Business Administration

Organizations increasingly face diverse types of crises, such as natural disasters, accidents, scandals, employee discrimination, or cyber-attacks. Crises have negative, long-term consequences for organizations’ functioning, profitability, legal system, reputation, and human resource management systems. Managing organizational crises is, therefore, complicated and challenging, as it is difficult for organizations, leaders, and individuals to perform under urgent, ambiguous, stressful, and emotional situations. This course offers a framework to help understand how organizational crises arise and insight into the complexity of crisis management. The course consists of two main parts: (1) conditions that affect the vulnerability to an organizational crisis; and (2) crisis management. The first part concentrates on the factors that make an organization crisis-prone, such as human, social-cultural, and organizational-technological causes. The second part discusses crisis management, including what organizations can do to prevent crises and how to contain and resolve organizational crises.

This course provide students with fundamental concepts in accounting, such as accounting postulates, concepts of assets, liabilities, equities, income, expenses, etc. It discusses, in particular, the whole accounting cycle from recording business transactions to the preparation of financial statements.

This course provides students with an understanding of the latest technologies and environments such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and metaverse. It also covers the data security threats posed by these technologies and equip students with the ability to build risk models and proactively manage information security.

This course discusses processes, methods, and systems used to plan, schedule, and track projects. It explores economic and financial management of projects, as well as quality management.

This course provides a fundamental understanding of financial accounting. The first part of the course presents accounting as a form of communication and a powerful tool for decision making for the management of companies as well as external users. It introduces each of the financial statements, its purpose and relationship among them. Further, it covers the conceptual framework of accounting and important differences between the International Financial Reporting Standards and US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. The second part of the course covers the processing of accounting transactions using the double entry accounting system. It covers accounting for income, expenses, assets, liabilities and equity. This part of the course provides students the knowledge and tools to prepare a simple set of financial accounts. Students are exposed to how a transaction affects the accounting equation, the income statement, balance sheet and financial statements as a whole. The third part of the course provides students with a framework to perform financial analysis of companies. This is carried out through computing and using various ratios to assess the liquidity, solvency and profitability of a company to determine the company’s performance. The course also covers ethical issues and dilemmas relating to accounting and the moral and social implications of accounting decisions.