Core Courses
This course will focus on the use of current reporting and accounting concepts in international business. We will discuss how accounting data can be used in business decisions. As a corporate manager you will develop an understanding of concepts and procedures of corporate financial reporting and control, in order to be able to effectively utilize this information and participate in its development. The goal of Accounting is to improve organizational decision-making and to align it with the organization’s strategy/objectives.
This course lays the foundations of financial decision making in a corporation. Every decision a business makes has financial implications so getting to know the key principles, techniques and analytical tools of finance is essential for all future managers. Brilliant business plans and projects fail due to poor or inadequate financing. At the end of the course students will realize that in order to succeed in the business world, leaders not only need to see where the organization wants to be in the future, but also how it will get there.
The course serves as a foundation course for IT/IS related issues. For this purpose it covers various areas and discusses the effects, impact and use of Information Systems on the Business Environment, Organisation and Management. The course provides an overview, from the business managers’ point of view, of computer-based, telecommunications-enabled information systems and the challenges of managing this technology. Practical IT knowledge is included in the course content by working with various office software pieces.
The purpose of the course is to provide students with knowledge of the fundamentals of marketing, including basic concepts and terminology. Students will learn current theories about marketing approaches, customer behavior, segmentation, positioning, products and branding, pricing, distribution channels, and marketing communications to create value for customers and for the firm. Due to the fact that marketing is both “a science & an art”, students will spend a significant portion of their efforts applying marketing concepts to the “real world”. Specifically, it is the intent of this course to blend theory with practice, requiring students to observe the local business environment, and actively participate in class discussions.
Operations Management is designed for students majoring in any of the specializations, i.e. Finance, Marketing and IT. The course is intended to offer a business perspective of Operations, in that the level of detail should be relevant to what managers need to know to successfully manage a wide range of organizations regardless of their function or specialization.
OB is the study of how individuals and groups impact the behavior within an organization thus we will focus on the behavioral characteristics of organizational life.
This is an introductory course and as such will only deal briefly with such personnel-related functions and activities as job definition, recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, career management etc. (Details in HRM elective). The purpose of this program is to study living organizations from structural, behavioral, human and other important perspectives, to understand how organizations work in practice, how they develop, and how they try to utilize their human resources.
The main objective of the course is to help develop or enhance your statistical knowledge. This means good quantitative skills, as well as confidence in the usage of methods and their interpretation. The primary purpose of the course is to develop sufficient decision-making ability. The second goal of the course is to provide solid background in computer usage for quantitative problems.
This course examines how companies achieve and sustain competitive advantage. The course’s primary objective is to equip students with the fundamental strategic tools and frameworks to analyze business situations rigorously and to make sound recommendations for their companies or clients. Strategic skills are the key for business analysis in all disciplines. The need for strategic knowledge is no longer limited to top managers. Increasingly, companies expect their mid-level managers and senior business analysts/consultants to possess the ability to think strategically.
The objective of this course is to equip students with analytical tools and a framework from which they will be able to successfully evaluate, launch, finance and create new high-growth companies. Special attention will be given to the creation of companies with a strong IT focus/use. Students who successfully complete the course will have hands-on experience in developing business plans and selling and marketing their ideas to external audiences.
Change Management - Leadership - e-Simulation - Transactional Analysis Coaching - Personal Development - Blogging Individual and Personal Learning
