- Faculty of School of Business Course Catalog, 2026 Academic Year
-
Learning Characteristics and Curriculum (Department of Business Administration)
CURRICULUM Learning Features and Curriculum
Characteristics of learning
In order to become future corporate leaders, students will learn practical management and accounting. In the first and second years, the range of courses available for selection is narrowed down to thoroughly master the fundamentals of business administration.
Through data science education and seminars, we aim to develop talent that can acquire strategic, organizational, and financial perspectives and approach management issues from a variety of perspectives.
In the first and second years, the range of course choices is narrowed and introductory education is thorough
In the first year, in addition to English, compulsory subjects include management fundamentals related to strategy and organizational management, and accounting fundamentals, which serve as an introduction to accounting, as a stepping stone to four years of study. After thoroughly studying these subjects, in the second year, students will select and study at least eight subjects from the 24 core subjects in Group B, mainly to solidify their foundations in the fields of strategy, organization, financial and management accounting, marketing, and distribution. By limiting the range of course selection in the first and second years, students receive thorough introductory education. Within this framework, they will decide on their area of specialization.
In the third and fourth years, students will study in depth, focusing on seminars that are tailored to their individual needs.
In the third and fourth years, when applied subjects are taken, students are free to choose from a wide range of specialized subjects. The most important of these are business seminars, or management exercises. Students decide on a specialized field that suits them, take seminars on that topic, and write their graduation thesis. Although students are free to choose their subjects, they will likely take subjects related to their own field of expertise.
Special Graduate Course Student System
Special Graduate Course Student System
The Special Graduate School Course Registration System allows students to take graduate school lecture courses from their fourth year of undergraduate studies. By using this system, students can complete the six-year course of study that normally takes four years of undergraduate studies and two years of graduate studies in as little as five years, and can obtain both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree upon graduation.
*Undergraduate students should check the "Graduate School Application Guidelines" at the bottom of the portal menu bar.
COURSE MODELS ?
The Department of Department of Business Administration proposes four course models: (1) "Strategic Management," which teaches about the operation and management of organizations, including companies; (2) "Evidence-based Management (EbM)," which teaches about management using data collection, processing, and analysis; (3) "Accounting," which systematically teaches accounting theory and methods; and (4) "Corporate and Financial Analysis," which teaches about the analysis of corporate situations and the evaluation of management results. Using these models as a reference, we encourage students to flexibly choose courses according to their own interests and future plans.
*The course model introduced here is just an example.
COURSE FEATURES Features of major courses
Management Basics A & B
In Management Fundamentals A, after learning basic theories, students will engage in a management game. Through the game, each student will experience what it means to run a company by taking on the role of a manager and competing against other companies.
In Management Fundamentals B, students will learn the basics of data analysis using accounting information from a management game, in order to develop evidence-based assertiveness. In parallel, approximately 10 instructors will give lectures in an omnibus format on the fundamentals of their respective areas of expertise.
Thus, Management Fundamentals A and B place emphasis on solidifying foundational theories for learning in the second year and beyond, providing practical experience in corporate management, and helping students understand the differences between various fields of management studies and consider which area of specialization they wish to pursue.
Introduction to Accounting I & II
"Accounting Basics I & II" is an introductory course to the world of accounting, which is the core of business activities. In this course, you will carefully learn the basics of double-entry bookkeeping, from daily transactions to the creation of financial statements. Accounting, which is called "a mirror that reflects business activities," is essential for all organizations, from large corporations to small businesses. From this perspective, this course will teach you how to understand business management and how to record and report economic activities while using your head and hands, and you will acquire knowledge at the level of the Nissho Certification Examination for Commercial Bookkeeping Level 3.
Accounting is one of the most powerful business data sources. Even for students who are not accounting majors, accounting knowledge is essential to success in business.
This course provides a good balance of theory and practice, and will enable you to develop the ability to accurately interpret corporate activities and effectively utilize the data.
Kenichi Yazawa
Professor Department of Business Administration
Specialty: Empirical analysis of accounting, auditing, and governance, text analysis of financial reports
Legal Financial Accounting A
We apply economic thinking to such issues as "Why are companies required to disclose information?", "Why does window dressing occur?", and "What is the social role of certified public accountant audits?", and examine the significance of current accounting systems and standards as well as their future consequences.
The majority of accounting lectures deal with the creation and utilization of accounting information. In particular, in the field of financial accounting, which considers the computerization and communication of corporate status, a detailed understanding of accounting systems and standards, which are laws and regulations, is required first. However, as in this course, asking the "why" and "how" of accounting systems and standards is also important in order to grasp their essence.
Another feature of this course is that it introduces students to real-world institutions and their consequences, and has them participate in economic games, in order to stimulate interest and deepen their understanding.
Business Strategy
A company provides management resources such as employees and factories to create products and services, sells them to consumers, and allocates the funds earned back to production activities. The continuation of this series of activities constitutes a business.
Business strategy involves defining business objectives and determining what needs to be done to achieve those objectives. To determine what needs to be done, it's necessary to have a broad understanding of the company's own situation, the social environment surrounding the company (including customers and the government), learn from the knowledge gained from past businesses, and mobilize all of that information and knowledge to make informed decisions.
For example, with the advancement of digital technology, the digital transformation (DX) of businesses has become a key consideration. In restaurants, we are now seeing establishments where customers place orders using tablets and robots handle serving. These systems were introduced because it was believed that they would yield better results, but whether they actually produce good results can only be evaluated after some time has passed, and that evaluation becomes valuable knowledge.
Business strategy is a discipline that systematizes the knowledge we have about what is known in business. However, what is important for students is not simply knowing this knowledge system, but being able to think for themselves and make decisions about what to do when faced with real-world business situations.
This lecture is a core subject in School of Business, and it requires students to acquire knowledge of business strategy, understand the current state of modern companies, and think based on that knowledge. Therefore, case studies are distributed as lecture materials, students are asked questions, and they are required to write short reports. This lecture is positioned as a stepping stone to various specialized subjects that further deepen the knowledge gained from these reflections.
| Subject Name | Features |
|---|---|
|
Business Strategy I & II
|
A business strategy is how to set business goals and operate an organization to achieve those goals under a changing external environment. To do this, it is essential to understand the external environment and internal organization of the business, as well as theories and concepts for thinking. In this course, students will learn the thinking frameworks and theories necessary for strategy formulation and actually think about various cases.
|
|
Management I & II
|
Management systems are extremely complex when the components of management are diverse and the interactions between these components are taken into account. As a clue to understanding this complex management system, this course aims to teach basic theory by taking up each component individually.
|
|
Corporate Information Strategy I & II
|
Corporate strategy planning must take into account not only the internal information held by the company, but also external information such as information on the social environment and the economy, and more recently information available from the Internet. A shortage of people who can process this large amount of information and who have studied both business administration is an issue facing Japanese companies. That is why Corporate Information Strategy I and II are designed to teach corporate strategy while also studying the relationship between data and information to be used in each situation and how to process them. Learning Corporate Information Strategy should lead to a deeper understanding of business administration.
|
|
Legal Financial Accounting I & II
|
This course will consider legal accounting in a positive light. The goal of this course is to consider the theoretical framework of financial accounting, such as the provision of corporate financial information and the measurement of profits, assets, liabilities, and capital, and to understand the perspective of considering these functions from an economic perspective.
|
|
Strategic Management Accounting I & II
|
The goal of this course is to develop students' ability to grasp the current status and issues of accounting information used in the process of formulating and implementing a company's capital investment strategy and research and development strategy, and to respond to and resolve these issues.
|
|
Basic Evidence based Management and Applications
|
To use AI correctly, humans need two important pillars of science: rationality and objectivity. Rationality is the ability to think and act based on reason and logic, while objectivity is the ability to evaluate things based on facts, removing personal emotions and prejudices. Whatever results AI produces, it is necessary in all business settings to compare them with other facts to determine whether they are reasonable and whether they are sufficiently justified.
In particular, the core of generative AI is data analysis, and a correct understanding of data analysis is necessary. The goal of this course is to teach students not only data analysis skills but also logical thinking and problem-solving skills. |