Penn Foster - Business courses similar to Financial Management

[bjcheung77]

Hello Everyone,

For those who have completed multiple courses at Penn Foster, are there any other ones like Financial Management?
I've completed it FM in two days and Strategic Business Management in three days (except the Project).
I am wanting to switch out maybe two or three courses from my BSBA AOS to use Penn Foster instead.
I understand Penn Foster may be more expensive than an exam, but the ease/quickness in completing trumps the cost.

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I am taking the International Business course and hope to get it completed soon, I just did my first webinar on Thursday.
The only difference IB and SBM has is the added proctored exam, which I don't mind as long as I get it done faster...
Going to finish my Strategic Business Management project right away and work on the other courses.
If there aren't any other courses, I'll just email Ann Gardner for a list of biz courses and their syllabus.

There's two or three other courses that intrigues me, Consumer Behavior, Marketing Research and Human Resource Management.
I just don't know what the "course work" involves, I'd like to have less project work and more non proctored exams.
Thank you, Bjcheung77

[ftsfour1]

Consumer behavior was good. Proctored hand-cramping open-book final, but was a nice course. Human resources management was a good one too.

[Inteljustice2]

I would suggest Human Resource Management, its the only other business course besides SM and FM, that doesn't have a proctored exam. Final project wasn't fun, but I did score a 93 on it. Just have to put in the time and do the work and then you'll most likely get a passing grade.

I would stay away from Retail Management unless you enjoy writing 15-20+ page papers for the final project and the proctored exam wasn't all that easy either. I scored an 88 on proctored exam, but it did test all my knowledge from the entire course.

My only advice on any of the final projects is follow everyone one to the T. If the instructions ask for a certain writing format, find a template of that format, if they ask for reference and title page make sure that gets added to the paper, the last thing you want is revisions to your final projects as it will delay you finishing your course.

I went thru a few of the courses fairly quickly but once you run into the proctored exams and final projects, that is when you realize that these courses do require real hard work, effort, and dedication to finish. The proctored exams do have a time limit, take around 7 days to get acknowledged that they've been received and another 4 days to get graded. The proctored exams aren't easy at all. International Business proctored I did fairly well on the quizzes, got an 80 on my project, but the proctored exam I scored just above passing. I didn't really like this course as much as retail management, as I have more real world experience that I applied towards retail management.

Don't be surprised if your graded project takes at least 10-12 days to get graded and don't be shocked if it gets returned for revisions.

Good luck.

[AngelaP]

HRM is super easy with no projects, webinars or proctored final. There are 5 exams and the final. The final consists of questions you answer from the book and then submit. This can be done in a couple of days.

Consumer Behavior has 3 exams, 3 discussion boards, a project and a proctored final. The project is a paper comparing two different strategic approaches for fast food expansion into India using certain criteria. This can be done relatively quick, the hold up will be waiting on the paper to be graded before they send the final exam.

ETA: I never had a paper returned for revisions and haven't heard of that. You do need to follow proper format for the papers, either MLA or APA. The exams can be taken twice so use that to your advantage. I print them off and answer with the book. Take the test, mark the ones wrong, find correct answers and take exam again. Discussion boards only require a couple of sentences to answer the question(s) and you immediately get a P. If you want a good/great grade, you will have to put something into the class. They will not just give it to you. If you just care about passing, that is easily obtainable.

[bjcheung77]

You guys/gals rock. That's exactly what I was looking for... just a bit of feedback.
Thank you all, I guess I'll take an extra course from Penn Foster to make it four.

Human Resource Management as it's all non proctored exams and a non proctored final.
I may look into the others that interest me, but that's if I need those courses.

I'll just keep a mental note of Consumer Behavior, Marketing Research, etc on my mind.
May go for one of them if the other AOS courses/TECEPS are hard to finish...

[bjcheung77]

Hi Ann,

I have two questions: 1) If I enroll in a few more courses from PF (after I finish these 3, I would like to enroll in another 3)
Do I have to pay the new pricing? As I just noticed that they bumped the pricing from $237 to $299. It will hinder my decision on continuing with your school or go with Saylor, Sophia, Straighterline and Study.com or another provider.

In other words, can you find out if they can honor the pricing for me as I am already a student studying at Penn Foster and would like to continue. I would also like to obtain 25% of the credits towards a Bachelors degree at Penn Foster...

2) There are a few courses that i'm interested in, I would like to know how do I get my hands on the syllabus before I enroll in the classes? I can't find the details on the website. Essentially, I would like to know if there are more courses similar to Financial Management where you get an eBook and are just required to do several non proctored exams/final.

I recall only Human Resource Management is the only other one, the rest such as Consumer Behavior and Market Research require either a project or a proctored final. I don't mind that, just would like to get my classes done ASAP.

Thank you,
Bjcheung77

So I emailed Ann in regards to pricing and also had a couple of questions in regards to taking the other 3 courses at PF.
Hope to get a reply soon, or something from her on Monday Morning (Tomorrow), so I can decide on more PF courses...

I got my reply and also the course syllabus for all 3 courses. Gonna decide to take it for the AOS, her reply was as follows:

"I would honor the cost at this time for $237. Future enrolments would have to be the new price of $299." Yay!

[bjcheung77]

Wowzers, I just read over the syllabus for all three courses, not bad for Human Resource Management and Marketing Research
For Consumer Behavior it's like Strategic Business Management, there's a research project and discussion board postings.
The time I can finish each one of those would be pretty quick, I just have to go through them quickly, fix errors on exams, and done.


HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT HRM201
Textbook Managing Human Resources
Study Guide Human Resources Management

Grading Criteria
Lesson examinations (5) 67%
Final 33% - Not Proctored


MARKETING RESEARCH MKT260
Textbook: Basic Marketing Research, Eighth Edition
Study Guide: Marketing Research

METHODS OF ASSESSMENT
Lesson exams, proctored exam

GRADING CRITERIA
Lesson exams (5) 67%
Final (Proctored) 33%


CONSUMER BEHAVIOR MKT320
Textbook: Consumer Behavior, 4th Edition
Study Guide: Consumer Behavior

METHODS OF ASSESSMENT
Lesson exams, proctored exam, research project, discussion boards

GRADING CRITERIA
Lesson exams (3), research project, discussion board
postings (3) 67%
Final (Proctored) 33%

[bjcheung77]

Just wondering if anyone completed any one of these three Penn Foster courses.
Any feedback on these three would be appreciated, wanting to take more courses from them.
The three are: Compensation Management, Employee Benefits, Training Concepts.
I'll email Penn Foster to get the course syllabus as I would like to know what's required.

[bjcheung77]

Oops, forgot to post an update. Here's the details for the courses below.
For myself, if I had to choose, Training Concepts looks better as there are less to do.

Course Name: Training Concepts
Lesson exams (3), research project (1), discussion board postings (4) 67%
Final examination 33%

Course Name: Compensation Management
Lesson examinations (4) and Research Assignment (1) 67%
Final (Proctored) 33%

Course Name: Employee Benefits
Lesson exams (6), research project, discussion board postings 67%
Final (Proctored) 33%

[yb1]

has anyone taken corporate finance?

what was your opinions?