University of Bahrain ‫جامعة البحرين‬

Deanship of Graduate Studies ‫عمادة الدراسات العليا والبحث‬

& Scientific Research ‫العلمي‬

College of Business Administration

Department of Management and Marketing

Master of Business Administration - 2020

COURSE NO. COURSE TITLE CH

BACKGROUND COURSES
ACCM500 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 0
ECONM500 SURVEY OF ECONOMICS 0
FINM500 MANAGERIAL FINANCE 0
CORE COURSES
MGT630 ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN AND BEHAVIOR 3
FIN620 CORPORATE FINANCE 3
MKT660 MARKETING MANAGEMENT 3
QM650 RESEARCH METHODS AND STAT. ANALYSIS 3
MGT632 INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP 3
ACC611 MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING 3
MGT635 BUSINESS ETHICS 3
MGT638 BUSINESS STRATEGY 3
QM651 DATA ANALYTICS AND DECISION MAKING 3
MGT694 CAPSTONE CONSULTING PROJECT 6
Course Descriptions

ACCM500: Financial Accounting (No credit)

Basic financial accounting principles for a business enterprise; accounting and the business
environment; recording business transactions; the adjusting process and preparing financial
statements; accounting for merchandising operations; plant assets and intangibles; accounting for
corporations; introduction to cost accounting; and introduction to management accounting.

ECONM500: Survey of Economics (No credit)

Survey of both micro and macroeconomic concepts; microeconomics topics include scarcity, positive
and normative economics, economic problem, demand and supply mechanism, elasticity and market
structure; macroeconomics topics include national accounts, unemployment, business cycles,
inflation, money, banking and monetary and fiscal policies.

FINM500: Managerial Finance (No credit)

The role of finance in the business organization, financial analysis, financial forecasting, capital
investment decisions, financing decisions, cost of capital decision, convertible, international financial
management, business failures and investment banking.

ACC611: Managerial Accounting (3 credits)

Concepts and tools of managerial accounting; Accounting and related controls as part of the
management process; Management accounting and related analytical methodologies for decision
making and control in profit-directed organizations; Product costing, relevant information, budgetary
control systems, and performance evaluation systems for planning, coordinating, and monitoring the
performance of a business; Advanced techniques of measurement and framework for assessing
behavioral dimensions of control systems; Impact of different managerial styles on motivation and
performance in an organization; and Financial and non-financial measures for evaluating business
strategies and business unit success (economic measures of performance, balanced scorecard
approaches.

FIN620: Corporate Finance (3 credits)

Market efficiency; shareholders' wealth value; cost of capital; capital assets pricing model; capital
budgeting; dividend policy; risk management; mergers and bankruptcy.

MGT630: Organizational Design and Behavior (3 credits)

Organization and organization theory; organizational effectiveness; organization structure and design;
organizations and theory effects; and managing human behavior in organizations.

MGT632: Innovation and Entrepreneurship (3 credits)

Major economic theories of innovation and entrepreneurship; process, risks, rewards and cost of
entrepreneurship; entrepreneur's options for start-up and growth capital, organization design, sales
and marketing approaches; resource allocation and other decisions from the entrepreneur's
perspective; team project involving preparation of feasibility plan.
MGT635: Business Ethics (3 credits)
Introduction to a stakeholder management framework, emphasizing business’s social and ethical
responsibilities to both external and internal stakeholder groups. Discussing a twin theme of corporate
business ethics and governance that illustrates how ethical considerations are included in the public
issues facing organizations and the decision-making process of managers.

MGT638: Business Strategy (3 credits)

Basic concepts of strategic management; corporate governance and social responsibility;
environmental scanning and industry analysis; internal scanning: organization analysis; strategy
formulation: situation analysis and business strategy, corporate strategy, functional strategy and
strategic choices; strategy implementation: organizing for action.

MKT660: Marketing Management (3 credits)

The marketing concepts and the role of marketing in modern organizations; framework of analysis,
planning and control in marketing; focus to be on developing the marketing mix strategies (product,
price, place, and physical distribution) in today’s highly competitive environment.

QM650: Research Methods and Statistical Analysis (3 credits)

Introduction to business research, research process, problem definition and the research proposal,
design of research strategies, questionnaire design, sampling procedures, sources, collection and
presentation of data; hypotheses testing; bivariate and multivariate analyses; nonparametric
significance test, and presenting results in written report.

QM651: Data Analytics and Decision Making (3 credits)

Data analysis, probability theory, distributions and moments, estimation and hypothesis testing,
regression modelling, multivariate analysis, simulation, optimization, Spreadsheet Modelling.

MGT694: Capstone Consulting Project (6 credits)

Prerequisite: 18 credits
The project is an independent research work that aims to apply the knowledge and skills students
have learned in the classroom to help a client during the Business Consulting Project. Student needs
to contact a client and a supervisor and manage the whole relationship with them. The project topics
may vary but they should involve a description of the real-life problem, review of the literature, and
appropriate data analysis and modelling to develop and findings and recommendations.