[Aibec-l] AIBEC SPRING 2007 SCHEDULE

art franczek artf at online.ru
Wed Dec 13 07:42:44 MSK 2006




Dear AIBEcers:

Registration is currently open for AIBEc's Spring 2007schedule that begins on Monday Jan. 15th 2007 In an effort to meet the ever changing Russian environment AIBEc is offering some new and updated courses this semester:

-Comparative/Advanced Accounting will place a special emphasis on Valuation issues that impact many areas of business and also issues concerning International Accounting Standards. PLEASE NOTE THAT THOSE STUDENTS WHOHAVE TAKEN FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING CAN TAKE THIS COURSE. ALSO IN THIS COURSE AS IN OTHER ACCOUNTING COURSES CASES ON COMPANIES THAT AIBEC STUDENTS WORK FOR WILL BE USED SUCH AS COCA COLA, HEWLETT PACKARD AND OTHERS.

-Marketing Action will be taught by Vadim Gregorian (AIBEc/INSEAD graduate), this course is esentially the same as Strategic marketing and will cover many cutting edge Marketing techniques. This course was very popular with students who felt that it was both creative and practical.
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- Strategic Management will again be taught by Gerald Rohan who is a top expert at PWC and he has many years of practical experience in the application of strategic issues.

- Marketing Communication is a new course that covers many issues of interest to Marketing professionals. Gregory Troussav who has extensive experience in Public Relations, Advertising and Marketing issues. Gregory's course on Marketing research was very popular with AIBEc students.

 - Kostya Kontor will be teaching a course entitled The Management of Change. This course will deal with many issues companies face in an everchanging global environment.

- A special new course in Real Estate will be taught by John Harrison who has edited Real Estate journals in Russia and in China for many years and who knows some of the leading players in Moscow real Estate who will be invited as guest speakers for his course.

- Information Technology will be taught jointly be Alex and Elena Settles who are both PhDs with an extensive backround in the IT industry both in Russia and in the US.



AIBEc is proud of its Spring schedule and designed its courses to provide students with useful and practical skills to advance their careers.

PLEASE REGISTER EARLY SO THAT MATERIALS CAN BE PREPARED. ALSO PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU CAN REGISTER BY FAX.

YOURS TRULY,
ART FRANCZEK

      Course offerings, Spring Semester:
      January 15 - April 29, 2007
       

      Financial Accounting:  This course provides students with a thorough review of accounting issues of importance to most organizations, such as Accrual Accounting, Bad Debts, Inventories, Investments, Cash Flows and Ratio Analysis. US GAAP and IAS concepts are emphasized. Fridays 7pm to 10pm, Art Franczek 

      Managerial Accounting:  This course provides students with a thorough review of most Managerial Accounting issues of importance to many organizations such as Cost Allocation, Activity Based Costing, Budgeting, Standard Costing, Just In Time Inventory and many other topics. Tuesdays 7pm to 10pm, Art Franczek 

      Updated! Comparative/Advanced Accounting: This course covers advanced topics such as Leasing, Valuations, Consolidated Financial Statements, Foreign Currency Transactions and Translation. Also Russia's transition to IAS will be discussed in detail as the professor has worked on a project with the World Bank dealing with this issue. A special emphasis will be placed on comparisons between GAAP and IAS. Wednesdays 7pm to 10pm, Art Franczek 

      Corporate Finance: This course is an introduction to allocation of capital over time, capital budgeting, financial management and other topics using basic mathematical models. This course focuses upon the application of Corporate Finance issues in Russia. Thursdays 7pm to 10pm, Konstantin Kontor

      New: The Management of Change: The creation of corporate myths is most detrimental in the process of management of change - cost cutting, restructuring, targeting new markets and introducing new goods and services, and corporate mergers and acquisitions. The primary goal of the Course is to provide the students with the better understanding of the mentioned problems and to describe tools of alleviating them. Of special importance will be the role of globalization and the influence of capital markets, including financial institutions. As a result, a much better communications basis could be established between all stakeholders in the management process - both incumbents (company owners, managers, strategic investors, employees) and externals (clients, suppliers, competitors, investors, and the public at large.) Saturdays 10am to 1pm, Konstantin Kontor

      International Finance and Risk Management: This course discusses the priciples of international finance (economics of the international environment, purchasing power parity, and sources of risk in the international financial markets) and the theoretical background on which the practices of operation of the international financial markets are based. Tuesdays 7 pm to 10 pm, Konstantin Kontor, Professor.

      Principles of Marketing: This course provides students with an overview of marketing in a modern international business. The latest materials and case studies are used in this course. Mondays 7pm to 10pm, Tom Nastas 

      Updated:Marketing Action: This course focuses on Brand Strategy and Implementation with an emphasis on luxury goods. The professor for this course will be an AIBEc and INSEAD graduate. Saturdays 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm , Vadim Grigoryan 

      Updated: Marketing Communications :  This course examines topics such as Public Relations, Advertising and Sales Negotiations. The course will be extremely interactive and a significant portion of the class will be devoted to business games, presentations and other training activities. Wednesdays 7pm to 10pm, Gregory Troussov/Elena Malkova

      Updated: Strategic Management:  Recent topics in Strategy as they are applied internationally and in Russia will be discussed. Many recent cases will be used and there will be a special focus on implementation of strategies. Thursdays 7pm to 10pm, Gerald Rohan

       Information Technology: This course is called GLOBAL INNOVATIONS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS. Some of the topics covered are Outsourcing, Intellectual Property rights, Hacking, Blogging and many other issues relating to the application of IT in an International/Russian Business Environment. Mondays 7pm to 10pm, Alex Settles Phd, Elena Settles Phd

      NEW: Commercial and Residential Real Estate: This course will cover some major issues in Real Estate such as Real Estate Development, Investment Analysis,Valuation Techniques, Market Analysis, Logistics Market and more. The professor of this course was the editor Commercial Real Estate magazine and has written over 300 article on Russian Real Estate. It is planned that leading Real Estate business people will be guest speakers. Fridays 7-10pm, Sat 10am, John Harrison professor.

            
      New! Business Psychology: This course examines the manifestations and roots of the irrational, both positive and destructive, processes in corporations. Of particular interest are be the ideas and particular tools for better understanding and unconscious needs and emotional reasoning that usually stay shadowed and unspoken. Numerous examples of irrational decision making, specific leadership styles, teamwork impasses are analyzed in terms of general theory. 

      Fridays 7 pm to 10 pm, Ekaterina Mikkhalkova, Professor.





                                                     For more information:
      call at 438-1439, website: www.aibec.org;  e-mail ;info.aibec at co.ru

       

       
     
 Course offerings, Spring Semester:
      January 15 - April 29, 2007
       

      Financial Accounting:  This course provides students with a thorough review of accounting issues of importance to most organizations, such as Accrual Accounting, Bad Debts, Inventories, Investments, Cash Flows and Ratio Analysis. US GAAP and IAS concepts are emphasized. Fridays 7pm to 10pm, Art Franczek 

      Managerial Accounting:  This course provides students with a thorough review of most Managerial Accounting issues of importance to many organizations such as Cost Allocation, Activity Based Costing, Budgeting, Standard Costing, Just In Time Inventory and many other topics. Tuesdays 7pm to 10pm, Art Franczek 

      Updated! Comparative/Advanced Accounting: This course covers advanced topics such as Leasing, Valuations, Consolidated Financial Statements, Foreign Currency Transactions and Translation. Also Russia's transition to IAS will be discussed in detail as the professor has worked on a project with the World Bank dealing with this issue. A special emphasis will be placed on comparisons between GAAP and IAS. Wednesdays 7pm to 10pm, Art Franczek 

      Corporate Finance: This course is an introduction to allocation of capital over time, capital budgeting, financial management and other topics using basic mathematical models. This course focuses upon the application of Corporate Finance issues in Russia. Thursdays 7pm to 10pm, Konstantin Kontor

      New: The Management of Change: The creation of corporate myths is most detrimental in the process of management of change - cost cutting, restructuring, targeting new markets and introducing new goods and services, and corporate mergers and acquisitions. The primary goal of the Course is to provide the students with the better understanding of the mentioned problems and to describe tools of alleviating them. Of special importance will be the role of globalization and the influence of capital markets, including financial institutions. As a result, a much better communications basis could be established between all stakeholders in the management process - both incumbents (company owners, managers, strategic investors, employees) and externals (clients, suppliers, competitors, investors, and the public at large.) Saturdays 10am to 1pm, Konstantin Kontor

      International Finance and Risk Management: This course discusses the priciples of international finance (economics of the international environment, purchasing power parity, and sources of risk in the international financial markets) and the theoretical background on which the practices of operation of the international financial markets are based. Tuesdays 7 pm to 10 pm, Konstantin Kontor, Professor.

      Principles of Marketing: This course provides students with an overview of marketing in a modern international business. The latest materials and case studies are used in this course. Mondays 7pm to 10pm, Tom Nastas 

      Updated:Marketing Action: This course focuses on Brand Strategy and Implementation with an emphasis on luxury goods. The professor for this course will be an AIBEc and INSEAD graduate. Saturdays 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm , Vadim Grigoryan 

      Updated: Marketing Communications :  This course examines topics such as Public Relations, Advertising and Sales Negotiations. The course will be extremely interactive and a significant portion of the class will be devoted to business games, presentations and other training activities. Wednesdays 7pm to 10pm, Gregory Troussov/Elena Malkova

      Updated: Strategic Management:  Recent topics in Strategy as they are applied internationally and in Russia will be discussed. Many recent cases will be used and there will be a special focus on implementation of strategies. Thursdays 7pm to 10pm, Gerald Rohan

       Information Technology: This course is called GLOBAL INNOVATIONS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS. Some of the topics covered are Outsourcing, Intellectual Property rights, Hacking, Blogging and many other issues relating to the application of IT in an International/Russian Business Environment. Mondays 7pm to 10pm, Alex Settles Phd, Elena Settles Phd

      NEW: Commercial and Residential Real Estate: This course will cover some major issues in Real Estate such as Real Estate Development, Investment Analysis,Valuation Techniques, Market Analysis, Logistics Market and more. The professor of this course was the editor Commercial Real Estate magazine and has written over 300 article on Russian Real Estate. It is planned that leading Real Estate business people will be guest speakers. Fridays 7-10pm, Sat 10am, John Harrison professor.

            
      New! Business Psychology: This course examines the manifestations and roots of the 
     

 Art Franczek (artf at online.ru, 373 6241): Art holds an MBA and MST from DePaul University and is a CPA. He has many years of experience as a Tax Manager for a major international company. He has taught at AIBEc for 10 years and has taught over 1500 Russian students. He is currently co-chair of the Customs Committee at Am Cham and has been an active participant on the Tax Committee for 10 years. He has written many articles on Accounting/Tax issues and has recently published a workbook on IAS Accounting and is currently working with The World Bank on a project to convert Russian Accounting to IAS.

 Konstantin Kontor (kkontor at kkp-partners.ru): Kostya holds an MBA from UCLA (a top ranked MBA Program) and has worked for several years as the director of research for RINACO Plus, a major Moscow brokerage firm. He is one of the first students to graduate from AIBEc in 1992 and has taught finance at AIBEc since 1994. Kostya is also the managing director at KKP Partners and a professor of Financial Strategy at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.

Tom Nastas (tom at online.ru): Tom holds an MBA from Michigan State ( a top ranked MBA Program). He has many years of experience a Venture Capitalist in Russia and other emerging markets. He has several years of experience teaching marketing at Michigan State University.


Gerald Rohan:  Gerald is an American who has extensive experience with Price Waterhouse Coopers. He is currently the Director of Global Energy and Mining at PWC and he is the co-chair of he Energy committee at Am Cham. He has taught at The Plekhanov Academy for several years. 



Vadim Grigorian: Vadim holds a CBS from AIBEc and an MBA from INSEAD. He has extensive experience in marketing and is currently the marketing director for Pernod Ricard Rouss. He has written several business cases for INSEAD and one his cases ie Diesal has won awards for the most popular marketing case in Europe.

 Gregory Troussov: (troussov at expertkey.com):(www.expertkey.com): Gregory is the president of "Kontakt-Expert" Consulting Company in Moscow, which provides consulting services in the areas of strategy,marketing,performance management, and personel development. Gregory holds an MBA from The University of Colorado and has lived and worked in the US for several years. He has extensive experience in applying Marketing Research Methodologies to Russian companies. Also Gregory has taught marketing at the Economics Academy in Moscow. He has recently written a book on Marketing in Developing Economies that will be published soon.

Elena Settles PhD: ( muskie at mail.ru): Elena holds a PhD from The University of Delaware and she wrote her dissertaion on the Russian IT industry. Her recent work in Russia and the U.S. included researching snd applying information technology to personnel and education reforms, economic development, land use, the transportation industry and community technologyaccess. Her research was presentated and published by the UN World Summit on the Information Society, Oxford Internet Institute and the Institute of System Analysis of the russian Academy of Sciences. Elena has experience teaching at The University of Delaware and has given presentations on IT issues.

Alex Settles PhD:holds a PhD from University of Delaware and is currently a professor at The Higher School of Economics. He also has several years of teaching courses on the IT industry at University of Delaware/ 

 John Harrison: has worked in Russia for 18 years in various positions. He was a correspondent for Britains Daily Express, he operated his own firm daling with PR and media relations for Western companies setting up business in Russia and he was an editor for pulications such as Russia Review and Commercial Real Estate. He was a founder of Passport magazine and until recently was its managing editor.Currently he is the editor of a Commercial Real Estate Journal in China. He has written over 300 articles on Real Estate issues. He has a Masters degree in Russian studies from Exeter University.





 
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