Financial Accounting: Basic, Intermediate & Advanced
Preparation of income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows: Accounting for specialized items: PPE, bad debts; provisions; financial instruments; leases; employee benefits; income taxes; revenues,; foreign currency transactions etc.;Accounting for mergers and consolidations; IFRS vs GAAP; Financial statement analysis
Cost and Management Accounting:
Cost concepts; Job-order costing vs process costing;ABC Costing; Marginal costing vs absorption costing: CVP analysis; Relevant costs: special order, make or buy decisions; ROA, residual income and economic value added; Standard costing and variance analysis; EOQ and linear programming
Corporate Finance & Financial Management:
Historical performance; Time value of money: compounding, discounting, present values and future values, annuities and perpetuities, etc.; Interest rates and bond valuation; Dividends and stock valuation and dividend policy; Capital budgeting: NPV, IRR, payback period, profitability index, etc.; Risk, return and security market line: beta estimation, CAPM; Cost of capital, financial leverage, capital structure, etc; Cash and liquidity, credit and inventory management; International corporate finance; Risk management and financial engineering; Options and option valuation; Mergers and acquisitions
Auditing
GAAS vs ISAs; Audit framework; Auditor independence; Audit planning; Audit evidence and audit techniques: reliance on internal controls, analytical procedures, CAATs; Audit documentation and review; Audit reports and auditor’s liabilities; Sarbanes Oxley
Quantitative Methods:
Algebra and logarithm; Series and progressions; Probability, confidence intervals and testing; Measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion; Simple and compound interest: compounding and discounting;Differentiation and integration; Regression and correlation
Economics: Basic, Managerial, Developmental, Engineering
Microeconomics vs macroeconomics; Positive vs normative economics; Consumer behavior; Factors of production: production possibility frontier, land and rent, labor and wages, capital and interest, entrepreneurship and profit; Markets: perfect competition, monopoly, duopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, etc.; National income and macroeconomic equilibrium: GDP, GNP, residual income, personal income, taxes, fiscal budgets, etc.; International trade: comparative advantage, protectionism, foreign exchange regimes, etc.; Government and fiscal policy, Fed and monetary policy; Developmental economics: economics and law
Business Management & Organizational Behavior
Vision, mission and strategy; Human resource management : recruitment and retention, performance measurement and development, compensation, employee rations and ethics etc.; Marketing; Organizational culture, organizational change and effective communication; Business analyses: SWOT, PESTLE, balanced scorecard