Friday, May 25, 2007

COMMITTEEs at AMITY

ALUMNI COMMITTEE

The strength of Amity Business School is its Alumni Family. The Alumni Committee regularly performs the function of maintaining constant and close touch with those members of the Amity family who are now corporate trendsetters.




CRC COMMITTEE

The Corporate Resource Centre acts as an interface between the industry, academia and the students. The CRC Committee organises various activities like Corporate Meets, TRENDS, Panel Discussions, CEO’s Forum, Guest Lectures, Industry Visits and Career Counselling.



PLACEMENT COMMITEE

The Placement Committee shoulders the responsibility of matching the career aspirations of the students with that of Industry requirements.



PR AND OUTREACH COMMITTEE

Helps in bridging the gap between ABS and the outside world. The committee is in charge of various publications like the TRENDS Magazine, which gives an insight into the major events that have taken place at the ABS campus in one calendar year.



DEBATING CLUB

‘To be a good manager you need to be a good communicator’. To help the students achieve these skills, the ‘Debating Club’ was set up.

The club endeavours to help students imbibe in them the requisite qualities and become passionate yet confident and intelligent speakers.



FINANCE CLUB

The aim is to inculcate the finer nuances of Finance, its management and control, to achieve all round prosperity and development. The Finance Club organises activities like the stock simulation game, monthly display on the bulletin board highlighting the main financial events and features, maintaining continuous interaction with financial institutions and attending finance related seminars and quiz contests.



HR CLUB

The HR Club aims to equip the budding managers with HR skills through role plays, psychometric tests
and workshops.



IT CLUB

This is the era of ‘Information Technology’. To get an edge over others in the ensuing age, one needs to be ‘IT SAVVY’
irrespective of one’s field. The IT Club propagates this message on the campus of Amity Business School and infuses IT awareness and knowledge in the students.



MARKETING CLUB

The Marketing club at Amity is involved in a range of activities in the area of Marketing, like Marketing Lab, Advertising Events and ‘Marketing in Action’- A publication, published by the club.





SPORTS COMMITTEE

‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’

The Sports Committee believes in developing the overall personality of a person.

It organizes inter and intra-college level football, cricket, basketball tournaments.



CULTURAL COMMITTEE

Provides a uniform platform to the students to showcase their creativity and innovation. It organises various cultural events along with social events like. Blood Donations Camps etc. The committee organises AFREEN, the two day annual cultural festival with participants coming from various management institutions.

A day in the life of an amitian

MBA student's life requires constant juggling of academic demands. extracurricular activities and personal responsibilities. A typical day in the life of an Amitian would look like this...




7:00a.m. The day starts with jogging in the field. After all, a healthy mind resides in a healthy body.

8:00a.m. Time to get ready for college...rush hour in the hostel.

9:00a.m. Grab abottle of lemonade or a cup of coffee with a newspaper in hand and start running

9:00a.m. - 1:40p.m. It's time for interaction with various faculties...it's a give and take process. It's also a time for case studies, discussions and brain storming sessions.

1:40p.m. - 2:00p.m. A time to recharge one's energy...Lunch time. One can see students rushing to the mess and after having their lunch, preparing themselves for the second round of lectures.

2:00p.m. - 5:20p.m. This generally is the time for industry, seminars and guest lectures, a time to meet with various CEOs...it;s the time to realise one's dream and gauge oneself...a time for self analysis.

6:00p.m. - 9:00p.m. Stop by the library or the computer lab to search for material about the case studies to be undertaken next day. A time where you can see students engrossed in books.

9:00p.m. - 10:00p.m. Dinner time for students

10:00p.m. - 12:30a.m. A time to go through various journals, business magazines, business newspapers. It's also a time to do the various assignments for the following day.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

OUR COURSE AHEAD

SEM 1
  1. Organizational Behaviour
  2. Accounting For Management
  3. Marketing Management
  4. Quantitative Applications in Management
  5. IT and Business Applications
  6. Economic Analysis
  7. Economic and Business Legislation
  8. Self Development and Interpersonal Skills
  9. Individuals and Corporate Environment
  10. Foreign Business Language



SEM 2

  1. Managing Human Resources
  2. Marketing Research
  3. Financial Management
  4. Operations Management
  5. Management Information Systems
  6. International Marketing Management
  7. Business Environment and Strategic Analysis
  8. Business Communication
  9. Managing Events
  10. Foreign Business Language
  11. SUMMER INTERNSHIP (8-10 weeks)


SEM 3

  1. Business Policy and Strategic Management
  2. Leading Through Teams
  3. Foreign Business Language
  4. Managerial Competencies and Career Development
  5. In addition, 4 Courses each from any two streams (each course of 3 credit units)


SEM 4

  1. Management in Action - Social, Economic and Ethical Issues
  2. Managing Excellence
  3. Dissertation
  4. In addition, 4 Courses each from any two streams (each course of 3 credit




ABS offers five foreign business languages, i.e. French, German, Japanese, Chinese and Spanish. Students have to choose one of these languages, which will continue for three semesters.

The following elective streams shall be offered in the second year of the program, out of which the students should choose two streams. An elective stream will be conducted only if a minimum number of students opt for it.

List of elective streams (along with courses in each) is given below:

Finance & Accounts

  1. Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
  2. Infrastructure Project Management and Control
  3. Management of Financial Services
  4. International Finance
  5. Strategic Financial Management
  6. Financial Derivatives and Risk Management
  7. Management of Financial Institutions
  8. Advanced Accounts and Corporate Taxation


Marketing and Sales

  1. Consumer Behavior
  2. Product and Brand Management
  3. Services and Retail Marketing
  4. Distribution Management and Logistics
  5. Sales Management
  6. Advertising and Sales Promotion
  7. Industrial and Rural Marketing
  8. Customer Relationship Management



Information Systems Management

  1. Business Process System
  2. Web-enabled Business Processes
  3. Management of Software Projects
  4. Object Oriented Database Management System
  5. Business Data Networks
  6. Marketing and Management of Software Solutions
  7. Enterprise Management
  8. Information


Human Resource

  1. Performance Management Systems
  2. Recruitment Selection Training and Development
  3. Industrial Relations and Labour Laws
  4. Organizational Structure, Design and HR Planning
  5. Compensation Management and Retention
  6. HR Information Systems and HR Audit
  7. Managing Creativity and Building Learning Organizations
  8. Organizational Change and Development




International Business Management

  1. International Economics Environment and Policy
  2. Institutions of International Trade Organization
  3. International Trade Procedures and Documentation
  4. Management of Foreign Transactions: A Banking Perspective
  5. International Supply Chain Management and Logistics
  6. Sectoral Strategy for Export Marketing
  7. International Trade Accounting, Law and Taxation
  8. Strategic Functioning Multinationals





Operations Management

  1. Facility Planning and Total Productivity Maintenance
  2. Total Quality Management and Six Sigma
  3. Supply Chain Management and Logistics
  4. Material Planning and Management
  5. Technology Management and E-business
  6. Service Operations Management
  7. Innovation and Theory of Constraints
  8. Operations Strategy





Insurance & Risk Management

  1. Risk Management and Insurance
  2. Regulatory Framework of Insurance
  3. Application of General Insurance
  4. Life Insurance and Underwriting and Claims
  5. Commercial Insurance Underwriting and Operations
  6. Actuarial Science and Risk Transfer
  7. Insurance Marketing and Client Management
  8. Insurance Accounts and Fund Management


Entrepreneurship & Leadership Development

  1. Entrepreneurship & Entrepreneurial Process
  2. Creating & Managing New Ventures
  3. Financing for New Ventures
  4. Marketing for Entrepreneurs
  5. Dynamics of Leadership
  6. Technology and Innovation
  7. Corporate Intrapreneurship, Innovation and Future Organizations
  8. Managing Entrepreneurial Firms and Family Business
  9. Organizational Leadership -Inspiration, Dilemmas & Action







ASSIGNMENTS

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Contents of Management Accounting by Horngren Sundem Straton

1. Managerial Accounting and the Business Organization.
2. Introduction to Cost Behavior and Cost Volume Relationships.
3. Measurement of Cost Behavior.
4. Cost Management Systems and Activity-Based Costing.
5. Relevant Information and Decision-Making: Marketing Decisions.
6. Relevant Information and Decision-Making: Product Decisions.
7. The Master Budget.
8. Flexible Budget and Variance Analysis.
9. Management Control Systems and Responsibility Accounting.
10. Management Control in Decentralized Organizations.
11. Capital Budgeting.
12. Cost Allocation.
13. Job-Costing
14. Process-Costing Systems.

Business Mathematics by Qazi Zameeudin, B K Khanna, S K Bhambri

  1. Logic
  2. Sets
  3. Groups, Rings and Fields
  4. Real Numbers and Mathematical Induction
  5. Linear Equations and Inequalities
  6. Solution of Equations
  7. Quadratic and Simultaneous
  8. Progressions
  9. Surds and Indices
  10. Cubic and Biquadratic Equations
  11. Permutations and Combinations
  12. Binomial Theorem
  13. Sequences and Infinite Series
  14. Logarithms
  15. Interest and Annuities
  16. Measurement of Angles
  17. Trigonometrical Ratios
  18. Trigonometrical Ratios of Sums and Differences of Two Angles
  19. Properties of Triangles
  20. Variation of Trigonometrical Ratios and their Inverses
  21. Heights and Distances
  22. Co-ordinates and Loci
  23. The Straight Line
  24. The Circle
  25. Conic Sections
  26. Differentiation
  27. Applications of Differentiation
  28. Integration
  29. Different Methods
  30. Reduction Formulas and Definite Integrals
  31. Matrices and Determinants
  32. Vector Algebra
  33. Application to Economics.