This course is designed for students who have interest in careers in the accounting and finance functions of corporations or government entities or in the consulting/risk management/internal audit services side of public accounting firms. The purpose of the course is to introduce the student to scope of auditing in today’s organizations, a scope that extends beyond far the traditional attestation of the financial statements. A basic understanding of the use of internal auditing by top management and governing boards for controlling organizations. An understanding of techniques for risk assessment and management. Knowledge of the standards for conducting internal (management) audits. An understanding of the audit function’s organization and administration. An understanding of the internal audit process. Ability to scope and to establish criteria for an effective internal audit. The ability to report effectively the results of the audit. College of Management Main Campus Stanley Y. Chang 60 Wednesday 2,3,4 Acc7013 (722EM4500) 3 *Registration eligibility: juniors and above.
(College of Management) Graduate Institute of Accounting http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/Acc

This PhD course is aimed to provide students advanced corporate finance knowledge. Students are expected to understand empirical issues and methodologies regarding corporate finance, including capital structure, new issues, corporate investment, M&A, corporate government and corporate payout. Students who take this course are strongly recommended to have undergraduate background in Finance, Accounting and Econometrics. Students are expected to understand empirical issues and methodologies regarding corporate finance, including capital structure, new issues, corporate investment, M&A, corporate government and corporate payout. Students who take this course are strongly recommended to have undergraduate background in Finance, Accounting and Econometrics. College of Management Main Campus Grading and Requirements Mid-term 25% Final 25% Presentation 10% Research paper 25% Exercise and quiz 15% A. This course is processed all in English. B. You are required to preview papers, which would be your assignments for examinations. (It will be great if you could quickly preview them in the winter break). C. You are responsible to present papers in turn in the class (indicated by (S), we will arrange presenters for papers in the first week). I will cover papers with * mark. D. In addition, you need to complete a research project. To make sure that you can submit your research paper on time, please submit your proposal before Apr end. An uncreative proposal or unworkable project would be rejected until I am satisfied. E. Two types of exercises are requested for each topic: i) a comment for a working paper, and ii) a proposal for a given project title. F. You will have an open-book test on basic corporate finance at the first week. Yanzhi Wang 20 Thursday 7,8,9 Fin8052 (723ED5110) 3 (College of Management) Graduate Institute of Finance *Registration eligibility: Ph.D students. http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/Fin

Some specific topics covered include real estate development process, homeownership investment decision, market and location analysis, feasibility analysis, alternative mortgage instrument analysis including mortgage pricing, mortgage choice mortgage securitization, commercial real estate investment analysis, federal income effects on real estate investment decision, and valuation of real estate. To give students a broad background in the principles and techniques of real estate development, real estate investment decision and financial analysis. College of Management Main Campus Prerequisite:
Fin3001 (703E30600)Financial Management.

Grade Evaluation: Each student will be evaluated according to the criteria shown below. Final grades are based on total points scored in the course. No make-up exam except in special circumstance. CRITERIA POINTS Group Assignments/Projects 36% Mid Exam 27% Final Exam 27% Attendance and participation 10% Attendance: We expect attendance at each class. If you are unable to attend the class, please email us and specify the class you are missing and your reason for missing the class. I may take attendance into account in evaluating student performance and assigning final grades Yao-Min Chiang 60 Tuesday 2,3,4 Fin5004 (723EU2010) 3 (College of Management) Graduate Institute of Finance,
(College of Management) Department of Finance http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/Fin

Corporate restructuring may be undertaken alone (e.g., eBay’s spinoff of PayPal, or Google’s organizational restructuring into Alphabet Holdings), or can lay the groundwork for follow-on M&A, leveraged buyout (LBO) (e.g., Dow Chemical merged with Du Pont). The strategic roles of the private equity fund and hedge fund become more important for facilitating either restructuring and M&A. To start a career in investment banking, consulting services, buyout specialists, you need to get familiar with domain knowledge and to keep abreast of contemporary global M&A and restructuring events. This pedagogical vision motivated this course. The purpose of this course is to teach relevant domain knowledge of the acquiring firms for pursuing synergistic or undervalued targets worldwide. Before or after M&A, asset restructuring can be a must to achieve strategic renewal and organizational reinvention for legitimacy and profitability. In addition, effective integration of merged firms and then restructuring non-core assets also contribute to the success of post-merger growth and operations. We are interested in the motives, planning, decision-making, valuation, and negotiation of such transnational equity transactions. Moreover, many developed-country firms have suffered lost market share or innovativeness abroad and domestically, which opens the strategic window of equity-linked restructuring modes with emerging-market counterparts. In addition, M&As have been used by global players to restructure and even strengthen their global deployments of resources, capabilities, talents. We are going to study several latest cases in achieving these strategic objectives e.g., Lenovo acquired Motorola from Google to strength its patent portfolio and brand equity in mobile devices in 2014, then to restructure its global supply chain in 2015. The types of global M&As include stock-based merge, cash-based acquisition, and LBO. Once completed, cross-border takeover deals need to get approval from the regulators of both home and host countries. In addition, the acquiring firm entails ownership rearrangement, asset revitalization, employee redeployment, organizational transformation, and resource integration. Those restructuring efforts are critical for enhancing economic, accounting, and social value. College of Management Main Campus As to the pedagogical approach, we are going to discuss core theories, best business practices, inspiring ideas, seamless implementation, and policy implications in class. Class participations and Teamwork involvements are expected, which accounts for most of your final grade. After completing this course, you should be confidently undertaking projects of global M&A and corporate restructuring. This is an inter-disciplinary course that lays its groundwork on entry-level courses in management, finance, and organization. Thus, basic knowledge in these subjects (or equivalent), though NOT regarded as pre-requisites, contribute to effective learning. You can expect to learn timely professional knowledge and experience in global M&A and corporate restructuring. The instructor commits to enhance your understandings of strategic thinking, decision-making framework, corporate valuation alternatives, and restructuring/integration action programs that are “working surely”. Hong-Jen Chiu 120 Tuesday 2,3,4 IB5063 (724EU1670) 3 (College of Management) Department of International Business,
(College of Management) Department of International Business,
(College of Management) Graduate Institute of International Business
*Registration eligibility: juniors and above. http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/IB

“The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real.” Ivan Sutherland known as the father of computer graphic once said. Indeed, we live in a three-dimensional (3D) physical world, but only through the last two decades of 3D technology development, we are seeing a 3D virtual world through the screen, even more stunning, enchanting, captivating than the reality. We own this great progress to tremendous evolutional development of 3D computer graphics, fast and powerful processing chips, high definition displays, smart mobile devices and affordable VR headsets. It also opens up a strong demand of 3D creation contents for 3D applications. This course attempts to fill the apparent gap of 3D talents between the academic and the market place. What make this course unique? First, it is organized in four main parts that are integrated together as a wholistic learning experience: (A) 3D Foundation: Knowledge and Skill (follow text books 1 and 2) Topics: HTML5, 3D Graphics Basics, WebGL and Real-time 3D Rendering, 3D Graphics and Rendering in Three.js, 3D Creation Process, 3D Engines and Frameworks, Mobile 3D Applications, Virtual Reality (VR), WebVR, and Augmented Reality (AR). (B) 3D Creation: Demo and Practice (follow text book 3) Topics: Blender Basics and Interface, Character Creation, Design, Modeling, Unwrapping, Texturing, Shading, Skelton, Rigging, and Animation, Camera Tracking, Lighting, Compositing, and Integration into a Real Video. (C). 3D Applications: Case study and Presentation Topics: studies of pertinent cases in 3D applications will help student gain a broader and deeper understanding of how a 3D production is done and what are the factors that would contribute to its success? Or factors that cause its failure? For examples， Pokemon Go (AR): the fast rise and fall of users, why? 3D Movie, why is it not as popular as before? Ang Lee’s recent 3D movie “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” with 4K resolution and 120 FPS as an example? Space exploration: NASA’s Curiosity roller on Mars. How 3D interactivity helps our learning? 3D fashion, how does 360 body scanning” work? What are the bottleneck for 3D fashion? VR headsets: the key success factor of VR: low cost? Or experience? Or content? Crowd funding for 3D projects: which is the right crowd funding platform? What are the essential elements of a funding proposal for a 3D project? (D). 3D Project: hand on practice and team work Topics: students will work as a team for a real-life 3D project with the in-class helps of professional 3D experts. The topics could cover all 3D applications beyond gaming, in education, in architectural and interior design, in heritage and archeology, in medical field and health, in industrial design and prototyping, in art and museum, in retails, in tourism, in AR and VR applications. Second, this course emphasizes free, open source, cross-platform tools for 3D creation with HTML5 and global 3D visualization standard, using the browser as platform. Third, this course is organized for information management (IM) students in mind, but it also welcomes non-IM or non-information technology majors to join. Its curriculum, case studies, homework, and projects are designed multi-tracked separately for technology and non-technology students. Fourth, students will benefit from instructor’s 3D business experience and also from half a dozen quest speakers from various 3D professional fields. They will be invited to talk on specific 3D topics, to help lead case studies, and to help advise 3D team projects. 3D virtual world is so big and wide, enough for everyone to find a place of personal interest with its endless possibility in reality. Just imagine in 3D! “Imagination is more important than knowledge!” -Albert Einstein Some 3D creations using tools to be introduced in this course are listed below for your pleasant viewing: 1. Wedding dresses: http://www.vrnet.com.tw/20180828wed3dpssp/ 2. A pet: http://www.vrnet.com.tw/web3d/bigdog_02.html 3. An antique bronze vase: http://www.vrnet.com.tw/web3d/bottle.html 4. A moving robotic arm: http://www.vrnet.com.tw/web3d/robot2web.html 5. A virtual city: http://www.vrnet.com.tw/web3d/city001_b4w01.html This course aims at introducing 3D creation in reality applications both in theory and in practice. Students will learn practical knowledge as well as useful skills; will also learn the process of 3D creation through actual cases, demonstrations and hands-on projects. College of Management Main Campus Even though this course targets students of information management background, students from other disciplines with non-information majors are also welcome. As 3D applications span a broad range, interdisciplinary talents are needed for 3D productions. This course welcome international students who would bring a global and diversified perspectives of 3D worldwide developments to the class. Knowledge of computer graphics, JavaScript, WebGL is helpful, but not necessarily required. Students need to show strong interests in 3D technology with a passion to learn and determinant will to do all the required works for this course. Hsieh,Kuan-Hsiung 80 Thursday 7,8,9 IM5048 (725EU3590) 3 *Registration eligibility: juniors and above.

(College of Management) Graduate Institute of Information Management,
(College of Management) Department of Information Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/IM

This course is designed to make students better leaders in teams while some of the principles can be applied to organizations. To achieve this objective, I will provide students with various principles and strategies drawn on solid empirical research to help future managers increase the probability of success. Students will learn both the conceptual understanding and the behavioral skills required to lead teams and organizations successfully. Students will draw from their own experiences in discussing team and organization management skills and learn from classmates’ experience sharing. Topics will include leadership styles, individual decision making, team selection, team creativity, team diagnosis, team conflict, etc. In addition, students will learn how to manage and work in cross-cultural teams through the final team project in which students will be paired up with students from different countries. Class structure: This course is interactive, analytical, and sometimes experiential. We will use case studies, class exercises, and videos to stimulate class discussions. Each class will begin by me giving an overview and introduction to the topic. We will then have a group scheduled to present summaries of the assigned readings and cases. I will facilitate the class discussions about the case and the readings when I expect that every student is well prepared for the class discussion. The class will end with a discussion of potential applications and a review. College of Management Main Campus Online study guide questions: 10 % In-class participation: 20% Team case analysis report: 20% Quizzes: 10 % Final team project: 40% Yi-Ching Liu 65 Thursday 2,3,4 MBA5074 (741EU3180) 3 (College of Management) Department of Business Administration
*Registration eligibility: juniors and above. http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/MBA

This is a compulsory course for first year graduate students. This course will focus on formulating dissertation proposals, generating bibliographies, conducting preliminary research, reviewing and creating a dissertation outline. It will also equip students with the skills required to seek out appropriate conferences and submit their technical reports to the journals specialized in applied and food microbiology. To assure students in the long-term process of research, writing and revise for their dissertation, and, meanwhile, to provide them the opportunity of generating a polished journal article in their graduating year. College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture Main Campus Cheng, Kuan-Chen 10 Wednesday 1,2 Biot7012 (642EM0130) 2 (College of Bioresources and Agriculture) Institute of Biotechnology
http://www.iob.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en&Trad2Simp=n

Around half of the classes for this semester would be lecture based, while the other half will be in journal club format as well as “Author-reviewer role playing format”. We will select the most updated literature with significant breakthroughs in different layers of epigenomic regulatory machineries. These includes the studies on how DNA methylation, chromatin modification and remodeling, functional non-coding RNA machineries that coordinately regulate epigenetic landscape and this gene expression pattern and cell fate. We will also discuss wet bench experimental design and bioinformatic analytical tools for analyzing and consolidating DNA methylome, transcriptome, small RNA analysis, lincRNA and native elongating RNA-seq and Chromatin-ImmunoPrecipitation (ChIP)-seq, ChIRP (Chromatin Isolation by RNA purification) and RNA-IP-seq datasets. Contents of most recent international conferences, sometimes including unpublished data, will also be discussed. We will also periodically invite local and international experts to join our course. One week before their seminar, we will discuss their published research article to help students prepared for the actual interaction with world experts in the field. Students will be able to acquire the most up to date information in the developing Epigenomics field. Through discussing and critically evaluating most recent publications and international conference presentations, the students will also establish the ability to judge original research work and argue their points with scientific evidences. College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture Main Campus Already taken one of the following topics (or similar ones to be judged by the instructor): Epigenetics, Frontiers in Epigenetic regulatory mechanisms, Epigenetics in germ cells and stem cells, Cellular reprogramming, Frontiers in functional non-coding RNAs or Epigenomics. 10 Friday 6,7 Biot7014 (642EM0150) 2 (College of Bioresources and Agriculture) Institute of Biotechnology *Registration eligibility: graduate students. http://www.iob.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en&Trad2Simp=n

This course will focus on mouse animal model to provide students a state-of-the- art of the technologies in embryo development and pluripotent stem cells (i.e. embryonic stem cells) research and its applications. The course will provide valuable opportunities for students to participate various practical training and knowledge in oocyte and embryo handling, in vitro fertilization, cryopreservation of egg and embryo, micromanipulation techniques (i.e. intracytoplasmic sperm injection and somatic cell nuclear transfer, embryo biopsy, blastocyst injection…etc), derivation and in vitro/in vivo characterizations of pluripotent stem cells. Understand the early embryo development and modern reproductive biotechnologies College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture Main Campus 5 Wednesday 2,3,4 Biot7022 (642EM0230) 3 (College of Bioresources and Agriculture) Institute of Biotechnology *Registration eligibility: graduate students. http://www.iob.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en&Trad2Simp=n

Depends on the background of the students, 1/2 to 2/3 of the lectures will be given by the instructor for introducing basic concepts in Gametogenesis, Stem cells and the regulation by Genetics and Epigenetics. For the rest of the classes, students will be assigned the most updated original research papers as well as the milestone publications. They will be randomly divided into 2 groups for each assignment. One group will be presenting the articles and students in the other group are expected to challenge the papers from the experimental design, the methodology to the interpretation of the data. Students in the 1st group should defend for the papers as if it’s their manuscript. Students from the 2nd group should also provide constructive advice as how to improve the manuscript so that it can be published in a higher impact journal. On top of learning the basic concepts of gametogenesis, epigenetics and reprogramming, students are expected to develop the ability to critically evaluate and interpret published research articles. In addition, they will learn the art of reviewing as well as defending a manuscript for publication. College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture Main Campus Preferably having backgrounds in one of the following subjects: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology or Epigenetics 10 Thursday 3,4 Biot5005 (642EU0070) 2 *Registration eligibility: juniors and above.
(College of Bioresources and Agriculture) Institute of Biotechnology,
(College of Life Science) Geno and System Biology Degree Program
http://www.iob.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en&Trad2Simp=n

(Sample description from one of the several instructors)
This course is an introduction to accounting designed for creating awareness on the importance of accounting in society. The course intends to provide students an understanding of the accounting principles, basic concepts, and components of financial statements. Furthermore, the course provides a comparison of the U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), the Japanese GAAP, and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to acquire a basic knowledge of the cross-sectional differences among them. (Sample objective from one of the several instructors)
The objective of this course is to provide prospective users of financial statements with a thorough understanding of the accounting fundamentals as effective decision-makers. After completing this course, students are expected to: (1) Understand the basics of financial accounting and related financial reporting systems; (2) Understand how economic activities of a firm are recorded and summarized, and how these activities affect the firm’s financial position, operating performance, and cash flows; (3) Gain insights into the applications of financial statement analysis techniques to assess firm performance and competitiveness; (4) Obtain some perspectives from the real world; (5) Understand the differences among IFRS, Japanese GAAP, and U.S. GAAP. College of Management Main Campus Accounting (a)(Ⅰ)(1) Atsuko Takinishi,
Yu,Lin-Hui,
Shu-Ling Wu,
Atsuko Takinishi 60 Tuesday 7,8,9 Thursday 5,6 Acc1004 (702E10112) 3 *Majors-only (including minor and double major students).
(College of Management) Department of Business Administraton-Division of Business Management,
(College of Management) Department of Business Administration-Division of Technology Management
http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/Acc

(Sample description from one of the several instructors)
This is the second course in the three-semester intermediate accounting sequence and will be taught in English. This course is designed to develop an in-depth understanding of the concepts, principles, and practices of financial accounting under IFRS. The emphasis is on understanding and applying basic accounting principles and other concepts that guide the reporting of the effect of transactions and other economic events on the financial condition and operating results of a business. (Sample objective from one of the several instructors)
Upon completion of this course, students are expected to understand: (1) basic concepts and theories of contemporary external financial accounting and reporting, (2) procedures used to measure, record, and report financial data for corporate business organizations, (3) the effects of corporate business activities on financial statements, and (4) the content of these statements. College of Management Main Campus Prerequisite:
Acc2003 (702 20651)Accounting (b)(Ⅱ)(1),
Acc2001 (702 20610) or Acc2014 (702 20601) or Acc2018 (702 20661) Intermediate Accounting (1). Lee, Yen-Jung,
Chen, Kun-Chih 40 Wednesday 7,8,9 Acc2019 (702E20662) 3 *Majors-only (including minor and double major students). http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/Acc