Pia Cervas: Course Recommendation Memo - Business Administration

This assignment is a memorandum from Pia Cervas, a Business Administration student at Algonquin College, addressed to the Program Coordinator, Wendy Threader. The memo, dated February 13, 2020, recommends substituting the course "Introduction to Management Fundamentals" with "Accounting Concepts II." The student argues that Accounting Concepts II would better support their goals, particularly in accounting. The memo provides a brief overview of both courses, highlighting the benefits of Accounting Concepts II, especially in terms of its relevance to the student's specialization in accounting, and the student's need to improve mathematical skills. It concludes with a recommendation to replace the course in the syllabus and to ensure that students attend all classes to grasp the basics of the subject matter. The memo emphasizes the importance of making informed decisions and understanding financial concepts, which are central to the Accounting Concepts II course.

Memo
To:Wendy Threader, Program Coordinator, Business Administration
From:Pia Cervas, Student, Algonquin College
Date: February 13, 2020
Subject:
As a student at the Business Administration program here at Algonquin College, reviewing the courses
for all the years and levels for this program and as a student, I was having thoughts about replacing one
of my existing class and add a new class. I would like to recommend to the following on substituting the
classIntroduction to Management Fundamentals and replace it to Accounting Concepts II.
About Introduction to Management Fundamentals
The Introduction to Management Fundamentals is about management teachings that involve planning,
leading, organizing, and controlling. The role of a manager and the skills and the techniques is required
in achieving organizational outcomes through managing people, money and time are also examined.
About Accounting Concept II
The Accounting Concepts II is introduced to explore the goals and methods of managerial accounting
and the role in business planning, control and decision making. It involves the ability to plan direct

control and evaluate and gather key accounting data. The topics covered by this class are product
planning, differential analysis and budgeting.
How the Accounting Concept II Benefit Me
Here are few reasons why the Accounting Concept II would be better choice for me to take:
1. I feel that this will be able to help me for the mathematics part as I am not very good in math.
This is very useful as this will enable me to get rid of my fears in the accountancy part.
2. I will be benefitted because I will be able to able understand the different methods of decision
making and also the role to be played by the manager. As per m y opinion these are really very
essential because these helps me to understand about the different strategies that I will have to
take in order to become a successful manager.
3. Control and decisions making are the basic roles that a manager must play in order to understand
the ongoing issues in the organization and also to make sure that they are solved at the same
time. However if the Introduction to Management Fundamentals is done in the beginning of
the course then all these essential chapters gets missed out. Later it will really be a major
problem to return back to the basics and to understand all these.
Summary and Action
 I recommend you to do the following
 Replace the Introduction to Management Fundamentals with Accounting concepts as the first
chapter of the course
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 Ask students to attain all the scheduled classes in order to know the basics like budgeting,
planning and control, product planning and others so that they do not find it tough in the later
parts of the course
 Therefore, owing to all the enlisted benefits above, I would request you to reschedule the
syllabus and replace Management Fundamentals and replace it to Accounting Concepts. This
will enable students to cope up with the syllabus in a step by step manner.
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