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Accounting |
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The course is intended to provide the
MBA students with the necessary financial accounting background.
It is a study of the principles and mechanics of financial
accounting covering analysis and recording of transactions,
adjusting entries, and making trial balance leading to the
periodic financial statements, and their analysis.
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The course emphasizes the preparation
and use of accounting information to assist management in
setting operational and financial goals, planning, controlling
and evaluating performance. Topics include Managerial Accounting
Systems, Accounting for Manufacturing operations, Cost Accounting
Systems, Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis, Segment Performance,
Budgeting, Standard Costing, and Incremental Analysis.
Prerequisites: ACC 401 and Foundation
Courses.
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The course aims to provide intensive
coverage of the interaction of Business and Law with special
emphasis on the law relating to private and public limited
companies, and the role and responsibilities of the company
secretary. Applications of law to practical problems will
form an integral part of the course.
Prerequisite:
ACC 520
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This is specialized treatment of cost
systems for jobs and processes including cost control, cost
audit, and design and installation costing, and budgetary
control systems, preparation of special budgetary control
systems, preparation of special cost statements for managerial
decision making.
Prerequisite:
ACC 401
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This is an advanced course in the use of budgets and
budgetary controls as tools of financial and production
planning and controls.
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The course aims to familiarize students
with Pakistan's Income Tax Laws as applicable to individuals,
business concerns, and other organizations. Preparation
of tax returns for individuals and business firms is included.
Focus is on the accounting treatment of taxes.
Prerequisite:
ACC 401
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This is an advance
course which is built on current advancements and controversies
in the Accountancy area relevant to the local environment.
It includes classroom discussion of such topics as covered
in national and international Journals of Accounting.
Prerequisites:
ACC 521-522
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Finance: |
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The course builds on basic concepts of
financial management. The focus is on time-value of money,
stock and bond valuation, capital budgeting and working
capital management. Local Money and Capital markets and
the role of financial intermediaries are discussed.
Prerequisites:
Foundation Courses, and ACC 520.
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This course is designed to develop a
rigorous understanding of the fundamental theories of finance
and their application, thus enabling the students to evaluate
the optimality of the firm's investment, financing, and
dividend decisions to meet the objective of maximizing the
shareholder's wealth. Various analytical techniques will
be introduced and applied to a wide range of problems in
financial management. Case studies will also be used. Prerequisite:
FNC 512
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A survey of corporate and other financial
securities and securities' markets. The key determinants
of security prices under changing economic and business
conditions, valuation of bonds and common stock. Theories,
strategies and techniques for selection, timing and diversification
of investment. Methods of portfolio contraction and administration.
Prerequisite:
FNC 512
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A study of the International Financial
Mechanism, International Trade. Balance of Payments Exchange
Rate determination. Floating, Managed Float and Fixed Exchange
rate systems. Balance of Payment analysis. Forecasting Foreign
exchange rates. Estimating and managing economic transaction
and translation exposures. International sources of fund
financing international trade, current assets management
and capital budgeting for multinational corporations.
Prerequisites:
FNC 512.
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The course covers the roles of the World
Bank, I.M.F., the U.S. Federal Reserve System, the Reserve
Bank of England and other leading Central Banks in international
flow of funds and exchange rates through credit operations
and sale and purchase of financial instruments and currencies.
Prerequisites:
Foundation and Core Course.
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The course covers the principles, methods,
and techniques of planning, evaluating and implementing
a capital project. The project cycle consisting of planning
and preinvestment phase, implementation phase, and operational
phase is studied. Emphasis is placed on market appraisal,
technical appraisal, financial appraisal and economic appraisal
of the project. As part of the course student has to develop
a feasibility study.
Prerequisites:
FNC 512, ACC 520
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An intensive study of current and advanced
topics of business finance and investment management. Case
study methods of learning will be used. A relevant project
is required of the students.
Prerequisites: 2 Finance concentration courses.
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Management |
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This course provides a basic understanding
of the managerial process in an organizational framework.
The main topics cover the processes of goal setting planning
and decision making, organizing, directing, and controlling
to achieve objectives. Case studies, projects, and presentations
are an essential part of the course.
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This course prepares the MBA students
to manage the production/operations processes in manufacturing
and service organizations. The topics covered are: production
design and process planning, plant location and facility
layout, production scheduling, inventory control, maintenance,
and quality control.
Prerequisites:
Core Courses, and SQA 512.
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With the rise of privatization in our
economy, the course is designed for those who want to specialize
in managing their own small enterprises. The course deals
with identification process of an opportunity, feasibility
analysis, location and organizational decision making legal
framework, development of competitive strategies, and other
related aspects to set-up and operate business enterprises.
Practical exercise in role playing and empirical case studies
of successful businesses from selected markets will be used
to enhance the learning in this course.
Prerequisites:
Core courses.
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Is a capstone course to be taken towards
the end of MBA program. This course, therefore, integrates
the separate functional activities of management into the
efficient operation of the ongoing organization. Emphasis
is on the development of competitive strategies for profit
and non-profit organizations; formulation, implementation,
and evaluation is adopted.
Prerequisites: Core Courses.
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This course deals with the theory, policy,
research and process issues in employment relationships.
The specific personnel practices of planning, selecting,
employee development and appraisal, compensation and labor
relations are examined as they relate to conceptual and
pragmatic views of management or employee behaviour. An
understanding of the industrial relations ordinance of Pakistan
is also included.
Prerequisites:
Foundation Courses.
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Current advanced topics on management
and organization structure, behaviour, and development are
included for discussion. Several case studies on the current
issues of strategic management will also be discussed. A
course project may be given by the instructor.
Prerequisites:
2 Management Concentration Courses.
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Course focuses on techniques of reducing
variations in quality of product and productivity of the
organization, process design and process improvement. Discussion
includes statistical process control, process capability
studies, design of experiments, quality function deployment,
Taguchi's approach to quality.
Prerequisites: Foundation Courses.
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The course is intended to provide the
MBA students with the necessary financial accounting background.
It is a study of the principles and mechanics of financial
accounting covering analysis and recording of transactions,
adjusting entries, and making trial balance leading to the
periodic financial statements, and their analysis.
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Marketing |
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510 Marketing Management |
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The course encompasses detailed study
and analysis of marketing management process including planning,
implementation and control. It covers the subject from the
point of view of different products, markets, market conditions
and environment. It deals with product marketing channels,
services and other functions of marketings. Cases will be
used to analyze a variety of marketing management problem.
Prerequisite:
ECO 401 and 402
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This is an advanced specialization course
in marketing elaborating upon strategic marketing planning,
implementation and control. The objective is more in-depth
exploration of the concepts learned in the introductory
marketing course by using case studies to highlight various
strategic decisions involving product planning, pricing,
marketing channels and advertising planning and management.
Prerequisites:
Core Courses.
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The course is designed to give students
a thorough knowledge of consumer behaviour from both theoretical
and practical perspectives. During the course the focus
will be on the social, cultural, and psychological factors
influencing the consumers' behaviour. Various theories will
be examined and evaluated defining the effect of con-sumerism
in planning for different segments of the market.
Prerequisites:
Core course
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International Marketing course is specifically
designed to train the student to cope with an ever-changing
international market scenario. Shifting demographic profiles,
ever-increasing levels of political intervention, increasing
competition especially in context of the diverse social,
cultural and economic forces that the international marketer
has to face, present a daunting challenge to him. By the
completion of this course, the understanding and ability
of the students to venture in the international market will
be greatly enhanced.
Prerequisites:
Core Courses.
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The objective of this course is to understand
the selling process and function, selection and training
of sales people, methods of compensation and sales simulations,
budgeting and sales forecasting. An analysis and evaluation
of the current practices in sales Management will be carried
out through case studies, group discussions and project
assignments on the local sales. Planning, preparing and
producing advertisements for different media. Other topics
include the social and economic effects of advertising and
evaluation of the effectiveness of advertising.
Prerequisites:
Core Courses.
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This course provides a specialized treatment
of the marketing research process. Covering different research
techniques; problem formulation, research design, collection
of primary and secondary data, questionnaire technique,
sampling, data analysis and research report writing. The
course will be conducted with a heavy emphasis on carrying
out practical exercises designed to increase the understanding
of the role of research in marketing planning and decision
making.
Prerequisites:
Core courses.
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The objective of the course is to familiarize
the student with current developments in the field of marketing
through a survey of current literature and presentation
and discussion of recent researches and cases.
Prerequisites:
2 concentration courses in Marketing.
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Money and Banking |
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A study of the concept, role, and percent
changes in the definition of money. Origins of Banking,
Financial Institutions, Credit Instruments and Credit Markets.
The role of the Central Bank in the Banking System with
special emphasis on reserve requirements, discounting and
open market operations. Money Mechanics; Open Market Operations
and Money Supply. The effect of fiscal and monetary policy
on the money supply and prices. Banking System of Pakistan
including State Bank of Pakistan, a survey of Money and
Capital Markets; specialized credit institutions; and Islamization
of Banking.
Prerequisites:
Core Courses
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Course focuses on Pakistan's Banking
Laws and Regulations and their impact on Banking Credit
and Portfolio Management and Money Supply and Monetary Policy.
The political influence on Banking in Pakistan is examined
with its economic impacts. The role of non bank financial
intermediaries particularly cooperatives and finance companies
and their regulation is critically evaluated.
Prerequisite:
Core Courses |
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Course deals with the banks management
of risk-return-liquidity in the local environment and the
impact of central Bank controls and Banking Laws on Bank
Portfolio Management.
Prerequisite:
Core Courses |
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The course objective is to familiarize
the student with current issues and problems in the banking
sector at home and abroad. Leading journal articles are
discussed and research reports on domestic banking issues
are prepared and presented.
Prerequisites:
2 concentration courses in Banking area. |
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Economics |
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The course introduces the student to
the circular-flow of economic activity elaborating the role
of economic units and markets. It studies the decision making
process of consumers leading to individual and market demand
for a commodity. The decision making of the firm is studied
under the different market structures. In second-part of
the course National Income Concepts and accounting are studied.
Determination of Employment and Income under the Keynesian
framework and the components of aggregate demand are discussed.
The role of money supply is considered leading to equilibrium
in the goods, money and labour markets. The external sector
and multiplier effect are studied; Monetary and Fiscal policy
options are introduced to study the impact and control of
inflation and attain a balance in payments with desired
changes in income and employment.
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The course highlights the role of Money and Monetary Management
on the determination of income, employment and the price
level. Interaction of fiscal measures of taxation, expenditure,
budgets, investment and the external sector with monetary
measures are analysed. Pakistan's policies are critically
evaluated and the role of international monetary agencies
is examined.
Prerequisites:
Core Courses |
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English |
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401 English |
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The level of the course is equivalent to the compulsory
English course at the Bachelors level in Pakistani Universities.
The objective is to raise the standard of English of MBA
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510 Business Report Writing and Communications |
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This course provides a solid theoretical foundation in principles
coupled with an intense practical exposure to the objectives,
content and forms of communication and their application
to real situations in management and organization by case
reports, long research reports, short reports, feasibility
reports etc. Seeks to improve skills (both oral and written)
in communicative technology with specific emphasis on Business
Report Writing in its various international dimensions.
Prerequisite: Student with a deficient command of English
will be asked to take ENG 401. |
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Quantitative Area |
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401 Mathematics for Business & Economics |
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Real numbers; algebraic expression; solutions of linear
and quadratic equations. Inequalities. Absolute value. Functions,
graphs, symmetry. Line, parabola and systems. Exponential
and logarithmic functions. Matrix, operations, reduction.
Mathematics of Finance: Annuities, present and future values,
loans, amortization and sinking funds. Calculus: limits,
continuity, rates of change, derivatives using basic rules,
maxima and minima. Integration with initial conditions. |
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401 Business Statistics and Computer Application |
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The course aims to prepare the student for decision making
under uncertainty using statistical techniques and probability
concepts. Topics included are collection, summarization,
presentation, and analysis of data, measures of control
tendency, dispersion, skewness and correlations; time series
analysis and Index numbers; probability concepts, probability
distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing. |
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512 Management Science |
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The course aims to provide a sound knowledge of some most
popular quantitative methods and their numerous applications
in management sciences - Linear Program, its solution (also
by LINDO software), Sensitivity Analysis, Integer and Goal
Programming. Transportation and assignment problems. Decision
analysis in situations under uncertainty. Analytic hierarchy
process, consistency, and synthesis. Utility and decision
making. Inventory Models.
Prerequisites:
Foundation Courses. |
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Computer |
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401 Computer Applications in Business |
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This course introduces fundamental computer concepts, terminology
and data, information and communication of information.
Organizations, leadership, planning and decision making
are also explained. Role of computers in MIS is discussed.
Different decision support systems both from the Software
and Hardware view point are introduced. At the end, expert
systems, their components, development and role in helping
management at different levels is discussed. The course
also provides a little insight into information systems
applicable to inventory control, accounting, cost accounting,
and production planning etc. Lab work includes word processing,
spread sheet, graphics, and database packages. Focus is
on application in Business Administration.
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540 Database Management Systems |
This is an applied
course focusing on Data Management techniques and methods
using different application packages like Spread Sheets,
Databases and statistical packages, starting from the
very basic concepts leading to advanced features and applications.
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