Integrated Diploma in Business Administration

Course details

The Integrated Diploma in Business Administration is a comprehensive diploma course. Starting off with the study, writing and research skills, the main emphasis of the course is to offer a balanced academic and practical approach to fundamental business concepts and applications. It covers the essential subject areas including management, marketing, finance, and human resource management.

Learning Outcomes

• Acquire study and research skills necessary to benefit from higher education
• Understand the theory and practice of specific functional management areas
• Understand how to plan more effectively, solve organizational problems and contribute towards making management decisions
• Apply specific functional management skills to increase the productivity and business efficiency in their areas of responsibility
• On completion of the Integrated Diploma course, students will be awarded a Shelton Integrated Diploma in Business Administration and can proceed to pursue their Shelton Advanced Diploma in Business Administration programme.

Aims

The Integrated Diploma in Business Administration offers a thorough and balanced approach to learning fundamental business concepts and application and covers a range of learning from the basic study and research skills up to the essential subject areas including management, marketing, finance and human resource. Lectures, group discussions and activities used throughout the course provide opportunities for inpiduals to apply their learning and develop their skills, and business knowledge and competencies.

At the end of this program, students will be able to:

• acquire study and research skills necessary to benefit from higher education
• understand the theory and practice of specific functional management areas
• understand how to plan more effectively, solve organizational problems and contribute towards making management decisions
• apply specific functional management skills to increase the productivity and business efficiency in their areas of responsibility

Module Synopses

Effective Study Skills

The module aims to provide students with the fundamental learning skills necessary to derive maximum benefit from their Higher Education studies..  As such, it will also increase the students’ independent learning abilities and good study habits.

Writing and Research Skills

This module will have two parts:

a.Writing Skills: to provide students with the fundamental skills of writing for their academic work. It will help students to formulate their ideas and thoughts into writing. Students will develop the ability to write creatively, format their work for different platforms and learn how to plan and structure their writing. The course will help students to connect ideas with writing and increase students’ ability to perform independently.

b.Research Skills: to provide students with the basic research skills needed for higher education study. These include how to find and select the most relevant information from source materials; understanding the concepts of qualitative and quantitative research; avoiding plagiarism and learning how to reference using the Harvard referencing style.

Communication Skills

This module aims to equip students with the communication skills necessary to gain maximum benefit from their higher education studies and to operate effectively as employees and managers in an organization.

Business Studies 

This module aims:

• To introduce the nature and purpose of business and the various forms of business enterprise and trade activities.
• To introduce students to the main functional areas of business and to develop an awareness of what is involved in studying business at the higher education level.

Principles of Accounts

This module is designed to provide students with an introduction to accounting and in particular it aims:

• To introduce the basic principles of financial accounting and their application.
• To acquire knowledge and techniques that will assist students in the performance of financial accountancy functions in industry and commerce
• To enable students to interpret and report upon the information obtained from the use of Financial Statements.

Quantitative Methods

To ensure that students have the basic numeracy skills to facilitate studying at the Higher Education level, particularly in areas such as business management and tourism.

Information Management

This module enables students to recognize the need for managers to be able to gather, analyze, record, store and disseminate information as part of the management function. The focus of the module is not on information systems but on the processes. It develops the skills and techniques involved in managing information, and students will learn to manage information for an informed decision-making. 

Accounting for Management Decision Making

In this module students will :

• Learn about managing finance within the business environment
• Learn about the management of working capital in the business, budgetary control and costing techniques.
• Apply some statistical techniques for the purpose of financial analysis.

Principles of Economics

This module is designed to enable students to:

• Acquire an understanding of the theoretical framework of accounting and the principles underlying accounting statements
• Prepare and present financial statements for sole proprietorship, partnership business and companies
• Prepare books of accounts
• Evaluate the performance and financial position of organizations from their financial statements.

Business Management

This module is designed to provide the students with the knowledge of the functions of management, management theories, the organizational environment, concepts of leadership, motivation, human resources, and innovation.

Quantitative Techniques in Business

This module is designed to enable students:

• To achieve an overall understanding of how and why statistics and mathematics are used in economic and business decision.
• Demonstrate the ability to collect, present, analyze and interpret quantitative data using statistical techniques.

Human Resource Management

This module provides an introduction to the concepts and practices of Human Resource Management. It aims at providing an understanding of the personnel function of management through the consideration of systems and frameworks, which create and sustain the employment relationship within the organisation.

Fundamentals of Marketing

The aim of this module is to investigate the principles that underpin the marketing process and how these apply in business. It is a broad-based unit providing a general overview of marketing for all students and a foundation for further study in the specialist area of marketing.

Financial Accounting 

This module is designed to enable students to:

• Acquire an understanding for the theoretical framework of acccounting and the principles underlying accounting statements
• Prepare and present financial statements for sole proprietorship, partnership business and companies
• Prepare books of accounts
• Evaluate the performance and financial position of organizations from their financial statements