This course provides a fundamental knowledge of business, particularly at the developed levels of business activity and human capital management. It aims to understand and assimilate the various legal institutions related to the company, and familiarize students with the concepts of social law, including labor law and social security law. It also teaches how to understand legal texts related to the establishment, and the operation and extinction of different types of businesses.

This course is designed to upgrade student proficiency in the English language. It offers guidance in critical reading and instructions in writing to develop clear, well­organized prose. It emphasizes the writing process with an introduction to rhetorical strategies, such as: compare and contrast, cause and effect, and argumentation, through the integration of the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing).

This course provides the basics needed by students to progress in their specialty courses. Topics covered include: function of a real variable, elementary functions, Taylor's expansion, simple integral and methods of integration, differential equations, multivariable functions, continuity, partial derivative, the chain rule, differential, introduction to double integrals, methods of integration, Matrix calculus, determinants, and linear systems.

This course introduces the basics of the integration of information technology and networking in professional life. Subjects treated include: application software; system software; system unit; Excel Spreadsheets; HTML language; physical architecture of a network; Internet; Internet services; Internet protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP et POP );  the IPV4 addressing classes. Applications.

This course gives an insight into macroeconomics, portraying the economy as a whole. It is by developing an understanding of fundamental economic terminology, and concepts and principles that we are able to interpret economic changes and their impact on a country’s situation.

This course prepares students for the practical use of probability and statistics in the biomedical field (agronomy, chemistry, biochemistry, nutrition, medicine, etc.). Topics: Elements of descriptive statistics, population, statistical unit, frequency distribution characteristic of central tendency and dispersion. Notions of probability and combinatorics, conditional probability and Bayes' formula, applications, discrete and continuous random variables, expectation and moments, weak law of large numbers, empirical frequencies and probabilities customary laws (Binomial, Multinomial, Poisson, Normal ) and asymptotic behavior, law of large numbers, sampling and estimation, introduction to the use of hypothesis tests, Chi­2 contingency table.

Generating a business plan needs a methodological approach that provides students with a road map to follow to create new business ideas or develop existing ones. As most of businesses seek financial sources, it helps students and future entrepreneurs to introduce potential investors to business opportunities.

The study of communication theory and its application to business is the main focus of this course. Emphasis is placed on composing basic forms of business communication, including correspondence and reports. Attention is also given to the ethical objectives of communicating in the managerial environment.

The course explains the principles of general accounting and related applications; explain how to record business transactions, and allow students to read and understand financial statements.

The course explains in detail the main components of a balance sheet and explains the nature, classification, and treatment of accounting for long term assets, current assets, liabilities and stockholders’ equity. The main objective of the course is to provide students with a general knowledge of the preparation of the financial statements, in addition to the analysis of the financial figures with the key ratios and comments, and the preparation of the company’s cash flow.

The evaluation of the health of a business is an essential component of financial analysis. Shareholders, creditors, and managers are questioning the value establishment by the company. Techniques and appropriate methods help them to form their opinion. Consequently, the content of this course follows an approach that is based on the annual accounts, including the study of the income statement, the study of time record, plus the study of changes in positions between two periods.

Financial management includes all the activities of an organization aimed at planning and controlling the use of cash (money) and assets (property) that are owned by the company to achieve its strategy.

This course provides students with the basic principles and theories of human resource management. It expands on the five functions of human resources management: staffing, training and development, safety and health, compensation and benefits, and employee labor relations. This course is the foundation for students majoring in human resource and the course material is translated into practice through relevant discussions of the topic at hand and an analysis of cases, thus requiring a logical integration of learning to the business context. Lectures are used to introduce the key concepts and theories, and articles and cases provide an opportunity to clarify and reinforce students’ understanding of the subject.

This course will provide students with knowledge on the funding problems, discount, financial amortization, and bonds, through concrete cases.

This course gives students an insight into microeconomics, which is a key component to designing and understanding public policy and is an essential tool for managerial decision­-making, while offering an understanding of the operation of modern economy.

An introductory course explaining the definition of management as a set of activities, including: planning and decision making, organizing, leading, and controlling, directed at an organization’s resources, including the human, financial, physical, and informational, with the aim of achieving organizational goals in an efficient and effective manner.

This course is designed to help the students learn about and apply the basic concepts and practices of modern marketing as they are used in a variety of settings. It is intended for business students who wish to become the decision makers of tomorrow at the middle or upper levels of management since it gives students a comprehensive and innovative managerial and practical introduction to marketing.

Business quantitative methods help students understand the business world better, search for variables, in order to translate them into mathematical models to help solve them. These methods are used to assist managers in decisions making by performing provisions such as sales, sales turnover, and benefits in an uncertain world as well as helping in testing and assessing decisions with respect to the organization’s performance. Furthermore, this course considers linear programming techniques and analyzing decisions in uncertain conditions, as well as helping managers maximize short-term and long-term company profit. This course has a pre­requisite course probability and statistics for engineers. By the end of the course students should have knowledge of Excel and SPSS.

This course aims at expanding knowledge in economics with an emphasis on accounting, financial intermediaries, banking and their public policies.

The main aim of this course is to initiate students to the methods and techniques of Business Valuation; underlining strongly the fact that the business valuation practice is a half ­ art and half­ science practice. The whole is presented within a context where we can discuss the theoretical implication of a firm’s value of different valuation methods, illustrated by case studies aiming at showing students (future managers) what the concepts of business valuation mean in practice, and initiating them to practicing the techniques and the negotiation processes.

The course will focus on the problems facing a financial manager in any business. In particular, students will examine how to obtain adequate funds to allow a firm to operate, and how to decide on the optimal allocation of funds obtained by the firm. To obtain funds, the financial manager must participate in markets for debt and equity securities. Thus, there will be discussions on how these markets work and how they can be most efficiently used by the firm. In allocating funds, students will learn how to assess the economic benefits of long‐lived projects and how to make optimal choices between projects. Students will also spend time developing basic financial tools that will assist them in the decision‐making process.

This course focuses on key principles of technical analysis necessary to make successful investment decisions. Individual investors and traders are increasingly recognizing the importance of technical analysis in decision making. With the advancement of the technical analysis profession, many sophisticated techniques have also developed. This course, which revolves around price analysis, will provide students the basic knowledge to read charts and identify specific patterns and shapes. This includes how to identify the right price to enter and exit the financial markets to maximize profits in several asset classes (FX, equities, bonds, futures, commodities, ETF, etc.).

The Financial Engineering course allows the students to understand the main derivative products traded on financial markets (futures, forward contracts, options and swaps), as well as their use for hedging, speculation and arbitrage. They also acquire practical knowledge on the mechanics of organized markets and learn how to price a derivative: forward price calculation, premium calculation, P&L calculation, NPV calculation.

This course enables students to understand the concepts, terminology, instruments, and investment strategies when dealing with money. This includes the introduction of the broad and closely related areas of financial markets and investments, including the various tools used to determine the value of different investment vehicles. The risk inherited with investing as well as the risk return trade­off will be considered. Accordingly, the principles of modern portfolio management, including diversification, will be addressed. Particularly, common stocks will be analyzed and valued using multiple valuation techniques. Within the context of fixed income valuation, the concept of bond duration and the yield curve will be examined. Financial derivatives, including options and futures, will also be considered as a hedging tool in the overall investment strategy. Practical application will be emphasized throughout the course using Thomson Reuters Eikon.

This course provides a conceptual framework that can be used to understand how recent events have affected the financial environment. Each type of financial market is described with a focus on its utilization by financial institutions, its internationalization, and recent events that have affected it. It will also cover the different economic causes and risk factors of the foreign exchange for enterprises, financial institutions, and households.

This course allows the participants to obtain an understanding of the concepts, methodologies and tools of the tax system. It will enable them to gain a sufficient knowledge of the government financial organization and an overview of the public economic sector.

Advertising is an “ideas” industry, which allows marketers and brand custodians to create, position, or reposition their brands. It is a considerable part of most of modern companies, corporations, and brands, being the most visible and immediate point of communication between them and their customers / audiences. Advertising is also a business, but not any kind of business. It is a business full of excitement, fascination, and fun. Today, it constitutes a respected, strategic, and profitable industry. This course is designed to introduce students to advertising, while aiming to provide a firm grounding in its fundamentals. It will expose the links between media, society, advertising, and business. It will thoroughly investigate the foundations of advertising and check the media planning process in action, based on true business / media / communication problematic. The course will also explore the business aspects of advertising through a global industry overview, and business transactions of organizations, with illustrations of advertisers and advertising agencies. Finally, the course will focus on market realities in order to allow the students to have a practical link with business life and bridge the gap between the theoretical aspect and the professional side of advertising.

This course is intended to explain the role of the management accountant in an organization and to illustrate the different methods of costs and revenue calculation, in addition to the budget preparation and the analysis of variances.

This course is dedicated to exploring the characteristics of bases to enable students to design a database and use these characteristics to solve common business problems. Students also will learn how to design database components (tables, forms, queries, reports and macros) by using Microsoft Access as a t tool. In addition, they will acquire the skills to create and maintain database information, including sorting, indexing, and relating tables. Students will think about data input and retrieval, and how it is displayed and manipulated in order to create a useful, efficient, and coherent design. Since this is an application oriented course, no access programming code is expected from the students.

This course provides a basic understanding of e­Business, mainly over the internet. It introduces the types of e­Business and its various revenue models, and the driving technologies, as well as the driving sociocultural environmental aspects behind the increase demand of e­Business. to the course gives students a good foundation in understanding the potential of e­Business without neglecting the challenges it faces. Both technical and strategic aspects of e­Business are discussed.

This course explains all the procedures and recommendations that provide the safeguarding of assets, reliability and integrity of financial and operational information, and the effectiveness and efficiency of operations designed to improve the performance of an organization. The course allows the participants to obtain an understanding of the concepts, methodologies and tools of internal auditing, to understand the role of internal auditing in identification and evaluation of risks and in improving governance processes of organizations.

Organizational behavior is the study of actions and attitudes that people exhibit within the organization and their impact on the organization. The effective design and management of organizations require the thoughtful application of knowledge concerning the behavior of people at work

Price is the most sensitive marketing element in the supplier­ customer relationship. It has an immediate and direct effect on a company’s bottom line, and it’s perceived by the customer as a signal of the value of a product offering, thus strongly influencing his/her purchase decisions. The course will introduce the participants to various strategies and steps that are used by companies for pricing their offerings. The notion that “price equals perceived value” is the basis of this course. The process of establishing price and value, and the importance of communication under different product and market conditions, are presented in detail. The framework of the course will follow the concept of the “Pricing Pyramid”. Practical examples, through real time case studies, will be employed to assist participants in a deeper understanding of the strategies behind pricing decisions.

This course focuses on recognizing a business opportunity, starting or acquiring a business based on the recognized opportunity, and operating that business. Entrepreneurship is necessary not only for students who will become entrepreneurs, but also for individuals working in the increasingly competitive corporate world.

Transport involves the physical movement of products between the providers and the receivers. It is a critical activity, performed, at most stages, in the supply chain process. In pure financial terms it is the second largest element, next to storage, in total distribution costs. Transportation also represents the physical operation's interface with the customer and is often classed as the "ambassadorial" activity of the supply chain. The primary objective of transportation is to deliver the right goods, to the right place, at the right time, in the right condition at the minimum cost.

This course is a guide to the law of the carriage of goods by land, sea and air. Furthermore, it examines in detail the international conventions applicable in this field and the standard conditions of carriage in use in the industry. It gives a clear vision of the number of functions which need to be carried out, of the documents used in international transport and of the parties involved in the trade.

This business English language course is a workshop course, which includes mostly task­based activities, along with theory sessions, team and individual research projects, role playing, questionnaires, team building experiences and team oral presentations. The course teaches practical skills and the rules of conduct needed within the business environment wherein English is spoken.