Distance degree programs for Adults & Professionals.
Business & Economic Consulting Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Business & Economic Consulting via distance learning
This program covers the principles and techniques needed to analyze business and economic projects or any other type of investment. It provides recent updates in the fields of business plan analyses, cost concepts, inflation, income taxes, and risk. In addition, it includes a conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating investment alternatives. This program offers an expert advice on virtually all the practical aspects of business and economic consultancy including skills, tools, problem solving and know-how. It presents all the information necessary for building and marketing a consulting practice.
Academic Supervisor : Ronald D. Fite
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Business & Economic Consulting Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Business & Economic Consulting.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Agribusiness - Business Administration - E-Business & E-Commerce - Economic Science - Entrepreneurship & Innovation - Entrepreneurship Management - Executive Leadership - Financial Management - Financial Science - Human Resources - International Business - International Trade - Management Science - Marketing & Communication - Real Estate - Sales & Product Management .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Business & Economic Consulting Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Business & Economic Consulting via distance learning = 42 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Business & Economic Consulting Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Business & Economic Consulting via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
Master's Degree - Business & Economic Consulting Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Business & Economic Consulting via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Entrepreneurship & Innovation. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Business & Economic Consulting Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Business & Economic Consulting via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Entrepreneurship & Innovation. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
BIU adapts each Distance Learning Higher Education degree program to the needs of each student. More info...
Business & Economic Consulting Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Management Science
This course of management science studies problem solving and decision making in human organizations, with strong links to management, economics, business, engineering, consulting, and other fields. The goal of any effective management is the efficient allocation of scarce resources.
Academic Supervisor: Wellington Williams
Economic Science
This course of economics science studies theoretical, empirical, methodological, and policy-relevant knowledge using economic parameters. It explores the intersection of economics and other disciplines, revolving around the relationships between individuals, societies and economy.
Academic Supervisor: Nadège Noële Ango-Obiang
Product & Price Management
This course overviews company’s product portfolio management, including the task of product positioning, product development, product price, market development, brand diversification, and alternative strategies associated with the introduction, growth, maturity, and decline stages of the product life cycle. It shows the skills needed to become a successful product manager capable of dealing with all aspects of product and price management.
Academic Supervisor: Isabel del Rio Villar
Measuring Customer Satisfaction
This course reviews the tools and techniques used for measuring customer satisfaction. It covers how to plan, implement, and get results from a customer service strategy. It reviews methods of collecting data, such as surveys and focus groups, as well as the tools for analyzing and displaying data.
Academic Supervisor: Maria Smetanina
Production Strategy
This course shows the importance of production planning, control, and strategy in modern manufacturing organizations. It covers production and operations strategy, subjective and objective forecasting, inventory planning, and control. It also reviews Just-in-time Production (JIT), Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), and Optimized Production Technology (OPT).
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Sources of Funding
This course shows how to find funding to start or grow a business. It explores funding sources for a business, identifying which sources are the best match for the company needs, and what are the pros and cons. It analyzes how much money is needed, for how long, and the tips to avoid predatory lenders.
Academic Supervisor: Dimitrios Nikolaou Koumparoulis
Financial Performance Evaluation
This course explains the ratios that can be useful in measuring and monitoring financial performance in conjunction with a set of financial statements. It provides a clear and concise overview of specific ratios that are used to measure liquidity, asset management, profitability, leverage, market value ratios, and comparative analysis.
Academic Supervisor: Mario V. González Fuentes
Financial Intelligence
This course of financial intelligence focuses on the gathering of information about the financial affairs of a particular interest, to understand their nature and capabilities, as well as predict their intentions. It is understanding how someone makes, manages and invests money.
Academic Supervisor: George Iatridis
Market Profitability Analysis
This course explores the tools for market profitability analysis. It measures the net profit earned by undertaking business in a particular market. Profitability is the most significant measure to evaluate the success of any business. For a business to be profitable and successful in the long term, shareholders and managers need to identify the right strategic path. Understanding the profitability of significant customers or markets is key for a sustainable and successful future.
Academic Supervisor: Kao Kveng Hong
Financial Strategic Planning
This course outlines the process for effective financial planning, including where to start, what types of budgets to prepare, and how to turn planning into a value-added activity. The objective of the course is to provide guidance for the user on financial strategic planning.
Academic Supervisor: George Iatridis
Strategic Marketing Management
This course explores the marketing strategic process; from marketing analysis and the identification of market targets, to planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services. It considers major issues such as negative word-of-mouth, product failure, consumerism, product liability, and deceptive advertising. This course integrates marketing challenges within a problem-solving strategic framework.
Academic Supervisor: Maria Smetanina
Market Research
This course makes the connection between market research theory and practice: research planning, secondary research, sampling, experimentation, quantitative and qualitative research, questionnaire design, question development, data analysis, segmentation, communication and copy testing, and audience measurement. It provides the necessary data and conclusions for the effective analysis of the opinions, desires and behavior of individuals, masses, or markets.
Academic Supervisor: Maria Smetanina
Investment Strategies
This course deals with the theory and practice of portfolio management. Topics includes alternative techniques for designing investment portfolios and the criteria for revision and performance evaluation. It also discusses portfolio insurance, the use of options and futures markets, and international topics, ethics, and social issues affected by investment strategies.
Academic Supervisor: Dimitrios Nikolaou Koumparoulis
Economic Analysis
This course examines the theory and applications of several instruments of business economic analysis: production technologies, cost and profit, perfect and imperfect competition, individual choice preferences and demand, and the market-based system (price formation, efficiency, and welfare). It considers the use of economic analysis for problem identification, problem solving, critical thinking, consultation, project management, and strategies for effectiveness.
Academic Supervisor: Mario V. González Fuentes
Innovation Management
This course presents the methods for transforming organizations to create innovation. It covers diagnosis of opportunities for innovation and development, intervention activities, and implementation strategies. It examines problems and issues in integrating technology and innovation into processes and products, management of research and development (R&D); and new product and/or process development according to customer needs.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Business & Economic Consulting
This course is about leading and structuring consulting projects in order to deliver optimal value to clients. It follows a consulting assignment based around a case study that starts with a first client contact and finishes with the implementation of the project. It deals with the capability to add increased value to clients and to consulting practice by effective resource planning and project management.
Academic Supervisor: Ronald D. Fite
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Business & Economic Consulting Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
AEC - Asociación de Empresas de Consultoria
AECE - Asociación Española de Consultores de Empresas
AESC - Association of Executive Search Consultants
AICO - Asociacion Iberoamericana de Control de Gestión
AMCES - Asociación Española de Mentoring y Consultoría
CEBR - Centre for Economics and Business Research
CEIB - Consejo de Empresarios Iberoamericanos
FENACON - Federação Nacional das Empresas de Serviços Contábeis e Assessoramento
FEPAC - Federación Panamericana de Consultores
IBBA - International Business Brokers Association
IBSA - International Business Structuring Association
ICEA - International Consulting Economists Association
ISBEE - International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics
ISOBL - International Society of Business Leaders
SMS - Strategic Management Society
SPC - Society of Professional Consultants
VBIZ - German Association of Innovation, Technology and Business
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Admission requirements - Business & Economic Consulting
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Business & Economic Consulting Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
Recognition - Business & Economic Consulting Online via distance learning
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Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Business & Economic Consulting Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
