Masters in Business Administration

This module offers students with skills related to effective project monitoring and evaluation tools and methods; Setting project objectives and targets for effective monitoring and evaluation; collecting, analyzing and storing monitoring and evaluation information; communicating and reporting monitoring and evaluation findings with opportunity to gain an enhanced understanding of leadership applications in the business context.

This module will offer to the students with opportunity to gain an understanding of the key concepts, techniques, and decision tools used by managers in the business context. Whilst not intended for those interested in more technical aspects of business management, the module aims to develop knowledge and understanding of both theoretical and practical systems applications. The study area would include planning, scheduling, analyzing and implementing projects - e,g., product development, construction, information systems, new business, and special events. 

The purpose of this module is to provide students with an in-depth understanding of specific issues in international finance. The module will cover the following broad areas: (i) the role of international financial markets; (ii) the financial problems faced by multinational firms when undertaking international trade and investments; and (iii) the financial strategies used by multinational firms to alleviate the problems posted by pricing and political risks. Emphasis will be placed on the use of various financial instruments to manage risk. The relevance of both theoretical and empirical works will be highlighted in as much as they enable you to understand the financial issues facing firms and investors when they operate in an international setting.

The aim of this module is to introduce you to the role the operations in an organization and how it contributes to sustained competitive advantage. The module also involves looking at the short-, medium, and long-term decisions that managers make to ensure that the company can offer the right product or service, at the right quantity, the right time, the right place and right price. Finally, the module also provides guidelines on how to analyse operational or other business processes to help managers make decisions on the investments needed to maintain or improve these processes

This module will enable the students to understand and apply various quantitative methods for efficient decision making in different organizational scenarios.

 At the end of this module, students should be able:

• To apply hypothesis testing, regression and correlation analysis, multiple regression and business/economic forecasting.
• To understand different quantitative methods and their utility in optimizing decisions in certainty and uncertainty situations.
• To apply the quantitative methods practically in decision making.
• To interpret output from quantitative techniques and tools applied in the process of decision making.
• To apply the quantitative techniques in finding practical solutions to the business problems.

This course introduces students to the basic accounting procedures involved in the production of a business entity's financial statements. Enable the student to understand the basic concepts of accounting science, recording the business transactions, measurement of business performance and the assessment of the financial position of the organization. 

The course aims at equipping students with knowledge and skills relative to Project Risk Management. It covers the different aspects of Risk Management such as Risk Planning, Risk Identification, Risk Analysis, Risk Monitoring and Evaluation. As part of the course proceeding, students are requested to prepare a Risk Plan with the aim of reinforcing their skills in Risk Management. 

This course blends portfolio theory with the type of practical issues that one will come across in a career as a professional investment manager.

Dear Students,

You are invited to this platform so that you can partake in online learning  the Research Methodology  module. Please note that it is important for each one of you to do all exercises and assignment and submit on time.

The following will be the facilitators:

Prof Bideri Ishuheri Nyamulinda (for Part One); Email: drnbideri@gmail.com; Mob Tel: 0788716140 and Dr Ndikubwimana Phillip (for Part Two); Email: ndiphil2000@gmail.com ; Mob Tel 0788615066

Learning outcomes

Having suceesfully completed this module, students should be able to:

Explain the nature marketing research

Explain the marketing process

Describe the marketing research sampling design

Explain the data collect and data analysis

General Introduction

This module is composed of  two parts namely the theoretical part and the practical part that will require your participation in performing various practical activities.

Part One comprises of 7 topics including: An Introduction to Research Methodology, The Language of Research, Dimensions of Social Research, Research Design, Measurement, Sampling Design and Data Collection.

Part Two includes topics such as;………

In this lecture we will discuss the significance of management in achieving organizational objectives efficiently and effectively. Managers do this by carrying out the functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading, motivating, communicating and controlling

Advanced Financial Analysis aimed at providing students with good understanding of practical financial management and enabling them to apply relevant knowledge, skills and exercise professional judgment as expected of a senior financial executive or advisor, in taking or recommending decisions relating to the financial management of an organization.

This module provides a comprehensive overview of what risks firms face and how firms can use derivatives to manage and modify these risks.

It focuses on derivatives and how companies manage their financial risks. It examines the main types of derivative contracts: forward contracts, futures, swaps and options, and how these instruments are used in managing and modifying financial risks

Branding is a creative task for marketing managers. They need high professional skills in designing brands and making them ambassadors to organisations in gaining sustainable business over long period of time. Brand equity is the consumer's value, which provides long term association. 

This module is aimed to enable the students to create and sustain brand equity of goods or services by bringing synergistic effectsin managing various elements of marketing mix. The coverage of the module include but not limited to: 

•  21st century marketing trends and scenarios.
• Brand equity -concept and approaches
• Analysis of marketing mix and brand equity relationship
• Product features and Brand equity
• Product mix decisions and brand equity
• Price mix decisions and brand equity
• Smart distribution systems and brand equity
• Brand equity through advertising and publicity efficiency.
• Role of sales promotion and personal selling in creating brand equity
• Emerging trends in brand equity management.

This module introduces the students with the human resource management processes and functions. Human resource management concept , functions and importance to organisational performance shall be dealt with. Human Resource Management as an important function of management process shall seen from the perspectives of both line and staff authority. HRM function in the current context has changed its approach. It focuses on the competencies of the worker but simply on the worker. The major shift is that workers should not been as employees alone but they are people. The module  centres on the contemporary issues and dimensions of HRM and HRD and provides professional touch in delivering the HRM functions.

  This module aims at providing students with theoretical and practical knowledge about risk return relationship, and portfolio management. It covers: financial system, risk and return measurement, portfolio theory and risk diversification, and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory.

This module aims to give students an understanding of the different aspects of company law and corporate governance.  To encourage students to think practically in this field, and apply the legal rules and principles they have required to specific legal, practical, business and other situations; and to enable students to identify and evaluate critical issues within company law and corporate governance. This module would enhance the candidates’ current knowledge of the regulatory framework within which professionals operate in, both legal and best practices in corporate governance in Rwanda and EAC Context as well as give insights into ethical matters.