For most of the competitions, teams will be expected to produce at least one substantial memorial, produced progressively over a minimum of 3 coach-vetted drafts; in some competitions, there are national/regional qualification rounds for the oral rounds. After the memorials have been submitted, teams will undergo 25–50 practice rounds.
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
• Understand the importance of equal access to justice and some of the common issues faced by both individuals with legal or justiciable problems and the organisations that assist them.
• Evaluate and compare practices and solutions from other jurisdictions or service industries to generate new ideas for improving access to legal services or justice in Singapore.
• Solve specific real-world access to justice problems through iterative design, prototyping and testing of digital applications in a collaborative team setting.
Students will develop policy recommendations in one of two areas that Lalamove can reference in its future discussion/interaction with regulators. One area consists of three thematic pillars that characterize platform work: inclusion, accessibility, and economy. The second area concerns input for government policies on insurance, CPF, and representation.
Specifically, the course has aims to provide students with:
• Opportunities to work with community partners and experts to understand the problems faced by vulnerable groups
• Apply their social science education to resolving real-life problems
• Have an opportunity to make a positive impact in the context of Singapore
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
• Understand the complex issues surrounding the experiences of migrant workers in Singapore
• Conduct a document analysis and key informant interviews in making sense of a particular
social problem.
• Reflect on how one’s social location shapes personal perspectives on particular social issues
• Present research findings to peers and partner client
- All School of Accountancy courses are designed to meet certain learning goals and objectives. Some learning goals are addressed at course level, some at program level. This course specifically contributes to the development of the following course level learning goals:
- Our students can recognize, develop, measure, record, validate and communicate financial and other related information.
- Our students can analyze, synthesize and evaluate financial and other related information for decision making in a management context.
- Our students understand and can apply business concepts and principles.
- Our students can communicate effectively in a business context.
- Our students understand the principles of leadership and team building in a business context.
- Our students can recognize and incorporate ethical and social responsibility considerations in decision making.
- Students are expected to demonstrate the following technical abilities upon completion:
- Understand and able to choose among different incorporation options available to entrepreneurs, in particular the incentives, income tax and corporate tax implications in Singapore.
- Understand the general terms on financial statements without going through detail double entries and to apply them to real businesses.
- Compute simple ratios and make inferences based on reasonable examination of financial statements, which are critical for business and funding purposes.
- Understand and be able to manage critical factors which include short and long-term financialplanning, pricing of products, and managerial planning and control systems for small businesses as well as new start-ups.
- Understand the increasing relevance of recent trends, such as: sustainability accounting; and how it affects the bottom line for entrepreneurs.
- Appreciate the importance of having good business ethic.
- In addition, learning outcomes should be beyond just technical proficiencies. In particular, this course seeks to develop certain skills and attributes.
- Analytical: Analytical skills will be developed through various problem solving and case analyses. The course will provide the tools for students to use and analyse accounting data, financial reports and information to make informed decisions.
- Communication: Students will be required to actively participate in the class discussions and through written report and discussion of the company analysis project.
- Team work: Team projects, discussions and presentations will be important elements of the course. All students will be required to work in teams. They are expected to work as partners and share the work load.
- Active learning: Students will be expected to venture beyond prescribed readings and text. The company analysis project will allow students to take an active role in their understanding of how the end products of an accounting system serve information need of users.
- Professional ethics: Ethical issues are discussed and cases will be reviewed. This introductory course provides the opportunity to emphasize the needs for the highest ethical behaviour for corporate executives and corporations.
By the end of this course, students will learn to:
- Cleanse and prepare data to be in a form adequate for machine learning.
- Outline the steps involved in developing and consuming a machine learning model.
- Develop adequate machine learning models to meet different business objectives.
- Tune the performance of machine learning models.
- Create visualizations to consume the output from machine learning models.
This course aims to help students:
- Understand the key theories and strategies in Monetary Policy and Financial Markets Management, especially from the Central Bank's point of view.
- Solve real-world problems to a project partner (related to Monetary Policy or Financial Markets) and learn how to work in a project group. • Gain insight into financial markets as well as the business environment and culture in Vietnam through mini cultural activities and Vietnam theme presentations.
- Develop potential networking, and other life skills through the study mission (if travel allowed) and by interacting with business leaders in Vietnam (through guest speaker sessions).
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
• Explain and examine the idea generation processes involved in new product development.
• Create and evaluate new ideas that tap into market opportunities.
• Create, analyse, and evaluate the financial potential and risk of their ideas.
• Develop a flair for effectively presenting their ideas.
Upon finishing the course, a student will be able to:
- Familiarize students with software design and systems thinking skills and instill an appreciation for the value of software architecture.
- Design the architecture for an end-to-end IT Solution.
- Understand and implement architectural styles and design patterns for software systems.
- Use standard practices in documenting system architectures using views and perspectives.
- Impact analysis to understand the implications of design choices.
