Course Descriptions of MBA / University of International Business and Economics

MBA501 * – Managerial Economics (3 credits)

The course focuses on economic topics that are most relevant to management, including demand, production and cost, market structure, pricing with market power, economics of strategy (creating and capturing values & game theory).

 

MBA502 * – Management and Organizational Behavior (3 credits)

Several topics are discussed in the course, such as the development of management theory; business responsibility and managerial ethics; market environment; organizational functions, including planning, human resource, and leadership and controlling individual behavior; organizational culture; incentive theory and mechanism.

 

MBA503 * – Data Model and Decision-marking (3 credits)

The emphasis is on the following topics: the importance of data model in decision-makings, expounding several data models and providing the approaches to making use of data models to realize the optimization.

 

MBA504 * – Financial Accounting (3 credits)

Basic theories about accounting are introduced, including basic accounting hypotheses and principles, financial statement analysis; cash revenue activities and internal control; inventory perpetual and periodic system; consolidated financial statement; the depreciation and maintenance of long-term assets and fixed assets.

 

MBA505 * – Marketing Management (3 credits)

The course refers to marketing information system and research methods; resource searching strategy; market segmentation and the decision of objective market; product strategy; service strategy; pricing strategy and distribution strategy; approaches to establishing, implementing and controlling marketing organization structure and strategic plan.

 

MBA506 * – Corporate Finance (3 credits)

Several topics are discussed, including corporate structure and external operation environment; financial analysis methods; risk and revenue analysis; financial statement analysis; operating and financial leverage analysis; financial plan; capital budgeting and cash flow analysis; financing cost; capital structure analysis and dividend policy.

 

MBA507 * – Strategy Management (3 credits)

The main content of the course is about the strategic management process and control; strategic vision, mission and objective; industry and competition analysis; evaluating resources and competitive capabilities’ analyzing, establishing and implementing corporate strategy, business strategies, functional strategies and operating strategies.

 

MBA508 – Human Resource Management (2 credits)

The course emphasizes on human resource planning; job description and analysis; staff qualification; individual performance appraisal; recruitment and selection; staff training; incentive mechanism; wage and bonus.

 

MBA509 * – Operations Management (3 credits)

The course introduces the theories, methods and technologies in modern business production and operation system, including operations management theory, quality management, design of product and services; production capability planning; supply chain management; inventory management, MRP and project management.

 

MBA510 – Financial Statement Analysis (2 credits)

The course introduces the knowledge about corporate financial statement, including balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement; the relevant important information about financial statement; information disclosure policy of public company and consolidated financial statement analysis.

 

MBA511 – International Business Management (2 credits)

Some relevant topics are referred in the course, including domestic, foreign and international economics environment; managerial approaches to business internationalization and globalization’ qualification and capability that a manager should have in multinationals; FDI decision analysis and international business management.

 

MBA512 – Trade Import and Export Management (2 credits)

The course refers to relevant theories about international trade, socialism market economic system, the development of trade import and export, and how to manage trade import and export activities in modern international market.

 

MBA513 – Investment Analysis (2 credits)

The main content of the course is as following: decision-making approaches to the problems of asset management for personal and business portfolio; evaluation of common stock; market efficiency; modern portfolio analysis (CAPM and APT) and derivative products.

 

MBA514 – Supply Chain Management (2 credits)

The focus is on basic theories of supply chain management; outsourcing; supply chain construction; choice of partners; technology and support system in supply chain; the main functions of supply chain management, including product design, information system, manufacturing plan inventory control, prediction and quality management.

 

MBA515 – International Politics of China (2 credits)

The course provides a theoretical framework for understanding contemporary international politics from the perspective of China. Current issues will be discussed, such as the role that China plays in the international arena, Chinese foreign policy, its diplomatic practice and security concern.

 

MBA516 – How to do business in China (2 credits)

Several topics related to doing business in China are discussed in the course, including Chinese business environment, market entry strategy, distribution and sourcing in China, negotiating with Chinese businessmen, franchising in China, Chinese anthropology and cross-cultural communication.

 

MBA517 – Topics in Chinese Business Law (2 credits)

Emphasis is on China’s international economic law, financial law, insurance law and relevant market regulations and rules.

 

MBA518 – Topics in Chinese Financial Market (2 credits)

Several topics are discussed in the course, including the development of foreign exchanged policy in China’ Chinese foreign exchange, monetary and capital markets; banking reform; WTO and financial reform.

 

MBA519 – Topics in Chinese Economy (2 credits)

The course studies Chinese economic system and the development of Chinese economy; the structure of contemporary national economy and regional economy; the main sectors in economy; industrial organizations and macroeconomic stability.

 

MBA520 – Deng Xiaoping Theory (2 credits)

The course mainly refers to the establishment, development and maturation of Deng Xiaoping theory. The focus is on the economic theories, such as reform and opening policy, socialism market economy and special economic zones.

 

MBA521 – Topics in Chinese Foreign Trade (2 credits)

The course includes the following topics: evolution of Chinese foreign trade system; Chinese foreign trade strategy; development of FDI policy; interaction between foreign trade and FDI; relationship between market economy and foreign trade; and emergence of Chinese multinationals.

 

MBA522 – Business Communication in China (2 credits)

The course emphasizes the following topics: business environment in China approaches to communicating with different businesses, e-communication, the capacity or organizing urgent meetings, and the business communication in change.

 

MBA523 – Entrepreneurship in China (2 credits)

Several topics are discussed in the course, including the business operation environment in China, the influence of Chinese traditional culture, value and customs upon entrepreneurs, and the specialty of entrepreneurship in China.

 

MBA524 – Industrial Policy and Environment in China (2 credits)

The course refers to the relationship among management, industrial policy and environment in China. China industrial policy and regulation understanding the relationship between environment and management from the perspective of legal, economy and politics. 

 

MBA525 – Marketing Research (2 credits)

Emphasis is on the importance and construction of marketing information system; data marketing; approaches to collecting original information; the application of new technology in the marketing information system and the field of marketing research.

MBA526 – Cross-cultural Management (2 credits)

The course directs multinationals how to know and analyze the people’s difference in different countries, including religion belief, attitude to value and customs; to cultivate the management level’s consciousness to cross-culture, and then to remove the barriers in some areas, such as human resource management and marketing.

 

MBA527 – Consumer Behavior in China (2 credits)

The course indicates some social and cultural factors that affect Chinese consumers’ purchase behaviors, in-depth studies Chinese consumers’ behavior and provides corresponding marketing models based on different types of consumer behavior.