Master of Business Administration MBA
Student must complete 37 credit hours
Speciality Requirements Student must complete 28 credit hours
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours | Prerequests |
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| 451513 | Advanced Financial Management | 3 |
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| This course looks at how to deal effectively with financial managers of different firms. Topics to be discussed include long term financing, the valuations of bonds and stocks, dividend policy, cost of capital, capital budgeting, capital structure, mergers, financial distress and restructuring, leasing as a long source of financing and venture capital, options, convertibles and warrants. | |||
| 451515 | Economic Management | 3 |
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| The course covers necessary economic concepts and theories and applies them to real business cases. The course covers many topics mainly including the demand analysis and estimation, production economics, theory and estimation, cost analysis, pricing techniques, promotional decisions, long-term investment analysis and decisions under risk and uncertainty. Students will apply statistical tools using a variety of computer applications with SPSS. | |||
| 451521 | Business Information Systems | 3 |
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| This course provides an understanding of the information needs of management, information technology used by various business subsystems and how technology can be utilized for competitive advantage. This course is designed to help graduate business students to learn how to apply information systems in reconfiguring organisations and the extended enterprise through the application of e-business, e-commerce, internet and other information technologies for better decision-making and for gaining competitive advantage. The course also addresses some of the ethical issues created by the overwhelming influence of IT in every aspect of people’s lives including business, educational, and social transactions. | |||
| 451530 | Strategic Theories in Management | 3 |
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| This course includes understanding the strategic position of the organisation through analysing the environment, the resources and competencies and expectations of stakeholders. It also includes strategic choices for the future at the corporate level strategy, the business level strategy and development directions and methods. Finally it deals how to put strategy into action through organising, enabling and managing change. | |||
| 451581 | Portfolio Theory | 3 |
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| This course concentrates on several topics related to portfolio management such as the investment environment, risk and return, capital allocation between risky assets and risk free assets. Theories like CAPM and Arbitrage will also be treated. Moreover, international diversifications, portfolio performance evaluation and active portfolio theory are among topics to be discussed. | |||
| 451583 | International Business Management | 3 |
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| This course deals with the nature of international business in terms of entering the foreign markets, knowing the environment of the international market, the risk involved in the international markets, multinational companies, the methods of cooperation, negotiation and the selection of the state that will work and any other entity being linked with multinational companies. | |||
| 451598 | Comprehensive Exam | 0 |
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| A graduate student must pass a qualifying examination (See Academic Rules and Regulations for Graduate Students). | |||
| 452512 | Advanced Managerial Accounting | 3 |
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| This course assumes that students have learned the basic elements of managerial accounting during their undergraduate study. However, the course will begin with a short review of such elements in order to enable students who have no previous business administration background with the necessary basic knowledge in this field of study. The course will then provide an “in-depth” understanding of several contemporary issues in management accounting. The primary goal is to develop the students’ knowledge and appreciation of how managerial accounting helps managers to operate efficiently and effectively. Accordingly, students will be exposed through this course to the following fundamental areas of managerial accounting: basic management accounting concepts, product and service costing, activity-based accounting, planning and controlling routine operations, non-routine decisions for short and long-range planning, cost valuation and income determination, organisational design and financial controls, motivating behaviour in management accounting and control systems, and capital budgeting and forecasting. | |||
| 452520 | Current Taxation Issues | 3 |
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| This course consists of three major parts: theoretical, legal, and practical studying. The theoretical part includes issues such as definitions, types, social and economic effects of taxes, differences between accounting and tax incomes, treatment of deferred taxes, direct and indirect taxes and VAT. Whereas the legal part of the course consists of an analytical study of the Palestinian Tax Law and the practical part deals with the implementation of this law in various exercises, case studies and practical cases. There will be an opportunity for students to distinguish between tax income and accounting income and the accounting treatment of deferred tax and the methods of using tax exemptions options by some companies. Furthermore, this course looks at the issues pertaining to indirect taxes particularly to differentiate between the various models, a value-added sales tax and product tax. Finally, this course is likely to give some importance to the shifts in tax policy and its economic effects under the Palestinian Authority. | |||
| 459500 | Scientific Research Methods & Its Statistical Tools | 3 |
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| The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the concepts, principles and techniques used in gathering, analysing, interpreting, and communicating information for business decision making. Topics covered include: problem definition, research design, measurement, data collection, surveys, questionnaires, sampling, filed work, data preparation and data analysis including: descriptive, ANOVA, correlation, regression, cluster, factor analysis, discriminant and logistic analysis and report preparation and presentation. Students will apply research skills using a variety of computer applications with SPSS and real business cases. | |||
| 459600 | Research Project | 1 |
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| This is a practical and comprehensive course. It will train students how to use the principles of the scientific methodology to explore an administrative issue in the market or economy; starting with problem's definition and ending with conclusions and report writing. | |||
Speciality Optional Requirements Student must complete 9 credit hours
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours | Prerequests |
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| 451511 | Organizational Theory | 3 |
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| The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the organisational theory through exposing them to the theories of classical and modern management, principles of organisation, design and installation of the organisation, the external and internal environment of organisations, the delegation of authority and responsibility, the source of power, formal and informal groups, conflicts, organisational development and the sustainability of the organisation during change. | |||
| 451551 | Competitive Analysis | 3 |
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| The aim of this course is to provide students with a thorough understanding of the theories and techniques of analysing and upgrading industry cluster competitiveness. Topics covered include structural analysis of industries, generic competitive strategies, company strategy, how competitive forces shape a strategy, information and competitive advantage, cluster analysis, competitive advantage of nations, building competitive advantage and competing across locations. | |||
| 451553 | Advanced Production Management | 3 |
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| In such environment where globalisation has become a main feature, managers areexpected to be able to justify the decision they reach on the basic of logic and objectiveanalysis not just on judgements and experiences. The quantitative techniques have asignificant role to play. Accordingly, this course is designed to enable students tounderstand quantitative issues of management; have the ability to reach to the optimalobjective decision; be familiar with issues relevant to the effective and efficientproduction and operations process; and critically review relevant literature. The coursecovers among other issues the following topics: An introduction to production andoperations management (P/OM): the concept, contributions and the strategic dimension;models and techniques for decision making; categories of mathematical models; decisionmaking under uncertainties, forecasting approaches; linear programming; stock/inventorycontrol, material requirements planning; work measurement; procurement and just-intimestrategy and production management as a continuous process. | |||
| 451561 | Advanced Operation Research | 3 |
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| In today's complex and interconnected world, the rigorous techniques and methodologies of operations research have become especially important aids to informed decision making. Operations research is the discipline of applying advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions. It uses mathematical modeling, analysis, and optimisation in a holistic approach to improving students' knowledge of systems and designing useful, efficient systems. Its applications range from engineering to management and from industry to the public sector. The course emphasises the use of mathematics optimisation, applied probability and statistics for pricing goods and services, marketing them, improving transportation, as well as for many other business areas. It embodies many models which enhance the skills of quantitative methods, decision analysis, forecasting, inventory control, linear programming, networking and transportation. | |||
| 451571 | International Finance | 3 |
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| This course contains several topics related to the goals and functions of the international financial institutions and the multinational enterprises. These include exchange rates, international monetary system, the financial issues related to the multinational enterprise like transaction exposure, operating exposures and translation exposure. In addition, international financial crises will be discussed. | |||
| 451573 | Current Issues in Management | 3 |
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| This course studies and reviews the concepts, strategies and policies of management. It includes its definition and applications in the area of procurement, production, marketing and finance. It also studies topics such as crisis management, strategic management, change management, administration and unstable environment, planning and developments. | |||
| 451575 | Advanced Marketing Management | 3 |
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| This course is intended to give students solid background about building a market driven economy. Not only will it give graduates a theoretical idea of the market-driven economy, but also a practical one about the benefits of implementing the new marketing concept. Some of the topics that would be considered is, building customer satisfaction, value and retention, gathering information and measuring market demand, analysing consumer and industrial markets, market segmentation, positioning and differentiation and so on. | |||
| 451577 | Human Resources Management & Development | 3 |
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| This course examines a host of various issues pertaining to the nature of personnel management, the sources of labor force, the quest for and selection of competencies, recruitment, motivation and reward, performance appraisal of individuals as well as introducing students to the definition of training and development program evaluation, planning, organising the training and management and studying some international experiences in this context. | |||
| 451579 | Money Markets | 3 |
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| The aim of this course is to help students understand the mechanism of the different types of financial markets and the instruments used in each market. Moreover, participants in each market and the mechanism of trading in these markets and indices will be discussed. Financial markets which are to be discussed include the money market, capital market (which includes equity (stock) market, debt (bond) markets, mortgage markets, foreign exchange market and the Palestine Security Market. | |||
| 452552 | Contemporary Issues in Auditing | 3 |
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| The seminar aims at discussing recent and significant developments in auditing theory and practice with participants. A conceptual framework of auditing is to be designed in a try to understand and organize the environment in which the auditor operates. Changes in technology, including extraordinary growth of electronic commerce, have increased the speed with which information is transmitted within and between entities.Nowadays, most organisations use electronic data processing (EDP), even when at least to some extent, in processing financial and accounting information. These changes have created challenges to public accountants (auditors) and required them to expand their knowledge on advanced computer-auditing tools. To this point, the course describes internal controls in terms of noncomplex computer-based systems and their effect on auditing. In addition, the course covers subjects such as attestation and assurance services and professional ethics and responsibilities. | |||
| 452554 | Advanced Issues in Financial Accounting | 3 |
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| The course explores the topics of accounting for wholly-owned created subsidiaries, cost versus the equity method of accounting for subsidiary operations, accounting for partnership formation, operations and liquidations, accounting for estates and trusts and operations for non-profit organisations. It discusses also the requirements for financial statement interim reporting and accounting practices for troubled debt restructuring, bankruptcy reorganisations and liquidations. | |||
| 452562 | Advanced Accounting Theory | 3 |
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| The course embodies studies' development within the accounting research paradigms. It involves an appraisal of the major strands of the scholarly research literature in financial accounting and investigates the role of financial accounting in decisions made by individuals and markets. It is designed to enable students to evaluate critically and develop specific theories and evidence about financial accounting practice. Normative, positive and critical theory approaches are examined. | |||
| 452572 | Financial Institutions | 3 |
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| This course discuses the financial systems, the role of the central bank in economy, the different financial institutions both the depository ones such as commercial banks, savings and loans associations, credit unions and the non depository ones such as insurance companies, mutual funds, leasing companies. Moreover, international financial institutions will be discussed. Finally, the course discusses the risks involved in the activities of these institutions. | |||
| 452575 | Enterprise Restructuring | 3 |
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| The aim of this course is to provide students with a thorough understanding of business restructuring including its concept, theories and tools. Topics covered include business environment, structural analysis of industries, enterprise competitive strategies, levels of restructuring, areas of enterprise restructuring, problems diagnostic check list, performance indicators, cost analysis, cash flow management, budgeting, forecasting of sales and prices, bankruptcy and liquidation, restructuring strategies, tools, options and policy lessons such as the experience of other countries and institutions. Students will analyse real business cases using a variety of computer applications with SPSS, MS excel and others. | |||