DESCRIPTION OF COURSES

In this course, students practice four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking by performing academic tasks such as pair work, group work, discussion, research project, formal writing and oral presentations. This course helps students master English structure and develop wide sophisticated vocabulary.

The course addresses the needs of business students and business people who need to improve their fluency in English. These courses emphasize the importance of effective communication skills and wide cultural knowledge for successful performance in dynamic and fast-paced business school environment. Different kinds of texts, pair work group work, discussion etc. are used for this purpose.

This course further emphasized the importance of effective communication skills. It enables students to relate the language they are learning to their own work experience. This course provides opportunity for practicing the language of a range of specific and general professional situations, such as telephoning to make arrangements, describing products and services, reporting on progress, and planning ahead.

This course deals with Introduction and Concepts of Business: History, Objectives and Forms of Business. Ownership: Proprietorship, Partnership, Company, Corporation. Entrepreneurship & Business Ethics: Societal factors, Ethical and Religious constraints. International Business: Globalization, Free trade, Trade barriers. Management & Organization: Management functions, Managing skills, Organization structure, Organization culture, Human Resources.

Fundamentals of management with emphasis on interrelation of organizational functions. Topics include management perspectives, human factors in management, planning, decision making, management and delegation, personnel, communication, leadership, motivation and controls.

Detailed introduction to financial accounting and reporting with emphasis on preparation, analysis, and limitations of accounting records and reports. The course includes discussion of financial and management accounting, accounting cycles, adjustment of entries, financial statements, merchandise operations, cash, receivables, and marketable securities.

The course aims at giving the students knowledge of the basic working of mixed economy at the aggregate level. This will take into account the critical view of Islam on some aspects of conventional discussion, which are inconsistence with Islamic ethicolegal principles. Topics to be covered include basic concepts in macroeconomics, measurement of national income and output, inflation and unemployment, fiscal policy, monetary policy, commercial and central banking, working of commodity and money markets, stabilization policy, international trade.

Introduction to comparative economical systems as in Islam-consumstion/production/disbution and exchange in Islam. The central objective of this course is to provide fundamental knowledge of the economic organizations of human societies and the underlying problems, principles and policies. The course attempts to make students understand as to how the economic principles govern the behavior of consumers, producers and various kinds of markets and as to how the national 'cake' is distributed among the participants of productive processes. Islamic principle of Distribution (Zakat and Fitra, 'Ushar') etc. The course aims at providing an elementary analysis of the role of market, the role of government and the role of Islamic ethics "weights & measures" wherever warranted in solving the basic economic problems. Topics to be covered include basic concepts, markets and government in a modern economy, demand and supply, elasticities of demand, market structure (monopoly, perfect competition, oligopoly, etc.) and factor markets.

This is the introductory course of finance. It includes the concepts of finance and business finance, functions of finance, concepts of risk and return, business risk and financial risk, time value of money and its applications-present value and future value, annuity due, perpetuity, growing perpetuity, loan amortization, valuation: components and process, sources of financing, short term financing, long term financing through common stock, preferred stock and issuance of bonds and convertibles, lease financing and term loan, introductory concepts on working capital financial ratios and their interpretations.

The course integrates basic concepts of corporate planning into the study of marketing. Major emphasis on the firm and on the marketing manager's role in strategy formulation, marketing management, and decision making. Topics include market management, market opportunities, marketing strategy, and re-marketing control systems.

The basic objective of this course is to serve as an introduction to mathematical methods and statistics. Topics include: introduction of statistics, collection and presentation of data, measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion, correlation & regression, probability & probability distributions.

The basic objective of this course is to help understand the mathematical methods and their applications to business. The topics include: coordinate geometry, mathematics of finance, matrix algebra, calculus and linear programming. This course will familiarize students with the more commonly used types of quantitative techniques used in business.

The main objective of this course is to enable students to write the following documents with appropriate tone and style: a) Letter of Adjustment, b) Letter of Application, c) Letter of Persuasion, d) Report, e) Curriculum Vitae, f) Memo. Topics/ Areas to be covered include: a) The Curriculum Vitae, b) Applying for a job, c) Letter of Adjustment, d) Fact-finding Report, e) Memoranda, f) Writing a Persuasive Letter, g) Feasibility Report with Recommendation, h) Grammar and Proof reading skills, i) Grammar, Punctuation, Paragraphing, j) Improving style in writing and k) Style enhancement.

This course provides students with in-depth knowledge to apply existing laws to business establishments. Laws relating to contract, sales of goods, negotiable instruments, partnership and company are emphasized. This course will start with an introduction to the legal system of Bangladesh. Topics to be covered include law of contract & law of partnership, company law.

The course examines forms of business organization. It includes discussion of organization characteristics, effective concepts, organizational behavior, motivation, behavior and performance, groups in organizations, and leadership. Theories of organizational structure, communications, and decision-making process are also emphasized.

The objective of the course is to provide the students with an introductory knowledge of cost and management accounting. The course covers: managerial accounting and business environment, cost terms and classifications, cost behavior, cost volume profit relationship, direct costing and absorption costing, relevant cost for decision making, pricing: products and services, budgeting and budgetary concept, functional budget, flexible budget and master budget.

Introduction to financial accounting and reporting. Topics include inventories, current & other fixed assets, liabilities, owner's equity, financial statement analysis, and financial position, company accounts & partnership accounts.

The course covers the controller and treasurer functions, the firm and its financial environment, types of financial claims, accounting and cash flow measurement, agency costs, risk and return, capital market theory, financial leverage, capital structure theory, cost of capital, dividend and policy, market efficiency.

Topics include personnel and human resource management (HRM), recruitment and placement, training and development, compensation, labour relations, and employee security and safety, Human resource management from Islamic perspective, the challenges of Human Resource Management.

This course will expose students to general statistical techniques and their application to analyze practical problems usually encountered by professional economists and business analysts. The topics will include graphical and numerical descriptive methods, sampling techniques, time series analysis, interpolation and extrapolation, statistical inferences, analysis of variance and chi-square tests.

The basic objective of this course is to serve as an introduction to mathematical methods. The topics include: number system, set theory, functions and equations, exponential and logarithmic functions.

Principles of effective product innovations and management. Major emphasis on product concepts and tools relevant to product management, development of meaningful criteria for decision making in product areas, new product development and processes, management of existing products, and organizational considerations.

The objective of the course is to provide the students with a basic knowledge in tax laws. The course covers the topics; general theory of taxation, income tax assessment of individuals and assessment of companies, value added tax.

This course will familiarize the students with how to integrate the basic concepts of corporate planning into the study of marketing. It will also give emphasis on the firm and the marketing mangers role in strategy formulation, marketing management and decision-making. Major topics to be covered are: Understanding marketing management, Analyzing market opportunities, Marketing aids/tools for decision making, Planning marketing strategy, the Marketing mix strategy and Marketing control system.

The course includes topics like: money in a barter economy, money and credit creation, money market in the LDCs, money inflation and growth, debt, credit and financial instruments-interest rates-monetary institutions, central bank, instruments of monetary management, commercial banks, the creation of bank deposit, deposits and portfolio of commercial banks' funds, banking structure and competition, economics of scale of bank operations.

Historical survey of the Bangladesh economy from the colonial period to the present. It includes consideration of development strategies, agricultural, industrial, and service sector contributions to GDP and employment, and domestic and international trade.

This is a premier course for those considering the formation or acquisition of their own businesses at some point in their careers. The course involves lectures, case analyses, presentations by students, guest lectures by successful entrepreneurs, and projects on the evaluation of business opportunities and preparation of formal business plans. Lectures cover the major areas of interest to the entrepreneur, nature and importance of entrepreneurial activities and alternatives, launching and start-up issues and challenges, market and financial planning, and finance, and control of the enterprise, qualitative and quantitative evaluation, acquisitions/ mergers, start-ups, buyouts, family operation, management succession, franchising, expansion, bankruptcy, business failures and risks.

The objective of this course is to provide the students with in-depth knowledge of the nature, financial environment, sources of mechanism and instruments of international business along with new international economic order, international financial markets, agencies, and other monetary system. The course covers the topics; international business concepts and organization, economic theories of international business, the dynamic of international organizations like IMF, WB, IDB, ADB, GATT, WTO, OPEC, EU, EFTA, EEA, AFA, ASEAN, NAFTA, FATT, SAPTA, business environment and forces influencing international business, international export and import practice, foreign exchange and financial markets controlling the international business.

This course helps the students, attaining knowledge in the management of various insurance companies. This course mainly covers management of life insurance & general insurance, fire insurance, marine insurance, accident & property insurance, education insurance, health insurance, marriage insurance, crop insurance etc. It also includes insurance accounts relating to premium, claims, insurance fund, profits etc. How to Islamize insurance business is also the subject matter of this course.

The course deals with the different aspect of company law relating to formation of a company, its memorandum and articles of association, management, audit and accounts, company meeting, winding up of a company etc. The course also provides with the knowledge of Securities and Exchange Commission's Rules and Regulations, listing agreements of the stock Exchanges etc. The course strives to help the students organize and understand the increasing legislation and regulation, which influence the general management and financial aspect of a company.

This course offers a comprehensive overview and analysis on International finance. Major topics to be discussed are: Study of international finance, the foreign exchange market, the balance of payments, past and present international monetary arrangements, forward market, exchange rates, interest rates and interest party, foreign exchange risk, international investment and capital flows, import and export financing, financial management of the multi-national firm and the international money market.

The curse aims at developing students' knowledge about E-Commerce the history of electronic commerce, web-based businesses, network economics: real and virtual network's, supply-side versus demand-side scale economies, internet and www, value chains, strategic business and industry value chains, packet switched networks, TCP/IP protocol script, internet utility programs, SGML, HTML and XML, web client and servers, web client/server architecture, intranet and extranets, web server, web server software feature sets, web server software and tools, web protocol, search engines, intelligent agents, EC software, web hosting, cost analysis; computer security classification, copy right and Intellectual property, electronic commerce threats, protecting client computers, electronic payment systems, electronic cash, strategies for marketing, sales and promotion, cryptography; web based marketing, search engines and directory registration, online advertisements, portables and info mechanics, web site design issues.

This course emphasizes the techno-logical merger of the computer, communications, consumer electronics, and entertainment industries through the exchange of information in the digital format used by computers. This new phenomenon is known as digital convergence. The theme of convergence covers much of technology currently found under such phrases as the Information Superhighway, the Multimedia Revolution, the Digital Age and the Internet. The objective of this course is to enable students to identify, explain and apply these important computer concepts in society, business and their own lives.

The course aims at giving the students knowledge about ethics related to business. The topics include ethics, philosophy and business, importance of ethics in business, making ethical egoism, truth telling, ethical relativism and morality, competition and its role in business, competition and equal opportunity, self-regulation, government regulation, business and society.

This course will expose students to psychology related to industries. The topics include organizational psychology, workers' mental health, frustration, fatigue, absenteeism, industrial counseling, boss-subordinate relations and performance appraisal.

The objective of this course is to highlight to students the issues involved in managing information resources in an organizational context. Students will be required to understand the benefits that information systems can bring to organizations to be able to appreciate.

The objective of the course is to provide the students with a detailed knowledge of principles and practices of accounting, concepts, technique and their application in various practical workstations. The course includes the topics: financial statement from incomplete information, accounting for joint venture and consignment, accounting for bank and insurance company and branch accounting.

\ The course includes the topic: accounting for utilities, branch accounting, accounting for insolvency, accounting for royalties, disclosure procedures of accounting, accounting for business combination, valuation of goodwill and share.

The objective of the course is to provide the students with a detailed knowledge of theory and practice of Auditing for different types of organizations. The course comprises topics like; introduction to auditing, errors and fraud, internal audit, audit sampling, verifications, concepts of cost and management audit etc.

The objective of the course is to provide the students with in-depth knowledge of cost accounting concepts, principles and methods. The course includes the topics: introduction to cost accounting, cost concepts, classifications and statement, service department cost allocation, activity based costing and job order costing, process costing, standard costing, service costing, operating costing, quality costing, profit planning, segment reporting, responsibility accounting.

The objective of managerial accounting is to show the students how to use accounting information in managerial decision making and in formulating policy and strategy for the organization. It provides the students with some selective cost accounting techniques in estimating and controlling costs, and advanced analytical tools for using accounting information in planning, decision making and performance evaluation.

Foundation English Language Courses

The Basic objective of this course is to provide the students with a detailed knowledge of accounting information systems and technology with special reference to electronic accounting, date recording, procession, reporting and analyzing and interpreting. The course is divided into two parts: Theoretical and Practical.

The objective of this course is to review discussions and theories related to accounting behavior conceptualized on the economics in UK and US. By the end of he course your should have an overview of the major theories used in current accounting research and ideas for your own dissertation or paper. The main contents of this course are politicization of Accounting, history of Accounting, economic consequences of Accounting standard, positive and normative theory of Accounting etc.

The objective of the course is to provide the students with the basic knowledge of research study. The course encompasses: introduction to research, research design, collection of data, preparation and pre-testing of questionnaire, measurement and scaling, data analysis and testing of hypothesis.

This course will provide the background necessary to analyze foreign financial statement, expose students to the difference in accounting practices in different countries with a Bangladesh focus, introduce the financial and managerial accounting aspects of multinational corporations and acquaint students with the international dimensions of accounting. With the ever-closer economic ties between countries. This course adds value by introducing the International accounting practice to students and equipping students with the knowledge of the different accounting practices around the world. This course will also train your presentation and case-solving skills, which are important for your future success.

Intensive English Language Courses

The course deals with the concept of corporate firm and goals of corporate firm, agency costs and set of contract perspective, managerial goals, separation of ownership and control, capital market, capital structure, issue of corporate securities, financial planning, forecasting financial statements, mergers and acquisitions, value of the firm after acquisitions, reduction of risk, bad reasons for mergers, financial distress, bankruptcy, liquidation and reorganization and corporate restructuring.

The objective of this course is to train students in money and capital market with special emphasis on the study of institutions supplying funds of various categories. Focus will be on the financial institutions with a view to acquainting the students with potential source of funds of various types, fund vitalization and the terms and conditions under which institutions and financial intermediaries like commercial banks, BSB, ICB and other institution like World Bank, IMF, ADB, Stock Markets etc. function.

The course deals with nature of international business, financial environment and their implications for the firm. The topics covered are: exchange rates and policy, transitions in exchange, spot and forward exchanges and swap operations, instruments of international payments, inter-relationships in the balance of payment and balance of payment disequilibria, international liquidity and the new international economic order, international financial markets, international agencies and institutions, and international monetary system.

Introduction: Concepts and needs for working capital, importance of working capital management, Developments of working capital, working capital cycle, working capital policy, Estimation working capital requirements, Cash management, Case management cycle, steps in cash management, model for determining cash requirement, management of accounts receivables and Management of inventory, EOQ, techniques of inventory management.