Outline of Fields & Examples of Major Courses

Management covers a wide range of topics, including theoretical and methodological research on corporate management and organizations and empirical and quantitative research on modern Japanese businesses. Our approaches range from American business management theory to German managerial economics.

Management theory (Corporations and Sustainability 1, Corporate System 1, Business Evaluation 2/4, Methods of Corporate Analysis 4, Corporate Ethics 3, Business Economics 1, Management Information Systems 1/3, Strategic Management and Corporate Structure 1/2, Organization Theory of Management 1, International Business Management 1/3, Theory of Organizational Culture 3, Small Business Management 1, Management Planning 2/4, History of Methodology 1/3, History of Management Theory 1/3, CSR Theory, Theory of Corporate Compliance, Business Philosophy, etc.)

Western-style bookkeeping was first introduced to Japan by Keio founder Yukichi Fukuzawa, and the Faculty of Business and Commerce has maintained the tradition he began. The course covers financial accounting, management accounting, and auditing from international, strategic, and historical perspectives.

This diagram organizes the fields of accounting according to two criteria, dividing them into four groups (①–④). First, the vertical axis represents "how accounting information is handled," with the upper half indicating "use and verification of accounting information" and the lower half indicating "creation of accounting information." Next, the horizontal axis represents "what it is based on," with the left side indicating "practice" and the right side indicating "systems." The numbers in the diagram represent these combinations. For example, ① in the upper left represents "practical use and verification of information," and ④ in the lower right represents "creation of information based on systems," showing how each study area and topic is positioned.

Commerce seeks to solve the market issues that arise around products and services through theoretical and empirical means.

In today's age of globalization, the Japanese economy is inextricably linked to the world economy. Economy and Industry seeks to clarify issues and propose policy through theoretical and empirical means regarding trade, capital movement, technology transfer, and the international monetary system.

Econometrics uses theory and data to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze the behavior of corporations and households and consider how markets and policies should respond to social change.

The field of finance encompasses a wide range of research topics, from the financial issues of individual economic agents to the monetary aspects of the national economy as a whole. The field of insurance is concerned with the insurance system, which is the most important form of economic security. In this course, the economic, functional, and mathematical aspects of the system are the subject of analysis.

This course aims to investigate competition and monopolies in an effort to reveal desirable forms of market competition in a capitalist economy. In addition, it will take up public utilities such as transportation, and the nature of government regulation will be the subject of analysis.

This course covers the economics of work and life. Specifically, it is an analysis of the employment behavior of individuals, the employment behavior of firms, and the labor market in which these are coordinated. It also considers labor-management relations and organizational psychology in this context, in addition to social security as the social support for work and life.

We aim to interpret and understand the history of economic life from the individual perspectives of industrial development, business, and finance.