The Capstone Field Project provides students with the opportunity to complete their academic curriculum through the real-life business application of best practices learned through courses taken in the program.

The main objective of the Capstone Field Project is to strengthen the students’ capacities to explore, conceptualize, analyze, explicate, interpret, and provide suggested solutions to companies and Organizations facing critical business challenges. In addition, the Capstone Field Project requires from students to write a detailed set of recommendations addressing the business challenges cited above where students demonstrate their knowledge and competencies gained through their course of study in specific areas such as: finance, accounting, marketing, strategic management, and operations.

The organizations benefited from the Capstone Field Project are selected by the students with a final approval of the Graduate Academic Director.

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 will focus on the study of Budgeting Management in both Public and Private Sectors. We will seek to understand the Government spending and the impacts it has in Private Sectors, and our daily lives. Students will see what happens when Public Sector mismanage the Budget in contrast what happens when Private Sector mismanage the budget. 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.