 Welcome to the introductory video on postgraduate diploma program in business management that is PGDBM of Krishnakanta Hondiko State Open University. My name is Chainika Senapati and I am from the Maninam Devan School of Management Krishnakanta Hondiko State Open University. The postgraduate diploma in business management at Krishnakanta Hondiko State Open University comprises of learning at the theoretical knowledge and case studies covering different aspects and areas of management. The program is of one year duration with two semesters, each semester comprises four courses. All the courses are compulsory and each course carries four credits and the program has 32 credits in total. The program has four courses in each semester that I have already mentioned and they carry 100 marks that we divide this 100 marks into 80 and 20, 80 as end term examination and 20 for home assignments. Now let us discuss about the syllabus of the postgraduate diploma business management program. So here in the first semester, the learners will be able to know about four courses that is management process and organization behavior. The second course is about manager economics, then the third course is about accounting for managers and the fourth is about information technology in management. In the first course that is management process and organization behavior, the learners will be able to know about the various concepts of management like levels of management, functions of management, planning and forecasting, organizing, staffing, controlling, then the concepts of organization behavior like personality, perception, communication, attitude and emotions and etc. In the second course that is on manager economics, the learners will be able to know about the various concepts like demand forecasting, demand analysis, supply and market equilibrium, then consumer behavior, theory of production, cost analysis. So these are some of the concepts that will be covered in manager economics course. The third course is about accounting for managers. In this course, the learners will be able to know about the various aspects of financial accounting, the accounting concepts, principles, policies, double entry accounting, subsidiary books, ledger, trial balance and then ratio analysis. So these are some of the concepts that will be covered in accounting for managers. In the last course of the first semester that is on information technology in management, the learners will be able to know about the basic concepts related to computer, then data storage techniques and software and multimedia, then MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and they will also be able to learn about the working with the internet and management information systems and etc. In the second semester, the learners will be able to know about the various concepts related to the courses. The first course in the first second semester is about human resource management. The second course of the second semester is about marketing management. The third course is about financial management and the last course is about legal aspects of business. So in the first course of second semester that is on human resource management, the learners will be able to know about human resource planning, recruitment and selection, training and development, performance appraisal, compensation management, job evaluation, job analysis, etc. In the course marketing management, the learners will be able to know about the various concepts of marketing management like marketing environment, consumer buying behavior, then business buying behavior, segmentation, targeting and positioning, marketing mix, product and brand management and etc. In the third course of second semester that is on financial management, the learners will be able to learn about the various concepts like financial planning, sources of funds, cost of capital leverage, capital structure, capital budgeting decisions, and risk in capital budgeting, capital rationing. So these are the concepts that we covered in the course financial management. In the last course that is on legal aspects of business, here the learners will be know about the various laws related to business like law of contract, law of guarantee and guarantee, then contract of payment and pledge, then the learners will also know about law of partnership, law of sales of goods, law of negotiable instruments. So these are some of the concepts that will be covered in the course that is legal aspects of business. So dear learners, as I have already mentioned that there will be four courses in each semester and there will be eight courses in total in the program. So you will be know about the various aspects related to business management. And for more information about the program and the course you may visit our official website that is www.kkhsou.in and thank you so much for watching this introductory video on postgraduate diploma in business management of Krishna Kanto from DECO State of Kutty University. Thank you.