Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

CPE 514 — Professional Practice and Ethics

2 units · CPE department course · Nigerian universities

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Course contents

Engineering profession: structure and specializations (Nigeria and abroad), engineering basics, development of engineering profession, ethics and computer engineering, strands in ethical thinking, organisations and their structures: limited liability companies, private and public, partnerships, sole traders, special features of limited companies, responsibilities of directors; company finance: the need for capital; investment and working capital; sources of funds; equity capital and loan capital, cash flow and its importance, costing: fixed costs and variable costs; overheads; opportunity costs; depreciation; problems of cost allocation; budgeting; assessment of capital investment; discounted cash flow analysis, with particular reference to investment in software tolls and new product development; financial accounts: balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, cash flow statements; the treatment of software in company accounts; ownership of rights in software as goodwill; anatomy of software house: the company, company structure, management of staff, producing of budget, monitoring financial performance, producing budgets, computer contracts and intellectual property rights: the nature and types of intellectual property; intellectual property law (confidentiality, copyright, trademarks, and patents) and implications for the computing, computer engineering and software industry; c

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study CPE 514.

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