MBA Online

Faculty of Business and Accountancy University of Malaya
Faculty : Business and Accountancy
Department : Business Policy and Strategy
Programme of Study : Bachelor of Business Administration
Bachelor of Accounting
Course Code : CBEB3101
Course Title : Business Ethics
Credit Hours : 3
Course Prerequisite(s) / None
Minimum Requirement(s) :
Learning Outcomes : At the end of this course, students should be able to:
1. Analyse the important governance and ethical issues that may arise in
business today.
2. Apply the relevant governance and ethical concepts that are necessary
for resolving those issues.
3. Explain the role of company directors in promoting good corporate
governance.
4. Analyse the role of shareholders in promoting good corporate
governance.
5. Analyse the role of regulatory bodies in promoting good corporate
governance.
Synopsis of Course Contents : Issues in corporate governance and ethics are highly topical issues in
today’s world of business. Governance and ethical issues arise in almost
every aspect of corporate life and it is the responsibility of managers to
handle these issues. The objective of the course is to sensitise students
to these governance and ethical issues in organisations and to provide
them with techniques for analysing and resolving those issues. With
growing public concern about the roles of owners and managers and
issues concerning “stakeholder” participation, the course will discuss the
importance of responsible corporate behaviour and good corporate
governance.
Assessment : Continuous Assessment : 50%
Final Examination : 50%

Advanced Seminar I, II and III (E-Business Thesis Work)
The E-Biz program at IUJ gives lots of flexibility to the students in completing their thesis work, which is a requirement for graduation in the E-Biz program. Once students get familiar with the program, they will be asked to elect a thesis supervisor. Selecting the thesis topic is one of the most important things in the thesis project. It is expected that students will keep their career objectives in mind when electing a thesis topic, and supervising professor. Though students normally elect professors of E-Biz program as their supervisors, depending upon the career objective, technically they can elect any professor in GSIM as a supervisor.

Thesis work extending over the three terms, including summer time, allows students to do a project that would use their learning at E-Biz and get close cooperation from the supervising professor. A thesis project can produce, for example, a new business plan, a new business idea, a completely new technology, a strategic plan involving technologies, or a comprehensive industry analysis, or competitive strategy. The facilities available to the students, including unlimited access to E-Lab, and the close association with professors at both EBM and MBA program, including the industry experts, give a unique opportunity to produce a truly remarkable piece of work that would help in securing a very successful career after graduation. The three term thesis work accounts for 6 credit hours.

Corporate Finance
The objective of this course is to provide a thorough introduction to the fundamental principles of asset valuation and financing in competitive financial markets. The course examines the important issues in corporate finance from a perspective of financial managers who need to make significant investment and financing decisions. We start with the NPV rule, which leads us to the valuation of debt and equity. We then investigate the efficient market hypothesis and examine the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the portfolio theories in such a market. We also learn to use the NPV rule to justify capital investment decisions. Option pricing will be the last step in our venture into the world of corporate finance. While this course is not designed to teach an abstract mathematical theory of modern financial economics, a basic theoretical understanding of various topics is essential to competent analysis and intellectual discussion. Furthermore, in examining issues in portfolio diversification, knowledge of basic statistics and spreadsheets will be essential and assumed. Prerequisite: Statistics. Co-requisite: Financial Accounting and/or Managerial Economics.

ICS , Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy

[Term 1] Knowledge Management (I. Nonaka / K. Ichijo) (2008/Term 1&2 (Fall&Winter))

The objective of this course is to offer an overview of knowledge management through philosophy, academic articles, and case studies. Starting with the definition of knowledge, students will learn various aspects of knowledge creation and utilization and are expected to understand the theory of knowledge creation as well as the practical application of knowledge management.
Course Structure

The course starts with the definition of knowledge by such philosophers as Descartes, Nishida, and Plato. Next, classical organization theoretical works, such as those of Barnard, Simon, and Maslow will be discussed to see how organizational knowledge-creating theory is based on them, and how it differs from them. Then, the theory of organizational knowledge creation will be discussed, including various components such as ba, knowledge assets, leadership, and enablers.

The theoretical part is followed up by the study of case studies to learn how firms have built their knowledge-based business systems. Companies such as Suntory, Seven-Eleven, Eisai, Honda, NTT DoCoMo, and the U.S. Marines will be studied.

Students will also learn about theory building methodologies to construct their own theory. Finally, the application of knowledge creating theory to broader fields, such as regional or national knowledge creation, will be discussed.
Teaching Method

The theoretical part of the course will be conducted mostly through the use of lectures and the dialectic approach. The application part of the course, which deals with knowledge creation within companies, will be conducted mostly through the use of case studies and discussion, augmented by outside speakers representing the respective companies taken up in the case studies. Also, throughout the course, students are required to make presentations in small groups on what they have learned.

FINA1001 Financial statement analysis

Semester : 2
For Student of Year : 2 & 3

This course covers the basic issues and principles of fundamental analysis, which deals with the valuation of a firm’s equity shares and debt by using the information of financial statements. The objective of this course is to enable students to understand the key financial statements, important elements of financial statement analysis, and the application of financial statement analysis to forecasting and valuation analysis.

Extra Information

Prerequisite: BUSI1002 Introduction to Accounting.

FINA0304 Advanced Corporate Finance

Semester : 1 & 2
For Student of Year : 2&3

The objective of this course is to introduce the theoretical literature on the microeconomics of corporate finance in a unified framework. Topics covered include: corporate financing and agency costs, corporate financing under asymmetric information, liquidity and risk management, corporate finance and product markets, passive and active monitoring in corporate finance, lending relationship and investor activism, control rights and corporate governance, and takeovers. Subtle elements of information and agency considerations are emphasized.

Extra Information

Pre-requisite: FINA1003 Corporate finance
Mutually exclusive course: FINA0302 Theories of corporate finance

Service Marketing (EKM 3110)

This course examines the differences between the marketing concept for services and tangible goods. It explains the relevant three main models for the service marketing activities; service triangle, service marketing mix and gaps model from the service quality. With special reference to these models, students are expected to analytically investigate challenges faced by service firms and hence to be able to develop services marketing strategies and tactics for gaining competitive advantage. The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of decision-making processes performed by marketing managers in service firms. Students are expected to acquire basic knowledge to assist decision making related to: managing consumers’ expectations and perceptions; efforts of building consumer relationship and service recovery; efforts of collaborating strategies with design and service standards; efforts of developing service performance, service promises, and minimizing service gaps.

Seminar In Management (EKM 2501)

This course describes the determinants of an organization success in the global setting. Those determinants are the ability of an organization to (1) reorganize and renew itself, (2) focus itself on internal and external changes, and (3) fit with its environment. Several contemporary concepts of finding organization-environment fit are discussed in this course. The objective of the course is to broaden students’ insights on contemporary management issues and concepts. Understanding those issues and concepts will prepare students to enter the real business world and contribute to organizations in order to effectively and efficiently respond toward environmental changes.

Education target
EMBA of Nankai University, for outsanding original capability and features of Nankai University and perfecting EMBA brand , is innovating and reforming some aspects such as the plan of training, courses construction, teacher arrangement, teaching management, and students recruiting .

First, to set up education target of EMBA from students themselves features and economy circumstance. Most senior-management staff in our country brought up in the period of transition from planned economy to market economy. As successful managers who are in rich of running business experience, most of them, have not been educated in systematic knowledge of modern business management.

Second, according to the features of students and demands of social economy circumstance development, to achieve the education target of EMBA, we ensure the contents of EMBA education target as follows:
1, good commerce molarity
2, systematic knowledge of management
3, capability of exploitation and creation
4, international experience and strategy vision
5,capabilityof judgement and over-all charge
6, stronger capability of leadership

Depending on all aspects above, EMBA program proposed the faith of “ make successful people more successful ”.
Third, as the new program , EMBA need develop with practice , exploration and construction . Based on the objective conditions of Nankai University and learning from foreign universities, EMBA program ,which formed an idea of development of education target, explores positively, proceeds systematically, and develops steadily.

Besides showing theories and knowledge of business administration , we should add some contents that to enlight students on practice ,help student to solve the realistic problems in their operations, meawhile, model some relevant contents of option courses to tighten contents of courses , arrange lectures and speeches, provide more cases to fasten interaction and flexiblity.

For achieving education target of EMBA, on the base of fastening present class of comprehensive management experience and marketing research, combining with backgrounds of dominant subjests and majors, knowing of different industies’ students’ needs, we open classes for special industries’senior-management staff, and provide stage for them.

We should do more on sorting out and integrating teachers resource, try our best to coordinate excellent teachers from domestic, Nankai University, and overseas, perfect standards of inviting teachers, clarify details of teachers’ duties and quality of education evaluation, organize steady teaching team and foreign teachers, emphasize to arrange teachers depending on course design, look for the best teachers team, and arouse teacher resource all over university , recommend outstanding foreign teachers positively, enlarge and update information of teachers without stop, use of present resource efficiently to achieve the target of sharing teachers resource.

We should go a step further to strengthen team and brand construction. To maintain the healthy circulation of the chain of society—school—enterprise—society, EMBA Club motivates students by organizing all kinds of lectures ,speeches, forums, enterprises visiting and some other activities, and help all the students to make the value of EMBA to become ture in the reality.

EMBA Program

Taught against the backdrop of the Chinese and Asian business worlds, the objective of the Executive MBA (EMBA) Program is to provide systematic and rigorous training in the best management practices pursued by the world¡¯s leading organizations. The program is offered both in a standard format and as a tailor-made course. Comparing to the full-time programs, it has less quantitative analysis, and the applicants are required to have a track record of at least ten years work experiences including five years of management experience in addition to standard entrance exams. The Executive MBA Program is modular with a monthly four-day seminar and a total of 20 months are needed to complete the program.