ACCT 200 Financial Accounting
This course introduces the principles, procedures, and objectives of an accounting system. Students also become familiar with the format and content of general-purpose financial statements. Topics to be covered include revenue recognition, inventory, long-lived assets, present value, and long-term liabilities. After completing this course students will acquire such skills as accounting and bookkeeping; the balance sheet equation, effects of transactions on the accounting equation, double-entry bookkeeping, concept of debit and credit, detailed analysis of basic accounts: cash, accounts receivable and notes receivable, inventories and inventory valuation methods and etc.
ACCT 301 Managerial Accounting
Managerial accounting information plays an increasingly important role in understanding business activities in dynamic business environment. This course provides an introduction to many of the concepts and procedures necessary for effective business decision-making. Topics which are examined include traditional cost systems, activity-based cost systems, cost behavior analysis, break-even and cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting, standard costing, transfer pricing systems, relevant costs, and responsibility accounting.
ACCT 500 Managerial Accounting (Graduate)
Managerial accounting is the internal language of business environment and without proper knowledge of managerial accounting it is hard to understand company’s internal operations and process flows. The goal of this course is to provide students with the conceptual foundation and develop the framework for using management accounting for strategic decision- making, performance management and control.
The major topics include product and service costing approaches, capital budgeting, financial planning, and performance management.
ACCT Accounting for Managers*
The aim of this course is to introduce accounting to students. Accounting comprises financial accounting and management accounting. As financial statements are the key source of information for both financial and management accountants, students will first deal with the methods that financial accounting uses to produce an annual report. Then, they will have a closer look at management accounting. Management accounting requires information extracted from the financial information system. A financial information system deals with the processing of the flow of data on business activities into financial statements. Therefore attention is being paid to acquire skills needed to provide information to users.
ACCT Advanced Auditing*
This course builds on and expands further the knowledge and skills obtained in the Auditing course. In particular, students will cover audit sampling, attestation engagements and research various audit topics as well as examine current issues and problems in auditing and the profession as a whole using academic and practitioner literature.
ACCT Auditing*
This course introduces the students to generally accepted auditing standards, professional ethics, legal liability, internal controls, the audit risk model and various types of audit reports. New professional standards for consideration of fraud in financial reporting, including a study of recent major accounting frauds, are included. Classes are taught using case studies: practical examples of auditing techniques and work programs are used to illustrate the application of the theory.
ACCT Financial Reporting*
This is an intermediate financial accounting course on issues pertaining to the measurement, valuation, and communication of the various components of financial statements. Accounting issues are examined from the view of the accountant as well as from the perspectives of investors and managers. An analytical and critical posture is adopted to make the student proficient in the preparation of financial reports and in how these issues affect the use of financial reports and in how these issues affect the use of financial data in decision making.
Business
BUS 100 Introduction to Business
This course is an introduction into the key aspects of business administration. It will serve as a “preview of coming attractions” for BBA students. It provides students with a general perspective of a business firm as an integrated organization composed of a number of specialized functions. These functions will be covered separately before having a holistic view on functioning of a business worldwide and in Azerbaijan.
BUS 101 Business Presentations
The course has been designed to teach students major business communication concepts related to public speaking, visual aids, body language and others. Students will learn how to become more effective business presenters who are able to write clearly with powerful and organized messages. Business Presentations will discuss examples of business communication critically with an emphasis on speech analysis. This course is highly recommended for students wishing to pursue careers in business and corporate environments.
BUS 300 Business Ethics
The purpose of this course is to help students improve their ability to make ethical
decisions in business by providing them with a framework that they can use to identify, analyze, and resolve ethical issues in business decision making. Issues such as conflicts between personal values and organizational goals; the role of sustainability in business strategy; and the importance of stakeholder relationships, corporate governance, and the development of ethics programs and an ethical culture in an organization will be discussed.
BUS 400 Investments
This course examines the organization and function of securities markets. Equity, bond, options and futures markets will be covered. The course is constructed to be an introduction to professional portfolio management. The concepts of modern portfolio theory, capital asset pricing, efficient markets and security analysis are introduced
BUS 401 International Business
The course provides an overview of doing business in an international setting. In particular, students will be introduced to the terminology of international business, and examine the influence of forces such as culture, economics, politics, and geography on business and markets. Another focus area is the development of management skills related to international business. Students will also have a critical look at organizational structure of firms operating internationally.
BUS 602 Global Business Seminar
Global Business Seminar is an important global component of full-time international MBA program. Students spend 8-10 days in a selected country, visiting businesses in agricultural industries, and hearing from business leaders on effective management strategies to meet changing demands of the global marketplace. Students will have reading assignments in advance to familiarize themselves with the particular country and industries, and upon their return, write a paper.
BUS 603 Innovation and Creativity
This course discusses the basics every manager needs to organize successful state of art innovation in both entrepreneurial and established firms. Students will start by examining innovation-based strategies as a source of competitive advantage and then examine how to build organizations that excel at identifying, building and commercializing technological innovations. Major topics include how the innovation process works; creating an organizational environment that rewards innovation and entrepreneurship; designing appropriate innovation processes (e.g. stage- gate, portfolio management); organizing to take advantage of internal and external sources of innovation; and structuring entrepreneurial and established organizations for effective innovation.
BUS 608 Competitive Strategy (Capstone)
This program requires completion of a capstone project, instead of a Master’s thesis. The capstone project unfolds in three phases. During phase one, student will select a topic and create a problem statement and development plan with proposed methods and sources of data. During phase two, student will collect and analyze the data if needed. During phase three, student will be assigned a faculty advisor who has experience with the chosen topic The faculty mentor will assign the final project grade.
BUS Global Business Landscapes*
The Global Business Landscapes are a series of workshops where students for the full-time programme will meet to share their diverse business experiences. The workshops are in the form of a global café where students are divided into groups and asked to discuss a specific management theme related to their own experiences. These themes will vary and will be related to topics such as CSR, Leadership, Ethics, the Market and the State, dealing with constrained resources, and change and innovation.
BUS Innovation and New Business Ventures*
Course’s key objective is to generate within participants minds, an understanding of what it takes to get a new venture established, and to grow the business so that the entrepreneur both retains operational control, and yet is able to pursue the highest growth path available to the business. A further aim of the course is to encourage participants to take their new business idea, and use it as the basis for a new career as a successful entrepreneur
BUS International Business Studies*
The aim of this module is to provide an understanding of the strategies pursued by firms and the factors underlying their competitiveness in an international context. The nature and scope of international strategies and operations are examined in the earlier part of the course. This is followed by an examination of aspects of international business and competitiveness across different nations, the implications of increasing economic integration in Europe and consideration of the importance of national and international policies on multinational enterprises for business strategies.
BUS Internship*
The relationship between the academic world and the business community is a vital one. The Internship program of the School of Business at ADA University is an important link in this relationship. The Internship program provides business students with valuable work experience, which will enhance their classroom learning. Additionally, the Internship program affords the school a further opportunity for evaluating the efficacy of the curriculum in preparing graduates for success in business.