Electives for the Rhodes MBA programme

Second Year Elective Courses: (Choose Four)

16. Management Accounting: cost-volume-profit analysis, measuring relevant costs

and revenues for decision making, cost assignment, activity-based costing, the

budgeting process, standard costing and variance analysis.

Or

17. Environmental Law: to enable the identification, location and preliminary

interpretation of environmental legislation, relevant to the operation of business

and other organizations.

18. Project Management: key project management concepts and tools, project

management methodology, implementation approaches, project management

control, use of project management software.

Or

19. Environmental Economics: the economy-environment interaction, techniques

for the valuation of ecological goods and services, environmental policy intervention,

environmental economic impact analysis.

20. International Entrepreneurship: characteristics of an entrepreneur, generating

entrepreneurial ideas, feasibility studies, growth strategies, business plans, social

entrepreneurship, international business.

Or

21. Tools for Sustainability: providing for a range of tools and appropriate measures

to manage and mitigate sustainability risks and opportunities; effective and

systematic management of sustainability risks associated with an organization’s

operations or activities.

22. Knowledge Management: to enable the creation and utilization of knowledge and

intellectual capital in organizations, as well as the management of e-Commerce.

Or

23. Climate Change and Resource Efficiency: impact of climate change on business

and the impact of business on climate change; the role of business in using resources

such as energy and water more efficiently.

24. International Option: It is possible to attend a two-week summer school at a

business school in lieu of the courses offered in the third teaching block. There are

certain conditions attached to this option.

Note: The School reserves the right not to offer a particular elective if there are too few

candidates who choose that option.

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** Please note that Rhodes Business School runs elective modules as short courses together with the MBA programme.