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Certificate in Business Administration
Rationale
The Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a bachelor's degree in business studies. In most US universities, the degree is conferred upon a student after four years of full-time study (120 credit hours) in one or more areas of business concentrations. In the UK an ordinary degree can be competed in three years (full time) and requires 300 credit points whilst an honours degree would take 4 years (sandwich course with 1 years's industrial training) which would accumulate the required 360 credits. The BBA program usually includes general business courses and advanced courses for specific concentrations.
Business administration programs may be accredited to indicate that the school's educational curriculum meets specific quality standards. In US The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is generally regarded as being the most prestigious business program accreditation, covering business schools worldwide.
This programme offers degree, diploma and certificate courses in Business Administration, which prepare students to manage people and information in a dynamic environment. In an atmosphere conducive to either open learning, full-time or part-time study, the programme is especially sensitive to the needs international and mature students.
Tomorrow's business managers will graduate with a combination of business theory and practice in management, marketing, accounting and finance, as well as a solid foundation in the Information Technology and eBusiness. The studies students also acquire analytical, quantitative, communication and computer skills. Courses in business ethics and social responsibility are also offered.
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Certificate in Business Administration
The Certificate in Business Administration includes the initial 8 units of the degree programme and is available to students wishing to take their first steps towards a career in business, entrepreneurship or it could serve as a foundation course for further business studies. The degree, diploma and the certificate may be taken consecutively.
The certificate would be considered the first credential, and students must meet all requirements of both, the certificate and advanced diploma requirements to gain the award of the BBA:
Modules
- Introduction to Business
- Organisational Behaviour
- Business Accounting I
- Managerial Economics
- Marketing Fundamentals
- Microeconomics
- Quantitative Methods
- Business Finance I
- Human Resource Management
Business Finance I
The purpose of this course is to provide you with a basic foundation in corporate finance. You'll also be able to use these concepts if you choose to develop your own personal investment portfolio. The course includes a review of accounting principles as they apply to corporate finance, the financial environment of business, valuation of projects, companies, and investment securities, and how a business allocates financial resources in an uncertain environment to maximise shareholder wealth.
- Business Finance I
- Business Finance
- Financial Institutions, Markets, and Money
- Financial Management
- Financial Management: Principles and Applications
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Human Resource Management
This course explores the central, strategic role that HR plays in making organisations more competitive. It examines personnel management concepts and practices including: recruitment and selection of employees; equal opportunity; training and development; performance appraisals; compensation and benefits; and labour relations. This course has a special focus on the increase of globalization and workforce diversity in the high-performance organisation.
- Human Resource Management
- Human Resource Development
- Human Resource Management
- Organisational Behaviour
- Strategic Human Resource Management
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Introduction to Business
Understanding a business is not simple. Even selling your product or service on a regular basis to existing customers is not so straightforward. This course is not a comprehensive, "how to do it" guide. It merely introduces the main aspects of business you'll need to know something about. It offers the sort of investigation and information that is needed and the questions to be answered, in order to grasp the specific areas of the rest of your programme and, perhaps maybe more importantly, to enable you to plan for your own business start-up.
- Introduction to Business
- Business in Action
- Business Organisation
- Essential Marketing
- Financial Management
- Fundamentals of Operations Management 1
- Fundamentals of Operations Management 2
- Future of Business
- Human Resource Development
- Introduction to IT
- Strategic Management Process
- Supply Chain Management
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Managerial Economics
Managerial Economics (also called business economics), is a branch of economics that applies microeconomic analysis to specific business decisions. As such, it bridges economic theory and economics in practice. It draws heavily from quantitative techniques such as regression and correlation, Lagrangian calculus. If there is a unifying theme that runs through most of managerial economics it is the attempt to optimize business decisions given the firm's objectives and given constraints imposed by scarcity.
Almost any business decision can be analysed with managerial economics techniques, but it is most commonly applied to:
Risk analysis - various uncertainty models, decision rules, and risk quantification techniques are used to assess the riskiness of a decision.
Production analysis - microeconomic techniques are used to analyse production efficiency, optimum factor allocation, costs, economies of scale and to estimate the firm's cost function.
Pricing analysis - microeconomic techniques are used to analyse various pricing decisions including transfer pricing, joint product pricing, price discrimination, price elasticity estimations, and choosing the optimum pricing method.
Capital budgeting - Investment theory is used to examine a firm's capital purchasing decisions.
At universities, the subject is taught primarily to advanced undergrads. It is approached as an integration subject. That is, it integrates many concepts from a wide variety of prerequisite courses.
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Organisational Behaviour
Organisations are in a continuous state of change as they seek to adapt to external pressure to become more responsive to their customers and stakeholders. The ability to manage an organisation and its processes effectively contributes greatly to organisational survival and improved performance. Those responsible for the management need be aware of the implications of organisational structure and processes, at both the strategic and functional levels, on the overall efficiency and effectiveness of their own activity and that of the organisation in which they are located. They also need to have an understanding of current management theory, practices and the implications of technology.
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Business Accounting I
This course will examine basic financial accounting. Specifically, we will look at the forms of business, the users and use of financial accounting information, the nature and utility of financial statements, the elements of financial statements, and business transactions associated with specific elements. Throughout, the course will stress the relevance of various activities and transactions to financial statement users and decision makers.
The first part of the course will consist of an introduction to the nature of and need for financial accounting and reporting, the theoretical structure of financial accounting, and an examination of the basic financial statements from the user's perspective. The second part will consist of an in-depth examination of accounting for specific assets, and the relevance to decision makers. The third phase will examine liabilities and equities principles, and accounting for cash and receivables. The case method of instruction will be used extensively in this course.
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Marketing Fundamentals
The main objectives of the course are to establish a basic understanding of the theories and practices of marketing, and how marketing and public relations interact with the entire business process. The ethics and social responsibility of marketing will also be considered.
Furthermore, because communications skills - both oral and written - are required of successful business people, another of the purposes of the course is to sensitise you to the importance of good communication skills. As part of the course, therefore, you will do a variety of written (and one oral) communication exercises, which are discussed in more detail below.
A final goal is to begin to prepare you for careers beyond graduation - and have you learn how valuable marketing skills are in relation to a job-search. For this reason, a major project in this course is the Marketing Career Journal, which is discussed in more detail below.
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Principles
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Quantitative Methods
This is a course that is designed to give you the basic tools of collecting, analysing, presenting, and interpreting data. In the business community, managers must make decisions based on what will happen to such things as demand, costs, and profits. These decisions are an effort to shape the future of the organisation. If the managers make no effort to look at the past and extrapolate into the future, the likelihood of achieving success is slim.
In this course, we want to look at a number of mathematical tools that can assist the manager in this decision making process. The goal of this course is not to make you an accomplished statistician but to give you some appreciation of statistical techniques so that you may be able to determine if data that you may be given or may read in the literature is of value i.e., it is accurate and appropriate for the decision at hand. In this course many of the problems that we deal with will be small. This is necessitated because of the time constraint.
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Entrance Requirements
Admittance to the Programme is based on your educational background, work experience, motivation and command of English language.
You should possess the following or equivalent qualifications:
1. High School Leaving Certicate to equivalent of at least 5 GCSE and
2. 2 A-level passes or equivalent, or
3. Be a mature students, over 21 years of age, and have minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience.
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