Online MBA Degree

SNU Business School at Seoul National University

Accounting and Information System
This course considers accounting not as simple book keeping or a calculation mechanism, but as information systems which are comprehensive combinations of human beings such as information producers, information users, information activities of an enterprise’s management, information processing procedures, and a mechanism related to information. Topics include a basic concept of accounting information systems, internal control systems, the kind of transactions and book keeping mechanisms, and accounting procedures under computerized accounting information systems.

MGT732 Management and Optimal Control Theory

The primary objective of this course is to teach the students the most fundamental aspects of management as a system from an analytical perspective, and enable them to figure out dynamic interactions among key factors present in the complex management system. The physical configuration and technology of the system, the organizational control mechanism governing management principles, and the interaction of the two will be covered.

Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University
Information Economics in Finance / Market Microstructures

This course will introduce both the theory and empirical analysis of information economics and market microstructure. Topics include rational expectations and dynamic rational expectations models, information asymmetry and market imperfections, inventory models, Kyle’s model on strategic traders, noise, and risk neutral specialists, insider trading, bid-ask spread, liquidity, information disclosure, trading mechanism, speculative bubbles, and investor herding behaviour.

Nanyang Business School at Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

B6013 Economic Analysis
This course focuses on the application of economic principles to the conduct of business. Microeconomic applications include the workings of the market mechanism and the strategic interaction between firms. Macroeconomics discusses how interest rates, inflation, exchange rates and government policies affect the economic environment that firms operate in. Information and network economic principles highlight how different economic models may be needed for E-commerce and knowledge-based businesses. How will governments tax information goods? How will positive feedbacks affect economic growth? Will the knowledge-based economy require a new economic paradigm?