Graduate Programs - Course Descriptions

ACT 500: Aperçu de Comptabilité
Ce cours expose l’ensemble des concepts et des composants fondamentaux de la comptabilité générale. Il s'agit d'une vue générale de l’entreprise, des flux, des comptes et leur utilisation. Il entraîne l’étudiant à la détection, à la collecte et à l’enregistrement des données comptables par le biais des comptes en T, ainsi qu’à l’utilisation du langage de la technique comptable et de comprendre les différents travaux d’inventaire orientée vers la prévision et la décision.

ACT 500: Survey of Accounting
This course is designed to cover accounting principles, presenting the remedial material in an easy style. Topics emphasize the use of financial statement information rather than the creation of statements, and the financial implications of business decisions on a day to day basis. The majority of this course will focus on understanding accounting information and how it is useful to both internal and external users.

ACT 600: Comptabilité Managériale Avancée (pré-requis: ACT 500)

Ce cours permet à l’étudiant d’acquérir les notions fondamentales au pilotage de la performance. Il traite la mesure de la performance et de la stratégie par le biais des indicateurs de performance tels que le ROI ou l’EVA et d’envisager le tableau de bord équilibré.
D’autre part il sert à décrire la méthode budgétaire qui demeure centrale pour le pilotage des organisations et pour la prise des décisions.

ACT 600: Advanced Managerial Accounting (prerequisite: ACT 500)
This course presents an approach to management accounting from the perspective of a business
Manage. It presents state of the art thinking on all the major topics in management accounting including activity based Management, the balanced scorecard, target costing, and management control system design.

ACT 610: Comptabilité Financière Avancée (pré-requis: ACT 600)
Ce cours permet aux étudiants de comprendre et de traduire comptablement les opérations particulières réalisées par une entreprise à caractère juridique et financier, notamment la compréhension de la notion de groupe, l’élaboration des états financiers consolidés, de comprendre et de comptabiliser les opérations  de crédit bail sur base des normes comptables internationales. Dans une autre approche ce cours permet de savoir évaluer une entreprise.

ACT 610: Advanced Financial Accounting (prerequisite: ACT 600)
This course provides a detailed exposure to the financial accounting treatment of combinations and consolidated Financial statements, Inter-Company and foreign currency transactions.

ACT 620: Audit Avancé (pré-requis: ACT 600)
Ce cours traite au départ quelques normes internationales d’audit ISA afin de comprendre les démarches de la profession d’audit. Il expose les différentes étapes de la mission d’audit ainsi que les règles de rédaction du rapport de fin de mission. Quelques fonctions seront auditées en faisant les éventuels risques et leur gestion.

ACT 630: Advanced Accounting Information Systems (prerequisite: ACT 600)
This course covers such topics as systems documentation techniques, data modeling and database design and e-business. It covers also internal control and auditing, transaction-processing cycles and the systems-development process.

ECO 500: Aperçu de Principes d’Economie
L’objectif de ce cours est d’initier les étudiants au raisonnement économique et de les aider à comprendre comment fonctionne l’économie. Ils étudieront, en outre, quelles politiques publiques sont prises pour corriger les éventuelles défaillances du marché. En outre, certains exemples concrets chiffrés, faisant appel à des calculs très simples, viennent compléter ce cours.

ECO 500: Survey of Economics
Survey of Economics encompasses both microeconomic and macroeconomic principles. It is concerned with economic reasoning, the techniques and processes of thinking used by economists in their attempts to analyze and explain the economic system.

ECO 600: Economie Managériale  Avancée (pré-requis: ECO 500)
L’objectif de ce cours est de donner aux étudiants, outre un approfondissement de la microéconomie étudiée au début de leur cursus, certaines techniques économiques et économétriques leur permettant de prendre les meilleures décisions en ce qui concerne, entre autres, la prévision relative à l’évolution des ventes, le lancement sur le marché d’un nouveau produit ou le comportement des concurrents. Cette matière pourra servir de support aux autres matières comme le management, le marketing et le comportement du consommateur.

ECO 600: Advanced Managerial Economics (prerequisite: ECO 500)
Managerial Economics is concerned with the application of economic principles to key management decisions within organizations. This course presents advanced microeconomic theory and statistical concepts that will help in solving problems in the allocation of resources and strategic decisions that are made by managers. Topics include consumer behavior and rational choice, estimating demand and cost functions, business and economic forecasting, and market structures including perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, and monopolistic competition

ECO 605: Economie politique (pré-requis: ECO 500)
Le cours étudie les déterminants de la taille et la forme de programmes de distribution, l'étendue et le type de fourniture de biens publics et le fardeau de la fiscalité à travers des bases fiscales alternatives. Il traite de plusieurs domaines connexes : les origines de l'Etat ; les comparatifs des systèmes de réformes politiques et économiques ; les problèmes fiscaux ; la primauté du droit, la privatisation, les élections et l'économie.

ECO 605: Political Economy (prerequisite: ECO 500)
The course studies the determinants of the size and form of distributive programs, the extent and type of public goods provision and the burden of taxation across alternative tax bases. It discusses several related areas including the origins of the state, comparative political systems, economic reforms, fiscal problems, rule of law, privatization, elections and the economy.

FIN 500: Aperçu de Finance
Ce cours traite la lecture et l’analyse du bilan et du compte de résultat, l’effet du facteur temps sur l’argent, le calcul de la Valeur Actuelle Nette des projets, le mécanisme de fonctionnement et la valorisation des obligations, le mécanisme de fonctionnement et la valorisation des actions.

FIN 500: Survey of Finance
This course deals with the techniques for obtaining and using funds to maximize the value of the firm and the shareholders' wealth. It addresses time value of money concepts, the calculation of different kinds of interest rates, risk and return and its relation to finance, the analysis of financial statements and ratios.

FIN 600: Finance Managériale Avancée (pré-requis: FIN 500, ACT 600)
Ce cours traite les critères de choix d’investissement, l’évaluation des obligations et des actions, la mesure des risques, les marchés financiers, l’évaluation d’entreprise, le crédit-bail ainsi que la planification financière à court terme.

FIN 600: Advanced Managerial Finance (prerequisites: FIN 500, ACT 600)
This course provides a comprehensive and contemporary coverage of financial management, focusing on shareholder wealth maximization and cash flow management, as well as on the international aspects of financial management. It deals with the valuation of bonds and stocks, making investment decisions, capital budgeting, project analysis, investment strategies and leasing.

FIN 610: Commercial Bank Management (prerequisite: FIN 600)
This course deals with commercial banks’ financial statements, International Financial Standards, the evaluation of banks’ returns and risks, asset and liability management, the cost of funds and the measurement of reserves and liquidity, the management of security portfolio and bank capital.

FIN 620: Investment Strategy (prerequisite: FIN 600)
This course deals with the investment theories used to implement the investment process. It illustrates the range of considerations in managing investment portfolios supporting particular liabilities and goals such as risk aversion, capital allocation, index models, behavioral finance and industry analysis and portfolio performance evaluation.

FIN 630: Institutions et marchés Financiers Avancés (pré-requis: FIN 600)
Ce cours traite les marchés interbancaires et les taux d’intérêt, les marchés primaires et secondaires monétaires et des actions, les placements par les intermédiaires, la gestion des positions de taux, les contrats d’échanges, les contrats à terme ferme et d’options sur les marchés organisés.

FIN 630: Advanced Financial Institutions and Markets (prerequisite: FIN 600)
This course deals with the various types of financial markets with a focus on their use by financial institutions and recent events that have affected them. It provides a conceptual framework that can be used to understand why markets exist through money markets, bond markets, mortgage markets, stocks, bonds and derivatives.

FIN 640: Finance Internationale (pré-requis: FIN 600)
Ce cours propose une vision globale de la finance internationale imbriquant les marchés de capitaux (change, actions, titres à revenu fixe, matières premières, dérivés), les banques et les entreprises multinationales (gestion des risques: change, taux d'intérêt, crédit, prix des matières premières; financement des exportations et des investissements; politique financière et gestion de la trésorerie internationale).

FIN 640: International Finance (prerequisite: FIN 600)
This course builds on fundamental principles of corporate finance to provide the information and insights needed to succeed in today's dynamic global business environment. It deals with currency derivatives, government influence on exchange rates, the relationship between inflation, interest rates and exchange rates, managing transaction, economic and translation exposure, direct foreign investments and country risk analysis.

FIN 650: Strategic Risk Management (prerequisites: MGT 500, FIN 600)
This course deals with the ways in which risks are quantified and managed by financial institutions. Among the topics covered are the nature of financial institutions and their regulation, interest rate risk, Value-at-Risk, market risk, credit risk, operational risk, liquidity risk, and the credit crisis of 2007.

HRM 600: Advanced Organizational Behavior & Leadership (prerequisite: MGT 500)
Advanced Organizational Behavior is arguably the most exiting area within the field of business. The value of the human factor as a major resource in organization is gaining increasing importance in managing organization. The major technological changes that have occurred within the past few years continue to accelerate and no ends appear in sight, not to exclude the affectation of the economical crisis on the behavior of the global mass.

MGE 610: Object Oriented Modeling
This course introduces several methods of modeling an information system, emphasis is placed on the object-oriented modeling with UML. Various research projects and development will be achieved by students.

MGE 610: Modélisation Orientée Objet
Ce cours introduit plusieurs méthodes de modélisation d’un système d’information. Il s’agit surtout de la modélisation  orienté- objet par UML. Différents projets de recherche et de développement seront réalisés par les étudiants.

MGE 620: Software Architecture (prerequisite: MIS 540)
This course covers an in depth design of applications based on distributed systems. Software component and component-based software systems will be studied to reflect the latest standards in the field of applicative architectures. N-tier layered systems are presented to show how a software system is structured and how the components are meant to interact to achieve system quality. Laboratory sessions will be dedicated to build mini projects and acquire practical experience building component-based web applications.

MGE 620: Architecture Logicielle (pré-requis: MIS 540)

Ce cours approfondit la conception des applications à base de composantes indépendantes communiquant entre elles. Les architectures applicatives et logicielles seront étudiées pour structurer le système d’information en blocs communicants et en couches selon les standards en cours dans les systèmes répartis et les services Web, ainsi que les méthodes d’intégration (SOA). Les architectures N-tiers et les serveurs d’application seront utilisées dans différents cas de figures.

MGE 630: Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery (prerequisites: MIS 540, QMB 500)
The purpose of this course is to introduce various topics in multivariate analysis. Knowledge discovery is presented in the modern data mining approach as a data analysis outcome in the process of inspecting, cleaning, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of highlighting useful information, suggesting conclusions, and supporting decision making.
Participants will be familiarized with data analysis and data mining software (SPSS, Tanagra) in practical cases and have to submit a project.

MGE 630: Analyse de Données et Extraction de Connaissances (pré-requis: MIS 540, QMB 500)
Ce cours vise  à accroître l’étendue de la connaissance des méthodes actuelles en analyse de données et acquérir une expérience pratique dans la mise en œuvre des outils actuels, à partir d’un logiciel de Datamining (SPSS, Tanagra) permettant d'extraire des connaissances  à partir de données brutes. Les étudiants seront exposés à des cas pratiques et présenteront un projet.

MGE 640: Advanced Networking and Databases (prerequisites: MIS 510, MIS 520)
In line with our curriculum, this course will address topics that have a direct impact on users and discuss in detail some key issues in the world of data transmission. This course will introduce the various uses of databases, the gathering of administrative information such as medical records, tax collection, ticketing and others. The database applications require the knowledge of multiple environments management database that we will be addressed throughout this course.

MGE 640: Réseaux Avancés et Bases de Données (pré-requis: MIS 510, MIS 520)
Dans la continuité de notre  cursus, Cette partie « avancée » traitera des sujets qui ont un impact direct sur les utilisateurs et abordera dans le détail certains sujets essentiels et nécessaires à la transmission de données. Par ailleurs, ce cours introduira aussi  les diverses utilisations des bases de données, de la collecte de renseignements administratifs tels que dossiers médicaux, fiscaux, à l’application informatique de billetterie informatisée. Les nouvelles applications des bases nécessitent une connaissance de plusieurs environnements de gestion de bases de données qui seront abordés travers ce cours.

MGE 650: ERP Application Development (prerequisite: MIS 510, MGE 610)
This course is composed in two parts. In a first conceptual part, it addresses the following aspects: methods of developing software projects (based approaches V cycle, agile methods, including XP), maintenance and reverse engineering, software quality criteria, limitations of existing methods. The second part covers the practical approach of ERP Basics, the founding principle of an ERP: modularity, data sharing, and workflow engine. Capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics AX will be presented.

MGE 650: Développement d'Applications et ERP (pré-requis: MIS 510, MGE 610)
L’objectif de ce cours consiste à sensibiliser les étudiants aux difficultés de mise en œuvre efficace d’un projet collectif de développement informatique modulaire basé sur le cycle en V et la méthode Agile. Il sensibilise aussi l’étudiant à la nécessité d’une approche ERP dans la conception de logiciels intégrés. Ce cours vise à fournir à l’étudiant les capacités nécessaires pour évaluer la qualité d’un logiciel, planifier un projet de développement et mettre en pratique la méthode XP. Des séances pratiques seront consacrées à utiliser les modules de Microsoft Dynamics AX, ainsi que le moteur de flux (Workflow), selon la disponibilité.

MGE 660 : Droit du logiciel et audit informatique
Après un aperçu sur les notions essentielles du droit commercial, ce cours traite les règles juridiques applicables aux logiciels et à l’audit informatique. L’utilisation des logiciels dans les transactions et les paiements électroniques, dans les secteurs privé (e-business) et public (e-government), soulève un problème de preuve électronique et peut faire l’objet d’un contrat informatique ou d’un acte incriminé par la loi. L’informatique permet aussi de diffuser en ligne des informations sur un réseau et de traiter des données à caractère personnel. Elle est aussi à la base d’Internet qui suscite beaucoup de controverses juridiques. Ce cours va aborder tous ces points et poser les problèmes de la forencique.

MGE 660: Software Rights and Computer Auditing
This course covers the legal rules applicable to software and IT audit. 
The Software, like any other computer creations, requires intensive human labor and investment, and deserves to be protected legally.
The software is used in electronic transactions and electronic payments, these activities are known as e-commerce. This raises a problem of electronic evidence. Software can be an IT contract or an act complained by the law.
The computer can also disseminate information online on a network and process personal data. It is also the basis for Internet raises many legal disputes

MGT 500: Aperçu de Management et de Marketing
Ce cours présente l’essentiel des théories du management  et de marketing en inscrivant les concepts de base dans la réalité des gestionnaires d’aujourd’hui. Il s’articule autour des  fonctions traditionnelles du management, des principes de marketing, des stratégies de marketing-mix et du comportement de consommateur.

MGT 500: Survey of Management and Marketing

This course introduces the basic principles and theories of management and marketing. It discusses management objectives, organizational structures, material and human resource utilization, decision making, planning, organizing, marketing principles, marketing mix strategies, and consumer behavior.

MGT 620: Managing the Global Corporation (prerequisite: MGT 500)
This course introduces students to skills and knowledge that assist to understand people from many cultures working together, competing against one another, or trying to cope with one another’s differences. It, also, helps them to learn about the strengths, weaknesses, and strategies of competitors from anywhere in the world as well as to know when and how to adapt their organizational practices to accommodate local situations

The aim of this course is to capture what makes projects successful and how the people who lead successful projects do it. Topics covers tools and keys used to project success. The system development life cycle will be drawn and deeply analyzed. Majors topics to be treated: concept of a project, analysis & design, development, transition to development, scope, time estimation and management, cost estimation, cost tracking, and procurement management, reducing risk, defining and delivering quality, teamwork, integration, etc.

MIS 510: Système de Gestion des Bases de Données
Ce cours introduit les concepts de base nécessaires à la collecte, l’organisation et le partage des données à travers une organisation. Les sujets traités sont : définition de données, modélisation et normalisation ainsi que les requêtes et les mises à jour en utilisant le langage SQL. Les étudiants devront présenter un projet de conception de base de données utilisant SQL Server comme système de gestion des bases de données.

MIS 510: Database Management Systems
This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts needed to collect, organize and share data across an organization. The course covers data definition, modeling and normalization of data, and the retrieval and update of data using the Structured Query Language (SQL). Students will be required to design a term project involving a database software product using SQL Server as a database management system.

MIS 520: Principles of Networking and Telecommunications
This course provides an in-depth knowledge of data communication and networking requirement including networking and telecommunication technologies, hardware and software. Emphasis is upon the analysis and design of networking, cost-benefit analysis, and evaluation of connectivity options are also covered. Students learn to evaluate and select different communication options within an organization.

MIS 540: Programmation de Gestion
Le cours introduit les concepts de base de programmation orientée objet utilisant la plateforme .NET. Les étudiants devront présenter et documenter un projet utilisant une connexion avec une  base de données.

MIS 540: Business Programming
The course introduces the basic concepts of programming with an Object Oriented approach using the .NET platform. Students are expected to document and develop a business application using a database connection.

MIS 610: Advanced Management Information System (prerequisite: QMB 500, MGT 500)
The course is designed to give the student an insight of Information Age within the context of Enterprise systems. It further incorporates advanced database design and normalization as applicable to such systems. Other topics encompass the central role of strategic and operational initiatives in such areas as E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Knowledge Management (KM).

MIS 620: Network Security Management (prerequisite: MIS 610)
Across this course we will overlay a compilation of treatises which address risk assessments, metrics, security governance, emerging threats, standards, physical security and business continuity, and a plethora of technology issues including application controls, network security, virus controls and hacking.

MIS 630: Management of Electronic Commerce (prerequisite: MIS 520, MIS 610)
This course explores the fundamental concepts of e-business and e-Marketing. Students will learn how to build an e-business and e-marketing models. Topics covered are E-Business models, Online Monetary Transactions, Internet Security, Wireless Communication, Internet Marketing, Affiliate Programs, E-customer Relationship Management, Globalisation, Social and Global issues, Accessibility. A case of studies concerning online banking, and building an online store will be covered.

MIS 640: Management of Innovation Technology (prerequisite: MIS 610)
The course covers basic concepts involved with the management of technology in an organizational setting. The course will animate discussion of the relationship between innovation and strategic planning, fostering creativity and innovation in an organization, and issues in implementing innovative ideas within organizational structures. Text, readings, short case studies, and guest speakers are used as presentational media. Term project required.

MKT 600: Stratégie en Marketing Management (pré-requis: MGT 500)
Ce cours est un cours de référence pour comprendre le marketing et ses applications dans les entreprises. Il permet de présenter et de comprendre les différents concepts et outils du marketing ainsi que leurs applications grâce aux nombreux cas d’applications et questions de réflexions présentés. C’est un cours nécessaire pour comprendre et savoir développer les stratégies marketing adéquates et surtout bien savoir gérer leur implémentation.

MKT 600: Strategic Marketing Management (prerequisite: MGT 500)
This course examines today business environment and the strategic decisions facing top management in marketing policy making. Emphasis is placed on reviewing and applying through text and cases key concepts in formulating and implementing company marketing plans such as: opportunity analysis, market segmentation and targeting, product and service strategy, marketing channel strategy, pricing and communication.

MKT 610: Advanced Consumer Behavior (prerequisite: MKT 600)
The course is intended to provide graduate level students with a managerial understanding of consumer behavior. It presents comprehensive description of the various concepts and theories that have been determined useful for understanding consumer behavior, leading to the development of the ability to apply consumer behavior knowledge to social and regulatory issues as well as business and personal issues.

MKT 620: Retail Management (prerequisite: MKT 600)
This course presents to students a current and comprehensive view of retail management. It provides a strategic, decision-making approach that illustrates how retailers must plan for, and adapt to, today’s changing and complex retail environment.

MKT 630: Gestion de la Relation client (pré-requis: MKT 600)
Ce cours offre une synthèse des concepts les plus récents en matière de fidélisation client, de stratégies relationnelles et de datamining et prend soin d’en présenter les dimensions opérationnelles. Il permet donc aux étudiants une lecture analytique et opérationnelle de la gestion de la relation client ou CRM.

MKT 630: Customer Relationship Management (prerequisite: MKT 600)
This course is intended to provide graduate level students with a managerial understanding of the most important aspects of “Customer Relationship Management” (CRM).It discusses CRM strategy and organization, and clarifies Marketing aspects of CRM as well as CRM systems.

MKT 640: Advanced Marketing Research (prerequisite: MKT 600)
Marketing research helps companies stay competitive and avoid the high costs associated with making poor decisions based on unsound information. Advanced marketing research will help graduate students familiarize themselves with various modern techniques and concepts applied in marketing research and to understand their practical application in today’s managerial decision making process.

This course introduces the history, theory and practice of public administration on the centralized and decentralized levels.  Topics include bureaucratic definition and theory, public policy, organizational theory, budgeting procedures, intergovernmental administration, human resources, environmental issues, the ethics of public service, and the impact of the information age on government performance.

PMG 600: Constitutional Law (prerequisite: PMG 500)

The focus is on the Powers of government under the Constitution of Lebanon; Government role and authority (e.g., legislation, taxation and regulations); relations between ministries, Muhafazats and municipalities; limitations on governmental authority by virtue of the distribution of powers theory; rights of citizens; the nature of due process and the equal protection of the law for the citizen civil rights and freedoms.

PMG 610: Public Institutions and Control (prerequisite: PMG 500)
Highlight the issues/problems government should address because of the individual and collective needs of the citizens e.g. social, economic, health, education, employment... Reforms may demand the creation of new programs, the modification of existing ones, or the termination of some current stagnant policies. The focus is on how to best serve the citizens by effectively identifying the problems, formulating solutions, selecting the proper implementation’s means and critically evaluating the outcome.

PMG 620: Administrative Law (prerequisite: PMG 600)
Administrative law is the study of the legal relationship of government agencies to the legislature, the courts, and private parties, the probing into the legislative, legal, and political aspects of government "regulating" in the public sector. It also examines the administrative process, rules and laws; political and social conflicts; inspections and investigations, administrative hearings, rules of evidence, presumptions, burden of proof, formal and informal actions,  methods of obtaining justice.

The ability of public officials to manage budgets, distribute resources and predict costs is crucial to a community's well-being. This course gives students a solid basis in the concepts, terminology and techniques in the art and science of public sector budgeting and financial administration. Students will research, analyze various approaches to public budgeting and revenue planning evaluate fiscal activities in governmental units, while gaining "hands-on" budget preparation and presentation experience as well as understanding growth rate, inflation and forecasting techniques.

PMG 640: Program Implementation and Evaluation (prerequisite: PMG 500)
The focus is on policy implementation and evaluation of success/failure. The emphasis will be exclusively on strategies for successful implementation of policy solutions, and on mechanisms for evaluating program success. Methods and models are studied from a variety of perspectives especially the cost-benefit analysis. It highlights how government agencies are being challenged to reinvent, deregulate or regulate, privatize, create value through performance tests and measures through modern evaluation and measuring techniques.

QMB 500: Statistiques pour l'Economie et la Gestion
L'objectif de ce cours est de familiariser les étudiants d'études supérieures avec le raisonnement de base en statistiques, et de fournir un fondement pour eux sur les principes et les méthodes statistiques fondamentaux. Ce cours couvre la Statistiques Descriptive et les Lois de Probabilité, la Corrélation et la Régression, et la Statistique Inférentielle. Il envisage également l'utilisation des méthodes quantitatives utilisées dans la résolution des problèmes de décision d'affaires, tels que la Programmation Linéaire et l'Analyse de Sensibilité, les problèmes de Transport et l'Affectation, et les théories des Graphes.

QMB 500: Statistics for Business and Economics
Statistical analyses are used by business, government, and media to educate, persuade, and sometimes deceive. This course familiarizes graduate business students with basic statistical thinking and reasoning, and provides them with fundamental methods of Statistics. It also introduces the use of Quantitative Methods in solving Business decision-making problems; such as Linear Programming and Sensitivity Analysis, Operations Research applications, and graphs Theory

QMB 600: Modèles Décisionnels en Management (prérequis: QMB 500)
Ce cours traite les problèmes réels de management en vue d’une prise de décision optimale en utilisant les techniques de la Recherche opérationnelle; comme la programmation dynamique et entière, files d'attente, et chaînes de Markov. Il introduit le concept de simulation et de jeu d’entreprise comme outil de prévision et de décision. Il accorde une attention particulière à la formulation du modèle, l’utilisation de logiciels disponibles et l’interprétation des résultats.

QMB 600: Business Models for Decision Making (prerequisite: QMB 500)

This course depicts the use of mathematical tools for aiding managerial decision-making in the corporate and public sectors. It introduces the students to a number of quantitative models proven to be effective in solving managerial problems. Several quantitative techniques are reviewed, on Excel or LINDO, and practiced with problems and short cases from the text; these techniques employ, among others, Dynamic Programming and Markov Chain, Queuing Theory, Inventory Control, and Game Theory.

QMB 602: Méthodologies de Recherche en Gestion (pré-requis: QMB 500)
Ce cours aide les étudiants de Mastère à construire et à développer leurs projets de mémoire ainsi que leurs dossiers de recherche. It sert encore à préciser les différentes étapes et méthodes de l’investigation scientifique avec une attention particulière à la manière d'analyser les résultats; l'accent est mis aussi sur les méthodes d'analyse informatisée à l'aide de SPSS.

QMB 602: Business Research Methods (prerequisite: QMB 500)
This course introduces students to methods of research that will be of use in subsequent courses and careers. It ensures that students acquire some practical research skills, helps students understand the principles of research, and enables students to link the research process with theories of their specialist areas, with particular attention given to when various methods are appropriate and how to analyze results; the emphasis will be on computerized analysis methods using SPSS.

SCM 610: Logistics and Supply Chain Management (prerequisite: MKT 600)
Supply chain system activities - communication, inventory management, and warehousing, transportation, and facility location- represent a great challenge as well as a tremendous opportunity for most firms today. This course focuses on the development and application of decision models in supply chains with emphasis on demand forecasting, aggregate planning, inventory management, supply network design, transportation, coordination and sourcing.

XACT 500: Aperçu de Comptabilité et de Finance
Ce cours expose l’ensemble des concepts et des composants fondamentaux de la comptabilité générale. Il s'agit d'une vue générale de l’entreprise, des flux, des comptes et leurs utilisations. Il entraîne l’étudiant à la détection, à la collecte et à l’enregistrement des données comptables par le biais des comptes en T, ainsi qu’à la compréhension les différents travaux d’inventaire orientée vers la prévision et la décision. De même une revue de quelques notions financières sera réalisée.

XACT 500: Survey of Accounting and Finance
This is course provides an introductory designed to introduce students from non-Business background to the theory and practice of selecting and analyzing managerial and financial accounting information. In the first part students will study different financial statements related to different types and forms of business organizations. In the second part students will be exposed to the world of finance, and how to use accounting information as a basis for financial decisions.

XACT 610: Comptabilité Managériale (pré-requis: XACT 500)

Ce cours permet aux étudiants de maîtriser la comptabilité de gestion qui sert à envisager les différents coûts et la ventilation des charges. De même ce cours sert à décrire la méthode budgétaire qui demeure centrale pour le pilotage des organisations et la prise des decisions.

XACT 610: Accounting for Managers (prerequisite: XACT 500)

This course will assist students in mastering the technical material required for managers to analyze and evaluate in order to achieve the optimal decision. Students will learn that accountants are part of a team of interdepartmental managers working together to resolve questions of costing, pricing, production, and decision making.

XBUS 610: Corporate Legal Environment - البيئة القانونية للشركات - Environnement juridique des enterprises

XECO 500: Aperçu de Principes d’Economie

L’objectif de ce cours est d’initier les étudiants au raisonnement économique et de les aider à comprendre comment fonctionne l’économie. Ils étudieront, en outre, les politiques publiques prises pour corriger les éventuelles défaillances du marché. En outre, certains exemples concrets chiffrés, faisant appel à des calculs très simples, viennent compléter ce cours.

XECO 500: Survey of Economics

Survey of Economics encompasses both microeconomic and macroeconomic principles. It is concerned with economic reasoning, the techniques and processes of thinking used by economists in their attempts to analyze and explain the economic system.

XECO 610: Economie Managériale (pré-requis: XECO 500)

Ce cours s’adresse à un public très divers, engagé dans la vie professionnelle. La majorité des auditeurs viennent de spécialisations académiques très variés. Dans le menu qui leur est proposé, le cours d’économie générale vise essentiellement à jeter un  regard critique sur l’environnement au sein duquel s’exercent leurs activités professionnelles.

XECO 610: Economics for Managers (prerequisite: XECO 500)
This course is a study of economics that will help you better understand the micro and macro environments in which businesses evolve. The course is designed to give a comprehensive knowledge of the circular flow of economic activity as well as international economics. Lectures, case analysis, problem solving and current national and international economic issues are the focus of this course.

XFIN 610: Analyse Financière (pré-requis: XACT 610)
Ce cours traite les fondements de l’analyse financière, l’analyse et l’évolution de la structure financière, les soldes intermédiaires de gestion, la capacité d’autofinancement, les ratios financiers, les flux monétaires et les états financiers.

XFIN 610: Financial Analysis (prerequisite: XACT 610)
This course deals with the analysis of financial information, ratio analysis, time series analysis and forecasting, time value of money, capital markets and asset pricing, corporate takeover and allied activities.

XFIN 620: Finance des Entreprises (pré-requis: XFIN 610)
Ce cours traite le calcul de la valeur temps de l’argent, le fonctionnement des taux d’intérêt, les différents critères de choix des investissements, les méthodes de planification financière, l’évaluation quantitative des obligations et des actions, ainsi que l’évaluation du financement de l’entreprise par endettement.

XFIN 620: Corporate Finance (prerequisite: XFIN 610)
This course deals with discounted cash flow valuation, interest rates and bond valuation, equity markets and stock valuation, cost of capital, NPV and other investment criteria, making capital investment decisions, risk and return.

XHRM 610: Managing Human Capital (prerequisite: XMGT 500)
The main purpose of this course is to introduce students to the systematic study of formal organizations and their management. The focus will be on behavioral phenomena including individual, group, and inter-group processes; on human-resource issues related to talent management (such as recruitment, selection, performance management, compensation and rewards). Additional focus will be on the art and science of negotiation; on leadership development, on motivation, on cross-cultural management, and on the organizational frameworks within which these processes and phenomena occur.

XMGT 500: Aperçu de Management et de Marketing
Ce cours présente l’essentiel des théories du management  et de marketing en inscrivant les concepts de base dans la réalité des gestionnaires d’aujourd’hui. Il s’articule autour des  fonctions traditionnelles du management, des principes de marketing, des stratégies de marketing-mix et du comportement de consommateur.

XMGT 500: Survey of Management and Marketing
This course introduces the basic principles and theories of management and marketing. It discusses management objectives, organizational structures, material and human resource utilization, decision making, planning, organizing, marketing principles, marketing mix strategies, and consumer behavior.

XMGT 610 : Management des Opérations (pré-requis: XMGT 500)
A l'inverse de beaucoup de cours qui s'intéressent au « quoi faire », le management des opérations s'intéresse au « comment faire » ? L'objectif  de ce cours est de comprendre le rôle des opérations et l'importance du management des opérations dans une activité, quelle qu'elle soit.

XMGT 610: Operations and Quality control (prerequisite: XMGT 500)
This course introduces the role, objectives and activities of operations and quality control.  The aim is to develop an understanding of a portfolio of techniques for operations and quality management and their selection and use in appropriate situations.

XMGT 620: Leadership and Negotiation Skills (prerequisite: XMGT 500)
This course has been designed in order to introduce students to an extensive understanding of the nature of leadership, leadership theory, leadership styles, formation and learning leadership; leadership accession and the process of becoming a leader; and various dimensions of leading in a variety of organizational context.

XMGT 630: Corporate Governance (prerequisite: XMGT 500)
Corporate governance is concerned with the management of interaction among dispersed investors and the reconciliation of possible conflicts of interest between various corporate stakeholders. This course discusses, among other things, the role and responsibility of owners, the role and responsibility of boards, board’s committees, liabilities, executive appointment and compensation, internal control, disclosure of governance arrangements, and a comparative analysis of corporate governances across countries.

XMGT 640: Gestion Stratégique des Entreprises (pré-requis: XFIN 620, XMGT 500)
Ce cours traitera des principes fondamentaux de la stratégie managériale. L’objectif est de donner aux participants une connaissance des problèmes stratégiques qui formeront le contexte de leur action en tant que managers, consultants ou dirigeants. Les étudiants vont acquérir les concepts fondamentaux et les outils permettant d’utiliser ces concepts.

XMGT 640: Strategic Management (prerequisites: XMGT 500, XFIN 620)
This course is a study of business strategy integrating the functions of all fields of business administration. The course is designed to give the student the top management viewpoint of the operation of the business enterprise. Case analysis, problem solving, strategy formulation and implementation are the focus of this course. It introduces the application of different strategy tools to business decision making and places them into a real-world context.

XMGT 650: Risk and Project Management (prerequisites: XMGT 500, XACT 500)
In this course, you will explore the risk management processes in the Project Life Cycle. You will examine the inputs to and outputs from risk identification, quantification, response development and control. You will also learn to organize your project, track costs and time expenditures, manage quality and risk, evaluate human resources requirements and overcome potential obstacles.

XMIS 610: Management Information Systems (prerequisite: XMGT 500)
The course is designed to give the student an insight of Information Age, decision making and Planning. It encompasses the central role of IT in business innovation, including strategic and operational initiatives in such areas as electronic commerce, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business process redesign, and knowledge management.

XMKT 610: Séminaire en problèmes marketing (pré-requis: XMGT 500)
Le cours permet d’acquérir les notions essentielles en marketing sur la manière dont l'entreprise gère ses relations avec les consommateurs et optimise son offre dans un univers concurrentiel. Il vise à apprendre aux étudiants à développer un plan marketing, à maîtriser les composantes du marketing mix, à en saisir les interactions et à prendre des décisions opérationnelles judicieuses. Il vise enfin à remettre en question certains aspects des concepts de base afin de susciter un esprit critique dans la recherche de solutions à des problèmes concrets.

XMKT 610: Seminar in Marketing problems (prerequisite: XMGT 500)
The aim of this course is to understand marketing concepts, strategies, and tactics. This course is designed to refine students’ understanding of all aspects of marketing from a practical standpoint  Students should leave this course with a better understanding of marketing from a practitioner's perspective, have a deeper appreciation for the value and importance of marketing in business and society today.