WA201 Principles of Business Law

This module is designed to enable students to understand the underlying principles of business laws. Students should be able to demonstrate a working knowledge of the law of contract and its practical application. The legal principles relating to sale of goods and customer credit, law of employment and the law of torts will also be covered.

WA202 Quantitative Methods

This module aims to reach an overall understanding of how and why statistical and mathematical techniques are used in economic and business decisions. Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze, present and interpret statistical data using basic statistical and mathematical procedures.

WA204 Information Technology Management

This module covers the concepts of information system, the major types of management information systems and how each supports the manager in an organization. Potential strategic roles of information systems within the organizations are identified. Students will be able to use some basic systems development tools in order to apply Information Systems to business problems.

WA208 Managerial Economics

This module examines how an organization can achieve its aims or objectives most efficiently through the application of micro-economicv theory and the tools of analysis of decision science such as statistics and quantitative methods. It shows how economic analysis can be used in formulating business policies.

Finance Specialisation

WA209 Financial Accounting

This unit combines more advanced accounting theory and techniques. It is designed to equip students with a decision-making focus, to
analyse and interpret financial statements and to apply what is learned to help them in their future careers as managers and financial? analysts.

WA210 Corporate Finance

This unit introduces the students to the world of Corporate Finance, whereby students will learn to make decisions, which affects the allocation of financial resources in a business. The unit will expose students to key financial issues faced by business managers of modern corporations. With the conceptual and analytical skills acquired in the programme, students are expected to be able to make sound financial decisions.

WA211 Financial Markets

This unit emphasizes on a descriptive and analytical understanding of financial markets, as well as policy and structural changes in the financial sector. The delivery of this unit will include references to markets in different economies.

WA212 Managerial Accounting

This unit focuses on management accounting information for decision making. The unit provides an understanding of the management accounting function within an organisation. The process of budgeting as an aid to management, the study of cost behaviour in cost estimation, marginal costing in short term decision making, job, product, process costing, the application of activity based costing and transfer pricing. These are used by management for planning, controlling and decision making.

WA302 Strategic Management

This module is concerned with the in-depth understanding of the process of strategic management. Students should be able to develop the conceptual and theoretical frameworks which underpin contemporary strategic management and planning. This module aims to encourage a critical awareness of the uses and limitations of the conceptual and theoretical frameworks.

WA400 Dissertation

Students are required to do a dissertation in the program. This is to cultivate individual development of critical enquire of research techniques and assist students in their planning of time and resources, analyzing data and report writing. This integrates information from different functional areas. There are broadly two types of project which are acceptable, namely Organisation-based projects and Library-based projects.

WA309 Business Research

This unit is designed to provide students with a foundation in research methodologies. While providing a good foundation, the unit is not intended to consider advanced methodological tools. However, the basic data analysis techniques that are generally useful for the preparation of academic exercises will be covered. Emphasis will be more on the concept than the theory. Microsoft Excel and the SAS packages will be used throughout this unit.

WA310 Financial Economics

This unit introduces students to the increasingly complex international economic relations impact on countries or industries or businesses.
The unit provides an insight into the development and operation of fiscal and monetary policies. The study of financial economics includes International Trade and International Finance, which provide students with an understanding of why countries should trade and how they will gain from such trade. This is complemented with a focus on trade policies that countries implement either to promote or thwart international trade. The unit provides a macroeconomic perspective of the nature of capital flows across borders and how such flows affect an economy's internal and external balances. The unit also covers financial markets and the international monetary system.

WA311 International Finance

The general aim of this unit is to examine how financial and non financial firms use key foreign exchange and interest rate products to manage the risk associated with their international investment and financing decisions. This subject compliments other aspects of managerial decision-making, including the marketing and production decisions of the international firm.

WA312 Investment Management

This unit provides an introduction to the various theories, processes and practices of investment management within an organizational context. The objective is to provide the students with a comprehensive but practical concept of the elements of investment management so as to be able to apply them in the complexities and dynamics of the business arena.

WA313 Risk Management & Insurance

This unit addresses the basics of risk management and insurance decisions. It will examine the theoretical basis for risk management and the type of techniques that can be employed. In addition, the programme will focus on the role of risk management in personal financial and corporate planning.