This course is designed to prepare business managers with both accountancy and business management skills essential in today’s complex business environment.
The course’s learning objectives reflect that: modern accounting with the advent of information technology is no longer simply the recording of historical facts but the assembly and management of accounting information and its distribution to both external and internal users; this information facilitates the decision processes necessary to compete in today’s increasingly complex business world and; an accounting information system capable of providing relevant, timely and reliable information must be administered by knowledgeable, competent management skilled in both accountancy and business management.
This course is designed to prepare business managers with both accountancy and business management skills essential in today’s complex business environment.
The course’s learning objectives reflect that: modern accounting with the advent of information technology is no longer simply the recording of historical facts but the assembly and management of accounting information and its distribution to both external and internal users; this information facilitates the decision processes necessary to compete in today’s increasingly complex business world and; an accounting information system capable of providing relevant, timely and reliable information must be administered by knowledgeable, competent management skilled in both accountancy and business management.
The focus of this course is to impart a practical and "real life" understanding and application of public budgeting from the practitioner’s perspective. We will examine public budgets (government and non-profit agencies), budgeting systems, and budgeting processes, and how decisions are made and the processes that lead to these decisions.
Information systems have become the enabling technology for business. Businesses and organizations that are not exposed, aware, or do not use the latest applications, solutions, and IT infrastructure are compromising their current and future competitive position. This course balances theory with applications through case studies and projects that emphasize the effectiveness of organizational information systems in achieving the objectives for which the systems are designed.
Factors such as the organizational structure and information requirements are studied within the context of ethical, economic, and socio-technical factors that affect the design of systems and the processes of converting data to information, information to knowledge, and knowledge to intelligence.Therefore, organizations, whether multinational, transnational or global, assume that, in their principles, they consider the different types of characterizations that widely affect business, thus obtaining a greater range of information, in order to have a better finished idea about how companies are doing.
This subject has as a general objective to develop skills in future professionals to operate in the environment of International Business, capable of successfully facing the process of globalization, which is expansive, explosive and indefensible, based on an integrative, broad and creative vision of the different variables (Economic, Political, Social, Ecological, Cultural, among others) that today are paradigms in the society where it will develop in the business world.
This course deals with the methodology and follow-up to develop a research project applied to the business environment, as a requirement for obtaining a degree. The result of the applied research project is the proposal of an academic document, in addition to a proof of concept that can be subsequently applied in a company. Of all the courses you take at Atlantis University, this will be the most practical. Eighty percent of your grade will be based on your project's follow-up, the research process you have conducted, as well as the results of it.
The course sessions will follow the natural order of a research process, such as defining the problem to be solved, conducting a review of the state-of-the-art literature, defining a project proposal, defining the research process, clarifying the scope of the project, planning the project and its deliverables, and delivering the required results.The current labor market has undergone profound transformations and paradigm shifts resulting from the new rules of the game in the economic and cultural environment. In this context, strategically managing the human capital happens to occupy a strategic role in all the processes and functions that compose it.
This course prepares students to be able to understand how human resources management and employees can be core competencies for organizations as well as learning through case studies and analysis different techniques and models of diagnosis to deal with the impact on the human dimension that causes the introduction of changes in a company. What is the impact of the new economy on the work market? What does it mean to strategically manage Human Capital in a company? How are people managed to enter the organization? How is human talent developed through learning? How is human performance managed, evaluated and compensated?
The above, with the strategic purpose of establishing a sustainable advantage through the people that integrate the organization.Business Intelligence has evolved during the last decade from depicting a photograph of the organization, to predict and prescribe in real time for decision making and competitive advantage. Many methodologies rely on the advancements of Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
During this course, the participant will comprehend and apply for business purposes, different algorithms used for advanced predictive analytics. Data manipulation and analysis involve the use of languages like R or Python, but with a strong scope on business applications and the generation of value for the business.
Additionally, students will use the Data contained in Big repositories (Extract), apply the data analysis to the whole set of data (Transform) and use the information in real time for decision making and execution (Load).
This course follows a Problem Based Learning and Case Based Learning structure, with direct presentations from the instructor to clarify the concepts and applications, providing space for the student to learn, participate and innovate.
- Teacher: Arpan Mahara