MBA Online

Financial Statement Analysis
Financial statement analysis plays a very prominent role for credit and capital markets. This course helps students learn basic tools for analyzing financial statements and evaluating the financial condition of firms. Main topics include financial ratio analysis, credit analysis, assessment of earnings quality, evaluation of the impact of alternative accounting methods, and various equity valuation methods. Various real world case exercises will provide students with practical experience to work on financial statements.

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo

5055: Introduction to Stochastic Calculus for Finance
Summer D.Nakazato
The lecture launches from the Black-Scholes non-arbitrage valuation theory base, then penetrates through the core of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton interest rate term structure model. It is destined for the hazard rate process for the credit portfolio evaluation where an art of financial engineering entangle with sophistication of actuarial mathematics. Current and hot topics on derivatives evaluation will be covered from theoretical perspectives aiming at practical solutions.

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo

4802: Global Investment Process
Summer Solnik & Fukaya
In this course, we study basic topics regarding global investment processes from the point of views of institutional investors, such as pension funds and other financial institutions. The plan of the lecture is as follows: 1. Foreign exchange rates, 2. International CAPM. 3. Foreign stocks, 4. Foreign bonds, 5. Asset allocation processes, risk control, and performance evaluation.

ICS , Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy

[Term 1] Quantitative Business Analysis (S. Oue) (2008/Term 1&2 (Fall&Winter))

An important part of leadership and management consists of defining and solving many types of problems. Inherent in the problem solving process is decision making. The best convincing decisions are those that are made based on fact, and usually require the use of data.

This course is an overview of data analysis and applied statistics as used in managerial decision making. It is one particular area where a student can have an immediate competitive advantage over new business school graduates.

The overall objective is to improve your ability to model situations and analyze data to make intelligent and fact-based decisions. We will work on the following specific goals:

(1) Improve your ability to simplify situations using mathematical models.

(2) Learn to understand linkages between variables that exhibit variations, and use those linkages to make decisions.

(3) Implement mathematical models on a spread sheet software and understand the resultant output.

(4) Improve your overall quantitative skills.

The mathematics requirement is minimal (not none). You are also expected to reflect what you will learn in Problem Solving Skills.
Course Structure

The course consists of the following three phases:

1. Pro-Forma and Decision Models. The first phase will introduce key elements of business quantitative models. It provides an overview of several concepts from accounting and finance that are useful in management decision making. A proactive decision maker does not limit the evaluation of an alternative to a single estimate of its performance, but acknowledges explicitly the uncertainties that affect that performance. This phase will also develop a language for describing the spectrum of potential possibilities and the tools for analyzing the impact of uncertainties.

2. Statistics. The best decision models are those that are made based on fact, and usually identified based on data. However, we never have ideal sample data. They always have some type of bias from an ideal situation. This phase will explain how samples behave so that we can accurately interpret the results of a sample.

3. Full Business Simulation. This phase will put the components together and construct detailed business simulation models.
Teaching Method

The course consists of lectures and case studies.

The software package you will be using in this course is Microsoft Excel. You are certainly free to use other packages for homework assignments but then you run the risk of not being able to do some problems.

FINA1003 A.B Corporate finance

Semester : 1
For Student of Year : 1

Lecturer : Wong, Clement General Information
This is an introductory course that develops the basic concepts and tools applicable to corporate financial decisions. Three main tasks of financial managers are studied: (i) investment evaluation, (ii) financing decisions, and (iii) payout decisions. Specific topics include present value calculation, valuation of stocks and bonds, investment criteria and capital budgeting, risk and return, cost of capital, capital structure, raising capital, dividend policy, and working capital management.

Extra Information

Prerequisite: BUSI1002 Introduction to Accounting
Remarks: Not open to BEcon, BFin, BEcon&Fin students admitted to 1st year of study in 2005-06 or before.
Mutually exclusive course: BUSI0016/FINA1002 Introduction to finance

Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Hong Kong
ECON0601 Economic development of China

Semester : 1
For Student of Year : 2 & 3

An analytical study of the major problems in China’s economic development since 1949. Topics include: economic heritage, development strategy, economic organization, planning, management, reform, and an evaluation of the Chinese experiments.

Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Business Administration

The instruction program attends to improve the quality of the education of the doctoral candidates and strengthen the standardized management of Ph. D. educating program. Approved by the School of Graduate, this program is designed for Business Administration and Technical Economics and Management as the first-grade discipline.

I. Educational Objectives
This Ph. D program aims to
1.train students to have a scientific attitude and style in pursuit of precise and truth, to have aspirations after the truth and innovations and good ethics for scientific research, and also to qualify the students with the ability to do the research independently;
2.lead students to profound and broad theoretical foundations as well as systematic and in-depth professional knowledge;
3.lead students to creative achievements in one’s own major or professional techniques;
4.qualify students with the ability to do research independently.II. Research Fields
1. Financial Management and Investment Decision 2. Marketing Management
3. Human Resource Management 4. Enterprise Strategy Management
5. Corporate Governance 6. Financial Risk Management
7. Technological Innovation Management 8. Intellectual Property
9. Technological Strategy and Policy

III. Length of Schooling and Credits
Full time Ph. D candidates usually spend 3 or 4 years finishing their studies. They may get their degrees earlier but not less than two and a half years, or get their degrees later but not more than 6 years. The specific length of schooling will be decided by supervisor according to the student’s case. For those students who get direct entry into Ph.D study from master period, they usually spend 4 or 5 years finishing their studies.

IV. Requirements for Ph. D Candidates
1The education of doctoral candidates will follow the policy of “supervisor in full charge”, and organize a direction group with the supervisor as the monitor. The direction group together is responsible for the education and evaluation of the doctoral candidates.

2．Interdisciplinary Courses
1 The cross first-grade-disciplinary courses refer to graduate courses which are not defined in Business Administration. The students who select these courses must attend the classes and take the final examination.
2 The selected cross-disciplinary courses should not be the same as or similar to the courses taken during the periods as master candidates.

3．Seminars
Seminars are of importance for cultivating the comprehensive ability and leading the candidates into the advanced research fields. Within the professional fields specified by the supervisor, the doctoral candidates should participate in the special research reports given by others or take classes. The candidates should then review the most recent research papers according to the special report or the content of the course, and compose a research report and give the report in public seminars. The candidates can get 6 credits from the special seminars. The allocation of the credits is 2 credits for Methodology of Management Research, 2 for advanced courses in the profession and 2 for seminar

Option courses
Name of courses
Senior Management
Corporate Enterpriser Spirit
Marketing Management
Risk Investment Management
Organizational Change and Management
Corporate Finance
Operation Decision-making Simulation
Leadership Human Resource Mangement
Tax Revenue Regulation and Tax Plan
Business Law
International Trade Theory and Policy
Strategy Alliance and Partner Management
Production and Operation Management
Information Resource Management
Corporate Culture
Service Management
Finance Market and Finance Organization
Purchase and Annex
Modern Project Management and Evaluation
Achievement Evaluation Research
Abroad Study and Visiting

Being one of China’s 30 experimental universities for EMBA education approved by the State Council Office of the Academic Degree Committee and the Ministry of Education, the EMBA Program of the School of Management is geared to the needs of high-level managers and executives in enterprises and government bodies with good education background and rich management experience. The EMBA Program aims to train the entrepreneurs and high-level professional managers with outstanding international strategic perspectives and overall decision-making and leadership ability.

Since the first class opened up in the second half of 2002, many entrepreneurs and top managers at home and abroad joined in the program. The participation of many private entrepreneurs features the program, constituting a valuable network of elites. The EMBA program is developing steadily and commits itself to building a platform for entrepreneurs and top managers for study, communication and interaction so as to train high-level management personnel with strategic perspectives that can meet the requirements and challenges of global competition.

Education in the EMBA program of the School of Management includes orientation, course learning, supervisor selecting, overseas study tour, and dissertation writing, etc. There are key courses and elective courses in the EMBA program. The supervisor is selected by a two-way system. And dissertations should be defended after anonymous review and evaluation. The key courses in the EMBA program include Corporate Strategy, Managerial Economics, Advanced Financial Management, Operations and Supply Chain Logistics Management, Organizational Behavior within Cross-cultural Context, Strategic Marketing, etc.

Objective of EMBA Program: To train leaders in economic construction and development
Guidelines of EMBA Program: To inculcate intensive operational knowledge