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Aug 31, 2024
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MOR 331 - Funeral Home Management Credits: 2 Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: Voc/Tech Introduction to management concepts which will affect funeral directors to include personnel management, risk management, facilities management, funeral home marketing and basic accounting principles. Prerequisite: Admission to the Mortuary Science or Funeral Services program, or admission to the Liberal Arts AA - Pre-Mortuary Science concentration. Competencies
- Illustrate fundamentals of small business management as applied to funeral home operations
- Discuss the role of small business in the economy
- Explain why management in a small firm may be more demanding than management in a large firm
- Describe personal and personnel requirements needed for the success of a self-employed funeral home owner
- Describe the elements of sound business management; including credit and collections; costs and capital investments; location and expansions of funeral homes; buying or building a funeral home; reducing risks and advertising
- Examine the functions of management for a funeral home
- Define management and identify the four functions
- List the objectives of funeral service
- Relate the functions of management to funeral service practices
- Define the areas of management
- Explain the concepts of management related to funeral services
- Evaluate federal regulations affecting recruitment and selection of personnel
- List considerations for job recruitment
- Explain federal regulations affecting recruitment
- Explain pre-employment interviewing regulations
- Describe human relations management
- Identify purpose and contents of a personnel manual
- State responsibilities of the manager
- Identify elements of a marketing program
- Identify elements of market analysis
- Define elements of marketing mix
- Identify marketing strategies in a small business
- Define concepts of branding
- Identify elements of inventory and pricing management
- Describe inventory management procedures
- Compare pricing policies and structures
- Identify price quotation systems
- Characterize basic accounting concepts and procedures
- Describe the functions of accounting
- Record transactions in the basic accounting equation
- Expand the basic accounting equation using revenue, expense, and withdrawal transactions
- Analyze simple accounting transactions as to their effect on the basic accounting equation
- Prepare simplified financial statements
- Define basic accounting terms, concepts and principles
- Perform basic accounting transactions
- Develop a chart of accounts
- Record transactions in T-account utilizing the rules of debit and credit
- Prepare a simple trial balance
- Prepare financial statements from a trial balance
- Identify the normal balance of an account
Competencies Revised Date: AY2022
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