Master of Business Administration with Specialism in Finance
The Edinburgh Business School Master of Business Administration with a Specialism in Finance from Heriot-Watt University is designed for individuals wishing to gain advanced management skills and expertise. The MBA is a broad-based management degree and appeals to individuals from a wide range of backgrounds. The degree is aimed at people with experience who wish to develop themselves as effective managers. The programme includes the opportunity for students to extend their study to meet specific career requirements by taking one of the specialist awards. The specialisms provide students with a deeper understanding of the application of a specific discipline.
The programme offers general coverage of the key management disciplines – people skills, economics, marketing, accounting, finance, and project management. The capstone Strategic Planning course develops strategic thinking and the ability to recognise and use the various tools and techniques of the other core courses to identify and solve a wide range of business problems.
To understand the business environment and the influence of both consumers and micro and macro influences that shape the industry.
To understand the role of different cultures in shaping national, regional and global business practice.
To develop in graduates, both within the business curriculum and in the context of their degree programme, a range of transferable skills appropriate to employers needs.
This module covers topics like marketing management process, corporate strategies, marketing Implications, business strategies and their marketing Implications, before moving to more in-depth modules such as environmental analysis, Industry analysis and competitive advantage, understanding consumer and organisational buying behaviour, product life cycle and measuring and delivering marketing performance.
This module enables students to distinguish organisational behaviour (OB) and management as similar disciplines, assess ways to measure job satisfaction in the work setting, differentiate organisational commitment and job involvement and the types of work groups existing in organisations. Students will also appreciate the various organisational designs and new forms of service-driven organisations, as well as organisational culture and change.
This module enhances students’ portfolio of financial concepts and provide finance applications onto industry-specific examples where the concepts covered in this module are applied to industry situations. Students would be able to understand the underlying principles of finance, application of tools of financial arithmetic when making financial decisions.
This module introduces the main concepts in economics such as market supply and demand, the operation of markets, changes in market equilibrium, intervention and dynamic adjustments in the market and the concept of marginal analysis and opportunity cost. Students will be exposed to concepts such as perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly and learn about fiscal and monetary policies.
This module covers topics such as the meaning of strategic planning as it is used in business and the visualizing strategy as a structure of thought that can be applied to the complex strategy process. It also includes areas like demonstrating why an understanding of the economy is important for managers.
This module focuses on only five of these developments in accounting - target costing, life cycle costing, throughout accounting, costs for competitive advantage and time-based activity-based costing. Students will learn to be sensitive to the changes in their organisations’ systems but be confident that the principles of management accounting are articulated to underpin these new developments.
This module introduces the main concepts and philosophies of project management.. At the end of this module, students will be familiar with the concept of project management, how project management differs from traditional management and the different organisation structures employed, and the potential benefits and challenges of using a project management approach.
This module enables students to comprehend what a merger is and how it differs from an acquisition, list some of the explicit and implicit merger rationales, differentiate between horizontal integration, vertical integration and conglomeration and the basic merger lifecycle and lifecycle phases. Students would also understand some of the basic measures of success for mergers, as well as the difference between long-term and short-term measures of success.
This module enables students would be able to distinguish between internal and external corporate governance, explaining how they relate and engage in a general discussion about the interdependence between economic development and corporate governance and be able to explain the foundations of the present system of corporate governance, and how they developed, understand the driving forces that have shaped corporate governance reform efforts and learn about some of the leading codes of best practice today in corporate governance.
This module gives an overview of statistics, introducing basic ideas and concepts at a general level, and gradually moving into greater details of quantitative concepts and applications. This module also provides a broad framework for studying the quantitative methods and its applications.
This module introduces and examines the sources of risk, together with the methods used to measure and minimise it. Managing risk is a key activity for firms and a range of different approaches is outlined. Firms may either seek to examine the totality of the risks they face in the aggregate, an approach known as ‘top-down’; or build up their exposures from the individual risks, a procedure referred to as ‘ground-up’. In practice, many firms use both methods.
Generally the curriculums for all levels are taught over 3 terms. Modules are conducted in formal instructor-led classroom sessions where students are introduced to the course discipline. Each term will cover 3-4 modules with 56 contact hours per module. Lectures are 2-hour sessions.
Doctor in Philosophy in Business and Management | Master of Business in Information Technology | Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical)
University of South Australia | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia | National University of Singapore
Part Time
2
Strategic Planning
Dr. Stephen Lee
PhD | Master of Business Adminstration (Senior Executives) | Bachelor of Science | Master of Science (Environmental Management)
University of Exeter, United Kingdom | National University of Singapore | National University of Singapore | Kings College University of London
Part Time
3
Marketing
Mr. Ho Kai Joo
Master of Arts in Marketing | Bachelor of Arts in Marketing Management | Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing
Northumbria University | Northumbria University | Chartered Institute of Marketing
Part Time
4
Accounting
Mr. Ong Siow Peng Daniel
Master of Business Adminstration | Bachelor Degree in Accountancy
The University of Manchester | The National University of Singapore
Part Time
5
Organizational Behaviour
Dr. Wong Kim Sing
Doctor of Business Adminstration | Master of Business Administration | Graduate Diploma in E-Commerce Marketing | Diploma in Marketing
University of South Australia | Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Business School | Marketing Institute of Singapore | The Chartered Institute of Marketing
Part Time
6
Negotiation
Dr. Kumaran Rajaram
Doctor in Philosophy in Business and Management | Graduate Diploma In Research Management | Master of Business Administration | Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing | Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Business Administration (Marketing) | Diploma in Business Administration | Diploma in Electrical Engineering
University of South Australia | University of South Australia | University of Southern Queensland | Chartered Institute of Marketing | University of Wales | University of Wales | Singapore Polytehnic
Part Time
7
Economics
Mr. Lee Thiam Soon
MBA(Mgmt & Administrative Studies), Bachelor of Business Administration (Dbl Majors: Bus Econ s& Quantitative Studies & Int'l Bus)
Indiana University, USA / University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii USA
Part Time
8
Financial Risk Management
Ms. Tan Hui Chin
Master of Arts in International Financial Analysis | Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and Financial Management
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne | University of Essex
Part Time
9
Quantitative Methods
Ms Shanti Sekhar
Master with Major in Computing | Bachelor in Engineering (Hons) Electrical and Electronics Engineering
National University of Singapore | Newport University, California | College of Engineering
Part Time
10
Corporate Governance
Mr. Ong Siow Peng Daniel
Master of Science (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) | Master of Business Adminstration | Bachelor Degree in Accountancy
The University of Manchester | The National University of Singapore
Part Time
11
Mergers & Acquisitions
Ms. Tan Hui Chin
Master of Arts in International Financial Analysis | Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and Financial Management
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne | University of Essex
The entry requirements for the programme are as follows:
A first or second class business-related honours degree from a recognised University;
Or, passes in three of the MBA courses (one of which must be a Core) obtained by self-study; and
A minimum of 2 years full-time work experience of a responsible nature
EASB will assess all applicants to the programme individually with regard to their suitability to undertake postgraduate level study.
International Students
The entry requirements for the programme are as follows:
A first or second class business-related honours degree from a recognised University;
Or, passes in three of the MBA courses (one of which must be a Core) obtained by self-study; and
A minimum of 2 years full-time work experience of a responsible nature
EASB will assess all applicants to the programme individually with regard to their suitability to undertake postgraduate level study.
IELTS 6.0
Students that have opted to undertake the Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh Business School) MBA programmes in languages other than English such as simplifed Chinese, Russian, Arabic, and Spanish do not need to conform to the minimum English language requirement of IELTS 6.0 as part of the entry requrements.
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EASB has in place a mandatory group medical insurance policy as required by the Council for Private Education for all students’ hospitalization and treatment throughout their course duration. In addition, EASB has a group personal accident insurance coverage for all students.
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