Philippine School of Business Administration
Manila, Philippines

This course introduces the student to the systematic and scientific techniques of investigations, including practical problems as are revealed by the findings. Likewise, the student is acquainted with the methods applicable in the preparation of case studies and the thesis. A baby thesis is usually required to gauge the student’s grasp of research principles and techniques. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

It is the purpose of this course to show a simple and non-mathematical way, and always through the motivating needs of real problems the basic concepts and principles of statistical reasoning. The course covers the following topics: statistical modelling and standards models; statistical inference including hypothesis testing, estimation, prediction and the Bayesian methods; investigations of dependence, through regression, correlation, association and analysis-of-variance techniques; estimation through sampling and simulations; techniques of decision-making under uncertainty. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

This course covers the fundamentals of the accounting process, the end products of which are three financial statements namely: the balance sheet, the income statement, and the cash flow statement. This subject is pre-requisite to “Managerial Accounting” (formerly “Accounting-A Management Approach”). Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

This first part of the course covers the three inter-related financial functions; capital budgeting, corporate finance (including cost of capital, capital structure, and dividend policy), and the portfolio theory. Then, an analytical approach is taken where objectives are specified, constraints recognized and the resource allocation of capital on both personal and corporate level is investigated. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

This course focuses on the design and implementation of marketing plans. The emphasis is on management decision-making. The student will learn approaches and techniques of formulating marketing objectives, identifying alternative strategies, preparing the marketing plans, and implementing and controlling the plan. These techniques and approaches will be applied in the solution of marketing management cases throughout the course. A field project involving the formulation of marketing management plan provides the student with a first hand experience in the planning process. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

Areas covered include size and location choices, process and equipment selection, aggregate production planning and scheduling, production and inventory control, distribution system, project control, assembly-line balancing, and sampling inspection and quality control. Also discussed are aggregate scheduling, job-shop scheduling, and equipment replacement. Students have team responsibility for case analysis and presentation. Emphasis is placed to the awareness and resolution of difficulties encountered in attempting to apply theoretical models to actual decision situations. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

An introduction to the cultural, economic and political aspects of domestic, international and foreign environments and their effects on the international operations of business firms. The student is familiarized with the expanded world of the international business by examining the underlying concepts of international economic theory; developing a framework for examining the country’s constraints (sociological, educational, economic, politico-legal) and relating them to the operations of multinational enterprises; studying the relationship between the international firms and the state with particular reference to foreign ownership policies; payments concepts; and the role of multi-national enterprises in economic development and planned economies. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

This Course is concerned with the justification, selection, design and implementation of business information systems. Systems to service the functional requirements of the organizations and concepts of total information systems will be considered. The case study method will be used extensively in this course. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

The aim of this course is to provide the students with thorough knowledge of the managerial policy-making process. This is approached in a theoretical way by delving deeply into descriptive theory on topics such as goal systems, organizational structure, managerial work, unprogrammed decision-making and strategy-making, and by assessing the relevance of management science techniques at the policy level. This course contains three essential elements; reading of the theory is applied in the field studies and the results are discussed in the seminar. In field studies, the students work in groups (say, of five) and analyze various policy aspects of one organization (of their own choosing) throughout the semester. This course thus provides a workshop in which students can study and improve their skills in field research, problem formulation and solution and group decision-making. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

This course aims the students to develop the students skill in analysis and decision-making. The cases selected will focus on the multi-functional problems of general management and will require the student to integrate the techniques and concepts presented in other courses.

The course provides explicit instructions and practices in defining administrative problems, evaluation, various types of evidences and assumptions; exploring alternative courses of action; making definite decisions and outlining programs of action to implement these decisions. The course also aims to develop the student’s skills in presenting his recommendations clearly and effectively in writing.

This course includes a comprehensive study of a business project covering the industry prospects, its relation to the national economy, and its feasibility as a business enterprise. A project study paper is required to be prepared by the student with the guidance and advice of the instructor. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

This course analyzes some of the basic concepts in the area of social psychology and discusses the implications of these concepts for the management. Stressing the development of an awareness of the methodological problems in behavioral research, the course introduces the students within the group and organization. It is believed that many managerial decisions depend upon a sound knowledge of the dynamics of human behavior. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

This course is primarily devoted to demonstrating the application of economic theory and methodology in solving business problems. The following topics are discussed in some detail; demand, production, cost analysis, pricing, growth, contraception, profitability, and resource allocation of the firm. Marketing and sales forecasting techniques are also introduced briefly, and attention is given to opportunities for the application of incremental analysis. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

This course is aimed at studying how organizations are designed. The focus is on the relationship between the nature of the external environment of the organization, the technology it uses, and the management style, the goals, the organizational structure, the behavior of individuals and groups in the organization and its performance. A system view is adopted. Implications for effective design of organizations are drawn. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

This course examines the role of accounting both as an internal and external information system. The stress, however, is on the internal use of accounting date by management for planning and control purposes. The basic concept of financial accounting are examined, and topics covered include the measurement of income, financial statements analysis, price level changes, and aspects of business combinations. In the planning and control areas, topics are cost and control concepts, costing system, budgeting, differential cost analysis and the measurement of performance. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

This course emphasizes the multi-national (global) view of marketing and presents it in an across-functional approach to the business operations. By offering this in the disciplinary perspective, the marketer gains better understanding of hoe the various functional areas of business operations interface with marketing. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

This course deals with the conceptional tools and frameworks to organize one’s thinking about strategic human resource concerns. It is more integrative in that it emphasizes links of human development to strategy, production, accounting and other areas. The focus of the course is on the inter-connection of HR topics, rather than treating them piecemeal, in order to help the student to see the big picture. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

This course prepared the student to meet the challenges of the entrepreneur-driven business climate of Year 2000 and beyond. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours.

This course examines the main macro-economic, mechanism, i.e. income determination and the multiple theory as well as fiscal policy; the level of investment, the demand for money and the rate of interest as well as the Philippine banking system and deposit creation; the general equilibrium of product and money markets, and monetary and fiscal policies, the dynamics of investment, the employment sector, and the price level an inflation, the balance of payments and international trade as well as methods of dealing with balance-of- payments disequilibrium. The social and political environments will also be examined. Credit 3 units; 3 hours a week; 54 hours