CRN: 03-704 January 10 - April 17, 2012               Tuesdays 7-10pm                                               Room 146                                                          Location: Saskatoon

45 hours/15 weeks

Additional costs: books and materials range from $120-$150.

You will deal with commercial problems involving simple interest, discounts and markups, partial payments and commuting a series of obligations.  It continues with a wide variety of problems involving compound interest, ordinary annuities, amortization of debt, sinking funds and valuation of bonds.  Practical applications are stressed throughout the course.  Use of the Financial calculator is shown throughout the course.

CRN: 03-700                                                     January 11 - April 18, 2012                         Wednesdays 7-10pm                                          Room 309                                                         Location: Saskatoon

45 hours/15 weeks

Additional costs: books and materials range from $120-$150.

CRN: 03-947                                                      January 11 - April 18, 2012                                Wednesdays 7-10pm                                          Room 147                                                     Location: Saskatoon

45 hours/15 weeks

Additional costs: books and material range from $120 - $150.

You will discover the dynamic field of marketing.  You will explore what marketing is, how it works and the effect it can have on consumers and on society.  At the end of the course, you should have a strong sense of how to market yourself, your skills, your ideas, as well as more traditional products and services.  Marketing concepts you will learn include: the strategic marketing planning process, segmentation, positioning, forecasting, consumer behaviour and the marketing mix.

CRN: 03-1051                                                  January 11 - April 18, 2011                                 Wednesdays 7-10pm                                          Room B11                                                     Location: Saskatoon

45 hours/15 weeks

Additional costs: books and material range from $120-$150.

Your studies will focus on the role and functions of the staffing component of human resource management.  You will develop an appreciation for professional recruitment and selection practices that meet Canadian legal standards.  You will understand the essential role of sound staffing practices in relation to organizational productivity.  You will recognize the constraints under which an organization operates and how it relates to the staffing process.

CRN: 03-945                                                    January 12 - April 19, 2012                                 Thursdays 7-10pm                                              Room 312                                                         Location: Saskatoon

45 hours/15 days

Additional costs: books and materials range from $120-$150.

You will continue to develop effective business writing skills and employability skills.  The course focuses on writing business reports in formal and informal styles.  Your classroom study and experience will help prepare you for a business career by developing your presentation skills.

Up to four days spread over several weeks or months.

A day consists of six hours of instruction. Participants may choose as many days as they wish and may choose only those days that they feel they require. The AgExpert Anaylst is a widely accepted computer based farm accounting program.

Day One:

Create a chart of accounts tailored to the specific needs of the participant. Participants will learn how to create a database, add new accounts and edit existing accounts. Using their own farm data participants will enter opening balances to prepare for transactions.

Day Two:

Using the database set up in day one participants will use their own farm data to record entries. Care will be taken to ensure participants are exposed to a variety of typical transactions. If necessary a sample database will be used and prepared transactiions entered.

Day Three:

Day three will take place two to three weeks later after the participants have had an opportunity to work on their records. This session will be used to answer questions that have arisen (participants will also be able to contact the instructor for help) and to solve problems. Time will be devoted to generating and interpreting relevant reports eg. GST,Income/Expense and various transaction reports.

Day Four:

This session is designed to assist the participant in completing a fiscal year end. It will include making adjusting entries,printing final reports and processing the year end. This session may need to take place several months after the initial introduction.

Tuition     650.00 per day

Farmers of all ages who are interested in improving their bookkeeping skills with a view to better financial management.

A Certicficate of Completion will be issued.

Training is delivered in the home of the participant

Training times are made as flexible as possible to accommodate participants.

The training is designed to assist a participant in creating a bookkeeping system tailored to their specific operation and reporting needs. The participant learns how to make regular entries and produce and interpret financial management reports

Up to 2 days. Dates are chosen by participants.

A day consists of six hours. Participants may choose as many of the days as they require.

Day One:

This session will deal with the Budget and Cashflow features of the AgExpert Analyst. Participants will learn to create a budget and use it for comparisons in the Income/Expense report. They will then use this budget to assist in the preparation of a Cashflow Projection that will enable them to project such items as borrowing,capital asset purchases and loan repayments in addition to income and expenses.

Day Two:

This session will deal the Operational Benchmarking features in the AgExpert Analyst. Participants will learn to use

• Production Unit Costing
• Average Sale Price
• Efficiencey Measures
• Financial Ratios
• Cost of Production

Tuition    650.00

Farmers who use the AgExpert Analyst and would like to learn how to use its more advanced management features.

A Certificate of Completion will be issued.

The instruction will be delivered in the participants home.

Training times are kept flexible to accommodate the needs of participants.

Training is designed to go beyond day to day bookkeeping and learn how to use the information in the records to assist in making management decisions.

Up to two days. Dates to be determined by participants.

TheAgExpert Fieldmanager Pro is a computer based field record keeping system that allows producers to track the operations carried out on individual fields, attach costs to these operations and record the revenues from these fields. Because both cost and revenue data is entered the program can calculate profit and loss reports for each field. The program also tracks inventory by bin and field of production.

A second aspect of the program allows producers to do crop planning on a field by field basis. Both fixed and variable costs can be entered and break even yields and prices can be generated.

The training is delivered over either one or two days of six hours each depending on the needs of the participant.

Day One;

Participants will learn the basics of the program using an instructor supplied database. This will allow the participant to make more informed decisions when setting up his or her own set of records. Time will be spent setting up the control information of the participants own farm. For many people this will be all they need to successfully use the program.

Day Two:

Day two is designed for participants who would like help in doing a complete setup of their farming operation and assistance in determining usage costs of equipment and operations. Building on Day One participants would continue to set up the farm and would enter data into the system. One or two fields would be taken through a complete year and reports would be generated and analysed.

Tuition     650.00

Farmers who wish to use  computer based software to keep detailed field records.

A Certificate of Completion will be issued.

The instruction will be delivered in the participant's home.

Training times are kept flexible to accommodate the needs of participants.

The training deals with learning to use the AgExpert Fieldmanager Pro to do field crop projections and to keep detailed records of the operations and their costs carried out on individual fields.

CRN: 02-907 October 27 - November 1, 2011             Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday 9am to 4pm    Room 240B                                               Location: Saskatoon

CRN: 03-968 March 1 - 6, 2012                   Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday 9am to 4pm Room 240B                                                 Location: Saskatoon

24 hours/1 week

GST and manual included

This course starts with the fundamentals and provides you with the knowledge to set up a company's books and using the Receivables and Payables modules in Simply Accounting.  You will also learn bookkeeping processes for a service business, customize a company's chart of accounts, prepare sales taxes, sales invoices, customer payments, bills and expenses and produce multiple financial and other reports.  In the second half of the course you will expand your knowledge by customizing various forms to save a business money, use inventory, complete month-end tasks or reporting sales taxes and account reconciliation and more.  Hands-on exercises during class will allow you to practive these skills.  You will receive a manual for future reference.  Registered students have access to a Simply Accounting software download and also have the option of challenging the sage Simply Accounting Application Specialist Certification exam for free!