Business Administration

Business Administration (2 years, plus an optional Foundation Year, Diploma)

The course:

Our Diploma course offers you the opportunity to learn about business, and prepares you for working in the business world.
The diploma course covers the core business skills, which are essential to be effective in today’s work. We place much emphasis on the development of practical skills which can be applied in your future working life.
The course structure provides you with the opportunity to develop your own interests and specialisms, with route ways in marketing, human resources, finance, and accounting and information technology.
With a sound business studies education, you will have a wide range of opportunity in the kind of work you choose to undertake, or the organizations you can move into in the commercial, industrial, or public sector. Should you wish to advance these studies, the Diploma in Business Administration can lead on to a degree program or further professional training. It is particularly closely linked to BA, Business administration, of many UK Universities and Colleges
Students enrolled in this program earn a Diploma in Business Administration. The program is designed to prepare students for entry-level positions in private and public organizations and for higher studies in business.
The aims and objectives of the program are:
1. To enhance the students’ critical thinking and develop their basic analytical and decision-making skills.
2. To provide students with a broad understanding of the fundamental principles and theories of the basic areas of business including economics, accounting, finance, management and marketing.
3. To equip graduates with a solid academic, technical and intellectual background that will enable them to pursue higher studies in undergraduate and professional schools.

1st Semester
MGT 101 – Introduction to Management

This course aims to provide a broad introduction to theories of management, and to appraise their relevance in contemporary management practice.

MTH 102 – Maths
The course provides an in-depth analysis of algebra.

1. a) Number System
2. b) Equations and Inequalities
3. c) Functions and Graphs

d)Polynomial and Rational Functions

1. e) Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
2. f) Systems of Equation and Inequalities

 & presents introductory concepts of trigonometry.

ACC 103 – Accounting I

This course is an introduction to accounting. Its main aim is to provide students with the basic techniques and skills required in order to prepare a set of financial statements comprising an income statement, a balance sheet and a cash flow statement. The course includes accounting principles and concepts, double-entry bookkeeping and an introduction to the accounting regulatory framework.

ECO 104 – Microeconomics
This introductory economics course aims:

• To provide an essential, simple, useable body of economic theory, which will both provide the basis for further study and equip students with a real understanding of the role of economics in business, public and private decision making.
• To apply the theory to analysis of the real world
• To convince students, using a blend of theory, applications and policy analysis, that economics is both interesting and relevant.

CSC  106 – Computer Fundamentals
The main objectives of the course are to:

• Introduce computers and information processing
• Cover computer literacy topics including a brief history of computing
• Examine information technology (input, output, storage processing), current trends in the use of computers and impact of computers on society

2nd Semester
 BUS  201 – Business Environment

The aim of this course is to encourage learners to identify the objectives of organisations and the influence of stakeholders. Learners are also encouraged to investigate the operation of organisations in relation to the local, national and global environment. The course also provides learners with a solid base of understanding of the parameters within which organisations act that can be built upon in further units.

MGT 202 – Organisations & Behaviour
This course provides an introduction to the nature of organisations in relation to management practices. The unit examines the internal nature of organisations from both a theoretical and practical viewpoint. The unit is intended to develop an understanding of the behaviour of people within organisations and the significance of organisational design and characteristics. It also aims to provide the basis for, and to underpin further study in, specialist areas of business.

ACC 203 – Accounting II
This course builds on Accounting 1 to cover advanced aspects of financial accounting. It also covers introductory aspects of management accounting suitable for use at all levels up to and including professional foundation level courses and first-year degree courses.

MTH 204 – Statistics
This course aims to help students to appreciate the significance of applications in statistics and presents basic statistical concepts and their use in descriptive and inferential statistics.

ECO 205 – Macroeconomics
This course covers the macroeconomics of development and the international economy.  The macroeconomics of development deals with issues relating to the determination of national income, inflation, balance of payments disequilibrium, exchange rates and economic stabilization.  Topics in the international economy will include the gains from trade, the theory and experience of protection, the terms of trade debate, and the implications of the multilateral trading system for developing countries.

 3rd Semester

 MGT 301 – Operations Management

 The objectives of this course are to provide the students with an understanding of the role of operation manager in an organization, and to illustrate how an organization can get a competitive advantage in the marketplace through greater productivity, lower costs, quicker response, predictable deliveries, and better quality.

CSC 302 – Introduction to E – Business
This course introduces the learner to the scope of e-business and the benefits it offers to an organisation through the different business models. It also provides sufficient understanding of internet technology for learners to appreciate the potential, and the limitations, of using the internet for business. The features of good website design (ease of navigation, speed) are also covered.

MKT 303 – Marketing
This course aims to provide learners with an introduction to the fundamental concepts and principles that underpin the marketing process. In addition, it examines the role and practice of marketing within the changing business environment. This broad-based course will provide all learners with a concise and contemporary overview of marketing, and equip them with the knowledge and skills to underpin further study in the specialist field of marketing.

FIN 304 – Financial Reporting
 The aim of the course is to introduce students to the theory and practice of financial accounting. This area of accounting deals with the reporting of information to external users of financial statements. From the perspective of theory, emphasis is placed on establishing who these users are and what their needs are. It cannot be assumed that these will be met without the intervention of the government or professional accounting bodies and some of the module is devoted to issues in regulation of external financial reporting.

HRM 305 – Human Resources Management
 This Course provides an introduction to the concepts and practices of human resources management. The aim of the unit is to provide an understanding of the human resources management role and function within the key areas of resourcing, reward, development and relations.

4th Semester

LAW 401 – European Law
This course provides the learner with an introduction to the principles of European law which relate to the integration of those legal rules within the domestic legal framework and the impact of European Union legal rules upon the individual and business organisations.

It will also provide an introduction to EU wide legal rules which impact upon persons seeking work in other member states and how business organisations are able to promote and set up branches of the business in other member states.

HRM 402 – Employee Relations
The main aim of this course is to provide a general introduction to employee relations and to develop knowledge and understanding of the changes which have taken place over the years with respect to the employment relationship in Europe. The course considers the nature of industrial conflict and the resolution of collective disputes. The processes of collective bargaining and negotiation are also explored.

FIN 403 – Financial Systems & Auditing
This course examines the accounting and management control systems of a business. Learners will analyse these systems and evaluate their effectiveness, particularly in terms of controls and safeguards against error and fraud. The purpose and conduct of an audit will be covered, together with the process of audit reporting.

BUS 404 – Business Strategy
The aim of this course is to develop the learners’ ability to evaluate and select strategies appropriate to business organisations. This will involve an analysis of the impacts of the external operating environment and the need to plan organisational strategies to ensure effective business performance.

MKT 405 – Advertising & Promotion
This course is designed to provide learners with a comprehensive understanding of the key areas of advertising and promotion as part of an integrated approach to marketing communications. Learners will develop the ability to determine specific promotional activities in response to target audience and other stakeholders’ characteristics, and to apply and justify appropriate promotional mixes within a strategic and tactical framework.

Teaching Language: English
Course Duration :

2 Academic Years ( 4 Semesters )
Plus 1 year optional foundation Program