LCE 129 is a three-hour per week, 4-ECTS (European Credits Transfer and Accumulation System) required degree level course that concentrates on the learning of English for Academic Purposes. The course is particularly designed to support Management students’ studies by developing their English language to an academic level, equivalent to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) level B1.

LCE 129 aims to familiarize students with authentic material related to (a) general topics such as university student profile, language learning, and cross-cultural communication (b) academic topics such as study skills, learning styles, and literature review and referencing, as well as (c) specific topics related to the learners’ field of study (Management), such as innovation, entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, investment, and raising capital. Students will develop their knowledge and skills pertaining to various spoken and written forms of communication and interaction, such as lectures, interviews, discussions, elevator pitches, reports, and summaries. The course is based on current learning theories and aims at developing students’ language skills as well as transferrable 21st century skills, such as communication, digital literacy, collaboration, creativity, innovation, critical thinking, intercultural awareness, autonomy and lifelong learning.

LCE 130 is a three-hour per week, 4-ECTS (European Credits Transfer and Accumulation System) required degree level course that concentrates on the learning of English for Specific Academic Purposes. The course is particularly designed to meet the needs of university students studying in the field of Management to an academic level equivalent to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) level B1-B2.

LCE 130 intends to familiarize students with material related to the area of Management, such as leadership, business meetings, technology at the workplace, management of renewable energy resources, and customer service. This material will be used to acquaint students with different genre (e.g. reports, articles with references), and writing styles (e.g. argumentation, cause and effect). Furthermore, students will develop their listening skills and their speaking fluency by taking an active part in discussions, and by giving oral presentations, based on real life situations in the Management sector. The teaching methodology used focuses on the development of students’ discipline-specific linguistic and academic competences as well as digital literacy skills, such as Internet search, online library search, online dictionary use, as well as social media use.

LCE 207 is a three hour per week, 4-ECTS credit(European Credits Transfer and Accumulation System) , required degree level course that concentrates on the learning of English for Business Communication.  It is particularly designed to meet the needs of university students studying in the field of  Hotel and Tourism Management, as well as to develop their English language to an academic level equivalent to Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages level B2-C1.  The focus of this course is to heighten students’ awareness of workplace communication, and add new interpersonal skills, with the end result of becoming a more competent communicator overall.  This course is designed to acquaint students to the various forms of written and oral communication skills. Students are expected to maximize their personal business communication skills, necessary both within the organisation and for communication with external audiences.  They will develop public speaking skills (speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence or entertain the listeners). Students will also develop their communication skills in writing clear, concise, complete and correct business correspondence. Moreover, they will develop an understanding and learn to compose a variety of business messages, including emails, memorandums, and formal reports.  The course also looks at how new technologies are changing the way people communicate in the business context.

This introductory course of Accounting will examine the basic principles of financial accounting as conventional measurement and reporting. More specifically, the topics covered will include: The background of accounting, duplicate transfer and book keeping, income statement, balance sheet, preparation of financial statements, cooperative and limited liability company, cash flow, interpretation of accounts, regulatory and conceptual framework, annual report, creative accounting.

The course examines the basic concepts of Managerial Accounting to provide information to managers who will assist in strategic planning, activity control, evaluation and decision making. In particular, the course covers: Costing, Management of pricing strategies, Planning, control and performance, budget preparation, standard costing, Short term decision making, Strategic management accounting, Long-term decision making: capital investment evaluation, and operating ratios, and finally a uniform system of reviews for the industry. Prerequisite Course: HTM 140 Principles of Financial Accounting

A theoretical lesson which aims to students a general idea of what is ethical in business, a general development issues of interest to modern businessmen with several references to case studies, dilemmas and discussion of recent issues such as transparency, meritocracy, ethical values.

The objectives of the course are the following:

• To develop students’ knowledge of the legal framework in Cyprus by introducing them to the sources of Cyprus law and the court structure.
•  To familiarise students with the broader context in which law operates, such as the principles of statutory interpretation, human rights law and the way this applies to legal application and analysis.
• To provide students with an understanding of specific key legal areas relating to a variety of business aspects.
• To give students a strong and adequate background to the relevant case law and legislative framework that affects the operation of business.

The aim of the course is to enable students to understand the dimensions of trade through the management of international business. The internationalization of companies creates complex problems with which the management is charged with finding appropriate solutions by exploring a range of strategic options. Consequently, the overall objective of the course is to approach the content of international business within a broader context that involves a series of decisions for the internationalised company. More specifically, the course focuses on understanding the external environment and the key cultural, political, economic and technological developments affecting trade and internationalization prospects, the strategic approach to new external-environment markets, and the management of international business.

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the modern economic and social reality of business and to acquire the knowledge to develop corresponding creativity and entrepreneurship skills in practice.

This course will introduce to students the concepts of business, entrepreneur and entrepreneurship and will help them understand the theoretical background and context of the field of entrepreneurship. In addition, students will learn the basic stages of implementing their ideas, as well as the conditions needed to create a new business.

Presentation of the basic concepts and tools used by businesses and investors in financial decision making. The course consists of lectures and problems related to  Financial institutions, markets and debt instruments issued by the government of Cyprus, loanable funds theory, determinants of interest rates, yield curves, spot and forward rates, Greek and Cypriot financial crisis, time value of money with applications, private and business loan financing, types and pricing of bonds, evaluation and pricing of stocks, measurement of investment risk, Capital Asset Pricing Model, capital budgeting and cash-flow computation.

accounts, appraise investments and manage risk. The educational objectives are:

• Introduce students to the fundamentals of financial management.
• Develop a good understanding of the importance of corporate strategy, the risks involved in financial decisions and these can be managed.
• Acquire a good knowledge of the main approaches used to manage working capital, inventory, accounts receivables, accountas payables and cash.
• Accustom students with invesment appraisal techniques in the presence of taxation, inflation and risk.
• Introduce students to risk management and apply risk management strategies for hedging interest rate risk and foreign exchange risk using futures and options.

The main purpose of the course is to provide students with a broad understanding of the various concepts of operations management. Such concepts include business strategy, process planning, inventory management, planning and quality management. Emphasis will be placed on applying these concepts to actual business scenarios.

The main objective of the course is to help students to understand how marketing contributes to organizational strategy and particularly to understand how marketing plans are developed, implemented and assessed. A secondary objective is to help students to develop their theoretical, technical and interpersonal skills which marketing managers require to communicate effectively in the business world.

The aim of this course is to provide students with a broad understanding and appreciation of the field of human resource management.  It also aims to enable participants to apply their in-depth understanding of Human Resource Management to real-life situations in their own business environment.

The aim of this course is to organize and communicate the most valid and most applicable knowledge of the organization behavior field in a systematic fashion and to emphasise the importance of this understanding in the pursuit of individual and collective goals. This course also attempts to provide an integrative framework within which the numerous organizational behavior issues and variables can be situated and conceptualised.