EMBA – Accounting and Finance

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Critically review and analyse the importance of HRM and its practices in an organisation, and how it can be linked with organisational behaviour activities in overcoming business issues and challenges for a better performance of the organisation.
• Critically review and analyse the framework of leadership and consider the nature, strengths, and weaknesses of the various approaches: traits; functional; behavioural; style; contingency. The continuum of leadership behaviour should be explored in some depth with consideration of the factors determining the chosen leadership style.
• Discuss the concept of organisational behaviour and its interface with management. Review and critically synthesize the various influences on behaviour in organisations and the interface with management in integrating and balancing these.
• Asses the role of IHRM and its impact on global organisation. Identify some of the key HRM challenges facing organisations working internationally. Discuss the prevalent HRM practices and integrating the best practices in global organisation.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Know the various tools, techniques and apply suitable tools and techniques in different alternative scenarios of Operations Management.
• Apply information management techniques and evaluate them in context of operational functions to achieve competitive advantage and make the organization globally competitive.
• Apply and critically evaluate the importance of project management to given business situations (Using PERT / CPM).
• Demonstrate operations strategy in domestic and global context and evaluate how the use of technology has impacted the operational functions.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Identify and analyse the implications for managing strategic change in supporting organisational transformation.
• Analyse the organisational management challenges faced during the transformation and changes experienced by the organisation.
• Analyse and evaluate the significance of strategy employed in trying to bring about an effective change management in an organisation. How does this impact leadership and human behaviour in the organisation?
• Evaluate different change management theories propounded on management and leadership attributes which leads to enhanced contribution by managers and the employees.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Analyse the changing business environment(s) globally and how they pose challenges to marketing management functions in organisations.
• Develop marketing plans with application of appropriate marketing models, tools, and techniques
• Evaluate the processes involved in brand management and how they influence consumer behaviour
• Evaluate the skills set needed as a creative marketer to launch new products/services in a dynamic global marketplace.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understand the use of the key functional areas of marketing, strategy, finance, accounting and operations management in support of wider organizational activity.
• Critically analyse the financial reports of a public listed company in support of gauging and understanding the wider organizational financial activity.
• Understand different budgeting techniques and advise on suitable budgeting techniques that a company can adopt for its planning and control.
• Understand various prevalent performance measurement systems, discuss their suitability and appropriateness in a range of different environments.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understand the planning, budgeting, and forecasting concepts of finance management.
• Understand the control of performance management and internal control environment for risk control.
• Understand the financial statement and decision analysis, including risk management.
• Understand the control and management of operational and financial risk in a business.

• Dissertation is an opportunity for you to demonstrate your ability to investigate an issue of your own choice over a significant period. Essentially this is an individual effort, but it is carried out with the guidance and advice of your supervisor. Research is a creative and investigative process which only you can develop fully.
• A supervisor/dissertation guide will be appointed to each student and the role of the supervisor is to act as a learning resource for the student. It is the student’s responsibility to make use of that opportunity, in consultation with the supervisor. The student is therefore expected to accept responsibility for the management of his/her learning.

Dissertation is an opportunity for students to demonstrate their ability to investigate issues of their own choice over a significant period. Essentially this is an individual effort, but it is carried out with the guidance and advice of a supervisor. Research is a creative and investigative process which only learners can develop fully. A supervisor/dissertation guide will be appointed to each student and the role of the supervisor is to act as a learning resource for the student. It is the student’s responsibility to make use of that opportunity, in consultation with the supervisor. The student is therefore expected to accept responsibility for the management of his/her learning. Following the allocation of a supervisor, the student should contact the supervisor to arrange a meeting.

The supervisor will assist in: –

• Clarifying the terms of the research.
• Suggesting areas of reading.
• Reviewing the proposed methodology.
• Establishing a timetable for the research which also includes initial dates for further meetings between the student and supervisor.
• Advising the student about appropriate standards and conventions concerning the assessment.