MBA Online

Faculty of Business and Accountancy University of Malaya

: Finance and Banking
Programme of Study : Bachelor of Business Administration
Course Code : CBEB 2102
Course Title : Financial Management
Credit Hours : 3
Course Prerequisite(s) / None
Minimum Requirement(s) :
Learning Outcomes : At the end of this course, students should be able to :
1. Identify the principles and basic techniques of finance.
2. Describe the various types of financial instruments, roles and functions
of financial markets and relevant regulators in the country.
3. Distinguish and apply the concept of time value of money.
4. Analyze the factors that determine a company’s need for external
financing, be it debt or equity using appropriate financial ratios.
5. Examine the decisions that affect current assets and current liabilities
and the impact of these decisions on firm’s value.
6. Evaluate tools needed for valuing investment projects, including the
determination of the relevant cash flows and the appropriate discount
rate.
Synopsis of Course Contents : This course discusses the various financial tools employed to effectively
manage e a company’s financial condition. Other topics discussed are
financial statement and analysis, time value of money, bonds and stocks,
capital budgeting and its techniques and short-term working capital
management.
Assessment : Continuous Assessment : 50%
Final Examination : 50%

College of Graduate Study in Management at Khon Kaen University

Young Executive MBA program is operated during weekdays, and exclusively designed for new university graduates or those with less working experience who can devote themselves for study at the full time basis. This course is designed for middle managers and young entrepreneurs

Graduate Admission Entrance Examination

PhD Program
A PhD program is available for those students intending to become researchers after completing the Master’s program. There is no special entrance examination for foreign students for the PhD program. All applicants are required to take the general examination.

Applications for the entrance examination for the PhD program should be completed by the beginning of January. The examination will be conducted towards the beginning of February.

Exam SubjectsForeign Language, Interview (Oral Exam)
1. The interview (Oral Exam) will primarily involve questions on the “Master’s Thesis.”
2. The foreign language will be selected at the time of application.
3. Foreign students will take a language exam on either English or Japanese.

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.

1301: Business Administration
Winter N.Takahashi
Introductory class on Management Theory. The lecture gives theoretical foundation and current issue on the basic topics of management. Main contents (and key words) are as follows:
(1) Introduction (managerial renaissance)
(2) Diversification (survival time, diversification strategy, M&A)
(3) Portfolio (product portfolio management, learning curve, global management)
(4) Executive (managerial capitalism, separation of ownership and control, visible hand)
(5) Group (Zaibatsu, managerial revolution, organizational capabilities)
(6) Culture (dimensions of national culture, corporate culture, organizational activation)
(7) Function (management process school, functions of executives, essentials of management)
(8) Strategy (strategy and structure, game theoretic strategy, essentials of strategy)
(9) Organization (systems approach, program, firm as boundary, technical core, self-determination)
(10) Principle (decision principles, evolution of cooperation, Japanese style of management, lukewarm feeling, decision-making by flight, perspective).
Basic textbook is Managerial Renaissance (3rd Edition) by Nobuo Takahashi (Yuhikaku, 2006).

ICS , Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy

[Term 2] Strategy Simulation Week (2008/Term 1&2 (Fall&Winter))

To wrap up the first year, you will be working as part of top management team running a company in StratSim, a web-based, interactive simulation program that extends across multiple business functions, ranging from strategy, to marketing, to operations and human resources, and to accounting and finance. Your team will be competing against other teams in the rapidly changing automobile industry, where customer needs evolve, new products are introduced, and economic environment changes. Teams compete directly against each other, with the results being impacted by how the competitors interact, what new products are introduced, and how the strategic investments are financed.

In this six-day intensive program, you will work as one of the board members of a 3-4 person firm and make a total of 10 rounds of decisions, which is equivalent to 10 simulated years worth of managing your own company. You will also be asked to make two presentations – half-time and final presentations – to reflect on and share your learning with other teams. The tentative schedule is as follows:

Monday
Feb 23
9:00 Introduction
13:00 Decision #1
18:00 Decision #2

Tuesday
Feb 24
9:00 Decision #3
13:00 Decision #4
18:00 Decision #5

Wednesday
Feb 25
13:00-16:00 Half-Time Presentation

Thursday
Feb 26
13:00 Decision #6
18:00 Decision #7

Friday
Feb 27
9:00 Decision #8
13:00 Decision #9
18:00 Decision #10

Saturday
Feb 28
13:00-16:00 Final Presentation

The program has been consistently voted by students in the past years as one of the “most memorable” learning experiences at ICS. Offered at the very end of the first year, it provides you with an opportunity to integrate everything you have learned throughout the year and also the very last chance to learn from each other by collaborating and competing with your classmates.

The registration costs $39.95 per student for software licensing and a copy of the StratSim manual. Further specifics will be explained in the information session in Term 2. (You are also encouraged to visit.)

Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Hong Kong
ECON0207 Monetary economics

Semester : 1
For Student of Year : 2 & 3

This course discusses the role of money in the economy, including how money affects inflation, interest rates and output and employment in both the static and dynamic contexts. Related topics are theories of money demand and supply, the conduct of monetary policy, rules vs. discretion, adaptive and rational expectations, time inconsistency, origin of money, and electronic means of payments.

Project Management (EKM 3304)

This course identifies the tools and techniques in problem solving associated with bringing projects in on time and within an established budget. Discussion will include topics such as project scheduling, PERT/CPM, resource leveling, team dynamics and cost estimates. The course objectives are (1) to enable students to explain the concept of virtual organization of project management, design a system for a given manufacturing, service or program which meet the criteria of POM, (2) to enable students design a temporary organization and the negotiation/contract arrangement for a project or program, (3) to enable students to identify and differentiate strategic decisions from tactical decisions in project management, and (4) to implement the concepts of TQM, re-engineering, benchmarking, core competence, and ISO in the international bidding process for projects or programs in order to establish capability-based competition.

Business Ethics (EKA 3603)

The course discusses ethical issues in business. A human being is a moral or ethical being, from time to time, he or she is involved in exercising his or her free will in a continuous flow of moral or ethical decisions of choosing good or bad conducts in his or her life. The course is specially designed to covers deep and thorough discussions of moral or ethical issues in business. To enhance the understanding, dome empirical cases of business ethics are utilized.

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.