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Business Administration for Non-Business Professionals

This online continuing education course teaches you essential business administration knowledge that is crucial for career advancement – even for non-business professionals. You'll deepen your understanding in various areas and learn to think and work across disciplines. This prepares you perfectly to understand and apply business contexts.

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Business Administration for Non-Business Professionals Overview

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Start and Duration
  • Duration: approx. 12 months, 8 to 10 hours.
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Funding
  • This continuing education course is AZAV-certified and, if you are unemployed, can be funded up to 100% via the Bildungsgutschein (education voucher).
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Target Group
  • The target group is professionals who want to acquire business administration knowledge for career advancement.
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Admission Requirements
  • No special prior knowledge is required for admission. Interested individuals should have access to a smartphone as well as a PC, laptop, or tablet to make optimal use of the learning platform. It is recommended to use the SGD app on your phone in combination with other devices for the best learning experience.
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Certificate
  • SGD Certificate
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Language
  • German

About this online course

Basic information

In the continuing education course "Business Administration for Non-Business Professionals", you acquire basic knowledge in business administration that is important for people without commercial training. The focus is on the fundamentals of business administration such as production and cost theory, financing and investment, as well as double-entry bookkeeping. These topics provide a solid foundation for understanding business processes and financial relationships.

Another important component of the continuing education course is the business functional areas. These include corporate management, production, materials, sales, and personnel management, as well as procurement and purchasing. You learn how to effectively plan and control inventory and are introduced to business thinking through practice-oriented case studies. An understanding of sales management and field service consulting also helps you to better manage sales processes.

Awareness of cost-conscious thinking and an introduction to cost accounting are essential to be able to make sound financial decisions. Practical questions of personnel management and basics of marketing are also important topics that are indispensable in today's business world. The area of controlling, ecologically oriented thinking, as well as planning and organization in the company and corporate planning round out the curriculum.

The continuing education course offers numerous advantages: you can better understand and optimize business processes, which makes you a more valuable employee in your company. You gain insights into various business processes and learn how to make strategic decisions that benefit the company. Additionally, the course strengthens your understanding of key management aspects that can lead to more efficient business operations.

To benefit from this continuing education course, you should bring an interest in economic relationships and in optimizing business processes. Since the content is taught theoretically and practically, a certain curiosity and openness to new concepts is helpful.

Overall, the continuing education course offers a comprehensive introduction to business administration for non-business professionals and enables you to acquire and further develop valuable knowledge for everyday professional life.

Contents:

  • Fundamentals of Business Administration
  • Corporate Management
  • Production, Materials, Sales, and Human Resources Management
  • Basics, Planning, and Control of Inventory Management
  • Sales Management
  • Cost-Conscious Thinking
  • Practical Issues in Human Resources Management
  • Controlling

Who offers this course?

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With over 75 years of experience and more than 900,000 participants, SGD (Studiengemeinschaft Darmstadt) offers over 300 flexible online continuing education courses in areas such as school qualifications, business, technology, IT, languages, and health. These courses can be completed entirely online and are especially attractive for working professionals and families. The innovative SGD OnlineCampus and the SGD Campus App enable mobile learning with multimedia content such as e-books, learning apps, and online training.

SGD contact information

  • Email: beratung@sgd.de

  • Address: Hilpertstr. 31, 64295 Darmstadt

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  • Study folder
  • 24 study booklets
  • two case studies
  • Learning apps to check your knowledge level
  • Access to the SGD OnlineCampus.

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