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This course aims at providing students with an in-depth understanding of topical issues in Management accounting in an organisational setting. An important function of management is to motivate and empower employees while not losing track of the business. This course will examine the use of different management control systems in both the manufacturing and service industries.

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This course focuses on fundamental concepts of developing programs using an object orientated approach. There will be an emphasis on writing clean and efficient code, and the ability to use an appropriate data structure or algorithm to solve problems. The Java programming language will be taught in depth. Students are expected to have a strong foundation in programming. This is a compulsory course for IS (Software Development Track) for 2017 intake and onwards. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: 1. Practice problem solving skills 2. Read UML sequence and class diagrams 3. Apply basic concepts of Object Orientation to a given scenario/context 4. Apply good programming practices and design concepts to develop software 5. Appreciate the role of algorithms and in problem solving

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In this course students acquire foundational statistical programming concepts and skills through a widely used programming language. Students will also learn how to implement popular statistical learning algorithms using the programming language for data analysis. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to use programming techniques to explore how data is used to assess what drives financial performance and to forecast future financial scenarios. Students will understand how financial data and non-financial data interact to forecast events, detect financial discrepancies and frauds, predict corporate default, and determine business strategy. This course has been designed to equip students with algorithmic mind-set to create strategy and make better business decisions.

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This programme is a collaboration between SMU and a leading company in the management consulting industry. It provides students with the opportunity to undergo a structured five-month extended internship programme at the management consulting company. Interested students will be shortlisted by the school and competitively selected by the company. An SMU faculty member will also provide supervision during this internship. The global consulting market is expected to continue its strong growth with the demand for consulting professionals remaining high. Students enrolled in this work-study elective will learn firsthand how to work within a team in the consulting industry and apply the necessary consulting tools in solving strategic issues for organizations in a wide range of industries. They will also learn about: - Communication - Client management - Business building - Growth opportunities identification

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The purpose of this course is to introduce the basic concepts of statistics through illustrative use of statistical methods for solving applied problems. Emphasis will be placed on statistical reasoning, rather than derivation of theoretical details. Students will learn to solve common statistical problems using statistical software. This course is designed for students who wish to pursue a non-quantitative major at SMU. Students who intend to pursue a quantitative major should take its companion course, COR-STAT1203 Introduction to Statistical Theory.

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Students with less than 2 years of relevant work experience must do an internship for 5 weeks to fulfil 0.5 CU of programme requirements. The internship is an intentional supervised learning related to one’s field of study and career goals, while providing the opportunity to gain real-world working experience. Internship is done during the school term, and may involve nominal payment from the company. Students will receive a pass/fail grade after their internships.

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This course introduces students to the theoretical concepts and analytical tools required for formulating and implementing appropriate strategies that affect the enduring success of the entire organization. Topics covered include external and internal environmental analyses, business-level strategies, corporate-level strategies, competitive dynamics, and special topics such as global strategy. This course emphasizes the application of theory to the real world strategic issues. Students are encouraged to synthesize knowledge from other business courses into a comprehensive understanding of competitive advantage.

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In the first part of the course, we will cover major topics in labor economics, including labor supply and human capital theory. Specifically, we will study life-cycle models of consumption, labor supply, and human capital accumulation. We will also discuss the estimation of the life-cycle models, focusing on practical methods for estimating dynamic discrete choice models and their application. In the second part of the course, we will cover recent developments in the field. I will present a review of each topic for the first part of each class, and a student will present a recent paper on the topic in the second part. I will post the topics to be covered and the papers to be presented later. We will discuss all the aspects of the article: its contribution, limitation, possible extension, and application to other fields.

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Financial derivatives have applications across many areas of finance, such as hedging, swaps, convertible claims, and corporate decision making. The course objective is for students to understand the valuation of forwards, futures, options and other derivative securities, and their use in hedging risk exposures, such as commodity price risk, currency risk, interest rate risk, stock portfolio risk, and so on. In addition, students will be given the opportunity to explore a comprehensive online financial markets simulation system to obtain hands-on experience (of a fund manager) in trading in the market. For instance, students can trade futures and options on commodities such as gold, silver, corn, oil, etc. at market prices.

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This course will introduce students to the basic principles and various aspects of criminal law. The criminal law in Singapore is contained in the Penal Code (Cap. 224) and provisions in other statutes. Case law interpreting and applying the elements and provisions of the various offences will also be examined. The student will first approach criminal law from a jurisprudential viewpoint and consider its objectives, functions and theoretical basis. A greater part of the course will be spent examining the various substantive areas of criminal law.