Welcome to:

Foundations of
Business Management

MGTA05
Last update: August 30, 2021
12 pm

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 My name is
Prof. Chris Bovaird

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 Fall 2021 and Covid-19
Because of the spread of coronavirus,
there will be limited on-campus activity
during the Fall 2021 semester.
 
U of T is telling faculty, staff and students
to stay at home.
 
I am readily available by e-mail.
Please feel free to e-mail me at:
chris.bovaird@utoronto.ca
 
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 U of T Quercus - Contents
Course outline
Lecture notes
Contact info
Assignment info
Test & exam info
Check Quercus weekly for:
Taped lectures Powerpoint slides
Announcements Surveys & quizzes
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 Check Quercus Weekly
.

See?

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Results of Survey – LAST YEAR (2020)
Where are you? (n = 126)
3%
Chart Title
2%
GTA

rest of Canada
75 or 35 or
Mid-East / Gulf
63% 28% East Asia

Southern Asia

Other

3%
2%
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 Where People Were – Last Year 2020

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Results of Survey (LAST year)
Have you taken a business course before?
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13 3%
10% 30 No. I've never taken a
24% course in business.

Yes. In high school, in

Canada.

Yes. In high school,

outside of Canada.

Yes, at a college or
university, elsewhere.
79
63%
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This Slide Deck: Intro & Overview
Course description
What you will learn (4 slides)
Key contact information
Course Delivery: How Course Will Work
Assessment: Tests, Assignment, Exam
Course schedule
Textbook
About me
Questions?
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MGTA05 – Course Description
Businesses: What they are;
the role that businesses play in Canada;
the people who create businesses,
the planning of businesses,
ways that they can be organized
the role of finance in helping them grow.
Entry course for students in BBA Program

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 What You Will Learn (1)
 What is a Business?: Features and
characteristics of a “business”

 Products: The goods and services that

people need and want, their features and
characteristics

 Factors of production: The raw material

from which every business is made
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 What You Will Learn (2)
 Economic systems: How businesses
participate in providing Canadians with
what they need and want
 Markets: Types of competition (perfect,
monopolistic, oligopoly, monopoly);
 Measuring Performance: Assessing the
effectiveness of an economic system and
the prosperity of a country’s people
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 What You Will Learn (3)

• Entrepreneurs: the people who start

new and small business;
• Planning the business: business
plans and what they should contain;

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 What You Will Learn (4)
• Organising the business: Sole
proprietorships, partnerships, and
corporations
• Financing the business: The role of
finance and the organisations that
help find it

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 Please ask questions!
This is introductory course

If you don’t understand – please ask!

Start a discussion
Send a chat message
Raise a virtual hand
Send an e-mail message
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Prof. Chris Bovaird - Contact
chris.bovaird@utoronto.ca

e-mail me and I WILL respond

However, you must observe
professional courtesy
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First Year Program Advisor
Ms. Bobbi
McFarlane

sam.mcfarlane@utoronto.ca
Bobbi will talk to us next Tuesday
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 Delivery: How The Course Will Work
NOW (start of semester):

Each week (4-5 days before class):

PowerPoints slides posted to Quercus
Tuesdays at 1 pm:
Live “Zoom” class
Within 24 hours of class:
Recording of Zoom class posted to Quercus

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Delivery: How the Lectures Will Work
Tuesday afternoons, I will lead a class
I hope we cover (approx.) 1 chapter / week
I encourage questions and comments
I encourage discussions
Course TAs (Deepak, Clarise, Nimisha) will
monitor the chat, might take surveys, will
ask for reactions, etc.

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 Two In-Semester Tests
Scheduled Week 5 (October 5)
Dates: Week 9 (November 9)
Probable
Length: 50 minutes
Probable 20 – 30 MCQ
Formats 3 – 5 SAQ
Weight: 15% + 20%

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How Course Works - Assignment
There is a written assignment
Due:
11:59 pm on November 23
(week 11)

Submit soft copy to Quercus

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 Writing Assignment - 25%
When: Tuesday, Nov. 23 before 11:59 pm

Length: ~2500 words

or 10-12 pages
Format: double spaced
Weight: 25%

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 Final Exam
Date: exam period (Mid-Dec)
Probable
Length: 1.5 hrs
Probable: 25-35 MCQ
Format 5 – 6 SAQ
Weight: 40%

(We can discuss detail of exam in November)

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 MGTA05 – Textbook
Introduction to
Canadian Business
by Chris Bovaird
McGraw Hill Ryerson

Available at:
UTSC bookstore
or second-hand
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MGTA05 – About Prof. Bovaird
Associate Professor, Teaching
Teaching 1st year MGT courses
at UTSC since 1995
Wrote the course
Wrote the textbook

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MGTA05 – About Prof. Bovaird
Teaching at Universities since 1986:

Research Fellow, Stirling University, UK

Visiting Lecturer, University of Ljublana
Lecturer, Scottish Enterprise Foundation
Assoc. Professor, University of Waterloo
Senior Lecturer, University of Toronto
Assoc. Professor, University of Toronto
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 MGTA05 – About me
Favourite colour: red
Favourite number:

Favourite drink:

Favourite hockey team:

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 MGTA05 – About me

Favourite
sport:

Favourite
Dog:

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 More About Me...

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I love Border Collies

Mollie
Abbie 30
Daisy Bovaird
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Emma Bovaird
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