LEARNING OBJECTIVES This SMU-X course offers an experiential learning opportunity that allows students to translate classroom knowledge and theory into practical solutions for real organizations. Through this student consultancy project, students learn how to solve complex business problems with guidance from the faculty and project sponsor mentors, from problem definition to final client presentation – while simultaneously testing their skills in real world settings. The course will focus on examining accounting function and applying data-driven analytics and insights so as to identify and create accounting delivery efficiencies.
This course contributes to the development of the following learning goals:
LO2.1 Our students understand and can apply business concepts and principles.
LO2.2 Our students can communicate effectively in a business context.
LO2.3 Our students understand the principles of leadership and team building in a business context.
The course aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Real-world problem solving through student consultancy project
- Apply classroom learning and research to real-world challenges in order to envision solutions for an intelligent accounting function
- Understand the changing role of finance function
- Understand how to simplify, streamline and harmonize essential finance processes to create a leaner, more efficient finance function
- Learn how to use a data visualization tool
- Experiential and peer-learning
- Active mentoring by faculty and project sponsors
- Learn how to handle uncertainty in a project
LO1.1: Our students can recognize, develop, measure, record, validate and communicate financial and other related information.
LO1.2: Our students can analyze, synthesize and evaluate financial and other related information for decision making in a management context.
At the end of the course, participants are expected to:
- Develop a better understanding of the Hong Kong & China economy, key industries (especially technology related, financial and banking sectors, capital market, and regulatory and tax regime
- Gain an insight into business and investment opportunities in Indonesia
- Solve real world business problems through a student consultancy project
- Learn how to handle uncertainty in project groups.
- Develop networking, and other life skills by interacting with business leader
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