The Master of Business brings students with a comprehensive understanding of business operations with focuses of specialised areas in Accounting, Administration and Information Systems. It has an emphasis on professional practice, effective communication, and operational efficiency using technical and non-technical approaches. Students will acquire the extensive knowledge and apply them to successfully design, implement and manage solutions in complex real-world business operations, and become confident to proceed to the latest technologies in accounting, administration, and information systems. It helps the graduates with career development and advancement, or entrepreneurship.
This course offers a wide range of specialisations, which allow students to tailor the course to satisfy their particular interests, their industry, or their career goals. Students may choose to gain expertise in one of the three specialisations below:
- Accounting,
- Administration,
- Information Systems
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS AND EXIT PATH
The master degree is designed for not only those who have certain experience in accounting, administration, and Information systems / technology, and been seeking a qualification in the relevant postgraduate studies, but also candidates who already have a sound background in those field and wish to update and develop their knowledge and skills in advanced levels, so as to keep pace with the rapid changes in business and technologies. Students with a Bachelor degree in relevant disciplines or a Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma (credit recognised) are eligible to apply for this degree. For students without a Bachelor degree in a relevant discipline, they will need to enrol GCB, or GDB (with the selected units in the related MoB Specification) first. Only upon successful completion of GCB or GDB, they will be eligible to upgrade to MoB.
MoB students with successful completions will be confident in joining the workforce across different industries. Students may also pursue higher degrees like a Masters by Research, or a PhD / Professional Doctor degree after they graduate from this course because EEI’s MoB has built-in research training components across advanced units and the capstone project unit, provided their performances in such units meeting requirements for those courses.
STRUCTURE OF THE COURSE OF STUDY
The course structure is based on four semesters (each of 14 weeks’ duration – 12 weeks), with four subjects to be selected in each semester. To qualify for the award of the degree of Master of Business, a candidate:
- Can choose Master of Business (no specialisation), or Master of Business (Specialisations in Accounting, Administration, or Information Systems)
- Must complete 14 units (84 credit points), and 1 Capstone Unit (12 credit points), with accrued an aggregate of at least 96 credit points.
- Must complete 3 fundamental Core Units for any specialisation.
- Must complete all specialisation units, if wishes to have a specialisation to be shown in the MoB degree;
Note: Any specialisation unit will be the elective unit for students who are not pursuing that specialisation.
COURSE STRUCTURE
Unit Code | Unit Name | Fundamental
Core Unit |
Specialisation Unit | Credit points | ||
Accounting
|
Administration
|
Information System | ||||
BUS401 | Research Methods (Quantitative & Qualitative) | √ | 6 | |||
BUS402 | Professional Ethics, CSR, & Corporate Governance | √ | 6 | |||
ACC401 | Accounting Principles | √ | 6 | |||
MGT401 | Managerial Thought and Practice | √ | 6 | |||
ECO401 | Economics for Business | √ | 6 | |||
LAW401 | Business Law | √ | √ | 6 | ||
MGT402 | Marketing Management | √ | 6 | |||
MGT403 | Project Management | √ | √ | 6 | ||
MGT404 | Organisational Behaviour | √ | 6 | |||
ICT401 | Principles of Programming | √ | 6 | |||
ICT402 | Fundamentals of Database Systems | √ | 6 | |||
ICT403 | Business Analytics | √ | √ | 6 | ||
ICT404 | Computer Organization and Data Structures | √ | 6 | |||
FIN501 | Business Finance | √ | 6 | |||
ACC501 | Financial Accounting and Reporting | √ | 6 | |||
ACC502 | Managerial Accounting | √ | 6 | |||
ACC503 | Auditing and Assurance Services | √ | 6 | |||
LAW501 | Taxation Law | √ | 6 | |||
MGT501 | Human Resource Management | √ | 6 | |||
MGT502 | Strategic Management | √ | 6 | |||
MGT503 | Leadership Theories and Practice | √ | 6 | |||
MGT504 | Innovation & Entrepreneurship | √ | 6 | |||
ICT501 | Management Information System | √ | √ | √ | 6 | |
ICT502 | Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in Business Decision Support | √ | 6 | |||
ICT503 | Systems Analysis and Design | √ | 6 | |||
ICT504 | Cyber Security | √ | 6 | |||
ICT505 | Cloud Computing | √ | 6 | |||
ICT506 | Web Development | √ | 6 | |||
BUS501 | Integrated Capstone Project (12 Credit Points): different specialisation have different focuses and requirements | √ | √ | √ | 12 | |
Total No. Units with Credit Points | 3 Units
(18 CPs) |
11 Units* (66 CPs) |
12 Units* (72 CPs) |
13 Units* (78 CPs) |
*The capstone unit is counted as two units with 12 credit points
*Accounting major requests two additional elective units; and Administration major request one additional elective unit. (“elective unit” herein refers to the unit is not listed either in the fundament units, or in the specialisation units of the major being selected)