About Informatics Academy

The Informatics Academy has been institutionalized to ensure that its award, bearing the quality assurance mark, will be recognised and accepted by employers and universities for employment and transfer credit respectively.

The Informatics Academic Governance is the backbone on which the quality of our awards is judged. Collectively, the Academic Council interacts with the International Advisory Panel and thereby empowers Examination Council and Examination Board the authority to grant the Informatics Academy awards.

Represented by a group of respected and experienced academic leaders drawn from universities in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States of America, each member of the International Advisory Panel brings with them a wide range of educational leadership and management experience. The Academic Council is responsible for the academic affairs for Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Institute of Business, Finance and Management, Institute of Engineering and Institute of Knowledge Economy.

You can get more information about the Informatics Academy from the following link: http://www.informaticsgroup.com/ia

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About NCC Education

Originally part of the National Computing Centre, NCC Education started offering IT qualifications in 1976 and from 1997 developed its Higher Education portfolio to include Foundation and Business programmes. With Accredited Partners in over 45 countries, five International Offices and Academic Managers worldwide, NCC Education employs the latest technologies for learning, assessment and support.

NCC Education qualifications range from ICT for schools to the International Degree Pathway in Business or IT. The programmes are recognised by universities, professional bodies and employers. Learners are able to upgrade their skills on professional development modular programmes or complete their University Degrees and Masters in their home country or in the UK.

Visit NCC Education official website: http://www.nccedu.com/

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About the Programme

This programme aims to prepare students for a career in Business Administration. Unlike other Business Administration programmes, this programme aims to develop student's ability to identify and analyse business problems, collect relevant data so that business plans can be formulated or implemented and to respond effectively to changes in the business environment. It will also enhance the individual's communication and interpersonal skills, as well as the capacity for self-development. Students are thus likely to have a more holistic view of the way businesses function.

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Programme Benefits

• This programme seeks to satisfy the rapid-changing demands in the business administration arena today. You will benefit from the following advantages:
• Receive updated and specialised Business Administration skills reflecting industry needs and demands
• Adapt foundational competencies for effective application of knowledge on the practical approach of business issues in the business environment
• Increase employability with the attainment of an International Tertiary Qualification awarded by Informatics Academy
• Guarantee of a sound education because of extensive tutorial support and teaching environment

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Entry Requirements

• International Diploma in Business Administration (IDBA) OR,
• Higher Diploma in Business Administration (HDBA) OR,
• Holders of a DMC or its equivalent OR
• Polytechnic holders of business diploma qualifications OR
• Other Equivalent Qualifications OR
• Mature students entry
  • 28 years with 5 years of work experience

Note: Requisite exemptions will be granted to students who demonstrate adequate professional competency

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Programme Duration

International Advanced Diploma in Business Administration: minimum of 12 months

Programme Structure

Programme Synopsis

CORE UNITS

Principles of Business Law

This unit is designed to enable students to understand the underlying principles of business laws. Students should be able to demonstrate a working knowledge of the law of contract and its practical application. The legal principles relating to sale of goods and customer credit, law of employment and the law of torts will also be covered.

Quantitative Methods

This unit aims to reach an overall understanding of how and why statistical and mathematical techniques are used in economic and business decisions. Students will demonstrate the ability to analyse, present and interpret statistical data using basic statistical and mathematical procedures.

Information Technology Management

This unit covers the concepts of information system. Major types of management information systems and how each supports the manager in an organisation. Potential strategic roles of information systems within the organisations are identified. Students will be able to use some basic systems development tools in order to apply Information Systems to business problems.

Managerial Economics

This unit examines how an organisation can achieve its aims or objectives most efficiently through the application of micro economic theory and the tools of analysis of decision science such as statistics and quantitative methods. It shows how economic analysis can be used in formulating business policies.

MANAGEMENT TRACK UNIT

Corporate Finance

This unit introduces the students to the world of Corporate Finance, whereby students will learn to make decisions, which affects the allocation of financial resources in a business. The unit will expose students to key financial issues faced by business managers of modern corporations. With the conceptual and analytical skills acquired in the programme, students are expected to be able to make sound financial decisions.

Cross-Cultural Awareness

The cross-cultural unit is designed to prepare students for a future career in a multinational firm or a multi-cultural organisation. In order to achieve this, two paths are followed in the unit: the first path, "cultural awareness", aims at identifying people's cultural belonging. The second path, "typical challenges", introduces a number of challenges faced as an international manager. Theories and models will be introduced as "maps" and "compasses" to guide students along these two paths.

Human Capital Management

The unit will focus on the futuristic role of HRM policies and practices in contemporary organisations from resource / asset utilisation and management perspectives.

Students will be made to develop an understanding of the current theory, principles, policies, and practices associated with human resource management decision making and strategy. Further, they learn to appreciate how the human resource function can contribute to organisational effectiveness and the achievement of strategic business objectives.

Marketing Management

Marketing Management is the art and science of choosing target markets and getting, keeping, and growing customers through creating, delivering, and communicating superior customer value. Marketing management seeks to meet organisational objectives by effectively satisfying customers in a dynamic environment. This unit provides an overview of marketing processes and marketing principles, and provides students with the opportunity to apply the key concepts to practical business situations.

FINANCE TRACK UNITS

Business Finance

This module aims to introduce students the basic ideas of business finance. To provide methods of finance-related techniques used for marketing. To also describe the operations of financial markets.

Financial Accounting

This unit combines more advanced accounting theory and techniques. It is designed to equip students with a decision-making focus, to analyse and interpret financial statements and to apply what is learned to help them in their future careers as managers and financial analysts.

Financial Markets

This unit emphasizes on a descriptive and analytical understanding of financial markets, as well as policy and structural changes in the financial sector. The delivery of this unit will include references to markets in different economies.

Managerial Accounting

This unit focuses on the provision and use of information in decision making. The unit encourages an understanding of the managerial accounting function within an organisation by taking a business value chain perspective. The process of budgeting (operational and financial) and performance measurement as an aid to management in planning and controlling business activities is reviewed. Also included is a study of the principles of Job and Process Costing systems, the application of activity based costing, the analysis of cost behaviour, as well as other facets of accounting which support management decision making

MARKETING TRACK UNITS

Business Finance

This module aims to introduce students the basic ideas of business finance. To provide methods of finance-related techniques used for marketing. To also describe the operations of financial markets.

Consumer Behaviour

This module provides students with an understanding of customers' needs and complexity of the Decision Making Unit and Process in both consumer and industrial markets. This ensures that students are able to identify consumer needs through the use of a wide range of available social, cultural and economical factors which influence consumer behaviour in personal and business scenarios.

Marketing Research

This module demonstrates the role, purpose and scope of marketing research as an aid to improve marketing management decision making. A wide range of research tools and techniques are examined so as to apply to management marketing problems in consumer organizational contexts. Marketing research plan can also be designed through all the stages, from problem definition to managerial reporting.

ELECTIVES (for Marketing track only)

Human Resource Management

The dynamic role of Human Resource Management policies and practices in contemporary organisations is covered in this module. Major philosophies, policies, procedures and practices related to management of human resources will also be taught. Develop an understanding of the influence of differing internal and external environments on current practices and developments in the management of human resources.

Marketing Communication

• To enable students to build a sound theoretical and practical understanding of the formulation of Promotional Strategy and the management of the Marketing Communication process.
• To develop an understanding of the economic and creative justification for Marketing Communications.
• To develop an understanding of the present limits of Communications Theory and the need to make the process of Marketing Communications more soundly based.
• To be sensitive to legal and ethical considerations in the implementation of Marketing Communication Strategy.
  

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