University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA)

The Faculty of Management of the University of Professional Studies, Accra, is arguably the largest of the four Faculties. The Faculty continue to bolster initiatives geared toward preparing students for the administration of businesses. The Faculty has two departments and gained its status an academic Faculty in 2005/2006. The Faculty of Management Studies continue to demonstrate quality and intellectual excellence in grooming students and advancing knowledge through research, education and professional practice.

One of the functional areas of UPSA is Research and Community Service. The myriads of research related activities of the Faculty of Management Studies has been a corroboratory factor to UPSA Management’s decision to set up official portfolios of research officers and inauguration of a research and consultancy unit. The Faculty organizes three statutory seminars where faculty members dilate and share their research findings and/or proposals and solicits constructive inputs. Such research initiative has yielded results for faculty members who have completed their doctorate.

Fundamentals of Public Administration Organization, Operations Management, Company Secretarial Practice Supply Chain Managem.

The Department of Business Administration offers a comprehensive four-year programme leading to Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA). The Department is a teaching and Research focused business school offering programmes that stimulate an attitude of thoughtfulness, ambition and visionary-mindedness among students as far as business values and sound practices are concerned. By engaging with business, industry and external organizations, the Department offers cutting-edge academic disciplines that expand students’ awareness of the role of business in society.

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The Bachelor of Science in Marketing programme in the University of Professional Studies, Accra is built on the fundamental premise that human life in general revolves around exchanges between organizations and their key stakeholders in society. Such exchanges focuses on the design and creation of superior human solutions to meet diverse needs of stakeholders. Thus, the program assists students in gain deep and strong academic insights and understanding of the key principles of the subject and how they can applied to solve the different human situations.

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The Faculty of Banking and Finance offers a very intensive four-year programme in Accountancy and Banking and Finance, leading to Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Banking and Finance. The Faculty has a reputation as one of the leading Business Schools in Ghana for teaching and research in accounting, integrated finance, economics, and mathematics, business and management elements both in academia and in the profession. It places much emphasis on the development and use of analytical skills in problem solving, decision-making and implementation

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The Accounting department engages in teaching and learning as well as research activities that involve students and faculty members. The Faculty encourages and promotes inclusive teaching and learning of students with diverse backgrounds to achieve their learning outcomes. To build the capacity of students in research, they are made to choose relevant topics relating to their programme and conduct research to provide solution to real world accounting and finance issues. Faculty members also conduct research into diverse issues of interest and disseminate their findings

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Financial Reporting, Banking, Corporate & Public Finance

The Accounting department engages in teaching and learning as well as research activities that involve students and faculty members. The Faculty encourages and promotes inclusive teaching and learning of students with diverse backgrounds to achieve their learning outcomes. To build the capacity of students in research, they are made to choose relevant topics relating to their programme and conduct research to provide solution to real world accounting and finance issues.

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The Faculty of Banking and Finance offers a very intensive four-year programme in Accountancy and Banking and Finance, leading to Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Banking and Finance. The Faculty has a reputation as one of the leading Business Schools in Ghana for teaching and research in accounting, integrated finance, economics, and mathematics, business and management elements both in academia and in the profession.

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The school aims at promoting and maintaining a supportive learning environment within which faculty and students can optimize their personal, academic and professional development. Students centred programmes with emphasis on adragogical, leverage with ICT with prominence for continual learning is the philosophy deployed for teaching and learning in the graduate school. The teaching philosophy is Provide unique business education for graduate students characterized by critical thinking, skills and attitudes that can promote development in an ethical way.

Research is an integral part of the university mission, this philosophy underpins research in the school to create a management and business research centre aimed at developing interventions to advance the course of industry and business in our community and beyond. The graduate school is poised on promoting academic research publications in its core disciplines with emphasis on originality and honesty. Quality of research is assured by a continuous effort of the university to enhance staff and other resource capability and capacity for effective and efficient delivery

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Financial Reporting & Management, Marketing, Strategic Leadership

This is a blended Evening or Weekend programme which is intended to develop leaders with a global impact. Is designed for those working, or interested in working in organizations such as embassies, high commissions, international NGO’s corporations doing business in the global market, governments, public sector officials, the military and the police: to produce exceptional leaders. Courses are taught by a team of international faculty made of American, European, Indian and career diplomats.

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The programme is designed to meet high level academic and professional needs of the public and private sectors of the economy. The programme will prepare students to assume a larger role in managing their organizations? Operations as well as develop their expertise in the key financial areas. The curriculum places much emphasis on the improvement of the business manager?s ability to handle with professionalism the various financial problems confronting business of all sizes.

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The programme is designed to meet high level academic and professional needs of the public and private sectors of the economy. The curriculum places much emphasis on understanding the concepts and approaches to audit, investigations and assurance services and on developing skills to apply to the underlying concepts and approaches to professional services.

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Marketing is a discipline with global appeal. Ghana as part of the global community needs personnel with the requisite knowledge and skills who would carry out the functions of marketing in the organization. The MBA Programme in Marketing, an interdisciplinary approach to the management of organizations, aims to project to the forefront, the practice of marketing. The programme thus seeks to orient the individual to appreciate and effectively utilize marketing tools for effective functioning of organizations.

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The programme is designed to develop leaders who understand the impact that their actions and decisions have upon their organizations, as well as upon the nation and world around. Given the interconnected nature of organizations, it is particularly important to develop leaders who act in ethical, responsible ways, with the realization that their decisions can have strong impacts that extend well beyond their own organizations.

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MBA Petroleum Accounting and Finance Programme is designed to provide students with the requisite knowledge about the general Characteristics of Accounting and Financial practices of the Oil and Gas Industry and to discuss the impact of the Oil and Gas industry on the environment and its management in order to develop strategic thinking of proactive mitigating preventive actions. It also helps develop students’ knowledge and skills in financial reporting policies and practices applicable in the Oil and Gas Industry just to mention but a few.

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MBA Total Quality Management Programme is designed to produce personnel with expertise in quality management systems that can deliver organizational excellence by establishing, maintaining and improving the Functional, Strategic, and Quality Management systems for their organizations. It also provides students’ with the methodology and tools of quality improvement and the legal framework for competition and consumer protection within the global context.

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MBA Internal Auditing Programme is structured to develop students’ knowledge, skills and understanding of audit from the planning to reporting stage as well as equip them with the practical knowledge in Internal Auditing. Students’ are equipped with the necessary competences to identify and assess internal controls in an organisation that will enable management attain organizational objectives.

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