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Courses Department of Finance : College of Management at National Sun Yat-Sen University

Elective Courses
Corporate Finance:
Course ID Course Title Credits
M4032002 Mergers and Acquisitions 3
M4031005 Methodology for Finance ( I ) 3
M4031002 Methodology for Finance ( II ) 3
M4031012 Special Topics in Financial Ethics and Regulations 2
M4032002 Financial Statement Analysis and Equity Valuation 3
M4031010 Financial Database Application and Analysis 3
M4032005 Financial Information and Empirics 3

Part-time Graduate Courses Department of Information Management : College of Management at National Sun Yat-Sen University

Department of Finance 1.
Introduction The Department of Finance provides the opportunity for students to acquire the skills necessary to make intelligent decisions as finance managers and as managers in rapidly changing business environment. Depending on students’ choice among a cross-disciplinary set of courses in finance, economics, accounting and others, students are able to develop specializations in corporate finance, investments, financial engineering, econometrics, real estate, and others. One of the leading finance departments in the nation, the Department of Finance offered the first finance program in Taiwan. The faculty at the Department of Finance has been actively participating in the national and international academic activities. The Department also maintains a strong tie with financial institutions in Taiwan. As a result, the Department has been gaining recognition for its delivery of high-quality managerial education and intellectual contributions.

Part-time Graduate Courses Department of Information Management : College of Management at National Sun Yat-Sen University

N4020006 Research Methodology (3crs):
This course’s main object is for students to study how the world has been fundamentally altered by this information technology. Internet and WWW are sued as the vehicle to demonstrate the influences of these technologies. Students are expected to learn technological, political, and cultural issues and on how advances in information technology might change the society in the future.

Part-time Graduate Courses Department of Information Management : College of Management at National Sun Yat-Sen University

N4020008 Customer Relationship Management:
With the change of market focus from product-orientation to customer-orientation, more and more companies realize the importance of customer relationship management (CRM) as their key success factor. Internet and emerging information technology have further facilitated CRM systems’ implementation. Therefore, the issues of CRM concepts and its information technology (IT) infrastructure become essential for business managers. The intent of the course is to present students with CRM concepts and models along with CRM IT roadmaps so as to effectively acquire customers, enhance customers’ loyalty, and eventually increase customers’ lifetime profitability.

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N4020002 Data Warehouse and Data Mining: (3 crs):
Data warehousing and online analytical processing (OLAP) are essential elements of decision support. On the other hand, with the rapid growth in size and number of databases available to an organization, mining knowledge or patterns from data (referred to as data mining) becomes essential to support decision-making and predict future behavior. According to the functions they perform, data mining techniques can be classified into the following categories: classification, clustering, association rules, sequential patterns, time-series patterns, and link analysis. The purpose of this course is to discuss important issues and techniques of data warehousing and data mining. Specifically, the models, design process, and indexes for data warehouse will be discussed in this course. In addition, prevalent data mining techniques, including classification analysis, clustering analysis, association rule analysis, and sequential pattern analysis, will be discussed in this course. Preferred Qualification: Have taken “Database Systems” course before.

Part-time Graduate Courses Department of Information Management : College of Management at National Sun Yat-Sen University

N4020001 Software Engineering (3 crs):
Software engineering course covers the following topics: 1) software product and process, 2) software management activities, 3) requirement and specification, 4) design and implementation, 5) verification and validation, 6) product evolution, 7) CASE tools. Class lectures will be evenly distributed among these topics.

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M4020008 Software Architecture (3crs):
This software architecture course, instead of emphasizing on structured analysis and design (SA&D), we concentrate on the object-oriented approach for the system analysis and design. This course will elaborate on the flowing topics: object and classes, polymorphism and reuse, structure diagram, behavior diagram, software architecture, etc.

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M4020006 Multivariate Analysis (3crs):
To introduce various multivariate data analytic techniques applied in business and management. The covered materials include the following two categories: interdependence (e.g. principal components analysis, factor analysis, canonical correlation) and dependence techniques (e.g. multiple regression analysis, discriminate analysis, MANOVA).

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M4020006 Strategic for Electronic Business (3crs):
E-business strategy contains issues from strategic planning and procedures and mechanics of launching a B2B solution on the Internet to prescriptions on the necessary IT infrastructure. The impact of the Web on business is far-reaching. This course responds the challenge by addressing relevant topics based on a strategy paradigm. Specifically, this course will discuss the following topics, including strategic issues in Internet, management processes in B2B Internet, technology platform in B2B Internet, and collaborative commerce.

Full-time Graduate Courses Department of Information Management : College of Management at National Sun Yat-Sen University

M4020020 Special Topics in Decision Support Systems (3crs):
Decision support systems are computer-based information systems designed to facilitate decision in semi-structured problems. The course covers various aspects of decision support systems, including (1) decision making processes and concept of decision support, (2) framework for decision support, (3) technology for decision support, (4) design of decision support systems, (5) application of decision support systems in different business domains, (6) future development of decision support systems, such as applications of neural networks, genetic algorithms, case-based reasoning, data mining, and other newer technology, (7) development of business intelligence, and (8) web-based application of decision support systems.