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MBA Corporate Finance
The aim of the MBA Corporate Finance is to develop the expertise of participants to operate and bring their expertise to bear in both the public and private business sectors of investment, banking, and other financial institutions. The specific objectives of this MBA are to:
1. Demonstrate knowledge to identify and explain agency conflicts and resolution in any organisation.
2. Perform risk appraisal profiles of firms in both financial and non-financial industries.
3. Develop expertise to raise funds from domestic and international markets.
4. Analyze specific operational/financial risks and apply appropriate hedging strategies.
5. Evaluate strategic alternatives available to multinational corporations to manage foreign exchange exposures.
6. Assess corporate capital structure choice and its implications on value and performance
7. Assess transactions in the market for corporate control using valuation techniques.
Requirements
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- A Bachelors Degree in the relevant subject area; 1st class; 2nd class lower or upper. A 3rd class will be screened on a case-by-case basis.
GTEC credential approval is required for international students. - 2 Years of work experience.
COURSES & CREDITS
The programme will be completed over 18 months.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
This course focuses on the fundamental principles and concepts of accounting. It delves into the use of financial information, distinguishing between cost, management and financial accounting, the accounting equation, basic ledger postings, the double-entry system for assets and liabilities, expenses and income, assets and depreciation, bad debts, provision for bad debts and discounts, bank reconciliation and control accounts to understand the key concepts and bookkeeping rules. At the end of the course, the student should be able to extract a trial balance as well as prepare and analyse the statement of comprehensive income, statement of financial position, a receipt and payment account, income and expenditure account and reconciliation of bank statements.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
This course provides the basis for understanding what leadership is and assists students to explore the tools they can use immediately to refine strategy, develop their people and maximize stakeholder return. Additionally, it introduces the student to the theory and practice of leadership. Furthermore, the course provides an overview of various philosophical approaches to ethical decision-making and practical applications involving ethical problems that arise in business. The course is designed to equip business leaders to confront ethical issues in contemporary governance and prepare students to identify and analyse ethical issues from a domestic and global perspective. It does this by introducing the theories of ethics that are commonly used in many leadership decisions. Students are expected to apply the theory to a wide range of government policy, business and personal issues. Topics include the major ethical constructs, approaches to self-knowledge, ethical dilemma in leadership and practical leadership skills. Students will be able to find solutions to ethical dilemmas they may confront during a business career.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
This course presents the fundamental ideas of micro and macroeconomics and integrates them from a managerial decision-making perspective. The goal of this course among others includes its applicability in the broad business spectrum. It also examines the role of government in the economy and the effects of government actions on businesses and individuals. Topics such as demand and supply analysis and their applications; elasticity of demand and supply; theories of production and cost, market structures, theories of macroeconomics; national income accounting and determination; effect of monetary and fiscal policies as well as international trade will be some of the issues to be considered.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
This course seeks to equip students with the knowledge of the global scope of businesses. This course is designed to introduce students to the international dimensions of business functions and operations that are offered, with consideration of their global interactions. The course provides an overview of economic, social, cultural and political/legal forces and factors influencing cross-border business. The course exposes students to a global view of businesses, investigating why and how companies go international. It explains the operations and challenges of Multinational Corporations and Enterprises in today's globalized world.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
The course introduces students to legal rules, principles and concepts that regulate business transactions in Ghana, and the ramifications of such interface for business decisions. The course specifically introduces students to the general principles and concepts, concentrating on topics like the Legal System; the Laws of Ghana and their respective sources; the Law of Contract; the Law of Tort; Employment Law and Company Law.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
This course is designed to increase students’ understanding of the use of information technologies to manage information resources in organisations and their implications. The technologies discussed include databases, networking and communications, business information systems as well as current trends such as cloud computing and customer relationship management systems. The course raises students’ awareness of the implications of using information technologies, these include security, ethical and legal issues as well as globalization and the digital divide. The course also introduces how to build information systems. The course features hands-on sessions using popular software applications.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
This course provides a general introduction to marketing and strategic marketing management, an area which plays an important role in all innovation and establishment processes. The main focus of the course is consumer marketing, but specific areas of service and business marketing and purchasing management are covered. The course starts with an introduction to the role of marketing in an organisation and market analysis based on demand, environmental factors and customers' buying behaviours. It delves into the examination of customer satisfaction, the profitability of customers to firms, profits and revenues and marketing research. It further focuses on the development and implementation of market strategies, a task undertaken in most companies at the strategic business unit level which is done through segmentation, targeting and positioning. An introduction to the creative process of developing market plans with product, price, communication and distribution policies is examined. The course provides a systematic framework for understanding marketing management and strategy.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
This course emphasizes the basic application of managerial functions in the day-to-day operations and activities of corporate and business enterprises. It focuses on the concepts of management and examines management principles and functions. The course also discusses motivation and management of stress for effective performance. Furthermore, this course provides a comprehensive analysis of individual and group behaviour in organizations. Its purpose is to provide an understanding of how organizations can be managed more effectively and at the same time enhance the quality of employees' work life. Topics include motivation, rewarding behaviour, stress, individual and group behaviour, conflict, power and politics, leadership, job design, organizational structure, decision-making, communication and organizational change and development.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
This course designed to provide postgraduate students with the foundations needed to undertake scholarly research in business and management. The course also offers students the opportunity to begin research on their final year project by providing clear and holistic guidance on how to generate and refine a research idea into a clear and unmistakable research topic with relevant, specific, measurable and realistic objectives or research questions. Specifically, the course will cover topics such as what is research? Why do we conduct research? How to generate research ideas, how to evaluate research topics, how to plan a research, the sources of knowledge and the process of critically reviewing the relevant literature, the theory of Knowledge, the philosophy and ethics of research. Others topics to be covered in this course shall include: the research process as it relates to conceptualization and design of appropriate research methodology to achieve the desired research objectives, techniques of data collection and analysis, and drafting and writing a research Report.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
This course is designed to provide students with the needed statistical and quantitative techniques for effective decision-making. It involves the study of basic elements of statistics needed for business, accounting, banking, marketing, etc., and their various applications. The course also examines the statistical concepts of some of the theories that students are studying in other related courses. It expounds on the applications of statistics in the theory of demand and supply, data presentation and characterization, time series, correlation and regression, hypothesis testing, and elementary probability among others.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
Strategic management focuses on the concept of strategy formulation and implementation by exploring the functions and nature of general management. The course develops skills for strategic thinking and analysis, leadership, communication, teamwork, and cross-functional integration. It exposes students to corporate as well as business planning, and the implementation of organizational change through structures, systems and people. It seeks to understand the challenges and the environment in which the business operates, the direction the management intends to head, the strategic plans for getting the enterprise moving in the intended direction and the tasks of implementing the chosen strategy successfully. Conceptual case studies are used to deal with Ghanaian conventional private and public sector policy making. It provides students with insights into corporate strategic performance and the use of specialist strategic management techniques designed to improve and correct failing organisations in Ghana and other international corporations.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
The course combines finance rationales with complementary digital technologies to provide students with a unique academic experience. Important financial themes, methods and principles are combined with the latest teaching on data analytics, the Internet of Things, cloud systems, cyber security, and other emerging digital technologies and trends. Utilising digital finance techniques, students are expected to analyse and evaluate financial problems and respond to challenges confronted by finance professionals in the digitalised world. Students will use their knowledge of digital technologies in various elements of the digital economy to create successful financial strategies incorporating associated cyber security and financial risk management methods.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
This course serves as an introduction to corporate investments. The primary objective is to provide a framework, concepts, and tools for analyzing financial decisions based on fundamental principles of modern financial theory. Topics covered include discounted cash flow techniques, corporate capital budgeting and valuation, investment decisions under uncertainty, and capital asset pricing.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
This course is designed to enable students and also professionals who want to improve their decision-making skills through the use of modern-day computer tools and techniques. Participants learn how to make effective decisions relating to project schedules, product design trade-offs, project cost estimating, problem-solving and project risk analyses. Examples, in-class exercises and homework using spreadsheet techniques and Internet tools enable participants to become confident in the use and application of practical decision-making methods.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
The course introduces students to the methods used by interested parties such as investors, creditors, and management to evaluate the past, current, and projected conditions, and the performance of the firm. The course forges a unique path in financial statement analysis that responds to the needs of modern-day business analysts. It provides a framework for using financial statement data in a variety of business analysis and valuation contexts. Students are exposed to the tools necessary to undertake business analysis using financial statement information and show how these tools can be applied to a wide range of decision contexts. At the end of the course, students will be able to use ratios to evaluate the financial performance of organizations and prepare value-added statements, common size statements, profitability indexes, and simple cash flow statements for organizations to facilitate decision-making using the financial statement. A combination of lectures, case study discussions and financial statement analysis will be employed as the mode of delivery.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the role of the finance manager in the sourcing and application of funds. The course also analyses the company’s cash flows by separating it into cash flows from operating, investing, and financing activities, and examines the methods that are frequently used for company valuations. It further examines the financing and investing decisions of companies, including sources of finance, the cost of capital and the weighted average cost of capital. The course balances rigorous theoretical content and practical applications. The course further exposes students to the application of empirical and theoretical tools through the class discussion of cases, as well as practice problem sets.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
This course deals with the fundamentals of why and how banks are regulated. It begins by examining the microeconomic foundations of financial intermediaries, covering sources of banking risk, and internal risk management procedures. It critically reviews the changes to the international banking and finance system. The course analyses in-depth the evolution of international banking regulation and supervision in selected countries, with close attention paid to recent global developments in bank regulation and to recent market changes to supervisory practice. The relative strengths and weaknesses of the current systems will be investigated, emphasising cross-country differences. Potential solutions and policy proposals will be examined and critically evaluated.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
This course examines the determination of income, the exchange rate, and the trade balance in economies that trade goods and services, as well as assets, with the rest of the world. The theory is developed and employed to study current events, as well as historical experience. Issues studied include exchange rate determination, monetary and exchange rate policy, the causes and consequences of external imbalances, international policy coordination, financial crises, and the global capital market.
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 3
TBC
Total Fees: $65
Credits: 6
Students will be required to undertake a research study on a chosen topic in Corporate Governance and write a project. The project would take a maximum of 6 months for a total of 6 credits.
FEES FOR 2023
Fees are payable at the start of each course and payment must be received by the payment deadline to successfully register and start the course. Payment can be made by EFT or the self-service portal.
Number of modules: 20
Programme credits: 63
Fees per programme credit: $65