Winner projects
:
Congratulations for the 11 (10 Undergraduate and 1 PostGraduate)
winner projects, the ORDER of the projects is NOT
IMPORTANT:
- Project 3: Computerized Accounting Information
System (CAIS) versus Security Threats
- Project 7: Confidence of UAE women regarding
online shopping from western web sites
- Project 8: Dynamics of small business management
in UAE: the case of “Bliss Flowers”
- Project 10: An Analysis of Foreign Banks’
Financial Performance in the UAE
- Project 12: Green Mubazzarah Chalet
System
- Project 16: IT Projects Sales
Software
- Project 23: THE ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN
FRAUD PREVENTION AND DETECTION: THE CASE OF UAE
- Project 30: MARKETING EFFECTIVENESS THROUGH
FACEBOOK: ANALYSIS OF THREE SECTORS
- Project 31: Capital Structure and Firm’s
Performance
- Project 32: An investigation of bank user
perception of Islamic finance in the UAE
- Project 20: Risk & Return of Dubai Real
Estate Sector
For the selected projects (for presentation), the students should use the
following
Powerpoint template
The abstract of the received projects are presented below:
- Project 3 :
Computerized Accounting Information System (CAIS)
versus Security Threats
Title of the project | Computerized Accounting Information System (CAIS)
versus Security Threats |
Students (Ids and full names) | - Marwa Rashed Ali U00016229
- Shamsa Ali Al Ketbi U00022576
- Hala Hussein Omar U00022079
- Rola Ali Sarhan U00023559
- Rasha Khaled Ayyad U00025619
|
Department | Accounting Department |
Supervisors (full names) | Dr. Walaa Wahid ElKelish |
Abstrcat | The purpose of this project is to investigate the relationship between
Accounting information systems (AIS) security and company characteristics in the
UAE. Self-administered surveys were used to collect data from local companies in
the UAE. The multiple regression analysis was used to test the study hypothesis
using SPSS software. Results show that there is a negative relation between the
number of employees and security systems in companies. In addition, there is a
significant positive relationship between the size of company and security
systems. This project highlight useful AIS security guidelines for company
management.
|
Keywords | Accounting information systems, security,
UAE |
- Project 7 :
Confidence of UAE women regarding online shopping
from western web sites
Title of the project | Confidence of UAE women regarding online shopping
from western web sites |
Students (Ids and full names) | - Fatima Mohamed U00010019
- Fatima Mubarak U00022093
- Sumyya U00010139
- Asma Mubarak U00021303
|
Department | Department of Management |
Supervisors (full names) | Pro. Khalid Hafeez |
Abstrcat | This research measures the confidence of UAE women's shoppers regarding
online shopping using western (global)online shopping website in compression to
local UAE based websites. The factors we have investigate includes security ,
price , and quality of product and design of websites. This is to evaluate what
makes UAE women feel more motivated, trust worthy and secure when buying from
global online sites. Moreover we will determine what such shoppers are looking
to buy in general and specify which category of products they are mostly
interested in when they shops online .however, we have adopted deductive
research method approach for this investigation from our systemic literature
review , we have found the key factors to design our research instrument
(questionnaire). The primary data was collected by survey which will be over a
sample of the UAE women to know more about their attitudes toward using online
shopping. Our results show that UAE women are confident with the western online
shopping website from out investigation. Below are the main outcomes from our
investigation. we found that 40% of the respondents have never shopped from the
U.A.E websites, followed by 20% have always shopped online, and 40% saying once
only. On the other hand we noticed that 40% of the respondents have often
shopped from the western websites, while 40% who are rarely shopped, and 20%
shopped very often. 60% women agreed Western online web sites are offering
more competitive prices than the local web sites. However, 80% women agreed that
Westerns online shopping sites are offer wider range of products in compare of
local websites. Moreover, 60% women agreed that they trust the quality of goods
depending on the written reviews in the western web sites rather than other
sources. In addition, 60% women agreed that they worry when entering credit card
number when they shop online .In addition, 60% women agreed that they worry when
entering credit card number when they shop online.
|
Keywords | Online shopping - UAE women - confidence - western websites
|
- Project 8 :
Dynamics of small business management in UAE: the
case of “Bliss Flowers”
Title of the project | Dynamics of small business management in UAE: the
case of “Bliss Flowers” |
Students (Ids and full names) | - Shaikha AlMazrou U00027624
- Basma AlMazmi U00027690
- Mouza AlQaydi U00027632
|
Department | Department of Management, Marketing, and Public Administration |
Supervisors (full names) | Dr. Syed Awais Tipu |
Abstrcat | The objective of our project is twofold: 1- To explore small business
management dynamics in the United Arab Emirates by reducing the gap between
theory and practice. 2- To investigate the challenges faced by a small business
in the UAE. For this purpose we employed case study approach to study a real
world small business in the UAE. We collected our data through face-to-face
interview with the owner. The owner was asked to outline his responses towards
selected theoretical concepts such as human resource, marketing, competitive
analysis, and location/layout design. We found that the business employs
price-skimming strategy without promotional schemes to the customers. Our
selected business employs guerilla-marketing tactics such as the use of social
media. We also found that our selected business face some challenges in terms of
1. Finding highly skilled labor 2. Limited availability of parking 3. Bliss
flowers seek perfection, which overwhelm the employees in certain situations
causing stress. Lastly, we also proposed some recommendations to overcome the
challenges faced by “Bliss Flowers”.
|
Keywords | Small Business – Challenges – Structure – Human Resource – Marketing –
Plan of Operations – Location – Competitive Analysis – SWOT Analysis –
Recommendations |
- Project 10
: An Analysis of Foreign Banks’ Financial
Performance in the UAE
Title of the project | An Analysis of Foreign Banks’
Financial Performance in the UAE |
Students (Ids and full names) | - Mais Alnashash U00020722
- Mouza Al Zaabi U00036937
|
Department | Department of Finance and Economics |
Supervisors (full names) | Prof. Hussein Al-Tamimi |
Abstrcat | The purpose of this study is to analyze and evaluate the financial
performance of foreign banks, Barclays and HSBC, in the UAE. This study covers
the periods of 2005 to 2012. The performance of the banks has been measured by
the use of a set of financial ratios which includes profitability ratios and
bank risk ratios. The findings of the study illustrates that the drastic change
in the financial performance of foreign banks in the UAE was due to the impact
of the global financial crisis between the periods of 2007 to
2009.
|
Keywords | Finance, Performance, Liquidity, Profitability, Banking, Financial
ratios, Global Crisis, Financial Crisis |
- Project 12
: Green Mubazzarah Chalet
System
Title of the project | Green Mubazzarah Chalet
System |
Students (Ids and full names) | - Sharifa Abdullateef U00011829
- Marwah Ali Bajabaa U00010396
|
Department | Department of Management Information Systems |
Supervisors (full names) | Dr. Mohamed Nour |
Abstrcat | The purpose of creating Reservation system is to ease to the stakeholders
and facilitate reservation and checking chalet process that will make it
comfortable for the employee to use the system and save their time at the same
time serving a large number of customers and by making this system will lead to
have an organized data about each reservation which will lead to have correct
information which will lead to make a correct decision and make a higher profit
for this business.
|
Keywords | none |
- Project 16
: IT Projects Sales
Software
Title of the project | IT Projects Sales Software |
Students (Ids and full names) | - Mohammad H H H Alebeedli - U00018254
|
Department | Department of Management Information Systems |
Supervisors (full names) | Dr. Mohamed Nour |
Abstrcat | The Project is about computerizing the business process of an IT company in
Sharjah that offers IT services like Surveillance cameras and security systems.
But they do everything manually and it takes them a lot of time to find
information or create reports, etc. So I learned about their processes, analyzed
it, and designed a system that will help them to be more organized, efficient
and give them ease of data access which will have a positive effect on their
productivity at the end.
|
Keywords | MIS, Database, Systems, IT, Program, Business, Security Cameras
|
- Project 23
: THE ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
IN FRAUD PREVENTION AND DETECTION: THE CASE OF UAE
Title of the project | THE ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN FRAUD
PREVENTION AND DETECTION: THE CASE OF UAE |
Students (Ids and full names) | - Nada Mahmoud Obeid (U00026324)
- Abeer Jarbou (U00024678)
|
Department | Department of Accounting |
Supervisors (full names) | Dr. Sawsan Halbouni |
Abstrcat | Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to investigate internal
auditors, external auditors and financial accountants' perceptions towards the
importance of IT in fraud prevention and detection in the
UAE. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study employed a survey to get the
financial managers, internal and external auditors’ attitudes towards the
importance of using technological and non-technological techniques to detect
fraud in the UAE. A total of 47 participants responded with 94 percent response
rate. Descriptive statistics, t-test in addition to the regression analysis were
used to achieve the main objective of this study. Findings: The results show
that respondents perceived both technological and non-technological techniques
are hand to hand used to prevent and detect fraud in the UAE. Moreover, the
results indicate that business type and company size are the most variable
affect the choice of adoption to the fraud detection and prevention
techniques.
|
Keywords | Information technology, fraud detection, fraud prevention, internal
auditors,external auditors, financial analysts |
- Project 30
: MARKETING EFFECTIVENESS THROUGH
FACEBOOK: ANALYSIS OF THREE SECTORS
Title of the project | MARKETING EFFECTIVENESS THROUGH FACEBOOK: ANALYSIS OF
THREE SECTORS |
Students (Ids and full names) | - KHALID ABDUL KAREEM KHAN- U00028278
|
Department | Department of Management |
Supervisors (full names) | Dr. Saba Khalid |
Abstrcat | This research strives to analyse how organizations market themselves over
Facebook. Organisations from three distinct sectors namely business, government
and the Non-Governmental Organisation are targeted for the data collection and
analysis. There will also be a detailed analysis and comparison as to how these
entities deal with traditional sources of marketing and social media sources.
Based on the analysis, suggestions and arguments are proposed as to how they can
make their message more exciting and attractive in short run and the long
run.
|
Keywords | Facebook, Marketing, traditional marketing media, social media
|
- Project 31
: Capital Structure and Firm’s
Performance
Title of the project | Capital Structure and Firm’s Performance |
Students (Ids and full names) | |
Department | Department of Finance and Economics |
Supervisors (full names) | Prof. Hussein Al-Tamimi |
Abstrcat | This project explains the impact of capital structure on firm’s
performance. The main goal of this paper is to discuss the relationship between
capital structure and firm’s performance i of the most well-known companies in
the world namely Yahoo and Google during the period 2006 - 2013. The A
theoretical background was provided to include trade-off theory, bankruptcy
cost, agency theory, pecking order theory, asymmetric information theory, and
financial analysis. For the empirical part, profit margin, return on asset,
return on equity, debt to asset , and debt to equity were used . The first three
ratios were used as measures of performance, whereas the last two ratios were
used as measures of capital structure. The main conclusion of this project is
Yahoo relied more on equity , while Google relied more on
debt.
|
Keywords | Capital Structure, Performance, Yahoo, Google
|
- Project 32
: An investigation of bank user
perception of Islamic finance in the UAE
Title of the project | An investigation of bank user perception of Islamic
finance in the UAE |
Students (Ids and full names) | - Lama Bawazir U00021991
- Nora Al-Jabr U00022284
- Amel Alzarouni U00020989
|
Department | Department of Finance and Economics |
Supervisors (full names) | Dr. Mohammed Hersi Warsame |
Abstrcat | The Islamic finance sector is experiencing a rapid growth, especially with
the increased interest towards it post the 2008 financial crisis. Thus, it
continues to face a growing competition from an older, more experienced
conventional banking sector. Islamic financial institutions therefore, need to
analyze the awareness and attitudes of bank customers towards Islamic finance in
order to increase customer retention. The purpose of this paper is to examine
bank users’ perception of and attitudes towards Islamic finance as well as their
bank selection criteria. It presents primary data collected from a sample of 132
bank users in the UAE and the use of ANOVA and Pearson correlation for
analysis. The results show that there are certain demographic variables that
influence respondent attitudes but religion and type of bank account used are
the most significant. Furthermore, reputation, convenience, and the availability
of checking and saving accounts are important factors when selecting a bank
regardless of the respondent’s religion .
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Keywords | Islamic finance, Islamic banking, Sharia’h, awareness, consumer attitude
and perception |
- Project 20
: Risk & Return of Dubai Real
Estate Sector
Title of the project | Risk & Return of Dubai Real Estate
Sector |
Students (Ids and full names) | - ShihabAl-Midwahi U00035688
- Saleh Ali Salim U00035645
- Mansour Al-Sayigh U00023154
|
Department | Department of Finance and Economics |
Supervisors (full names) | Prof Hussein Al-Tamimi |
Abstrcat | This paper discusses the implication of risk and return on real estate
sector in Dubai, UAE. It studies and analyzes the risk and return of all listed
real estate companies in Dubai Financial Market (DFM). Real estate investment
began 20 years ago in Dubai and has gained momentum before suffering a setback
during the financial crisis, and after that regained some progress. This paper discusses the performance of real estate companies in 2013
through evaluating some statistical financial measures such as Variance,
Correlation Coefficient, etc… It was observed that high risk does not
necessarily reflect a high return in real estate sector, and also high
correlation with the market does not always guarantee a higher rate of return as
proven in the report |
Keywords | Real Estate, Dubai, Risk & Return, DFM |