MBA Online

Faculty of Business and Accountancy University of Malaya

: Marketing and Information Systems
Programme of Study : Bachelor of Business Administration
Bachelor of Accounting
Course Code : CBEB1103
Course Title : Management Information Systems
Credit Hours : 3
Course Prerequisite(s) / None
Minimum Requirement(s) :
Learning Outcomes : At the end of this course, student should be able to:
1. Describe concepts and issues pertaining to information systems.
2. Discuss the use of information system in business organisation.
3. Analyze the advantages and disadvantages related to information
systems and technology in organisation.
4. Evaluate the appropriate IS solutions available to solve business
problems.
5. Apply appropriate IS in organisations.
Synopsis of Course Contents : The course focuses on the usage of information technology in business
enterprise. The course will discuss how companies use information
systems applications to coordinate activities, decisions, and knowledge
across the enterprise and thus create business value for both customers
and suppliers. Supply chain management, customer relationship
management, and knowledge management in addition to enterprise
systems that firms use today to achieve digital integration will also be
discussed. Appropriate real world issues and group projects will enhance
student learning in providing an insight to solving real world information
systems issues.
Assessment : Continuous Assessment : 50%
Final Examination : 50%

Financial Accounting and Reporting
The important themes of this course are the business context of accounting, the interaction between accounting and business, and financial reporting. We believe that such themes are of most interest to many MBA Students. This course will introduce students to major issues of financial accounting and reporting practice. In addition, concepts and techniques of financial statement analysis are also introduced and applied to actual cases by using corporate annual reports.

Investments
This course will introduce you to major issues currently of concern to all investors in global financial markets. First, you will understand the basic mechanism of financial markets overviewing major players, assets, and conventions. Second, you will understand basic theories of investment analysis. Finally, you will obtain basic skills necessary to implement theories in real financial markets. Throughout this course, students will be equipped with knowledge and skills essential to start investments as an investment professional or a
sophisticated individual investor. In addition, if you plan to take elective finance courses at IUJ such as Portfolio Management, Derivatives Markets, and Debt Securities Markets, this course will be an important foundation.

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo

4202: Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations
Winter Jinno
Public finance does not depict a single entity. By this remark, I do not mean that the public finances vary because there are over 190 countries in the world. Rather, the point is that in any given country there is no single state and hence no monolithic edifice of public finance. The state instead comprises many sub-sectors; and is in addition embodied in a central government and a multiplicity of subnational governments whose overall structure resembles a pyramid. In this lecture, we shall discuss the institutions that compose the nation-state as well as the fiscal transfers that allocate resources among them.
The lecture outline is as follows:
1) The concept of intergovernmental transfers
2) The evolution of the theory of intergovernmental transfers
3) Intergovernmental relations in budget making
4) The theory of tax-base allocation
5) The theory of control of fiscal resources
6) The theory of fiscal transfers
7) Centralization and decentralization in intergovernmental fiscal relations

ICS , Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy

[Term 1] Special Topics: Japanese Culture (R. Davies) (2008/Term 1&2 (Fall&Winter))

Japanese Culture is an elective course for ICS students who are new to Japan, although it is required for scholarship students in the Young Leaders’ Program (YLP). Classes will be held mainly on Saturday mornings, and if necessary, occasional meetings may also be scheduled on Friday afternoons or weekday evenings, for a total of seven sessions.

This course was originally designed for YLP students, but recently, other international students at ICS have also been welcomed to participate. In addition, a small number of Japanese students are invited to take the course for credit each year. They act a valuable resource on Japanese culture for the other students and provide logistical support for the instructors.
Course Structure

Japanese Culture is a two-credit course which is field-oriented and designed to act as a bridge for non-Japanese students in adapting to their new life in Japan and at ICS. The first sessions are practical in orientation and provide participants with useful information and resources for everyday living in Tokyo, including transportation, shopping, cooking, restaurants, entertainment, and so forth. The sessions in the second half of the course endeavor to give students an experience of some of the more important and aspects of Japanese culture, presented by masters in fields such as traditional Japanese dance, the Tea Ceremony, and Zen meditation techniques.
Teaching Method

Reading materials for field sessions and other activities will be provided in advance. No further homework is required.

The University of Hong Kong

Bachelor of Business Administration (Information Systems)

[BBA(IS)] {in conjunction with BEng(CS)}*

Jointly offered by the School of Business and the Department of Computer Science in the Faculty of Engineering, this is a four-year, double-degree programme. The BBA(IS)/BEng(CS) programme aims to train information technology (IT) specialists and the managers of tomorrow by blending two strategic disciplines into a single programme for the bright and highly motivated. It provides both IT and essential business training to give students a unique edge in their quest for business success.

After successfully completing the first three years of study, students will be awarded a BBA(IS) degree. After an additional fourth year, they will obtain the Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science [BEng(CS)] degree.

*Please note that the fourth year of this double-degree programme operates on a self-financing basis, and the fees are therefore slightly higher than the usual undergraduate fees. Those requiring financial assistance can apply for non-means tested loans, repayable at an interest rate to be determined by the Government.
Admission Requirements

For admission to the programme, applicants are required to satisfy the following requirements in addition to the University Entrance Requirements:

Marketing

The Marketing Department continuously strives to achieve excellence in research. The faculty members are renowned for high-quality, cutting-edge research, publishing their work in the top international marketing journals, such as Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) and Marketing Science (MS). The Marketing faculty is ranked seventh in the world in terms of the number of papers published in JMR and JCR in 2000-2006 (ahead of Berkeley, Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, INSEAD, MIT, Stanford and Yale).

The goal of the PhD program is to develop outstanding scholars who are able to secure academic jobs at top international universities and to become first-rate contributors to marketing knowledge.

Our program provides solid training in the theory and methods of various subfields of marketing such as consumer behavior and marketing models. Apart from gaining in-depth knowledge, students gain hands-on experience in the research process from the very early stages of the program.

The faculty is highly committed to the PhD program. State-of-the art courses are offered on themes such as information processing, behavioral game theory, experimental designs, judgment and decision making, choice modeling, and analytical marketing science. These courses and the research training are very demanding but at the same time highly rewarding.

A well-equipped behavioral lab and many opportunities for research collaboration with the faculty contribute to the learning experience. In addition, students benefit from two research centers housed in the Marketing Department – the Center for Experimental Business Research and the Center for Marketing and Distribution. Some of our students have published papers in top research journals. The program offers students a very good intellectual environment and enables them to become outstanding researchers. One recent graduate was selected for the Marketing Science Institute’s Young Scholar Program, one of the highest accolades a young researcher in the field can receive.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
The program, an alliance between the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s Business School (HKUST) and the New York University Stern School of Business (NYU Stern), not only brings together two world-renowned business schools, but also two of the world’s most important finance centers. And while classes will be held primarily in Hong Kong, there will also be a two-week intensive learning module in New York.

If you are working in the finance sector, this program will improve your overall effectiveness in the industry, which will immensely benefit your finance career.

In addition, there is a shortage of highly qualified professionals in the field. Even non-financial sectors in the Asia-Pacific, such as manufacturing and real estate, are seeking financial expertise. Hence, if you are not working in the finance sector now, our innovative, world-class program can prepare you to take advantage of these opportunities.

The MS in Global Finance, the first and only finance program in the Asia-Pacific Region formatted for working executives, offers interested professionals like you an unrivalled opportunity to increase your finance knowledge and skills under the guidance of internationally recognized academics.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Application Requirements

Applicants for admission to the Executive MBA program must:a. Possess a bachelor’s degree from a recognized university or an approved institution, or possess recognized professional qualifications equivalent to a degree;
b. Have at least 10 years of significant full-time work experience after obtaining their bachelor’s degree or professional qualifications; and
c. Have company sponsorship and support.

For applicants who were educated at institutions where the primary language of instruction was not English and whose native language is not English, a satisfactory score on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is required.

In addition to an academic background, the candidates should be able to demonstrate that:a. Their organization sponsor considers they are outstanding and have potential within the organization;
b. They are holding, or will soon hold, positions of executive responsibility that make the program of value in furthering their career; and
c. They have both the time and the motivation to make the commitment to attend classes and prepare assignments.

Each Executive MBA participant is required to have his or her own portable personal computer. Participants are encouraged to familiarize themselves with word processing, email and spreadsheet analysis on PCs prior to the beginning of coursework. They must also maintain personal email accounts to facilitate communication with the Executive MBA program office, the faculty and other Executive MBA participants.
The target size for each Executive MBA class is 50-60 students.

Overview of College of Management Huazhong University of Science & Technology

At present, College of Management (CM) consists of the Department Business and Management, Department of Marketing, Department of Information Management, Department of Finance, Department of Accounting, Department of Taxation, Department of Intellectual Property Right. In addition, it has a Patent Agency, a Research Center of Science and Technology Development, an Institution of Modernized Management, and an another Institution of Integrated Management and a number of faculty, of whom eighteen are professors, one is research fellow and thirty seven are associate professors or associate research fellows.

The College has 31 professors and 33 associate professors of whom 13 are PH.D supervisors. It offers 5 Bachelor’s programs i.e. Business Administration, Information Management & Information Systems, Accounting, Financial Management, Marketing, 6 Master’s degree programs and 1 Doctor’s degree program as well as 1 Post Doctoral mobile station. CM not only encourages excellent undergraduates to take a minor course or get another Bachelor’s Degree, recomends top undergraduates to furthure his education of Master’s Degree without taking the entrance examination, and top postgraduates to the education of Doctor’s Degree, but also creates good chances for some undergraduates out of the averages. Presently 6287 students, including 37 Doctors, 578 Masters, 93 members of postgraduates, 63 second-Bachelor holders and 2600 undergraduates, have graduated from here.

With academic activities as a ‘base’, CM takes research as a ‘pioneering guide’ for high-quality teaching. A full range of research programs have been successfully conducted, of which 1 key research project and 41 another research projects were sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China, 12 were financed by China High-tech 863/ CIMS Foundation, 7 were supported by government departments and enterprises (7 projects by Specialized Ph.D. Research Foundation, 75 by state and Provincial Department Found, 90 by enterprises). Publications include 90 specialized works, textbooks and translated works in addition to about 900 treatises.

CM has been authorized experimentally for education of Master of Business Administration (MBA) since 1993, and has educated 375 students since the first enrollment of MBA in 1994. The education of MBA will be one of the principal parts of college for Master’s Education in the future few years. From early 1980’s, CM has given training programs to cadres for several times and given yearly Master’s Degree programs and Business Administrating Training programs for in-services who have same education level to fulfill the mass needs of senior practical manager of enterprises and society.

CM places special emphasis on international cooperation and keeps constant academic connections with different countries and regions, including Canada, USA, Russia, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The China-Canada Management Education Program (CCEMPI and CCEMPII), which is financed by Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and cooperated with the University of Toronto of Canadian, has been run for 12 years (from 1983 to 1994), promoting greatly the development of College. According to the contract, the College provides Graduate Education of Management with professors from the University of Toronto teaching parts of the courses. In addition, the linkage has enabled many CM faculty members and graduate students to conduct Joint-research and pursue MBA and PhD degrees in Toronto.

Furthermore, the College has shared China-Canadian University Industrial Partner Project (CCUIPP) with the High Economic College of Montreal University of Canada, aiming at reinforcing the connection between universities and industries, and providing administrators for Energy Department. Besides, the College cultivates graduates in a way named as “1+1″ with the cooperation of Regina University of Canada and Doctor candidates with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.