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MBA - Supply Chain Management

Managerial Accounting

Programme Objectives

The programme aims to provide graduates and working professional who desire of becoming successful consultants in the competitive consulting industry, with first-hand knowledge of the tools and techniques used by successful consultants in the competitive management consulting industry. They will get a detailed understanding of the global consulting industry; how it works, its dominant players, key success factors and the management issues that drive it.

The MBA - Management Consultancy is a specialist high value Professional Masters Degree developed in collaboration with the International Professional Managers Association-UK, in consultation with the West Africa Federation of Institutes of Administration & Management Consultants, thus giving the degree the critically important professional flavour that is often lacking in many academic qualifications of its nature.

Benefits

At the end of the programme the successful student will have the ability to:

  1. Develop a business strategy through their understanding of
    • Management Processes
    • Management Functions
    • Strategic Management
    • Individual Behaviour
    • Group Behaviour
  2. Develop analytical and critical skills to evaluate new concepts, techniques and arguments in organisational and project management
  3. Develop research skills to advise clients to improve their business and management effectiveness
  4. Develop communication skills to explain and justify range of options devised for the benefit of their clients
  5. Advise clients on restructuring and improving business performance
  6. Exercise creativity in solving management and business problems
  7. Enable the student to improve their career and entrepreneurship prospects
  8. Enable the student to have the confidence to apply knowledge and understanding to improve business practices in diverse business and cultural environments

Programme Content

Overview

This module allows participants to:

  • critically evaluate the informational content of financial and accounting reports and their use as a tool for appraising corporate performance.
  • develop an understanding of financial planning tools and techniques and the      contribution they make to the achievement of an organisation’s core objectives.
  • evaluate the results of financial models used for long term decision making.
  • develop confidence in using financial terms and language necessary for effective senior management.

Student centered learning will be strongly encouraged and developed. Cooperative Learning and Problem-Based Learning will be infused into the teaching-learning-assessment strategies.

Group discussion, case analysis and self directed learning resources will be available to support the delivery and the appropriate assessment tools / tasks will be used to assess the intended learning outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module, students will be able to:

  • To critically evaluate the informational content of financial and accounting reports and their use as a tool for appraising corporate performance.
  • To develop an understanding of financial planning tools and techniques and the      contribution they make to the achievement of an organisation’s core objectives.
  • To explore the role of financial modeling in the context of developing an organisation’s corporate strategy.
  • To evaluate the results of financial models used for long term decision making.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to Accounting and Finance concepts
  • Measuring and Reporting Financial Performance
  • Cash Flow Statements and Performance Measurement
  • Cost Volume Profit analysis and Costing
  • Budgets and Capital Investment Decisions
  • Working Capital and Financing

Resources

  • Module Materials provided by IPE.
  • Peter Atrill, Eddie McLaney, Accounting and Finance for Non Specialists, 7th edition, 2010, FT Prentice Hall.
  • Arthur J. Keown, John W. Martin and William D. Petty, 12th edition (2009) Financial Management: Principles and Applications, Prentice Hall.
  • Online resources on OCTAL Portal
  • Online databases from IPE’s E Library