STCA Test - Master of Business Administration

This module explores the key concepts of marketing and how they fit into the larger context of management strategy and operational decisions. It presents both the practical 'how' and the fundamental 'why' of marketing activities in the light of contributions from behavioural science, economics, and statistics. The module provides managers and business leaders with the understanding needed to manage and lead those who implement the marketing activities; the module provides concepts and processes for business leaders that seek to continue developing through future experiences or coursework in marketing. The module then focuses on managing processes. Theoretically, it models business functions as a network of actions that convert inputs in to outputs. Process design is considered, including the volume and variety of system inputs and outputs - especially with respect to goods and services. Different inventory management and logistic systems are explored. Finally, forecasting and process optimisation are explored, strengthening managers ability to operate with finite resources

This module examines how leaders can most effectively use the resources of their team members to achieve business outcomes. The module develops managerial and leadership competences, focussing on how key improvements in the general strategy and techniques of managing people can produce outcomes more significant than isolated improvements to employee performance.The module provides students with concepts to support them across their careers as they continue to develop effective delegation, management strategy, and engagement with people inside of an organisation.

This module explores basic economic principles (theories and applications) that are relevant to a variety of businesses. The module emphasises an economist's mindset and amassing the tools necessary todo so, including the study of microeconomics and macroeconomics. Throughout the module, students will examine the underlying economics of successful business strategy: the strategic imperatives of competitive markets, the sources and dynamics of competitive advantage, managing competitive interactions, and the organisational implementation of business strategy. Additionally, the module focuses on case discussion and analysis and provides a foundation for consultants, managers, and corporate finance generalists.

In this module, students will gain the capacity to appropriately apply abroad repertoire of communication skills in business, professional, and social contexts. Throughout the module, students will critically analyse managerial communication skills required for leadership in a wide variety of industries. It considers the varied means of communication including writing, speaking, and calling, and generally appearing professional. The communication requirements of different contexts are studied, including informational, persuasive, and relational forms of communication

In this module, students will develop specialised and multi disciplinary capacities to generate creative solutions and alternatives to existing business issues by refining their ability to lead processes that stimulate and manage creativity in a business. Students will reflect critically on templates and methods for designing, implementing, and assessing processes that introduce creativity to real work situations. The module will engage with both the theoretical frameworks and practical methods or tools for cultivating practices of creativity in response to real business challenges.Ultimately, the module cultivates skills for autonomous managers to lead creative projects, people, and ventures, and to oversee the processes thatkeep them on track.

In general terms, financial accounting is the measurement of economic activity for decision-making. Financial statements are a key product of this measurement process and an important component of firms’ financial reporting activities.The objective of this module is to help students become intelligent readers of the financial reports of most publicly traded companies.Students will learn the development, analysis, and use of these reports by focusing on what these reports contain, what assumptions and concepts accountants use to prepare them, and why they use those assumptions and concepts. A solid understanding of the fundamentals covered in this module should enable students to do well in more advanced finance and accounting courses and to interview intelligently for jobs in finance, consulting, and general management.The module begins with the basic concepts of accounting. Students will analyse the main financial statements: balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, and statement of stockholders’ equity. Particular attention is paid to how these four statements relate to each other and how they provide information about the operating performance and financial health of a company. The module also covers specific items from the financial statements and applies tools of analysis whenever possible.

This course covers core concepts in accounting, finance, and microeconomics relevant to running a business. The course begins with finance for business, including the time value of money, the trade-off between risk and return, and arbitrage. It gives managers a strengthened knowledge in finance that can be applied in their professional careers. The topics covered include how to move cashflows in time, the methods and principles of capital budgeting, valuation of bonds and stocks, how to characterize risk and return, and options pricing with applications to managerial decisions.The course then builds on the student’s knowledge of finance to introduce accounting and examines the subject from the viewpoint of users external to the organization. Topics include transaction analysis; the accounting cycle; financial-statement preparation, use, and analysis; revenue recognition and cost measurement; present value; and problems in financial-accounting disclosure. This course concludes with microeconomic theory and its application to problems faced by managers. Topics include supply and demand, consumer behaviour, pricing when a firm has market power, and contracts.

This module enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. It helps them to understand the complex processes underlying the development and manufacture of products as well as the creation and delivery of services. Throughout the module, students will receive a comprehensive overview of technology utilisation to drive a competitive advantage for company operations. Students explore various technology solutions for business process automation, including value proposition analysis across organisation functions. Specific topics addressed include process analysis; cross-functional and cross-firm integration; product development; information technology; and technology and operations strategy. Additionally, students will analyse how technology can be leveraged to improve product development during the four lifecycle phases. The module provides a detailed overview of the impact of technology on various operating models such as manufacturing, supply chain management, customer-facing, product development, and support functions.

Increases in product variety and customization in the past few years have posed challenges to firms in terms of delivering products to customers faster and more efficiently. With the prevalence of the usage of the internet for business, electronic business transformations are occurring inevery business. One of the fundamental enablers of electronic commerce is effective supply chain management. Thus, supply chain management has become the focus of attention of senior management in the industry today.This module considers management of a supply chain in a global environment from a managerial perspective. The focus is on analysis, management, and improvement of supply chain processes and their adaptation to the electronic business environment. The module focuses on six topics: Inventory and Information Management; Distribution and Transportation; Global Operations; Supplier Management; Management of Product Variety; and Electronic Supply Chains. Several new concepts including Prognostic Supply Chains, Build-to-Order, CollaborativeForecasting, Delayed Differentiation, Cross Docking, Global Outsourcing, and Efficient Consumer Response will also be discussed. At the end of the module, a student will have the necessary tools and metrics to evaluate a current supply chain and recommend design changes to supply chain processes

This module is designed to achieve an understanding of fundamental notions of data presentation and analysis and to use statistical thinking inthe context of business problems. The module addresses modern methods of data exploration (designed to reveal unusual or problematic aspects of databases), the uses and abuses of the basic techniques of inference, and the use of regression as a tool for management and for financial analysis. The potential ethical issues related to each topic will be reviewed. Socially and environmentally relevant data will be utilised throughout the module.The goal of the module is not to turn students into statisticians but to enable them to appreciate the use of probability in assessing evidence and making decisions, and to be statistically literate consumers of quantitative information generated by economists, biomedical researchers, psychologists, statisticians, survey researchers, and other experts.

This course builds on foundational AWS knowledge, diving deeper into the platform's sophisticated features and services. Students will explore advanced networking configurations, security and compliance measures, and serverless architectures. Emphasis will be placed on practical applications, allowing students to design and implement complex AWS architectures, automate infrastructure management with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, and optimize costs for scalable solutions.In addition to technical skills, the course covers advanced topics in containerization, orchestration with AWS services, and the development of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Students will gain hands-on experience through labs and projects that simulate real-world scenarios, ensuring they can effectively deploy, manage, and scale applications on AWS. By the end of the course, students will be proficient in leveraging AWS's full potential to meet specific business requirements, ensuring security, compliance, and cost-efficiency in cloud environments.

In this module we will discuss general approaches to the construction of efficient solutions to problems. Such methods are of interest because:They provide templates suited to solving a broad range of diverse problems.They can be translated into common control and data structures provided by most high-level languages.The temporal and spatial requirements of the algorithms which result can be precisely analyzed. This course will provide a solid foundation and background to design and analysis of algorithms. In particular, upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to understand, explain and apply key algorithmic concepts and principles, which might include:Greedy algorithms (Activity Selection, 0-1 Knapsack Problem, Fractional Knapsack Problem)Dynamic programming (Longest Common Subsequence, 0-1 Knapsack Problem)Minimum Spanning Trees (Prim’s Algorithm, Kruskal’s Algorithm)Graph Algorithms (Dijkstra’s Shortest Path Algorithm, Bipartite Graphs, Minimum Vertex Cover) Although more than one technique may be applicable to a specific problem, it is often the case that an algorithm constructed by one approach is clearly superior to equivalent solutions built using alternative techniques. This module will help students assess these choices.

This course provides a dive deep into more advanced concepts in server-side programming using Node.js to enable initiative, real-time and scalable web applications. We dive into threading and thread pools in Node.js and how they can be leveraged to build more responsive web apps. We learn socket programming using socket.io and Node.js for instant messaging, document collaboration, real time analytics and streaming applications. Students also learn to use Caching using distributed in-memory key-value stores (like Redis) to rescue latency while serving web-apps. Students also learn how to use Node.js with popular NoSQL data stores like MongoDB for storing unstructured data. We also cover GraphQL which is an open source data query and manipulation language for APIs, which is gaining popularity more recently. We learn popular protocols like OAuth to enable cross platform logins. Students also learn the architecture and practical aspects of Web-RTC to enable multimedia applications like video-chat, live-streaming, music-streaming etc.

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This is a project-based course, with the aim of building the required skills for creating web-based software systems. The course covers the entire lifecycle of building software projects, from requirement gathering and scope definition from a product document, to designing the architecture of the system, and all the way to delivery and maintenance of the software system. The course covers both frontend, which is, building browser-based interfaces for users, using frontend web frameworks, and also building the backend, which is the server running an API to serve the information to the frontend, and running on an SQL or similar database management system for storage. All aspects of delivering a software project, including security, user authentication and authorisation, monitoring and analytics, and maintaining the project are covered. The course also covers the aspects of project maintenance, like using a version control system, setting up continuous integration and deployment pipelines and bug trackers.

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