Courses

Cost behaviour; cost-volume-profit analysis; relevant cost concept; pricing decisions; management control systems; budgeting; variance analysis; divisional performance measurement; transfer pricing. 

Finance function and the finance manager; financial environment; financial analysis; financial planning; risk and return relationships; time value of money; bond and stock valuation; working capital and its management; cash, receivables and stock management; short term financing; financial budgeting; cash flow forecasts; financial budgeting for risky projects; capital structure; dividend policy; long term financing; common chare financing and investment banking; long term borrowing; financial crisis; bankruptcy and financial restructuring; introduction to international finance. 

Financial assets; financial markets; globalisation and derivatives markets; financial intermediaries and recent developments in financial markets; depository financial institutions; central banking and monetary policy; insurance companies; investment companies and pension funds; determination of financial asset prices and interest rates; general level and structure of interest rates; structure and working of primary and secondary markets; markets of government securities; private bonds market; stock markets; futures markets; options markets; swaps. 

Definition and measurement of expected return and risk; financial assets; financial markets; sources of financial information; stock market indices and their calculation; valuation of financial assets; portfolio analysis; capital assets pricing model; arbitrage pricing model; bond valuation; term structure of interest rates; concepts of interest rate risk; default risk and inflation risk; valuation of common stocks; stock price movements and technical analysis; fundamental analysis; portfolio selection and management; measurement of portfolio performance; financial derivatives; and derivatives markets.

Banker and client relationship; retail banking; pricing of savings; fee-based services; corporate banking; general evaluation criteria; credit assessment; consortium financing and syndication credits; pricing of international projects; credit rating in banking; loan pricing; issuing and monitoring of credits; international perspective; case studies and current developments.

Multinational companies and the importance of financial management; international monetary system; balance of payments; futures and options markets; basic parity conditions in international finance; currency risk and the management of currency risk; forecasting of the exchange rates; international money and currency markets; foreign exchange swap contracts; financing of international trade; direct investments; the budgeting of multinational capital; management of international working capital. 

Price fluctuations; hedging and financial engineering; protection against short and long term risk; protection against risk with futures and swaps; options pricing models; creative uses of derivatives.

Definition, identification, measurement of risk; Trends and development in risk management, legal aspects of risk management and insurance, commercial property and liability risks, insurance industry, insurance and marketing systems, insurance company operations, government regulations of insurance.

Forecasting with linear time series and its applications; conditional heteroscedastic models; forecasting with nonlinear models and their applications; continuous –time; models and their applications; extreme values; quantile estimation and value at risk; forecasting with multivariate time series and its applications; multivariate volatility models and their applications.

Use of economic theory, mathematical economics and econometrics in business decision making; demand, production and costs; pricing under different market structures; decision making under uncertainty and risk; capital budgeting

Entrepreneurship concept and its features; success factors in entrepreneurship and causes of failure; the establishment process and objectives of the enterprises; the legal structure and types of the business; common characteristics of SMEs and SMEs; management function in small enterprises and new management approaches; production function in small enterprises and new production systems; marketing function in small businesses; the contribution of SMEs to the economic and social system, their strengths and weaknesses; small business problems and solutions.

Processing of business data, electronic data transfer, office automation, the design and implementation of modern computer-based information systems for reporting and decision-making.

Focusing on the causes and consequences of individual behavior; to examine and discuss individual-organization interaction; to provide in-depth knowledge about the operation of organizations and to gain a holistic perspective.

Examination of business ethics theories, social responsibility in organizations, examination of social and environmental awareness, business ethics and corporate governance interaction; the occurence of the concept of governance, examination of OECD corporate governance principles.

Stages of the research, research question and hypothesis, research design, selection of research subject, ethics in social research, data types, data collection methods,analysis of sampling methods,qualitative research methods, survey,observation and ınterview,analysis of quantitative research methods,survey,reporting results of the research,ınterpretation and evaluation of research.

Introduction to the course and its requirements & the development of organisational theory; managing in a global environment; organisational planning and goal setting & strategy formulation and implementation; managerial decision making; organisation; organisational change and development; foundations of behaviour in organisations; managing groups and conflict management; leadership; motivation; control in organisations.