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Faculty of Business and Accountancy University of Malaya

Faculty : Business and Accountancy
Department : Management Accounting and Taxation
Programme of Study : Bachelor of Business Administration
Course Code : CTEB 2203
Course Title : Management Accounting
Credit Hours : 3
Course Prerequisite(s) / Pass CAEA 1101 Principles of Financial Accounting
Minimum Requirement(s) :
Learning Outcomes : At the end of this course, students should be able to:
1. Explain the basic management accounting principles and concepts.
2. Explain basic cost classifications and cost behaviour.
3. Identify the elements of cost and appropriate accounting treatments
of the three basic elements of cost; namely material, labour and
overheads.
4. Apply basic costing techniques and relevant information in planning,
control, and decision making.
5. Incorporate motivational, behavioural and ethical issues in decision
making at operational level.
Synopsis of Course Contents : This course is designed specifically for non-accounting students and
discusses basic management accounting concepts and techniques. This
course describes the use of relevant accounting information to assist in
planning, control and managerial decision-making. The topics covered
include basic management accounting concepts and principles; cost terms,
classifications and behaviour; cost-volume-profit analysis; basic costing
techniques; preparation of budgets; and relevant information for decision
making.
Assessment : Continuous Assessment : 50%
Final examination : 50%

Faculty of Business and Accountancy University of Malaya

Faculty : Business and Accountancy
Department : Marketing and Information Systems
Programme of Study : Bachelor of Business Administration
Bachelor of Accounting
Course Code : CBEB2103
Course Title : Production Management
Credit Hours : 3
Course Pre-requisite(s) /
Minimum Requirement(s) : None
Learning Outcomes : At the end of this course, students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate the basic understanding of production and operation
management.
2. Differentiate the different frameworks of production systems.
3. Apply the concepts of production functions in factory and service
management.
4. Identify current trends in production management.
5. Analyse techniques and models of decision making.
Synopsis of Course Contents : The course is divided into two parts. First part consists of the nature of
operation management, forecasting, product, process, and service design,
facility capacity, location and layout and operation technologies.The
second part consists of quality management, strategic allocation of
resources, project management, Just in Time and lean manufacturing,
production planning, inventory management, resource requirements
Planning: MRP, and employee productivity
Assessment : Continuous Assessment: 50%
Final Examination : 50%

Faculty of Business and Accountancy University of Malaya

Faculty : Business and Accountancy
Department : Management Accounting and Taxation
Programme of Study : Bachelor of Accounting
Course Code : CTEA2217
Course Title : Management Accounting II
Credit Hours : 3
Course Pre-requisite(s) /
Minimum Requirement(s) : Pass CTEA1113 Management Accounting I
Learning Outcomes : At the end of this course, students should be able to:
1. Explain the basic concept of CVP analysis and its application in
business decision making.
2. Apply various techniques of budgeting and discuss their role in
planning, control and decision making.
3. Apply standard costing technique and interpret variances, including
planning and operational variances for control purposes and utilise
appropriate computer software to assist decision-making.
4. Apply the concept of relevant costs and revenues in decision making.
5. Use various techniques in capital investment decisions including
accounting rate of return, payback; discounted payback, discounted
cash flow techniques, and effect of inflation and taxation.
Synopsis of Course Contents : This course introduces application of techniques in the analysis of relevant
data to provide information for managerial planning and control, and
decision making. The topics covered include cost-volume-profit analysis,
budgeting and budgetary control, standard costing and variance analysis,
and managerial short-term and long-term decision making, with ethical
issues addressed.
Assessment : Continuous Assessment: 40%
Final Examination : 60%

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo1302: Market, Investment and Finance
Winter Kobayashi & Matsushima

The first half of this course is devoted to understand the basic levels of theoretical and empirical issues of investment and finance. The second half is devoted to game theory, informational economics, and experimental economics. The students study the basic concepts for decision making and market mechanisms.

Managerial Accounting
Focusing on the relevance and use of accounting information for management decision making, this course presents alternative tools for planning, control and evaluation of a company’s operations and resources. Topics such as budgeting, product costing, performance evaluation and transfer pricing, with an emphasis on related incentive, multinational and tax considerations are discussed.

Organizational Behavior (EKM 2402)

The course provides a knowledge of the behaviors in organizational settings by systematically studying individual, group, and organizational process. Among topics covered are individual and psychological characteristics, motivation, group behavior, teamwork, communications, decision making, leadership, culture, organizational structure and design, and managing organizational change. The aim of this course is to equip students with comprehensive knowledge of individual, group, and organizational behavior.

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.