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
MBA516 – How to do business
in
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
MBA518 – Topics in Chinese
Financial Market (2 credits)
Several topics are discussed in the course, including the
development of foreign exchanged policy in
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
The
course emphasizes the following topics: business environment in
MBA523 – Entrepreneurship in
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
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.