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Career planning is not just about finding a job after graduation. It is a recurring process that students should utilize at any time throughout the degree and professional life. Therefore, students should be encouraged to begin their career development in their first year. In that sense, this course aims to equip students with the necessary principles, methods, and practices in designing their career paths, help them identify their own strengths and weaknesses, develop their social skills, and develop diction and body language. Moreover, this course focuses on using social media to develop a network, follow career opportunities, write a resume and cover letter, and prepare for a job interview. Career-oriented centers of METU (i.e., Career Planning Center, Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching (ÖGEM), International Cooperation Offices) are introduced, and corresponding opportunities are explained to the students.

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For Non-Business Administration students only.

This course aims to provide the graduating students, i.e. potential entrepreneurs, with the basics they need in order to set up their own businesses, or become intrapreneurs, alias organizational entrepreneurs, within their own organizational framework. The course content includes introductory information into the concept of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial perspectives, developing the entrepreneurial plan, marketing research, financial preparation, developing an effective business plan, assessment and evaluation of entrepreneurial opportunities, Turkish legal requirements, sources of capital, managing entrepreneurial growth, valuation of business ventures, and intrapreneurship.

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The course aims to provide basic knowledge of sustainable development (SD) for students to understand how SD principles and concepts apply to business environment and how they can be used to deal with real life SD challenges.

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Basic concepts and principles of Management; the functions of planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling, and their relationships to key issues in Management practice such as leadership, motivation, and communication.

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The workshop aims to improve the students` knowledge of the material covered in 312 1101 with the help of computerized business games. Stock and Bond Trading, Executive Decision Making, Balance Sheet and Income Statement Preparation, Product Design, Marketing Design games are played.

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The human element is a fundamental component of management. This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts and research in social psychology. The course thus focuses on how social factors influence individual behavior. Topics include basic research methods, causes and effects of biases, attribution, happiness, depression, individualism, collectivism, conformity, gender, corruption, communitarianism, persuasion, groups and productivity, diversity and prejudice, and conflict. The implications for managers in these areas are a major focus for this course.

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This course will provide students with a solid foundation in becoming a manager by giving them a fundamental understanding of accounting theory and practice both internationally and in Turkey. Students will be provided the basic tools they require from the field of Financial Accounting.

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This is a course covering basic statistical concepts and methods useful in decision making in the business environment, emphasis on descriptive and inferential tools used in converting raw data into useful information, use of statistical computer packages and interpretation of statistical results. Topics include descriptive statistics, discrete and continuous probability distributions, sampling distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, simple linear regression, multiple-regression, multiple regression model building, time series analysis.

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This course aims to investigate areas of organizational behavior and organizational theory. Emphasis is on the analysis of the fit between the organization, its people and their work, its environment and internal systems; analysis of the interaction of organizational design and various performance measures; awareness of contemporary views of best practice in the structuring of organizations and the management of the people that comprise them.

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Management of human resources in complex organizations, personnel recruitment and selection; increasing employee effectiveness, employee and management development, performance evaluation, motivation communication, employee morale, labor management relations, grievance and disciplinary actions, incentives and security are major areas covered in the course.

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The purpose of this course is to use lectures, videos, class exercises, and case studies to introduce students to theories and concepts that are useful in understanding organizations. Given the domination of organizations in society, it is important to understand and subsequently use the tools provided by organization theory in order to better understand how organizations affect us and how we can shape them. This course is meant to provide students with some of those tools, allowing them to better analyze complicated organizations and organizational situations, and to discover ways of dealing more effectively with them.
-To identify multiple perspectives on organizations
-To be able to apply these various perspectives in analyzing organizations and organizational problems
-To assess various organizational configurations and identify appropriate ones for the situation.

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This course is an introduction to managerial problems in production and operations; design, planning and control of production and service systems. Topics covered are: Demand Management, Product Design, Process Selection, Job Design and Work Measurement, Capacity Planning, Facility Layout/Location Problems, Aggregate/Master Production Scheduling, Inventory Management, Operations Scheduling, MRP II, JIT and TOC.

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This is the first exposure to the marketing discipline for BA students. Introduction to the nature of marketing; development of marketing thought over time; marketing research; consumer behavior; segmentation, targeting, positioning; product development and policies; pricing methods and practices; distribution decisions; integrated marketing communications; marketing management are topics covered in the course.

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This course is a comprehensive application of economic theory and methodology to business and managerial decision making; integrating the study of demand, production, cost, pricing, profit and firm size; market structure analysis; pricing theory and practices.

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This course addresses the theory and practice of financial management -the generation and allocation of financial resources. It provides students with grounding in the basic concepts of finance, including the time value of money, the role of financial markets, asset valuation, capital budgeting decisions, portfolio theory, asset pricing, and the risk-return tradeoff.
Prerequisites: BA 1401, or BA 2405 or BA 2801

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This course addresses the theory and practice of financial management - the generation and allocation of financial resources.It provides students with grounding in the basic concepts of accounting and finance, including the time value of money, the role of financial markets, asset valuation, capital budgeting decisions, portfolio theory, asset pricing, and the risk-return tradeoff.

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This course aims to provide better understanding of purposes and processes of communication in business. Cases and projects improving students` skills in a collaborative communication are provided. With the help of exercises, including videotaping, students have opportunities to improve and evaluate their oral communication skills.

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This course stresses the value of information as an organizational resource; and covers system development methodologies, systems analysis, design, implementation and evaluation, prototyping, data communications and database management.

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This is an introductory course covering the most commonly used models/methods of Operations Research/Management Science. Topics include: linear, integer and goal programming, sensitivity analysis and simulation modeling.

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The course is designed to introduce non-business students to the fundamental aspects of marketing as it relates to the whole business enterprise. Introductory coverage of major marketing concepts and decisions. Focuses on marketing`s macro role in society and its micro role in business and other organizations. For Non-Business Administration students only.

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An independent study under the supervision of a faculty member. Open only for those students with a CGPA greater than 3.00.

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An independent study under the supervision of a faculty member. Permission of the Department is required.

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For Business Administration students only.
This is a capstone course aimed at providing an opportunity for Business Administration students to integrate materials covered in their previous core and supporting courses. The course focuses on the development of skills in identifying, analyzing, and solving realistic business problems.

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This course aims to enhance the student`s ability to secure a job that matches his or her values, interests and skills. The course also focuses on developing job interviewing and presentation skills.

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This is an introductory course on the legal environment of business. The course covers such subjects as: merchants, their rights and obligations; contract agency; legal forms of business; negotiable instruments; insurance law; maritime law.

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The objective of this course is to provide prospective Managers with the practical and theoretical backgrounds with which to design and evaluate strategies for innovating, acquiring and integrating new technologies into the workplace, and enhancing employee creativity. The material to be covered in the course comes from a variety of sources, including books, articles and, if possible, guest speakers.

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This course provides an in-depth analysis of the moral responsibilities of a corporation and its employees. It analyzes the relationship between individual rights and the free market. The nature of a corporation, its structure, governance, ownership and social responsibilities are emphasized considering the living ethic of our own culture.

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Concepts of quality improvement as developed by Deming, Juran, Imai and others are covered in depth. Concept of achieving company-wide quality control, total quality Management, continuous quality improvement are among the topics stressed in this course. Recent developments in quality Management theories are studied. Similarities and differences between philosophies, approaches and tools of quality Management are pointed out.

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This course analyzes the main parameters of the environment within which business takes place in Turkey. To this end, it aims at understanding the historical background as well as the current context Turkish firms have been operating in as well as assessing the environment-related factors that cause firms to create, sustain, or lose competitive advantage.

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The goal of this course is to introduce essential facts and skills from behavioral and rational analyses to make students into more competent and confident decision makers. By providing necessary insights and tools, this course will enable students to support and improve their own decision making as well as to understand the decision making of others.

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This course aims to address corporate social responsibility and governance which are major concerns in business today. The major components of social responsibility and governance will be discussed to build the foundation of these issues. The manifestations of problem in terms of complaints as to the responsibilities of firm and managerial accountability, ineffective and complacent boards, excessive managerial compensation will be major issues to be highlighted. How we have gotten to the point where we are today will be arguments to be brought within the content of the course. Lastly, what actions are being taken and may be taken to address these issues will be discussed.

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This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to work more effectively with individuals and groups in contemporary organizations. Some examples of topics covered include using power to influence followers and others, delegating effectively, dyadic role making theories, contingency theories of leadership, leading change, strategic leadership and managing diversity.

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This course is designed to provide students with broad perspective of the topics of entrepreneurship, and the structure, development and management of family firms and their specific characteristics. The complex relationship between family, business and ownership are examined. Leadership, corporate culture and ethics of family firms and the reasons behind their short survivals are also analyzed. Other topics to be covered include responding to change, institutionalization of family business and corporate strategy and policy in transition to professional management.

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The course aims to present some theoretical and empirical rules (although no single rule can be employed at all times) that managers, actually all decision makers, can and do use to help make decisions. For that purpose, the theoretical framework of managerial economic decision making will be presented through conducting samples of experiments/games in the classroom (e.g., winner’s curse, bias in assessing risks) in decision making (particularly decisions in marketing and finance). The students will experience situations that they have to make many decisions of their own that will also give them the opportunity to evaluate their own decision making process through a series of classroom experiments.
Prerequisite: BA 2801.

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The terminology of the new economy is defined by the new industrial revolution/industry 4.0 and the world of innovation,level of technology,entrepreneurial capacity and the talent pool you have. Turkey s challenge with innovation,entrepreneurship and technology based competitive business World.

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The objective of this course is to provide the students with the key concepts regarding purchasing and supply management, prepare them for future careers as purchasing managers/buyers, and help them understand the impact of purchasing on other business functions. Upon completing this course students can: (i) define tactical and strategic contributions of purchasing (i.e. cost reduction, risk management, innovation, sustainability), (ii) analyse buyer-supplier relationships and purchase characteristics, and develop supply management strategies that fit to these, and (iii) understand and implement negotiation tactics, and (iv) assess supplier and purchasing performance.

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This course will be a hands-on learning experience for students that have an innovative entrepreneurship project or are willing to join another’s project. Participants will learn to work in teams, developing an initial business model for the chosen project, and then focusing on different blocks of the business model each week in order to find supporting information or disproving the many assumptions of the business model. The weekly work will include significant time (5-10 hours/week) spent outside of the classroom interviewing/talking to relevant parties for that part of the business model. During weekly class sessions teams will present their new findings, any needed adjustments to the business model, and ideas about how to test the next block of the business model.Each team will maintain a blog with weekly updates about what they did that week and updates to their business model.

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This course uses a team-based, experiential and interdisciplinary learning model to solve real life innovation problems from corporate partners. Using their learnings from different disciplines team members will be able to identify the major parties involved in the issues, their driving forces and possible directions that this may take.

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Sustainable development is the key to a world where business can continue to operate and thrive. Leading companies have long been engaged in efforts to integrate sustainability at the core of corporate strategy, decision-making and governance. This course is designed to provide participants who are interested to know more about the field of business and sustainability, and how they can apply these ideas to their jobs and life as well. It will provide in-depth knowledge of the fundamentals of sustainability and also the latest development agenda the international community agreed to achieve by 2030. This course will also explore the sustainable business and economic models that can be used to drive change

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This coursc is designed for business students and İntronduces the foundational elements of climate science, economics, and technology. The objective is to foster an interdisciplinary and informed understanding of the connections between the economy and the clİmate crisis, focusing on business İmpIications and strategies.

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This course aims to broaden the approach to Organizational Behavior that has been primarily taught with an U.S. based understanding. Variations across cultures and their impact on organizations are discussed.

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The course is designed to provide students with experiences from real world problems related to people in different organizations. Cases and exercises related to manpower planning, selection, recruitment, careers development, and training in different environments such as government, private firms, hospitals and universities will be analyzed.

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The viewpoint that Manager is a negotiator is emphasized. Negotiation structure, planning for negotiation; hard soft and principled types and distributive and negative negotiations are analyzed, various heuristics are developed. Cases and exercises in this area are used to build the necessary understanding and skills.

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The objective of the course is to acquaint the student with a general framework of the actual play of forces in the labour market at the international and national levels, taking into consideration the rapid change in the structure of the labour force and industrial relations as a result of the developments in technology, globalization and new forms of work organisation.

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The course explores theories of organizational change and their implications in organizational practice. Specifically this course examines the question of why and how organizations change and what changes in organizations as a result of human initiatives or conditional necessities. Other topics covered are how we can understand organizational change is needed and how we can promote and sustain organizational change in the face of resistance from organizational members.

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This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the characteristics of innovative organizations and the processes involved in corporate innovation. Case studies of innovative companies allow students to explore how creativity and innovation is made actionable in contemporary organizations. Article reviews develop student knowledge of creativity and innovation concepts through selected literature. Students also learn how they may contribute to an organization through personal creativity.

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The course investigates leadership as part of a larger ecosystem. It aims to show the interconnectedness within the system and to explore ways to mobilize the adaptive capasity of an organization/entity to thrive and adopt to changing environments and to effectively respond to recurring and/or novel problems in a more halistic way. This approach helps organizations deal with VUCA-volatility, unknown, complexity and ambiguity-by concentrating on possibilities rather than certainties. This course draws upon systems thinking, theory-u and adaptive leadership and discusses how to put these in use in organizations.

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Talent management principles. Talent management strategies and practices. Talent acquisition. Performance management. Employee development. Succession planning.

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This course İs designed to support business administration students who are seeking to reach their utmost potential both as a manager and as a lader. The Enneagram is a 2500 year-old tool that is used to learn about nine different personality types and how to bring out the best of each type at work.

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The course provides a practical understanding of the concepts and theories involved in the development and implementation of Management information systems. The identification of various information subsystems, the initiation of and responsibility for the MIS project, the strategies for the determination of the system requirements, methods and tools for the analysis and design of the new system, software and hardware selection criteria are among the topics discussed through various case studies.

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This is a course that introduces students to Phyton programming,the main emphasis of the course is the data processing and analysis using Phyton to assist business decision making.

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Auditing theory and practice applicable to manufacturing business organizations in general; auditing standards, procedures, rules of professional conduct, and related material of professional importance.

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This course provides an analysis of management’s use of cost and other quantitative data in managerial planning and control.
Prerequisites: BA 1402, BA 2402.

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Introduction to quantitative and subjective forecasting methods. Evaluating forecast accuracy. Smoothing methods: Simple, Holt`s and Winters` exponential smoothing techniques. Forecasting with Regression Methods: Forecasting with simple linear trend, using casual regression models, and forecasting with Multiple regression models. Time-series Decomposition models. Finding seasonal indexes, the long-term trend, and measuring cyclical component. Box-Jenkins (ARIMA) forecasting models. Introduction to simulation usage in forecasting. Combining Forecast results and Forecast Implementation.

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The aim of the Risk Management and Insurance course is to provide an introduction to the actuarial philosophy and the actuarial scientific method. All major areas in risk and insurance are treated in some depth, including basic concepts, fundamental legal principles, property and liability insurance, life and health insurance, social insurance, the functional and financial operations of insurance companies, and the main features of the Turkish insurance market.

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Decision analysis aims to provide a structured and systematic approach to guide the decision making activities in complex problems. This course attempts to convey the basic concepts and principles on the analytical methods, tools and techniques of decision analysis. Topics to be covered include Multi-Objective Decision Making (MODM), SMART, SMARTER, even swaps, AHP, Multi-Attribute Utility Theory(MAUT), influence diagrams, decision trees and scenario planning.
Prerequisites: BA 3504.

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Decision analysis is an interdisciplinary field that aims to provide a structured and systematic approach to guide the decision making activities in complex problems. At the same time, it attempts to understand the preliminary mechanisms underlying human judgment as well as the cognitive and psychological factors that affect the mental processes behind managerial decision making. The primary objective of this course is to provide an understanding on this perspective. Topics to be covered include rationality and managerial decision making, analysis of judgment, heuristics and biases, prospect theory, framing effects, the perception of risk and group decision making.

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Designing simulation models. Spreadsheet simulation. Analysis and interpretation of simulation input/output. Queuing models. Dynamic programming.

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Basic computing concepts in R programming language; programming concepts, data import and export, data manipulation, data exploration via visual techniques,data analysis with frequently used statistical methods.

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A study of the inherent characteristics of service organizations in the public and private sectors; the service package and service delivery system; service design and process selection; forecasting in services; location and layout of service firms; human resources Management; capacity Management and the quality challenge in services.

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Provides a review of CPM and PERT models to cover cases with certain and uncertain activity times; project crashing and PERT/Cost analysis; GANTT charts and resource levelling decisions; use of simulation in connection with project scheduling; project control, revision and verification techniques; computer applications using commercial software.

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This course introduces the concepts, models, and solution tools that are needed in the design, control, and operation of supply chains. The discussion ranges from basic topics of inventory management, logistics network design, distribution systems, strategic alliances, buyer-supplier relationships, the value of information in the supply chain, utilizing readings, cases, and technical exercises.

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Builds on the basic knowledge of marketing and focuses on the design and management of the promotion mix. Assumes an integrated marketing communications perspective and covers advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, direct marketing, publicity, and public relations. Cases, practical application assignments, and term projects are employed to emphasize applications.

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Centers on the role of the consumer in the marketing process. Enables the student to understand why certain marketing strategies are more effective than others, how humans behave in the marketplace, and which social and cognitive mechanisms the consumer brings to the purchasing decisions. Strong managerial, psychological, and personal implications; individual, social, and marketing determinants of consumption behavior.

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Hands-on introduction to empirical methodology for market research applications. Problem formulation, research design, measure development, scaling techniques, attitude measurement, simple and applied multivariate analysis, report writing. An extensive term project enables the student to put the course content into practice.

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Introduces the student to the global marketing environment including the global economy, cultural forces, and the political and regulatory climate. Explores how managers analyze global opportunities, buyer behavior, competitors, and marketing research. Describes global marketing strategies, foreign market entry options, and the global implications of managing the marketing mix.

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Designed to be a hands-on introduction to selling and sales management. Speakers, films, role playing, group projects, and field trips are employed to enhance learning. The objective is to develop skills and abilities that allow the student to manage sales territories as their own business.

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The course aims to give the student an appreciation of the constant change and development in retailing. It introduces the student to basic qualitative and quantitative retail management concepts; provides the student with current examples of retailing concepts in action; improves the student’s skills is analyzing competitive situations and marketing opportunities.
Prerequisites: BA 2701.

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The course is designed to integrate and extend fundamental marketing concepts and apply them to business problems. Focus is on studying strategic issues relating to selection of business and segments in which to compete and how to spread resources across products and elements of the marketing mix. Case and simulation methodologies are employed.

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The course provides a thorough understanding of branding processes in the 21st century. In the first part of the course, consumers and their behavior with regard to brands will be examined. Also, social role of brands as cultural, ideological, and political objects are discussed in the class. In the second part of the course, managerial concepts such as brand equity, brand identity, brand types, corporate branding, brand extensions, and brands and innovations are covered.
Prerequisites: BA 2701.

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This module seeks to develop an interdisciplinary, theoretically informed understanding through an active piece of primary research into consumer behavior, consumer identities, and consumer experience. It aims to understand how consumers utilize consumption as a social process in their everyday lives. Various qualitative research methods are thought and conducted by students.
Prerequisites: BA 2701

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The course aims to provide an understanding on the relations between society, culture(s), and markets. This course complements the management curriculum by providing a link between macro and micro approaches to marketing. In other words, rather than focusing on firm or consumer level understanding, course delineates the societal role of marketing and consumption practices. On the one hand, marketing’s role as a cultural practice and social institution in our everyday social life is introduced to students. On the other, a critical look to the role of marketing in contemporary society is presented. To accomplish this goal, the course will introduce the concept of culture, development of modern culture, markets, and consumer culture, some of the key institutions of culture, and a sociocultural critique of marketing and consumption. The course aims to train students as prospective marketers, who are reflexive towards marketing and consumption.
Prerequisites: BA 2701

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Attributes of financial services; marketing environment of financial services ,financial consumer; financial products, pricing of financial products and services; promotion and distribution of financial products and services; product development; market segmentation; customer satisfaction; regulatory environment; strategic marketing of financial products and services.

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Understanding digital media tools. Measuring the effectiveness of digital media tools. Understanding social media. Developing strategies for social and digital media.

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This course provides both a theoretical foundation for social entrepreneurship and practical experience in designing a social venture. The course draws on a variety of disciplines, including marketing, management, and finance, to develop frameworks and techniques that are needed for social entrepreneurship. The goal is for students to have a socially relevant academic experience that inspires them to create economic and social value.

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Introduction to the financial operations in business corporations and the related concepts like risk, rate of return, valuation. Topics covered: Risk, Rates of Return, Time Value of Money, Bond and Stock Valuation, Cost of Capital, Basics of Capital Budgeting, Cash Flow Estimation, Capital Structure and Leverage, Investment Banking and Securities Market.

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The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the area of investment with emphasis upon why individuals and institutions invest and how they invest. Topics include measures of risk and return; capital and money markets; process and techniques of investment valuation; principles of fundamental analysis; technical analysis; analysis and management of bonds; analysis of alternative investments; portfolio theory and application.

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This course mainly deals with the design and analysis of new investment projects. c. Project financing approaches; Leasing, Venture Capital and Build-Operate-and-Transfer will be discussed in the context of Turkey.

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The first part of the course aims at introducing the student to foreign exchange markets, exchange rate determination theories, forecasting and international trade financing. A project on Turkey will be assigned. The second part of course deals with aspects of financial management for multinational corporation.

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The objective of the course is to provide the knowledge and the skills necessary to take full advantage of financial reports and analysis. Starting an overview of financial accounting, the topics that will be covered include financial statements, ratio analysis, comparative analysis and the management of operating funds.

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Analysis of financial intermediation and the determination of interest rates. Businesses, consumers, and governments in money and capital markets are observed with emphasis on financial instruments. International financial markets are discussed. The purposes and functions of central banking are studied with primary attention to monetary policy.

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Basic asset, liability, and capital management. Topics include primary lending functions, pricing techniques, risk management, and bank organization. Familiarization with international banking.

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This course is designed to provide a solid foundation in the principles of derivatives. It attempts to strike a balance between institutional details, theoretical foundations, and practical applications. Parallel to the already increasing attempts to integrate derivative securities and markets into the Turkish financial system, it is believed that this course will fill a gap in that the students will be exposed to a rather comprehensive coverage of theory and application in the derivatives area.

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The objective of this course is to provide the students with an overview of the fixed income market. This includes coverage of the securities available in the Turkish and international markets, their investment characteristics, the latest techniques for valuing them and portfolio strategies for using them.

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This course focuses on valuation of real and financial assets. The valuation methods covered are discounted cash flow approaches, multiples and real options. Students will learn how to calculate the value for various asset types and how to choose the appropriate method of valuation.
Prerequisite: BA 2802 or ECON 311 or BA 5802 or IAM 521

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The aim of this course is to give the students a broad overview of both the basic principles and the practical implementation of central banking as well as functioning of the financial markets in an attempt to better understand how central bank operations affect financial institutions and the monetary policy transmission mechanism.

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In the 20th century, modern corporations became one of the world’s dominant institutions. Consequently, the way they do business is now under close scrutiny. The relationship between ownership structure, performance and the demands of society requires that companies exercise a high degree of diligence in their governance.

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Introduction to real estate markets and financing alternatives for real estate investments. Topics on residential and commercial real estate and alternative ways of investing in real estate. Performance of real estate investments and their affect on the portfolios of investors.

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This course aims to analyze how financial markets and financial institutions, financial system as a whole, affect the macro economy. We briefly discuss the macroeconomic theories, and the risks to the macro economy due to the structure of the financial systems. Moreover, the causes and effects of international financial crises, especially the banking crises and asset bubbles, will be examined throughout the course. The course intends to focus on not only the theories but also the empirics of the subjects that will be argued, with special emphasis on the different country examples.

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To be successful. Venture Capitalists must have a broad general knowledge of business and all its disciplines: marketing, management, finance, operations, accounting, and so on. In addition, most VCs must acquire specialized knowledge in one or more hign-technology industries. However, it is not possible to cover all these areas in one course. This course focuses almost exclusively on finance, specifically on the valuation of high-technology investments.

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Provide students with the knowledge to apply the theories they have learned using spreadsheets. The students who know the essentials of corporate finance theories should also be able to solve the financial models numerically in order to enhance their knowledge in the field. The lecture includes models in the area of corporate finance, financial statement analysis, portfolio theory and duration. These models will be explained and then the models will be implemented numerically by using spreadsheets. This lecture will help the undergrad students to enhance their theoretical and practical knowledge related to the financial modelling.

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This course aims in developing an understanding of banking and financial intermediaries, and their workings. The course explains why banks and other financial intermediaries are special and describes the various types of financial intermediaries in the economy. This course intends to focus on banks as a type of financial intermediary. Moreover, the role of financial intermediaries in the real economy will be examined throughout the course.

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This course aims in developing an understanding of key issues in international financial integration. We discuss determinants, measures, benefits and costs of financial integration. Impacts of financial integration on investment and external financing are among the topics of this course. Moreover, this course aims at assessing the link between financial integration and economic growth in different economies. The course intends to focus on not only the theories but also the empirics of the subjects that will be argued.

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This course provides a firm foundation on project finance, which is a product of financial engineering to raise long-term financing for large capital intensive projects. This recently and rapidly developed technique has become common throughout the world during the last couple of decades in the face of enormous infrastructure needs of both developed and developing countries. Project finance has the potential of offering distinct advantages over corporate finance in certain cases especially for large and risky projects, and this potential makes it particularly interesting. However, it has also its own complexities, which need to be managed properly in each stage of a deal if this potential is to be realized.Therefore,the objectives of this course are to:
introduce project finance as a technique to raise long-term debt for capital intensive projects on a limited or nore-course basis,
provide a cleary defined framework for designing,appraising and structuring project finance deals,
provide tools to identify and manage risks in project finance transactions,
present financial modeling techniques to bring together all the elements of the course to make informed decisions in project financing.

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Introductory course on the legal environment of business. The course covers such subjects as merchants their rights and obligations; contract agency; legal forms of business; negotiable instruments; insurance law; maritime law.

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It is a capstone course to show the student the need for and methods of integrating a firm's various functional area activities in a dynamically changing environment. Furthermore, strategic management will be emphasized, that is the process dealing with the fundamental organizational renewal and growth, with the development of the strategies, structures and systems necessary to achieve such renewal and growth and with the organizational systems needed to effectively manage the strategy formulation and implementation processes.

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This is an introductory course on the legal environment of business. The course covers such subjects as merchants, their rights and obligations, contract agency, legal forms of business, negotiable instruments, insurance law, and maritime law.

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The objective of this course is to provide prospective managers with the practical and theoretical backgrounds with which to design and evaluate strategies for innovating, acquiring and integrating new technologies into the workplace, and enhancing employee creativity. The material to
be covered in the course comes from a variety of sources, including books, articles and, if possible, guest speakers.

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Many observers of Japan´s…economic growth attribute a heavy portion of this success to the nature of Japanese business organization. The differences between the model Japanese firm and the model American firm are indeed striking, as are some other distinctive features of Japanese business organization, and these could be important to economic success. However, there are some similarities in Japanese business behavior to that in other countries which should not be overlooked. Also, it must be emphasized that Japanese corporations are not uniquely successful at all times in all of their activities: Japanese firms to make mistakes and fail, and life in Japanese firms is not always smooth. It is important to see how corporate organizational patterns are different in Japan, and how these could have effects on firm behavior. But we should avoid the current tendency to overromanticize Japanese life while looking at the Japanese phenomena with a balanced eye.

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This course provides an in-depth analysis of the moral responsibilities of a corporation and its employees. It analyzes the relationship between individual rights and the free market. The nature of a corporation, its structure, governance, ownership and social responsibilities are emphasized considering the living ethic of our own culture.

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This course is concerned with the social-cultural-ethnic context of work in business organizations, focusing on the business environment as affecting social behavior and applying OB concepts in divers cultural settings. It overviews relevant topics in Human Relations area, focusing on selective human issues and topics that have must been covered in the previous courses, introduces OB in a global context in parallel with the developments in the larger world context, and tries to help students to integrate social-cultural-ethnic concepts in the light of changing world-order. Topics include the individual, the group (within and between) and the organization system, with a specific emphasis on thought-provoking ideas to stimulate interest and discussions.

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The European Union; institutions, micro-economic policies, tariff/non-tariff barriers, the common market, foreign trade relations, and Customs Union with Turkey and its effect on the Turkish economy and businesses, the future of the economic and political union in Europe; projections and discussions are covered in the course.

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The objective of the course is to introduce the Business Administration students to the main aspects of the international economy that one typically faces when conducting business at the international level. Specifically, the course aims at introducing the students to a manager s perspective in the field of international investment and international trade.

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Concepts of quality improvement as developed by Deming, Juran, Imai and others are covered in depth. Concept of achieving company-wide quality control, total quality management, continuous quality improvement are among the topics stressed in this course. Recent developments in quality management theories are studied. Similarities and differences between philosophies, approaches and tools of quality management are pointed out.

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This course analyzes the main parameters of the environment within which business takes place in Turkey. To this end, it aims at understanding the historical background as well as the current context that Turkish firms have been operating in, as well as assessing the environment-related factors that cause firms to create, sustain, or lose competitive advantage.

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Game theory is an analytical tool used in modeling strategic interactions where an action by an agent influences the payoffs to other agents. Hence, game theory studies cooperative and competitive behavior in conflict situations. The applicability of game theory extends from economics, management science, bargaining, and conflict resolution to political science and theoretical biology. This course provides the students with the standard taxonomy and solution concepts necessary in formulating games, identifying optimum strategies, and predicting the outcomes of such games. Tools of game theory will be developed through lectures, readings, exercises, class discussions, and applications (business and economic). The course is mathematical in the sense that it requires logical thinking.

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The goal of this course is to introduce essential facts and skills from behavioral and rational analyses to make students into more competent and confident decision makers. By providing necessary insights and tools, this course will enable students to support and improve their own decision making as well as to understand the decision making of others.

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This course aims to address corporate social responsibility and governance, which are major concerns in business today. The major components of social responsibility and governance will be discussed to build the foundation of these issues. The manifestations of problem in terms of complaints as to the responsibilities of firm and managerial accountability, ineffective and complacent boards, and excessive managerial compensation will be major issues to be highlighted. How we have gotten to the point where we are today will be arguments to be brought within the content of the course. Lastly, what actions are being taken and may be taken to address these issues will be discussed.

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This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to work more effectively with individuals and groups in contemporary organizations. Some examples of topics covered include using power to influence followers and others, delegating effectively, dyadic role making theories, contingency theories of leadership, leading change, strategic leadership and managing diversity.

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This course is designed to provide students with broad perspective of the topics of entrepreneurship, and the structure, development and management of family firms and their specific characteristics. the complex relationship between family, business and owners are examined. leadership, corporate culture and ethics of family firms and the reasons behind their short survivals are also analyzed. other topics to be covered include responding to change, institutionalization of family business and corporate strategy and policy in transition to professional management.

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this course covers economic and monetary integration within the European Union (EU). topics include regional economic integration types, economic integration of EU, trade policy instruments, EU Budget, common policies of EU, exchange rate regimes, theory

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This course aims to present some theoretical and empirical rules (although no single rule can be employed at all times) that managers, actually all decision makers, can and do use to help make decisions. For that purpose, the theoretical framework of managerial economic decision making will be presented through conducting samples of experiments/games in the classroom (e.g. winner`s curse, bias in assessing risks) in decision making (particularly decisions in marketing and finance). The students will experience situations that they have to make many decisions of their own that will also give them the opportunity to evaluate their own decision making process through a series of classroom experiments.

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This course is aimed to cover Turkish Competition Law and the practices of the law, mainly executed by Turkish Competition Authority.

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The purpose of this course is to understand the compelling power of organizations that combines families and work. Being a family firm affects all participants. The course focuses on the `specialness` of these businesses and the family dynamics intruding the business relationship. It provides the students with a theoretical as well as practical background in this specific type of business organization.

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This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the step by step process of writing a 1.800 to 2.100 word research paper that includes five to seven sources in APA format. Skills developed in this course will have immediate application to the students program of studies at the undergraduate or graduate level.

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As a result of increasing competition and faster economical organisational and technical changes, firms increasingly outsource parts of their development, production and delivery processes to specialised external suppliers. Companies in many manufacturing industries (e.g., Philips, Toyota, Unilever) but also in service sector (e.g., Turkish Airlines, Akbank) buy raw materials, components, sub-systems and services from suppliers for a value that is more than two-thirds of their total sales. This implies that managing suppliers-and the underlying purchasing process- is of crucial importance to the success of the firm: regarding costs and prices, but also regarding quality and delivery performance, and increasingly also with respect to innovation, risk management, and sustainability.

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This course will be a hands-on learning experience for students that have an innovative entrepreneurship project or are willing to join another s project. Participants will learn to work in teams, developing an initial business model for the chosen project, and then focusing on different blocks of the business model each week in order to find supporting information or disproving the many assumptions of the business model. The weekly work will include significant time (5-10 hour/week) spent outside of the classroom interviewing/talking to relevant parties for that part of the business model. The weekly class sessions teams will present their new findings, any needed adjustments to the business model, and ideas about how to test the next block of the business model. Each team will maintain a blog with weekly updates about what they did that week and updates to their business model.

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Sustainable development is the key to a world where business can continue to operate and thrive. Leading companies have long been engaged in efforts to integrate sustainability at the core of corporate strategv. decision-making and governance. This course is designed to provide participants who are interested to know more about the field of business and sustainability and how they can apply these ideas to their jobs and life as well. It will provide in-depth knowledge of the fundamentals of sustainability and also the latest development agenda the international community agreed to achieve by 2030. This course will also explore the sustainable business and economic models that can be used to drive change.

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A systematic and analytic study of the structure and functioning of organizations and the behavior of groups and individuals within them. The emphasis will be on the pragmatics of organization and management.

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The course is concerned with the policies, procedures and practices governing the recruitment, selection, training, promotion, remuneration and working conditions of the people employed by an enterprise.

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This course is about organizational and human dynamics and the management of these dynamics. It is designed to overview the relevant issues in human aspects of organization, focusing on selection of topics that have been included in the previous Organizational Behavior related courses.

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The course aims to strengthen understanding of various concepts of organizational culture, enhance skills at discovering the central factors at play in a given environment that determine an organization s culture, and investigate how management practice is shaped by different organizational cultures.

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This course aims to broaden the approach to organizational behavior that has been primarily taught with a U.S. based understanding. Variations across cultures and their impact on organizations are discussed.

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The course is designed to provide students with experiences from real world problems related to people in different organizations. Cases and exercises related to manpower planning, selection, recruitment, career development, and training in different environments such as government, private firms, hospitals and universities will be analyzed.

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Influence processes that individuals go through within organizations in order to accomplish personal and/or organizational goals are analyzed in this course. Topics include formal versus informal organization; authority versus power; individual and organizational sources of power; organizational politics, methods of influence, strategies and tactics for acquiring, increasing and using power, and ethics of political behavior.

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The course introduces the student to the field of organizational development and provides a basis in OD theory and application. It aims to: 1) introduce the student to the advances in theory and practice that have given rise to OD, 2) evaluate various models for organizational change, 3) review the basic elements of diagnosis and research in OD and, 4) help students to understand the benefits and limitations on current popular movements in OD. To illustrate the connection between OD theory and practice, concepts will be reviewed and applied to cases throughout the course.

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The viewpoint that the manager is a negotiator is emphasized. Negotiation structure, planning for negotiation, aggressive,, consultative,, distributive and negative negotiations are analyzed, and various heuristics are developed. Cases and exercises in this area are used to build the necessary understanding and skills.

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This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the characteristics of innovative organizations and the processes involved in corporate innovation. Case studies of innovative companies allow students to explore how creativity and innovation is made actionable in contemporary organizations. Article reviews develop student knowledge of creativity and innovation concepts through selected literature. Students also learn how they may contribute to an organization through personal creativity.

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Talent management principles. Talent management strategies and practices. Talent acquisition. Performance management. Employee development. Succession planning.

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The course emphasizes the active and significant role managers must assume in the analysis, design, use, and management of information systems. It covers the planning and organization of an MIS project, strategies for the determination of requirements, the transition from analysis to design, the conceptual design of the new system, and phases in the implementation process and conversion methods.

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The course emphasizes the active and significant role managers must assume in the analysis, design use, and management of information systems. It covers the planning and organization of an MIS project, strategies for the determination of requirements the transition from analysis to design, the conceptual design of the new system, phases in the implementation process and conversion methods.

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The course provides a practical understanding of the concepts and theories involved in the development and implementation of Management information systems. The identification of various information subsystems, the initiation of and responsibility for the MIS project, the strategies for the determination of the system requirements, methods and tools for the analysis and design of the new system, software and hardware selection criteria are among the topics discussed through various case studies.

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The objectives of this course are to describe how information technologies are matched with business strategy; to explore the ways that the IT can contribute to the overall success of the organization; to explain the role of IT governance in organizations, the best practices of IT governance implementation; to describe the uses of COBIT, Val IT and Risk IT frameworks.

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Financial accounting and financial analysis; basic concepts of managerial accounting; organization of financial data for decision making; development of sound measurements and uses of accounting data; control and evaluation of economic activity.

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Auditing theory and practice applicable to business organizations in general; auditing standards, procedures, rules of professional conduct, and related material of professional importance.

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A study of those accounting topics those lend themselves to the use of mathematical and statistical techniques of cost analysis, with emphasis on the internal needs of Management.

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This course is designed to equip the students with knowledge on contemporary issues in accounting such as funds flow and cash flow analysis, leases, pension plans, tax problems, consolidations, intangibles, profit appropriation, foreign exchange transactions, accounting for derivatives and accounting problems created by price-level changes.

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The basic intention of this course is to provide a general frame of reference for evaluating and developing accounting principles. The methodology, concepts and structure of accounting theory; income concepts for financial reporting; problems of asset measurement under conditions of changing prices; reporting problems of specific asset and liability groups will be discussed. Special emphasis will be given to the problems of accounting and depreciation, intangibles, lease commitment and pension cost.

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This course provides an analysis of management’s use of cost and other quantitative data in managerial planning and control.

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This course covers international accounting standards within the scope of intermediate accounting topics. Topics covered include financing and operating activities of companies, application pf generally accepted accounting principles to those activities, and evaluation of financial statements.

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This course reviews various research areas in accounting such as financial, capital markets, managerial, behavioral, auditing, financial disclosures and corporate governance issues. In so doing, the course will instruct the students on how to critically analyze a research paper.

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Statistical ideas and their relevance in business and social sciences; presentation and analysis of data Summary statistics and elements of exploratory data analysis; elementary probability; random variables and their distributions; the normal distribution; sampling and sampling distributions. The central limit theorem; student's distribution; large and small sample estimation procedure.

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Covers the most commonly used models/methods of Operations Research/ Management Science; emphasizes business applications rather than a mastery of the solution algorithms. Linear and dynamic programming, inventory and queuing models, simulation modelling and applications are studied.

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Management decisions involve the most effective use of resources which is generally referred as optimization. This lecture is an advanced level course on the concepts of optimization. We focus on linear optimization, its geometry, simplex method, the role of sensitivity analysis and duality. We will also discuss integer and nonlinear optimization problems.

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This course emphasizes the role and significance of research within accounting and finance, and covers different types and functions of research, formulating research, research questions, hypotheses, concepts, operations and briefs, research philosophies, epistemologies and ontologies and their relevance to quantitative and qualitative methodology and methods, collecting, analysing and interpreting data: survey methodology and methods, questionnaire design and administration, questionnaire analysis including basic statistical techniques and computer data using a relevant statistical software package – i.e. SPSS (or equivalent). Also qualitative research methods including structured, semi-structured and unstructured interviews, focus groups, participant and non participant observation will be selectively discussed. Research ethics, social and economic objectives of research, writing and presentation research results and analysis will be addressed.

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This course will cover application of select mathematical tools in business and economics. Among these topics are equilibrium analysis, sets, functions, matrices and determinants, sequences, limits, cobweb model, rate of change, exponential function, continuous compounding, introduction to optimization, derivatives, partial derivatives, chain rule, integration, martingales, Brownian motion, Markov processes. The aim is to introduce how mathematical tools are applied in economics and business, especially in finance.

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Business research is the systematic and organized effort to investigate a specific problem encountered in the work setting which needs a solution. The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with a framework that can be used to identify the problems, determine the factors that are associated with the problem, gather information, analyze the data, develop an explanation for the problem at the hand and solve the problem by taking the necessary corrective actions.

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This course focuses on the financial applications of statistical techniques. Econometrics helps you test theories in finance, estimate asset prices or returns, analyze the relationship between variables, forecast financial variables etc. At the end of the course the students will be able to understand, apply, and interpret the results of classical regression, univariate time series modeling, simultaneous equations models, vector auto regressions, long run modeling, ARCH/GARCH modeling etc. using the Eviews econometrics package. The applicaton will be from finance including CAPM, APT, efficient market hypothesis, term structure of interest rates.

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Introduction to quantitative and subjective forecasting methods. Evaluating forecast accuracy. Smoothing methods: Simple, Holt s and Winters exponential smoothing techniques. Forecasting with Regression Methods: Forecasting with simple linear trend, using casual regression models, and forecasting with Multiple regression models. Time-series Decomposition models. Finding seasonal indexes, the long-term trend, and measuring cyclical component. Box-Jenkins (ARIMA) forecasting models. Introduction to simulation usage in forecasting. Combining Forecast results and Forecast Implementation are areas covered in the course

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The aim of the Risk Management and Insurance course is to provide an introduction to the actuarial philosophy and the actuarial scientific method. All major areas in risk and insurance are treated in some depth, including basic concepts, fundamental legal principles, property and liability insurance, life and health insurance, social insurance, the functional and financial operations of insurance companies, and the main features of the Turkish insurance market.

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As an emerging discipline, Knowledge Management bridges social-organizational and technological-technical aspects of management and business administration in the Knowledge Economy and Society. Underlying interrelated issues of organizational and managerial learning, this Knowledge Management course will have a specific emphasis on personal, professional, and academic development of students.

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Decision analysis aims to provide a structured and systematic approach to guide the decision making activities in complex problems. This course attempts to convey the basic concepts and principles on the analytical methods, tools, and techniques of decision analysis. Topics to be covered include Multi-Objective Decision Making (MODM), SMART, AHP, Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT), influence diagrams, decision trees and scenario planning.

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Decision analysis is an interdisciplinary field that aims to provide a structured and systematic approach to guide the decision making activities in complex problems.At the same time, it attempts to understand the preliminary mechanism underlying human judgment as well as the cognitive and psycholocigal factors that affect the mental processes behind managerial decision making.The primary objective of this course is to provide an understanding on this perspective. Topicts to be covered include rationality & managerial decision making,analysis of judgment,heuristics and biases, prospect theory, preference & choice, optimism,the perception of risk and group decision making.

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Designing simulation models. Spreadsheet simulation. Analysis and interpretation of simulation input/output. Queuing models. Dynamic programming.

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This is a course on applied statistics. The course will start with a review of univariate descriptive and inferential statistics to introduce the statistical software package SPSS. The first part of the course will cover selected predictive methods such as simple linear regression, multiple regression, and nonlinear regression. The second part will introduce multivariate methods for data classification and data reduction: cluster analysis, discriminant analysis, principla components, and exploratory factor analysis. The methods will be explained using applied cases. Students will be required to use SPSS for their assignments and final projects based on examples covered in class.

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The operations management functions in manufacturing and service industries; demand forecasting, capacity planning, facility location and layout, product design, process selection, job design and work measurement, production planning and control, Japanese manufacturing systems (JIT), theory of constraints, quality control.

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This course presents a study of the inherent characteristics of service organizations in the public and private sectors; the service package and service delivery system; service design and process selection; forecasting in services; location and layout of service firms; human resources management; capacity management and the quality challenge in services.

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The course provides a review of CPM and PERT models to cover cases with certain and uncertain activity times; project crashing and PERT/Cost analysis; GANTT charts and resource leveling decisions; use of simulation in connection with project scheduling; project control, revision and verification techniques; computer applications using commercial software.

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This course introduces the concepts, models, and solution tools that are needed in the design, control, and operation of supply chains. The discussion ranges from basic topics of inventory management, logistics network design, distribution systems, strategic alliances, buyer-supplier relationships, the value of information in the supply chain, utilizing readings, cases, and technical exercises.

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ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is an important tool utilized by organizations to streamline their operations, improve productivity and boost profits. This class focuses on the features, functions and benefits of the Oracle ERP e-Business Suite. In this course, ORACLE Inventory, ORACLE Purchasing and ORACLE Order Management modules will be covered. Students will get the opportunity to understand operations in an organization from ERP perspective, visualize improvements and efficiencies.

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Designed exclusively for the M312 student. Focuses both on the introduction of marketing concepts and managerial decision making regarding the marketing function. Strategic planning and the marketing management process; consumer and organizational markets; segmentation, targeting, positioning; product, pricing, distribution, and integrated marketing communications decisions; marketing control.

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The course builds on the basic knowledge of marketing and focuses on the design and management of the promotion mix, assumes an integrated marketing communications perspective and covers advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, direct marketing, publicity, and public relations. Cases, practical application assignments, and term projects are employed to emphasize applications.

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This course centers on the role of the consumer in the marketing process, enables the student to understand why certain marketing strategies are more effective than others, how humans behave in the marketplace, and which social and cognitive mechanisms the consumer brings to the purchasing decisions. Strong managerial, psychological, and personal implications; individual, social, and marketing determinants of consumption behavior are covered in the course.

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The course aims to develop in the student the capabilities of analyst, decision-maker, creative thinker, and planner in advertising and related fields of marketing communications by equipping them with teh knowledge and understanding of advertising theiry and practice.

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Continuation of BA 4715.

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This course provides a hands-on introduction to empirical methodology for market research applications. Problem formulation, research design, measure development, scaling techniques, attitude measurement, simple and applied multivariate analysis, report writing are topics covered. An extensive term project enables the student to put the course content into practice.

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The course introduces the student to the global marketing environment including the global economy, cultural forces, and the political and regulatory climate, explores how managers analyze global opportunities, buyer behavior, competitors, and marketing research, describes global marketing strategies, foreign market entry options, and the global implications of managing the marketing mix.

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Channels are the places where marketing thought, concepts and plans meet the realities of the commercial world. Channels are the places where ´action marketin´ happens and channels are the life bloods of the companies, markets and nations.
BA 5719 is designed to give a full exposure to the realms of channels within the scopes of marketing and business. The concepts, tools, techniques and real world practicalities of marketing channels will be exposed and studied in depth. Cases from Turkish business scene will be provided throughout the semester and the students will strongly be asked develop their own marketing decision making skills.

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The course is designed to be a hands-on introduction to selling and sales management. Speakers, films, role playing, group projects, and field trips are employed to enhance learning. The objective is to develop skills and abilities that allow the student to manage sales territories as their own business.

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This course aims to give the student an appreciation of the constant change and development in retailing. Introduces the student to basic qualitative and quantitative retail management concepts; provides the student with current examples of retailing concepts in action; improves the student`s skills in analyzing competitive situations and marketing opportunities.

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The course is designed to integrate and extend fundamental marketing concepts and apply them to business problems. Focus is on studying strategic issues relating to selection of business and segments in which to compete and how to spread resources across products and elements of the marketing mix. Case and simulation methodologies are employed.

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This course aims to provide the students with an in-depth understanding of the research process and its practical applications in the marketplace. The course highlights the technical and academic concepts underlying business research, while at the same time attempting to develop a keen understanding of when, why, and how to use marketing research for more effective managerial decision-making.

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The course provides a thorough understanding of branding processes in the 21st century.In the first part of the course, consumers and their behavior with regard to brands will be examined.Also,social role of barands as cultural ,ideological,and political objects are discussed in the class.In the second part of the course,managerial concepts such as brand equity, brand identity, brand types,corporate branding,brand extensions,and brands and innovations are covered.

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This module seeks to develop an interdiciplinary ,theoretically informed understanding through an active piece of primary research into consumer behaviour, consumer identities, and consumer experience.It aims to understand how consumers utulize consumption as a social process in their everyday lives.Various qualitative research methods are thought and conducted by students.

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Attributes of financial services; marketing environment of financial services; financial consumer; financial products; pricing of financial products and services; promotion and distribution of financial products and services; product development; market segmentation; customer satisfaction; regulatory environment; strategic marketing o financial products and services.

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This course provides students with the basis of strategy formulation and analytical approaches for creating and using websites, YouTube videos, social networks, search engines and other new e-media tools for marketing. The course is designed to get students to think like a digital marketing professional, and to give them experience with industry-relevant hands-on assignments and exercises. Course is focused on developing e-marketing strategies and applications - not technology development.

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This course provides both a theoretical foundation for social entrepreneurship and practical experience in designing a social venture. The course draws on a variety of disciplines, including marketing, management, and finance, to develop frameworks and techniques that are needed for social entrepreneurship. The goal is for students to have a socially relevant academic experience that inspires them to create economic and social value.

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This course provides an application of the concepts of micro economic analysis through the use of if its tools in the decision making process, using modeling to find solutions that advance the best interest of businesses and other types of organizations. Topics include demand and supply analysis, production analysis, analysis of market structures and pricing strategies.

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This course covers examination of special issues in finance incorporating advanced theory and practice with emphasis on investment and financing decisions of the firm. Special references are made to applications in Turkey.

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The course introduces the financial operations in business corporations and the related concepts like risk, rate of return, and valuation. Topics covered include Risk, Rates of Return, Time Value of Money, Bond and Stock Valuation, Cost of Capital, Basics of Capital Budgeting, Cash Flow Estimation, Capital Structure and Leverage, Investment Banking and Securities Market.

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FINANCIAL PLANNING AND CONTROL

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The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the area of investment with emphasis upon why individuals and institutions invest and how they invest. Topics include measures of risk and return; capital and money markets; process and techniques of investment valuation; principles of fundamental analysis; technical analysis; analysis and management of bonds; analysis of alternative investments; portfolio theory and application.

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This course mainly deals with the design and analysis of new investment projects. Project financing approaches; Leasing, Venture Capital and Build-Operate-and-Transfer are discussed in the context of Turkey.

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The first part of the course aims at introducing the student to foreign exchange markets, exchange rate determination theories, forecasting and international trade financing. A project on Turkey will be assigned. The second part of course deals with aspects of financial management for multinational corporations.

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The objective of the course is to provide the knowledge and the skills necessary to take full advantage of financial reports and analysis. Starting with an overview of financial accounting, the topics that will be covered include financial statements, ratio
analysis, comparative analysis and the management of operating funds.

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Analysis of financial intermediation and the determination of interest rates are the main topics covered. Businesses, consumers, and governments in money and capital markets are observed with emphasis on financial instruments. International financial markets are discussed. The purposes and functions of central banking are studied with primary attention to monetary policy.

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Basic asset, liability, and capital management are discussed. Topics include primary lending functions, pricing techniques, risk management, and bank organization. Familiarization with international banking is provided.

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This course is designed to provide a solid foundation in the principles of derivatives. It attempts to strike a balance between institutional details, theoretical foundations, and practical applications. Parallel to the already increasing attempts to integrate derivative securities and markets into the Turkish financial system, it is believed that this course will fill a gap in that the students will be exposed to a rather comprehensive coverage of theory and application in the derivatives area.

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The course analyzes structure, conduct and performance in imperfectly competitive markets. It considers strategic interaction between firms, and provides understanding of competition within and for the market place. Topics include monopoly, price discrimination, product selection, oligopoly, price competition, collusion, entry deterrence, reputation, limit pricing, and predation.

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Fixed income securities are an important part of portfolios held by individual and institutional investors around the world. In countries like Turkey, where the stock market is fairly new and highly risky, and treasury securities offer very high real returns, investments in fixed income securities become even more important. Fixed income securities have characteristics that are quite different from equity investments. Therefore, investments in these securities are governed by completely different principles. Furthermore, there are wide varieties of fixed income securities with quite complex cash flow structures in developed markets. Therefore, the objectives of this course are to:
* provide a review of different types of fixed income securities available in Turkish and international markets and their characteristics
* introduce interest rate models and their usage in valuation of complex cash flow streams of fixed income securities, and
* present professional fixed income portfolio management and evaluation of portfolio performance

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The course is designed to give detailed knowledge about trading with emphasis on export. It also includes project financing techniques and their applications. The course will help those
seeking entrance into this most interesting field of finance by exploring problems that they
may face in dealing in international trade and finance transactions on a daily basis. The
course will be dealing with these subjects in the context of emerging markets rather than in
the context of developed markets.

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This course focuses on valuation of real and financial assets. The valuation methods covered are discounted cash flow approaches, multiples and real options. Students will learn how to calculate value for various asset types and how to choose the appropriate method of valuation.

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This course is designed to deal with some special topics in finance. The purpose of the course is to extend knowledge of students beyond basic finance topics and increase awareness of students on some key issues of finance. The topics covered include short term financial planning, leasing, mergers and acquisitions, international finance and derivative securities.

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The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the lower end Small and Medium Enterprises, the Small Enterprises (SE) segment in the overall Turkish economy. The SE business will be analyzed according to regions, sectors, capacities, exports and financing needs. Special focus will be given on various lending technologies for SE financing, their applications in Turkey and in the world. The cash flow based credit analysis, scoring techniques and use of non-traditional collateral will be discussed in detail.

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This course will provide an overview and analysis of the current issues in capital markets. We will examine the evolving structure and role of capital markets and institutions in the development of economy. Attention will be given to Turkish capital markets in the context of intense global competition. Increased capital mobility and global harmonization. The various evolving concepts in capital markets will be analyzed.

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The aim of this course is to give the students a broad overvievw of both the basic principles and the practical implementation of central banking as well as functioning of the financial markets in an attempt to better understand how central bank operations affect financial institutions and the monetary policy transmisision mechanism.

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In the 20th century, modern corporations became one of the world`s dominant institutions. Consequently, the way they do business is now under close scrutiny. The relationship between ownership structure, performance and the demands of society requires that companies exercise a high degree of diligence in their governance.

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This course aims to give a substantive overview of microfinance and how microfinance institutions operate, measuring their efficiency as well as situation in Turkey and growth potential. In addition to that this course underlines how an inclusive financial system increases the depth of financial system overall.

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Introduction to real estate markets and financing alternatives for real estate investments. Topics on residential and commercial real estate and alternative ways of investing in real estate. Performance of real estate investments and their effect on the portfolios of investors.

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This course aims to analyze how financial markets and financial institutions, financial system as a whole, affect the macro economy. We briefly discuss the macroeconomic theories, and the risks to the macro economy due to the structure of financial systems. Moreover, the causes and effects of international financial crises, especially the banking crises and asset bubbles, will be examined throughout the course. The course intends to focus on not only the theories but also the empirics of the subjects that will be argued, with special emphasis on the different country examples.

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Developing and understanding of banking and financial intermediaries, and their workings; explanations of why banks and other financial intermediaries are special and descriptions of the various types of financial intermediaries in the economy; examination of the role of financial intermediaries in the real economy.

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Developing and understanding of key issues in international financial integration; discussion of determinants, measures, benefits and costs of financial integration; discussion of impacts of financial integration on investment and external financing; assessing the link between financial integration and economic growth in different economies with focus not only on the theories but also the empirics of the subjects.

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This course provides a firm foundation on project finance, which is a product of financial engineering to raise long-term financing for large capital intensive projects. This recently and rapidly developed technique has become common throughout the world during the last couple of decades in the face of enormous infrastructure needs of both developed and developing countries. Project finance has the potential of offering distinct advantages over corporate finance in certain cases especially for large and risky projects, and this potential makes it particularly interesting. However, it has also its own complexities, which need to be managed properly in each stage of a deal if this potential is to be realized.

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During the summer of the first year, the students are required to replicate a recent research study in their field of interest under the supervision of their advisor. While replicating a research, the students are required to critically analyze the motivation, methodology and the results of the study.

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Decision making is one of the fundamental processes of human cognition system. It practically lies in the heart of every human activity ranging from the most basic survival activities in the environment to the highly sophisticated activities of strategic planning and tactics formation. This course is intended for PhD-level and aims to convey the core concepts and theories related with the scientific approach to judgement and decision making, incorporating the interdisciplinary inquiry received from the multitude of areas including psychology, business administration, statistics and economics. Topics to be covered include rationality & managerial decision making, dual-system theory, bounded rationality, fast-frugal heuristics, heuristics and biases, social judgement theory, prospect theory, subjective probabilities, the perception of risk and group decision making processes.

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This PhD course aims to provide a fundamental understanding on the design and analysis of experiments which constitute one of the core methods of investigation in decision sciences. Topics that will be covered include analysis of variance, non-parametric analysis, randomized complete block designs, Latin square designs, Latin squares designs, balanced incomplete block designs, factorial experiments, two-level factorial designs, blocking&confounding, and two-level fractional factorial designs.

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The aim of the course is to introduce the students to prevailing schools of thought in accounting theory. Specifıcally, the historical development of accounting theory will be covered with special emphasis on current development. The course is organized around three main topics: normative and positive accounting theories; financial reporting disclosures and ethical considerations; and income determination.

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The course covers main research areas in accounting utilizing an extensive list of readings starting with earlier research and ending with very recent research in accounting. The areas covered include, but are not limited to, capital market research, behavioral research in accounting, analytical research in accounting, and other empirical research in accounting and related areas. The students are expected develop skills pertaining to how research work should be evaluated critically.

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This course is a continuation of BA 6402 Topics in Accounting Research I. It is aimed to bring the students up-to-date by covering the latest research agenda in the area of accounting.

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The course covers the research that addresses the common problems in accounting and finance. Articles that investigate issues such as stock market reaction to announcements, capital structure of firms and financial analysis are some of the topics that are discussed. The aim of the course is to broaden the research prospective of the students.

Course Content

This course will cover the following topics: Simple Linear Regression, Introduction to Multiple Regression, Multiple Regression Model Building, Heteroscedasticity and Autocorrelation, Dummy Variables and Truncated Variables, Nonlinear Regressions, Simultaneous Equation Models, MLE, GMM. The instruction will be based on applied work in business with extensive use of a statistical software package- i.e. SPSS, MINITAB

Course Content

This course will cover Multivariate data, Multivariate normal distribution, Multivariate ANOVA, MANCOVA, Repeated measures MANOVA, Multivariate regression, Principal Components, Factor Analysis, Canonical Correlation Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling. Students will be required to understand the use of and apply the techniques in finance and accounting using a relevant statistical software- i.e. SPSS, MINITAB

Course Content

This course will cover the following materials in two parts, with an applied emphasis in finance and accounting. TIME SERIES: Data handling, Univariate time series, VARs and VECMs, Structural VAR modeling and Impulse Response Analysis, forecast error variance decomposition, Conditional Heteroscedasticity; PANEL DATA: One-way error component: fixed effects, random effects, Two-way error component: fixed effects, random effects, SUR, Nonstationary Panels: panel unit root, panel co-integration, estimation and inference in integrated panels. A statistical software package will be extensively used- i.e. Eviews, Microfit, RATS & CATS

Course Content

The aim of the course is to introduce the students to the literature on financial theory. Utility theory, state-preference theory, mean-variance portfolio theory, the capital asset pricing model and arbitrage pricing model, option pricing theory, and MM theorems are analyzed both conceptually and empirically.

Course Content

The course covers main research areas in finance utilizing a wide range of papers. These areas include (but are not limited to) information content of corporate announcements, market microstructure, statistical properties of asset returns, unconditional tests of asset pricing models (CAPM, APT), conditional tests of asset pricing models, efficient markets hypothesis and anomalies, behavioral finance, mutual fund and fund flows, and international finance. The students are expected to develop skills pertaining to how research work should be conducted and should be evaluated critically.

Course Content

This course is a doctoral seminar that covers the major theories and empirical studies that have been developed in the area of financial institutions.

Course Content

The course covers the research that addresses the common problems in accounting and finance. Articles that investigate issues such as stock market reaction to announcements, capital structure of firms and financial analysis are some of the topics that are discussed. The aim of the course is to broaden the research prospective of the students.

Course Content

The course covers the research that addresses the common problems in accounting and finance. Articles that investigate issues such as stock market reaction to announcements, capital structure of firms and financial analysis are some of the topics that are discussed in this class. The aim of the course is to broaden the research prospective of the students.

Course Content

The course will cover topics relevant to the program such as consumer choice, demand, expected utility, production, models of the firm, partial equilibrium, general equilibrium, perfect competition, imperfect competition, and strategy.