Category: Courses
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Decision Science – An MBA course at the Said Business School
A core course taken in the first term 8 lectures, plus reading and study group work Pre-course thoughts As far as I can tell this course is statistics for business use. Looking at the course structure it seems to start with an introduction to statistics and statistical tools, and situations where these techniques are useful.…
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Financial Accounting – an MBA course at Said Business School
A core course taken in the first term 8 lectures, plus 4 1 hour support classes Pre-course thoughts According to the course material this is primarily about how to interpret annual reports, and to a lesser extent how to write them. I’ve read plenty of annual reports in my time, but have to admit that…
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Finance 1 – an MBA course at Said Business School
A core course taken in the first term 8 lectures Examined by case study (12.5%), spreadsheet (12.5%) exercise and Exam (75%) Pre-course thoughts As I’ve commented earlier I suspect money is like gravity when it comes to business, it affects everything, so you’d better understand the basics. Sadly, money is measured in numbers which means…