...ASB-3101 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Credits: 10 Contact hours: 23 Semester: 1 Pre-requisites: ASB-2104 Module organiser: Sally Sambrook Note: This module is available through the medium of Welsh (ACB-3101). Aims: To examine issues and developments in the field of contemporary human resource management (HRM). To develop an understanding of the complex issues facing human resource (HR) specialists and line managers in meeting their responsibilities for selecting, deploying, training, appraising, rewarding, relating to and retaining human resources. Learning Outcomes: On completing the module, students are expected to be able to: • Explain the contribution of the HR function to corporate strategy; • Discuss the processes of recruitment, assessment and selection; • Outline activities involved in developing human resources and facilitating learning; • Explain the link between rewards, motivation and performance; • Critically evaluate the changing employment relationship, assessing the role of trade unions and other forms of employee involvement. Module Content: • History of the HR function, theories and models of HRM; • The roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in HRM; • The changing nature of work, managing diversity, technology and flexibility; • Human resourcing: recruitment and selection, human resource planning; • Reward and performance management; • Employee relations, employment legislation...
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...Course Code: C201 Cost and Management Accounting (CMA) 1. Objectives: The course intends to equip students with the ability to apply cost concepts in managerial decision making. At the end of the course, they are expected to have learnt the methodology and techniques for application of cost and managerial accounting and information in the formation of policies and in the planning and control of the operations of the organization. The course covers the nature of managerial accounting; activity costing; marginal costing; standard costing, etc. 2. Course Duration The course will have 45 sessions of 60minutes duration. 3. Course Contents Assignment of sessions to the modules of course is as follows: Module No. | Modules/ Sub modules | Sessions | Marks (Uni. Exam) | I | Cost Management and Cost EstimationCost and Management Accounting OverviewVarious Cost Concepts. Cost Estimation approaches, tools and techniques | 9 | 20 | II | Cost allocation and Job/ batch CostingCost Allocation, Activity Based and Target CostingJob and Batch Costing Introduction to the concept of operating costs | 9 | 20 | III | Costing MethodsOperating Costing. Process Costing and Joint and By product Costing. | 9 | 20 | IV | Management ApplicationsMarginal (Variable) Costing and Absorption Costing Decision Involving Alternative Choices and Pricing DecisionsMake-or-Buy | 9 | 20 | V | Planning, Control and Decision MakingBudgeting and Budgetary Control SystemStandard...
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...FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND POLICIES FIRST YEAR REQUIRED COURSE PACKET Quarter III, Spring 2010 FACULTY Section I: Section II: Section III: SectionIV: Section V: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND POLICIES Quarter III, Spring 2010 Elena Loutskina Marc Lipson Robert Conroy MarcLipson Elena Loutskina IMPORTANT SCHEDULE ANNOUNCEMENT: Thursday, February 19 is a DAY LONG exercise that requires your participation until 5:30pm that evening. By compressing the exercise into a single day we were able to designate Friday as a Reading Day. Please DO NOT schedule any travel until after your obligation for the exercise ends at 5:30pm Thursday evening. COURSE DESCRIPTION First-Year Financial Management and Policies (FMP) reflects three important features of the Darden MBA Program: (1) it is a general management program; (2) the program, through its frequent use of the case method of instruction, has a practical, pragmatic bias and a decision- orientation; and (3) the first-year program provides the basic training on which students can build in the second-year. Consistent with the first-year program, FMP aims to provide: 1. An Introduction. The course provides the basic framework necessary to pursue further study in finance in the second-year of the MBA program and on his or her own thereafter. This framework is an orientation towards valuation. 2. Basic Mastery. The course emphasizes essentials, the tools and concepts that every general manager, entrepreneur, or manager in other functional fields...
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...FIN4801/101/0/2012 Advanced Financial Management FIN4801 YEAR COURSE Department of Finance, Risk Management and Banking Tutorial letter 101/0/2012 This tutorial letter contains important information about your module. Bar code CONTENTS 1 1.1 2 2.1 2.2 3 3.1 3.2 4 4.1 4.2 4.3 5 6 7 8 8.1 8.2 8.3 INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME ....................................................................................................... 3 Tutorial matter ................................................................................................................................... 3 PURPOSE OF AND OUTCOMES FOR THE MODULE ........................................................................ 4 Purpose ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Outcomes .......................................................................................................................................... 4 LECTURER AND CONTACT DETAILS ................................................................................................ 5 Lecturer ............................................................................................................................................. 5 Department ........................................................................................................................................ 5 MODULE RELATED RESOURCES ................................................
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...BANGALORE MANAGEMENT ACADEMY MBA (International) COURSE CURRICULLUM - TERM II 1. Module Title: Production and Operations Management 2. Module Description: The module employs a systems approach to examine the production and information systems of organisations, with a focus on the integration of transformation activities of firms to produce goods and services and the information systems that link these processes. Throughout the module the use of information technology to carry out these functions and improve operations will be emphasised. This module is also intended to be a survey of the operating practices and procedures found in both manufacturing and service delivery firms. It will focus on those business processes and procedures used to transform various inputs into finished goods and services. The value added aspects of Operations Management such as purchasing, material requirements planning, inventory control and project management are also covered. 3. Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of the module the students will be able to: describe how organisations can reduce waste and improve quality. explain the impact and importance of the customer-supplier-competitor relationship within business operations. apply quantitative tools and techniques for planning, predicting, measuring and monitoring operations. base strategic decisions on information derived from these tools and techniques. understand the relationship between operations...
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...[pic] Cardiff School of ManAgement ____________________________________________________________ Module Name: Accounting For Decision Makers Module No: __ MBA 7001 Assignment Weightage: 50% Submission Date: 13 May 2016 The aim of this assignment is to enable students to apply the knowledge and skills of analysing and interpreting financial statements acquired from the Accounting for Decision Makers module in to a real-life public listed company. Learning Objectives: 1. To allow students to synthesise and integrate the principles and theories of accounting, together with strategic management in assessing the profile and development of an organisation. 2. To critically analyse and evaluate an organisation’s performance through the interpretation of financial statements. 3. To be able to make imaginative and constructive decisions based on the analysis of the organisation. Required: The analysis and interpretation of a company’s financial performance and position would first require the use of financial ratios to examine the various financial aspects of the company. A comparison of the financial ratios over time would enable the management to take appropriate actions in dealing with the issues and challenges of the business. Select a public listed company in Singapore from company’s website (under the investor relations heading) and obtain the most recent set of its annual report within the previous twelve months. You should also take...
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...MBA (IB) THIRD SEMESTER -- CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM (NEW SYLLABUS) COMPULSORY PAPERS Title: Total Quality Management Subject Code: 3001 Contact Hours: 45 hrs Work load: 3 hrs per week Credit Points: 3 Evaluation: Continuous Internal Assessment – 25 marks Semester End Examination -- 50 marks Objectives: This cour se is designed to help students to develop basic appreciation of quality concepts and learn the tools and techniques to achieve quality. It also gives the totally integrated effort for gaining competitive advantage by continuously improving every facet of an organization’s activities. Pedagogy : Lectures, Assignments, case studies, seminar, MODULE 1 Introduction to TQM: Various definitions of quality and TQM, Core concepts of quality, The masters of quality(W Edwards Deming, Joseph M Juran, Philiph B Crosby, Kaoru Ishikawa, Ginichi Taguchi, Shigeo shingo) Evolution of quality, The Total Quality Management Excellence Model, Strategic Quality Management, Lecture, Numerical Exercises on cost of quality, TPM 1. Basterfield H Dale and others, Total Quality Management, Pearson Education/PHI, Inc. 2006. 2. K.Shridhar Bhat Total Quality Management (Himalaya publishing house 2005). 3. Poornima M Charantimath, Total Quality Management, Pearson Education, 2003. MODULE 2 Continuous process improvement: Concepts of Kaizen, Kaizen vs. Innovation, Kaizen Strategy, House of Quality...
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...Gujarat Technological University MBA Semester - IV Syllabus for MBA Programme effective from the Academic Year 2009-10 onwards The course curriculum and syllabus for MBA of Gujarat Technological University are devised considering the norms of AICTE/UGC. While preparing the syllabus, the syllabi of different national level universities/institutions have been taken into account. This syllabus has endeavoured to strike a balance between theory and practice and classic and contemporary concepts. The MBA programme of Gujarat Technological University (GTU) will be conducted on a semester basis with four semesters spread over two academic years. The duration of each semester will be around 15 weeks. In each semester there will be seven courses/subjects. In the first year all the 14 courses are compulsory. In the second year there will be three types of courses, namely, compulsory, electives and sectorial specialisation. The MBA programme will have four electives, namely, Marketing, Finance, Human Resource and Information Systems. A student can choose any one of the four electives. There will be five sectorial specialization areas, namely, Retail, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Rural and Cooperatives, Public Systems and Policy, and Banking and Insurance. A candidate has to opt for one of the sectorial areas. In each semester of the second year there will be three compulsory courses, three electives and one sectorial course, thus making a total of six compulsory courses, six elective...
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...Marketing Management MGT 310-Module Handbook Marketing Management Module Handbook Course Code MGT310 BBA-5C Dr. Sher Akbar Faculty of Business Administration Department of Management Sciences Department of Management Sciences, CIIT Islamabad 1 of 8 Marketing Management MGT 310-Module Handbook Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 3 Contacting the Module Instructor ............................................................................................... 3 Aims for this Course .................................................................................................................. 3 Prerequisites.............................................................................................................................. 3 Learning Outcomes ................................................................................................................... 3 Assessment Scheme ................................................................................................................. 4 Recommended Text & Reading Materials ................................................................................. 4 Course Requirements and Expectations ................................................................................... 4 Assessed Coursework ..............................................................................
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...Course Syllabus BUSI 530 Managerial Finance Course Description A treatment of the theory and practice of financial decision making in the firm, with emphasis on the practical application of financial analysis, the course is based on the principle that a firm should be managed to increase the wealth of its shareholders. The target audience is managers, at all levels and in all functional areas. Beginning with an overview of financial analysis, the course topics include financial management, capital investment decisions, financing decisions, and managing for value creation. Importance is placed on the concept of the time value of money. A firm is an ongoing concern. Financial decisions and the value of a firm must be evaluated in terms of the sequencing and amount of the cash flows generated. Rationale One of the primary objectives of this course is to provide managers, or those aspiring to that level, with the understanding required to manage the financial decision making process effectively. Understanding the operations of a firm or a specific capital project from a financial perspective is critical to being a well-rounded manager. I. Prerequisites None II. Required Resource Purchase Brealey, R. A., & Myers, S. C., & Marcus, A. J. (2011). Fundamentals of corporate finance with Connect Plus (7th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 978-0-07-7596118. Disclaimer: The above resource provides information consistent with the...
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... Center for Management and Leadership Master of Business Administration MODULE: FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING Lecturer Ryan Isebia Subject Financial Accounting Objective of this module The objective of this module is to help the students develop a sufficient understanding of the basic concepts underlying financial statements so that they can apply the concepts to new and different situations. Furthermore, this module seeks to train students in accounting terminology and methods so that they can interpret, analyze, and evaluate financial statements published in corporate annual reports. The text for this module presents the concepts of financial accounting in a logical format. Essential topics are covered in sufficient depth to substantiate basic technical understanding and to support the application of the material to organizational problems. Each chapter begins with the learning objectives of the chapter. The chapters contain an in-depth presentation of the subjects. To aid the students, the chapters also contain at the end of each section some questions, exercises, problems and cases. Furthermore, at the end of each chapter the key terms and concepts that have been addressed in the chapters are presented. These sections serve as excellent means for the students to review and master the material. Class format: The module will consist: ▪ Class lectures ▪ Selfstudy ▪ Assignments – in class and take...
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...Gujarat Technological University Syllabus for New MBA Program effective from Academic Year 2011-12 (Also applicable to 2nd Year Students of 2010-12 Batch MBA Program) COMPULSORY COURSES MBA-II Semester-IV Sub Name: - Comprehensive Project Report – Industry Defined Problem (CP-IDP) Sub Code: - 2830004 In addition to Major Specializations, there will be over sixty Sectorial / Industry Areas for Practical studies in which theoretical papers / books are not to be taught in regular classroom sessions, but the teachers and students are free to use any available books, publications and online material to understand and guide the students for various sectors. Ideally, a teacher should study and specialize in at least TWO Sectors, so four teachers can guide 60 students in a class. (Reference: Appendix 1: List of Sectorial Areas for Comprehensive Project study given in Sem III Syllabus). This report is similar to the Grand Project, which was the part of earlier syllabus. The Comprehensive Project Report is based on the research methodology and students have to prepare the research report by using appropriate scientific statistical research tools for preparation of the CP in consultation with the faculty guide. (Please also refer the Guidelines for CP in MBA Semester III, as the same Project Title continues in Semester IV). A student has to opt for any ONE of the Sectorial Areas and study it thoroughly. The students may undertake the CP based on the selection of an Industry Defined Problem...
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...data as an aid to decision making. The main purpose is to assist the students in developing skills in problem solving and decision making in the financial area. Emphasis is laid on analysis and utilization of financial and accounting data for planning and control. 2. Course Duration: The course duration is of 36 sessions of 75 minutes each i.e. 45 hours. 3. Course Contents: Module No: Module Content No. of Sessions 70 Marks (External Evaluation) 17 I II Fundamentals of Accounting Basic understanding of accounting, Accounting Concepts, Conceptual framework of financial statements, Accounting Policies, Journal Entries and preparation of accounts - Trial Balance to Balance sheet and profit and loss Account, Recognition of Income and Expenses, Provisions, Contingent Liabilities Accounting Standards and Applicability: Disclosure of Accounting Policies (AS-1), Valuation of Inventories (AS-2), Depreciation Accounting (AS-6), Income Recognition & Accrual Income (AS-9), Accounting of Fixed Assets (AS-10), Accounting for Intangible Assets (AS-26), Accounting for Investments (AS-13), 7 7 17 III IV V Preparing and Understanding Financial Statements : Corporate Balance sheet, Profit and Loss Account Funds Flow Analysis, Financial Statement Analysis & Contemporary Issues Students should select a particular company and do financial analysis of the same and prepare a report and give a presentation 7 7 8 18 18 Internal Evaluation (20 marks of CEC) 4. Teaching Method:...
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...Fourth Edition Financial & Managerial Accounting for MBAs Peter D. Easton Robert F. Halsey Mary Lea McAnally Al L. Hartgraves Wayne J. Morse Cambridge Business Publishers To my daughters, Joanne and Stacey —PDE To my wife Ellie and children, Grace and Christian —RFH To my husband Brittan and my children Loic, Cindy, Maclean, Quinn and Kay. —MLM To my wife Aline. —ALH To my family and students. —WJM Cambridge Business Publishers FINANCIAL & MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING FOR MBAs, Fourth Edition, by Peter D. Easton, Robert F. Halsey, Mary Lea McAnally, Al L. Hartgraves, and Wayne J. Morse. COPYRIGHT © 2015 by Cambridge Business Publishers, LLC. Published by Cambridge Business Publishers, LLC. Exclusive rights by Cambridge Business Publishers, LLC for manufacture and export. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or stored in a database or retrieval system in any form or by any means, without prior written consent of Cambridge Business Publishers, LLC, including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Student Edition ISBN 978-1-61853-102-5 Bookstores & Faculty: to order this book, call 800-619-6473 or email customerservice@cambridgepub.com. Students: to order this book, please visit the book’s website and order directly online. Printed in the United States of America. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 About the Authors ...
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