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IHETC Business School

Business Management programme — Bac+3 level

Understand the whole business before running it.

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Entry level
Bachelor's degree
Award
Bachelor's degree
Duration
3 years
Actual work
20 h/week
Pace
Full time
Tuition
4 800 000 GNF per year

A general Bac+3-level programme giving the keys to reading an organisation: accounting, law, human resources, operations and strategy. Case studies focus on West African SMEs and groups, not distant multinationals.

Learning objectives

  • Read and interpret a company's financial statements
  • Steer the key functions: procurement, operations, sales, human resources
  • Apply the OHADA legal and tax framework for business
  • Build and defend a strategic diagnosis

Curriculum

1800 hours · 180 credits

Year 1480 hours

  1. OHADA financial accounting

    280 hours · 28 credits

    Principles of the OHADA framework, journal, ledger, trial balance, financial statements, VAT, fixed assets

  2. OHADA business law

    200 hours · 20 credits

    Company forms, commercial contracts, obligations, securities, employment law

Year 2480 hours

  1. Human resource management

    220 hours · 22 credits

    Recruitment, contracts, payroll, appraisal, training, employee relations

  2. Marketing and sales

    260 hours · 26 credits

    Market research, segmentation, positioning, pricing, distribution, the sales force

Year 3480 hours

  1. Management control

    260 hours · 26 credits

    Cost accounting, full and marginal costing, budgets, variance analysis, dashboards

  2. Corporate strategy

    220 hours · 22 credits

    Internal and external diagnosis, competitive advantage, growth, investment decisions

Cross-curricular, throughout160 hours

  1. Cross-curricular base

    160 hours · 16 credits

    Business English, written expression, financial mathematics, statistics, methodology

Cross-curricular, throughout200 hours

  1. Project and immersion

    200 hours · 20 credits

    A commissioned consulting assignment · eight-week placement · final placement and dissertation

Real prerequisite

What follows is assumed and will not be explained again. If most of it is foreign to you, this is not the right entry point — better to know now than at the final assessment.

No technical prerequisite. You need to read and write French comfortably, and be at ease with percentages.

Entry requirements

  • High school diploma in any stream, or equivalent
  • Academic record and motivation letter
  • Remote guidance interview

Career outcomes

  • Management assistant
  • Administrative and financial officer
  • Client relationship officer
  • Operational unit manager
  • Progression to an IHETC Business Bac+5 programme

Skills acquired

  • Accounting
  • OHADA law
  • Excel
  • Management control
  • Negotiation

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