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COURSE SYNOPSIS
SIC offers the Certificate in Management, which is a foundation course for the Diploma in Economics. The Certificate in Management can be taken as a one year course although students who perform particularly well may complete it in eight months. Once successfully completed this qualification allows students to proceed directly to the Diploma in Economics.

Who studies for the Certificate in Management?
The Certificate in Management is particularly suited to students for whom English is a second or foreign language and who wish to improve their academic English skills to cope with the demands of the Diploma. It is also helpful for students looking for a foundation course in business related skills. International students find this course especially helpful as a foundation to encourage higher achievement in their undergraduate studies.

NEXT INTAKE 2006
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Applicants must be 17 or above upon enrollment. Must have basic English skills and be at intermediate or advanced stages of EFL/ESL.
SUBJECTS
 
ENGLISH/BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
English for Academic and Business Purposes covering specialist vocabulary in preparation for management/business related study. Includes business English and business oral communication as well as business reporting projects. Also builds on existing English capabilities using more complex sentence and grammatical structures. Requires assignments and projects throughout the course with consistent evaluation to monitor progress.
 
ECONOMICS
Considers approaches to logical analysis of social and individual decision-making centering around a core of economic theories e.g. consumer theory, theory of the firm, markets, closed economy, good market, money and banking, open economy. The course will also consider themes such as; how an individual or household chooses its pattern of consumption and saving, how businesses set their prices, how consumers and firms interact so as to determine the overall price and output of a product, the role of government in regulating economic activity and etc.
 

ACCOUNTING
People who manage businesses and make critical decisions, need information. When it comes to financial decisions, accountants must be able to provide information to ensure the wellbeing of the organisation and organisational strategy. This course aims to provide the student with a strong practical and theoretical grounding in accounting. It considers the fundamentals of accounting including how data is gathered and communicated to management.

This course equips the student with the necessary knowledge to assist in the functioning of the accounting department and analyze accounting data to construct meaningful reports for decision making. It considers the link between decision making and accountancy practices in order to ensure that students are able to support organisational strategy.

 
MATHEMATICS
Basic Rules of Algebra, Percentage, Simple Ratio and Proportion, Foreign Money and Exchange Rates, Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Periodic Interest and Continuous Interest, Introduction to Data and Statistics, Box Plot, Histogram, Bar Chart and Pie Chart, Introduction to Grouped and Ungrouped Data, Measures of Location - Mode, Mean, Median and Quartiles, Measures of Dispersion - Standard Deviation, Variance, Interquartile Range and Interquartile Deviation, Probability, Central Limit Theorem, Confidence Interval, Hypothesis Testing.
FEES:
FEE
FULL PAYMENT
$5355 (inclusive of Reg. Fee & 5% GST)
INSTALLMENT
TOTAL
FIRST PAYMENT
SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS
$5880
$1,155
$525 X 9
* Installment schemes are only applicable to local students
LOCATION Dhoby Ghaut