Essential Management and Communication Skills
The operating system of management: planning, organizing, leading and controlling, plus the communication skills that make those functions work in practice.
Guide
The $89 MBA, course by course
Eight courses, 120 credits, no electives, no thesis. Here is what each course actually covers — the real curriculum, not a brochure version of it.
8 courses, 120 creditsQuiz assessment1–2 years typical
The curriculum
All eight courses
A fixed sequence that moves from managing people, through managing money and markets, to managing the whole enterprise.
Leadership and Team Development
How teams actually function — motivation, team dynamics, leading through change and developing the people who report to you.
Human Resource Management
Recruitment, performance management and employee development: the people-side decisions every manager faces, taught systematically.
Finance and Accounting
Reading financial statements — balance sheets, income statements, cash flow — and using financial ratios to judge how a business is really doing.
Financial Concepts
The financial vocabulary of business decisions: time value of money, risk and return, and the concepts behind investment choices.
Marketing Communication
How businesses reach markets: positioning, messaging, channels and the communication strategy behind commercial decisions.
International Business
Operating across borders — trade, cross-cultural management and the realities of international markets.
Strategy and Operations
The capstone logic of the program: competitive strategy, operations design and how the two connect in real organizations.
How it works
Study, assessment and pace — plainly
The three practical questions every applicant asks, answered without embellishment.
Self-paced
No live lectures, no term dates, no cohort. You start when ready and move course to course at your own speed — typically 1–2 years alongside full-time work.
Quiz-assessed
Each course ends in a multiple-choice quiz. Straightforward to attempt, honest about what it measures: knowledge of the material, not essay craft or presentation skill.
$89, once
One payment covers all eight courses. No per-course fees, no textbook charges published, no scholarship mechanics — the price is the price.
What this curriculum is not It is not a case-method MBA: there are no group projects, simulations or capstone consulting engagements in the published structure. What it is — eight coherent courses of management education, verifiable on completion — is exactly what the $89 buys. Judge it on that, not on features it never claimed.
Questions
MBA curriculum questions
The details applicants check before enrolling.
How many courses are in the ACLAS MBA?
Eight courses, carrying 120 credits in total. Each course is taken online at your own pace and assessed by multiple-choice quiz. There are no electives or specializations — the curriculum is a fixed, coherent sequence.
How long does the MBA take to complete?
Typically 1–2 years around full-time work, at a pace of roughly 5–8 focused hours a week. There is no fixed deadline and no term dates — you set the pace. Claims of finishing in weeks refer to skimming, not to completing eight graduate courses properly.
How are the courses assessed?
Each course is assessed by multiple-choice quiz. There are no essays, group projects or proctored exams in the published program structure. If you need essay-based or dissertation assessment for your goals, this is not the right program.
Is there a thesis or capstone project?
No. The ACLAS MBA has no thesis or capstone requirement in its published structure. The eight taught courses are the entire program.
What will I actually be able to do after these eight courses?
Read financial statements, build a strategy from market evidence, manage people and projects with recognized frameworks, communicate with markets, and reason about international business — the working toolkit of a general manager, taught systematically rather than absorbed over a decade.
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Eight courses. Start with the first.
USD 89 one-time covers the entire curriculum. No entrance exam, no application fee — apply free and pay only after your acceptance letter arrives.