This course contributes to the development of the following 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 concepts relating to business processes, audit and assurance.
- 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 understand and can apply the ethical principles relevant to accounting professionals.
Students are expected to demonstrate the following technical accounting competencies upon successful completion of this course:
1. Identify the relevant flows of transactions (processes) and the relevant IT environments.
2. Understanding IT Environment, IT controls and testing the IT controls.
3. Testing General IT Controls ("GITC") and testing approach of such controls.
4. Understanding concept of segregation of duties and functioning of interfaces between application systems.
5. Documentation of reports and process/procedure on handling exceptions.
6. Technology Regulations and its assessment procedures.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
• Identify customer and beneficiary needs through prototyping
• Develop mock prototypes of their new processes, products or services
• Understand who are “lead users” or “early-evangelist” for the new idea
• Develop networking strategy to reach “lead users” or “early-evangelist” consumers
• Develop simultaneous trials to get feedback from “lead users” or “early-evangelist” consumers
• Understand the drivers of roles and incentives for a new business team
• Understand how to outline a business model for a new idea
• Present their market-validated new business idea to internal champions, investors and industry experts
At the end of the course, participants are expected to:
- Develop a better understanding of the Indonesia 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 leaders
The purpose of this course is to provide participants with a sound foundation of internal concepts, principles and practices. It provides an overview of internal audit in the context of governance, risk management and business practices. Professional promulgations by the Institute of Internal Auditors serve as the foundational references for the course. These include the attributes of internal audit, planning, execution and reporting. More importantly, the course will deepen students' understanding and appreciation of internal audit with real world industry illustrations and sharing of professional internal audit engagements.
At the completion of this course, students are expected to be able to:
- Relate internal audit to corporate governance and risk management.
- Understand the concepts and principles of internal audit.
- Apply techniques to capture and analyse the external and internal environments of an organization.
- Perform risk based internal audit engagement in relation to planning, execution and reporting.
- Understand the professional ethics and relevant skills required in internal audit.
This course contributes to the development of the following learning goals:
- LO1.1 Our students can recognize, develop, measure, record, validate and communicate
financial and other related information
- LO1.2 Our students can analyse, synthesise and evaluate financial and other related
information for decision making in a management context.
- LO1.3 Our students understand and can apply concepts relating to business processes,
audit and assurance.
- LO2.2 Our students can communicate effectively in a business context.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
• Describe basic societal concepts and frameworks on sustainability and be able to guide a corporate’s
sustainability-based product and/or service design with these frameworks.
• Conduct a strategic and/or market assessment for a specific product, including the manner of
orientation (towards sustainability) of selected consumer markets (including overseas ones). This may
include conducting qualitative and secondary research on potential customers.
• Identify and solve a problem of how corporations can become more sustainable by innovating to meet
consumer needs. Specifically, design a value proposition via design thinking for a selected customer
segment, including the devising of a strategy to improve the product’s acceptance by the firm’s
potential customers and its broader market.
By the end of this course, students will learn to:
- Assess the current state of the business related to:
- Engage, sell and serve the company’s target audience.
- The company’s digital readiness
- The business problem and/or opportunities from the current business environment, including uncovering new and untapped markets by developing digital business assessment tools
- Find out how digital transformation has or will impact the related industry and business
- Uncover insights on the company’s current and new customers
- Analyze and identify the right digital business transformation strategies that the company can adopt to compete and win over time
- Gain regional business experience, cross cultural understanding, networking and communication skills.
By the end of this course, students will be able to do the following:
Leadership:
• Appreciate the value of experience and action-based learning that integrates understanding of major leadership paradigms and leadership theories from an inter-disciplinary perspective
• Engage analytical, problem-solving & reasoning skills to critically appraise various theories and perspectives of leadership
• Apply the various leadership traits and behavior as well as different leadership style such as charismatic & transformational leadership, principles of stewardship & servant leadership, collaborative, authentic leadership and other such recent leadership approaches in a VUCA world
• Appreciate being open-minded & sensitive to individual differences and embrace uncertainties
• Understand how leaders can set or influence the ethical tone by applying Kohlberg’s model of moral development
• Learn more about leadership through their group project work, class activities, readings, etc.
Teams and Groups:
• Understand major theories and perspectives of group dynamics and group leadership
• Learn more about teamwork processes through working on a real-life group project with an industry or community partner
• Throughout the group project students will learn to collaborate and employ innovative skills in using their expertise, knowledge to contribute to the needs of the partnering industry or community based organization
• Understand different methods of communication and appreciate how to effectively communicate and manage conflict, if any, and learn to overcome challenges within their respective group as well as with their respective external stakeholders
• Develop a detailed work schedule and strategies among teams, and understand how to form, lead and manage work teams
• Acquire some level of resilience through self-directed and group-directed learning that includes embracing uncertainties, overcoming challenges, etc.
Academic and Professional Capabilities:
• Understand and gain qualitative fieldwork skills such as how to conduct interviews and carry out a needs analysis or survey in an ethical manner
• Formalizing report writing with integrity and honesty
The overall objective of this module is to equip students with core knowledge of appreciating what it takes to plan, design, build and sustain (mega) cities that are innovative and sustainable and to know the challenges of successfully ‘selling’ new smart city concepts amidst increasing competition in this field.
By the end of this course, students will be able to appreciate the following 4 areas:
Taxonomy of Innovative & Sustainable Cities
• Describe the core characteristics of a Smart City and respective concepts
• Explain the unique characteristics of each component and how it adds value to innovative and sustainable (smart) cities
Design of Innovative & Sustainable Cities
• Understand the planning and design principles of Innovative & Sustainable Cities
• Explain the workings of each component of Innovative & Sustainable Cities In-depth study of selected (Mega) Cities
• Be familiar with the challenges of selected mega cities around the globe and understand how the smart city concept can add value in terms of livability
Commercialisation of the Smart City Concept
• Appreciate the challenges in successfully commercializing smart city concepts and applications
• Know some of the key players in the Singapore context which are involved in this service sector and establish network contacts
Note: Central to this course is a SMU-X group project that takes the form of an action-based and experiential
assignment, where student groups work with a partner organization with the aim of achieving innovative solutions
for the organization. Based on this experiential learning, students will gain acquire practical Smart City-related
competencies.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
• Analyze the power and impact of global and local challenges related to digital disruption and demographic change on business and society in general;
• Explain the importance of collaborative transformative leadership in addressing some of these complex issues head on in an integrated, interdisciplinary and novel manner, bringing about transformational, out-of-the box solutions;
• Appreciate what it takes in terms of design thinking to propose user-centred solutions, that create real value for stakeholders of participating client organizations;
• Articulate how selected leadership concepts such as transformational, collaborative leadership approaches can propel innovative problem solutions;
• Reflect effectively about their own leadership outlook and the acquisition of 21th century skills such as collaborative intelligence, through impactful and innovative SMU-X projects.
