Learning Outcomes:
- Integrate knowledge from various sources to make judgements about how companies and public sector and ‘not-for-profit’ sector organisations can raise finance.
- Learn independently about the different features of financing instruments.
- Carry out a financial ‘risk-mapping’ exercise of a company or organisation, and assume responsibility for it.
- Propose a financial risk management strategy and assume responsibility for it.
Mode of Teaching:
Lectures, discussions, asynchronous forums
Mode of Assessment:
4K assignment (70%); presentation (30%)
Total Contact Hours:
70
Supervised Placement and Practice Hours:
0
Self-Study Hours:
100
Assessment Hours:
80
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn independently about auditing concepts, principles and objectives, and about the different types of auditing.
- Learn independently and instruct trainees about the basic analytical procedures on a set of financial statements, including when to use sampling and non-sampling.
- Prepare an audit plan by determining materiality, audit risk, and audit strategy, and assume responsibility for it.
- Make judgements and recommend improvements on the various elements of internal controls
- Develop tests of controls and tests of balances and audit procedures, and assume responsibility for decisions taken.
- Learn independently about the nature of other assurance and compilation engagements and identify the appropriate report for these engagements.
- Act professionally in view of the legal obligations faced by auditors under various types of law and assume responsibility for your actions.
Mode of Teaching:
Lectures, discussions, asynchronous forums
Mode of Assessment:
4K assignment (70%); presentation (30%)
Total Contact Hours:
70
Supervised Placement and Practice Hours:
0
Self-Study Hours:
100
Assessment Hours:
80
Learning Outcomes:
- Act independently and take the appropriate steps towards understanding and implementing digital currencies into the financial services landscape.
- Integrate knowledge from various fields and judge the relevance of cryptocurrencies as digital assets as opposed to alternative assets.
- Integrate knowledge from various sources to gain a deep understanding of the benefits and risks of the implementation of digital assets into a company that was predominantly physical.
- Learn through self-directed study how to handle regulatory oversight, the potential for illicit use through its anonymity within a new under-developed exchange system, and infrastructural breaches influenced by the growth of cyber criminality in the context of cryptocurrencies.
- Integrate knowledge from various sources to gain a deep understanding of the impact of ‘‘blockchain technology’’ on the nature of financial transactions from a business ethics perspective.
Mode of Teaching:
Lectures, discussions, asynchronous forums
Mode of Assessment:
4K assignment (75%); online forum discussion (25%)
Total Contact Hours:
70
Supervised Placement and Practice Hours:
0
Self-Study Hours:
100
Assessment Hours:
80
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate the ability to learn independently about the principles of entrepreneurial and family business: viability of businesses, new business proposals, and opportunities within existing businesses, entrepreneurial management and growth through strategic plans.
Integrate knowledge from various sources and design a start-up business plan emphasising financing, marketing, and organizing, and assume responsibility for it.
- Demonstrate the ability to apply the principles of developing pro forma financial statements, new venture financing, growth financing, and growth financing for existing businesses, in a fast-changing business environment.
- Demonstrate the ability to apply the principles of risk assessment of new ventures and entrepreneurship in a fast-changing business environment.
Mode of Teaching:
Lectures, discussions, asynchronous forums
Mode of Assessment:
6K assignment (80%); presentation (20%)
Total Contact Hours:
105
Supervised Placement and Practice Hours:
0
Self-Study Hours:
150
Assessment Hours:
120
Learning Outcomes:
- Integrate knowledge from various sources and make judgements about the various issues for entrepreneurship and innovation in a corporate setting, in particular how corporate culture, structure and processes can both limit and enhance a company’s ability to innovate.
- Integrate knowledge from new and interdisciplinary fields to keep abreast with the latest innovative strategies being developed in an industry.
- Manage an innovation strategy for a company tailored to the particularities of the company and the industry environment.
- Learn through self-directed study about how different leadership strategies and management approaches can facilitate or hinder innovation and entrepreneurship.
Mode of Teaching:
Lectures, discussions, asynchronous forums
Mode of Assessment:
5K assignment (70%); presentation (15%); online forum discussion (15%)
Total Contact Hours:
105
Supervised Placement and Practice Hours:
0
Self-Study Hours:
150
Assessment Hours:
120
Learning Outcomes:
- Integrate knowledge from various sources and learn the main theories of Human Resource Management.
- Manage and assume responsibility for the development, implementation, and evaluation of employee recruitment, selection, and retention plans and processes, and contribute to the design and evaluation of the performance management program.
- Learn through self-directed study about employee orientation, training, and development programs, as well as about the importance of employment and industrial relations.
- Integrate knowledge from various sources to support the development, implementation and communication of the organisation's remuneration and health and safety policies and practices.
- Integrate knowledge to be able to make judgements on information needs and apply current and emerging information technologies to support the human resources function.
- Make judgments on the various communication strategies through a variety of real-life case studies.
- Manage one’s own professional development and provide leadership to others in the achievement of ongoing competence in human resources professional practice.
- Conduct independent research, produce reports and recommend changes in human resources practices to contribute to the organisation’s business plan.
Mode of Teaching:
Lectures, discussions, asynchronous forums
Mode of Assessment:
5.5K assignment (75%); online forum discussion (25%)
Total Contact Hours:
105
Supervised Placement and Practice Hours:
0
Self-Study Hours:
150
Assessment Hours:
120
Learning Outcomes:
- Integrate knowledge from various sources to learn the major theoretical concepts in psychology related to organisations, and on how they developed throughout the years.
- Integrate knowledge from psychology theory, research, and organisational knowledge to critically evaluate how the field of psychology currently advances knowledge.
- Learn independently and instruct trainees about the use of psychometric tools in organisations.
- Demonstrate self-directed learning on the theoretical psychological concepts, apply them to the organisation and assume responsibility for decisions taken.
Mode of Teaching:
Lectures, discussions, asynchronous forums
Mode of Assessment:
4K assignment (65%); presentation (25%); online forum discussion (10%)
Total Contact Hours:
105
Supervised Placement and Practice Hours:
0
Self-Study Hours:
150
Assessment Hours:
120
Learning Outcomes:
- Integrate knowledge from various sources to be able to advise on the role of the compliance officer, and implement day-to-day compliance duties as part of internal governance in line with the expectations of the MFSA, and assume responsibility.
- Integrate knowledge from various sources to learn about the importance of good corporate governance and the role of the directors in particular non-executive directives and executive directors, internal auditors, risk officers and compliance officers as part of the system.
- Develop self-directed learning on the existing methodologies for managing and mitigating compliance risk, and on the various ways of mitigating compliance risks in a specific corporate setting.
Mode of Teaching:
Lectures, discussions, asynchronous forums
Mode of Assessment:
5.5K assignment (75%); online forum discussion (25%)
Total Contact Hours:
105
Supervised Placement and Practice Hours:
0
Self-Study Hours:
150
Assessment Hours:
120
Learning Outcomes:
- Integrate knowledge from various fields to learn, and make judgements about the different models and frameworks for quality assurance.
- Integrate knowledge from various sources on the importance of teamwork as well as the customer in the quality management system.
- Demonstrate autonomy in learning about the latest international frameworks in management systems and discuss some of the benefits these can bring to organisations.
- Demonstrate autonomy in learning about the various methods for identifying and improving interaction in business processes, and assume responsibility.
Mode of Teaching:
Lectures, discussions, asynchronous forums
Mode of Assessment:
6 K assignment (80%); presentation (20%)
Total Contact Hours:
105
Supervised Placement and Practice Hours:
0
Self-Study Hours:
150
Assessment Hours:
120
Learning Outcomes:
- Integrate knowledge from various sources to identify the forces impacting corporate and business strategies.
- Integrate knowledge from various sources and make judgements about the various factors (social, economic, technological and political) involved in strategy making, and also in view of the various resources and constraints.
- Demonstrate autonomy in learning about the impact of internationalisation on strategy making.
Mode of Teaching:
Lectures, discussions asynchronous forums
Mode of Assessment:
5K assignment (70%); presentation (30%);
Total Contact Hours:
105
Supervised Placement and Practice Hours:
0
Self-Study Hours:
150
Assessment Hours:
120
Learning Outcomes:
- Integrate knowledge from various sources to learn about the importance of BPR and how it bridges the business operations and engineering of systems.
- Make judgements on how business processes can be radically improved, dramatically reducing process cycle time and cost, and improving the quality of the process products or outcomes.
- Monitor current business processes, diagnose problems and develop a BPR strategy.
Mode of Teaching:
Lectures, discussions asynchronous forums
Mode of Assessment:
6K assignment (80%); presentation (20%)
Total Contact Hours:
105
Supervised Placement and Practice Hours:
0
Self-Study Hours:
150
Assessment Hours:
120