1999 Business and Economics Handbook - Executive Certificate in Family Business

Executive Certificate in Family Business

General
Course objectives
Admission requirements
Credit for work done previously
Mode of offering
Duration
Course structure
Progression to further studies

General

Course code: 2155
Caulfield campus
Course directors: Professor Claudio Romano, Dr Kosmas Smyrnios
The Executive Certificate in Family Business is a faculty award designed to increase students' knowledge and skills in the area of family and private business management. This course is available to individuals who do not have a formal qualification and offers an alternative pathway for entry into formal courses offered by the university.
The Executive Certificate in Family Business permits students to undertake preliminary studies in a number of business management related subjects. Students undertaking this course will have the opportunity of completing a coherent course of appropriate level study relevant to their career, with the opportunity to articulate into further tertiary studies.

Course objectives

On completion, successful candidates should:

have an understanding of the theoretical concepts upon which the practice of family and private business is based;
be able to apply these concepts and techniques to real business problems, preferably within their own organisation, so that the concepts are put to practical application;
develop an understanding of specialist areas of family and private business, appropriate to the student's needs, and how this specialist knowledge can be applied to appropriate situations and problems;
have the knowledge base to advance to higher degree studies.

AFF9100 Family business issues I (core)
AFF9200 Family business issues II (core)
MGF9301 Family business issues III
AFF9401 Family business issues IV

Progression to further studies

As previously stated.