Online Business Courses

StraighterLine College Business Courses Online: Improve Your Bottom Line.

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From Economics to Accounting, our affordable online business courses are your inside track to starting a career in business and finance without burying yourself under a mountain of debt.

Our self-paced Business courses automatically transfer when you enroll in one of our partner schools. And if you’re not planning on attending a partner school, don’t worry: more than half of our students transfer their credits to other colleges and universities.

Accounting I

Course : ACC101
 

Accounting I focuses on basic accounting principles and how they function in normal business operations. Students learn to identify and use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), ledgers and journals, and steps of the accounting cycle. The course also introduces bank reconciliation methods, balance sheets, financial statements, assets and liabilities, and equity, and discusses the issue of business ethics.

Accounting II

Course : ACC102
 

Online Accounting 2 expands on what students learned in online Accounting I, changing the focus to corporate accounting. Lesson topics include how corporations are formed and structured, with an emphasis on corporate characteristics. The course also examines stocks, bonds, notes, purchase investments, analysis of financial statements, cash flow, budgets, and budget management. It offers an in-depth look at managerial accounting.

Managerial Accounting

Course : ACC150
 

This course focuses on the identification, gathering, and interpretation of information for planning, controlling, and evaluating the performance of a business. This course studies the measurement of the costs of producing goods or services and how to analyze and control these costs.

This course analyzes managerial accounting principles and systems through both process and job order costing. Additional managerial accounting topics include the following: cost behavior, cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting and standard cost systems, decentralized operations, and product pricing.

Economics I: Macroeconomics

Course : ECON101
 

Macroeconomics Economics looks at the big-picture performance of the national economy and its links to the global economy. Designed to examine many of the basic tools economists use, this macroeconomics course online covers economic perspective, fundamental concepts, graphing skills, and an overview of the interrelated components of the United States economy.

Macroeconomics course online lessons explain the importance of supply and demand, economic measures, growth, employment and inflation, and how these relate to the business cycle and the health of the economy. Students develop knowledge of aggregate expenditures and aggregate supply and demand, with a specific macroeconomic point of reference.

In addition to issues affecting United States markets, the course examines various international issues important in today's global economy.

Economics II: Microeconomics

Course : ECON102
 

Microeconomics Economics continues the lessons begun with Macroeconomics Economics by analyzing the manner in which markets resolve the problem posed by a scarcity of resources. The microeconomics course online constructs a model of efficiency and analyzes it through the topics of demand, supply, production, distribution, consumer choice, behavior of the firm, and market structure. Considerations of market failures and the role of government in a market-driven society complete the analysis. Other topics in the microeconomics course online include international trade and finance.

Introduction to Business 

Course : BUS101

Concepts, principles, and operations of the private enterprise system are identified in this course. Students compare and contrast sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations, and they learn the advantages and disadvantages of each. This course also discusses the functions of modern business management, marketing, and ethics and social responsibility. Human resource management is described as well as how employers can motivate their employees. Bookkeeping, accounting, financial management, and financial statements are also examined.

Business Statistics

Course : MAT150

This online statistics course familiarizes students with the basic concepts of business statistics and provides a comprehensive overview of its scope and limitations. Students become familiar with statistical analysis of samples, compute the measures of location and dispersion, and interpret them for descriptive statistics.  Similar to other online college statistics courses, lessons demonstrate linear regression, multiple regression, correlation analysis, model building, model diagnosis, and time series regression using various models. The course also describes basic concepts of probability and applies the discrete and continuous distributions of probability. Other topics in this online statistics course include constructing a hypothesis on one and two samples, performing one-way and two-way analysis of variance, applying nonparametric methods of statistical analysis, and making decisions under risk or uncertainty.  If you've been considering an online college statistics course, this is the one.


StraighterLine makes it easier… and more affordable.

When you enroll at StraighterLine, you take our online, self-paced college courses in the comfort of your own home. If you pass those courses, they automatically transfer for full credit when you enroll in one of our accredited partner colleges.

Flexibility

  • Study online, at your own pace, whenever you have the time.
  • You can work a full time job and still fit college into your life.
  • Take as long as you need to complete a course.
  • No deadlines, no set times for tests.

Affordability

  • Subscription Plan: $99/month, plus a $39 per course 1 time registration fee.
  • Freshman Year for $999: take up to ten 3-or 4- credit courses.
  • The more courses you take, the less college you need to pay for.
  • We don’t accept financial assistance, so you never end up with loan debt
Enroll now and save thousands on your college education. Get started today.

 

 

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You’ll receive college credit for successfully completed StraighterLine courses once you enroll in a partner college or upon request at an educational institution that grants credit for ACE credit-recommended courses. Your personal course advisor will work with you to help this process go smoothly.

See The StraighterLine Credit Transfer Guarantee for details.

You can also take ACE approved courses that have been evaluated and recommended for college credit by the American Council on Education and may be accepted at over 1200 participating colleges and universities. (See our interactive map of colleges and

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