
Bookkeeping practices and accounting cycle for a service and merchandising sole proprietorship. Double-accounting entry system (debits and credits), journal, ledgers, adjusting and closing entries, income statement, balance sheet, and statement of owner’s equity, cash, banking activities, payroll, merchandising transactions.
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BUS 26
Small Business Management

3 units
Application of management principles to the selection, establishment, and operation of a small business. Emphasis on the problems encountered by a small business and possible solutions.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: BUS 1A
    2. or
  2. Strongly Recommended: BUS 7
Terms Offered: Spring

BUS 93
QuickBooks

2 units
QuickBooks introduces the concepts of bookkeeping/accounting using the theory of double-entry bookkeeping. Learn to use the QuickBooks software for a set up, service business and merchandising business. Setting up chart of accounts, accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory, payroll and preparation and analysis of financial statements.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: BUS 1A
  2. Strongly Recommended: BUS 7

Options Courses

Select a minimum of four units from the following options:

ENTR 1
Introduction to Entrepreneurship

3 units
Introduction to the key concepts and skill requirements for new business creation. Evaluation of personal entrepreneurship skills. Emphasis on identifying business opportunities, and process of planning for new venture start-up.
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BUS 12
Introduction to Business

3 units
Survey of the private enterprise system and basic business concepts, business economics, types of business ownership, ethics, globalization, and organizational functions (management, marketing, accounting, human resources, and finance). Provides a multidisciplinary examination of how culture, society, economic systems, legal, international, political, financial institutions, and human behavior interact to influence an organization's policies and practices within the U.S. and a global environments.
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BUS 14
Business Communications

3 units
This course applies the principles of ethical and effective communication to the creation of letters, memos, emails, and written and oral reports for a variety of business situations. The course emphasizes planning, organizing, composing, and revising business documents using word processing software for written documents and presentation-graphics software to create and deliver professional-level oral reports. This course is designed for students who already have college-level writing skills.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: ENGL 1

BUS 21
Human Resource Management

3 units
Introduction to the management of human resources and an understanding of the impact and accountability to the organization in terms of human resource activities. Global human resource strategies, social and organizational realities, legal implications affecting people at work, union/non-union practices, comparable work, employee compensations, benefits, and employee rights.
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BUS 22
Introduction to Management

3 units
Principles and concepts of traditional management tasks, contemporary management challenges including human relations, diversity, quality, social responsibility and ethics, the global environment, human resource management, business communications, competitiveness, motivation, leadership and teamwork.
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BUS 32
Retail Store Management

3 units
Principles and practices used in the management of retail stores, includes site selection, layout, organization, staffing, positioning, customer service, promotional techniques, buying, pricing, store security, and information systems.
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BUS 34
Introduction to Advertising

3 units
Contributions of advertising to integrated marketing communication, including coordination and development of sales, relationship marketing, promotion programs, media selection, copy writing, layout, research and budgeting.
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BUS 40
International Business

3 units
Exploration of major factors involved in developing international trade. An overview of globalization, its impact on both Western and non-Western societies, theories of global trade, monetary environment, foreign market analysis, sociocultural forces, global ethics, global political and economic institutions, and international operations. Emphasis on current events in the global business environment.
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BUS 50A
Skills for Supervisors

1 unit
This course will provide survival skills for new supervisors and those who aspire to move to managerial positions. Necessary skills of time management, leadership, planning, motivation, conducting meetings, communication, handling stress, conflict, and performance appraisals will be discussed. Students will be involved in a variety of management exercises, discussions, current trends in supervision, and real-world case studies.
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BUS 50C
Interviewing for Success

1 unit
Principles and techniques of successful employment interviews: interview preparation, selling your qualifications, managing difficult qualifications, following up on the interview.
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BUS 50D
Resumes and Job Application Letters

1 unit
Research and preparation of persuasive employment search documents, including company research, self-assessment, document composition and format. Includes resumes, job application letters, and follow up communications.
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BUS 50J
Time Management Skills

1 unit
Practical tips and tools to manage time in academic and business-related situations. Setting short-term and long-term goals. Prioritization of goals and activities. Developing plans; organizing your workplace. Typical time wasters/time leaks, including procrastination, and ways of overcoming them.
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BUS 50K
Listening Skills

1 unit
Examination of listening styles and skill development for the business environment. Includes exploration of the benefits of listening, listening attitudes, and tips for improving listening.
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BUS 50L
Careers in Business

1 unit
Exploration of the wide variety of potential careers in business, and the educational preparation appropriate for those careers.
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BUS 50M
Workplace Diversity

1 unit
Tips and tools to value and manage diversity in the workplace.  Overview of theoretical and legal perspectives, dimensions of diversity, the impact of diversity on the workplace. Case studies to acknowledge differences and successfully build relationships with people of diverse backgrounds.
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BUS 50N
Dealing with Difficult People

1 unit
Techniques for resolving and preventing interpersonal conflict in the workplace.
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BUS 50P
Quality Customer Service

1 unit
Techniques and tools to understand customer expectations, and to exceed those expectations. Includes analysis of customer needs, delivery of quality customer service, and dealing with challenging customers to win customer loyalty.
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Work Experience Course

1-14 units

BUS 95
Work Experience

1-3 units
College supervised on-the-job training. Paid or volunteer work experience, including an internship, in an occupation related to student's major or classes at Chabot. Cooperative effort between student, supervisor, and instructor to accomplish new work objective and broaden experiences for each semester enrolled.
Course Details:
  1. Corequisite: BUS 96
or

WEXP 95
Work Experience

1-14 units
This course of supervised employment provides students with the opportunity to earn college credit while working and developing desirable work habits, attitudes, and skills. Students working in any part-time or full-time, paid or unpaid position will contract, in collaboration with their work supervisor and instructor, to set measurable, achievable goals; accomplish new or expanded learning objectives; and broaden work skills and experiences. The work experience need not be related to the students’ educational goals, Within the academic term, students must complete 54 hours of paid or non-paid work for 1.00 unit. Students can earn a maximum of 14 units of Work Experience.
Course Details:

Work Experience Seminar Course

1 unit

BUS 96
Work Experience Seminar

1 unit
Provides the focal point for the coordination of the student's curriculum with college supervised employment/volunteering in the student's major field. Emphasis on building strong working relationships with supervisors, subordinates, co-workers. Issues pertaining to the modern workplace.
Course Details:
  1. Corequisite: BUS 95
or

WEXP 96
Work Experience Seminar

1 unit
Provides the focal point for the coordination of the student's curriculum with college supervised employment/volunteering in the student's major field. Emphasis on building strong working relationships with supervisors, subordinates, co-workers. Issues pertaining to the modern workplace.
Course Details:
  1. Corequisite: WEXP 95
Total Units: 19 units
This program map is not a guarantee of course availability or financial aid applicability.