Debre Tabor University Faculty of Business and Economics

Debre Tabor University Faculty of Business and Economics – Check Below:
Faculty of Business and Economics is the pioneer faculty launched in November 2011/12 at Woreta. The faculty started its operation in Accounting and Finance and Economics Undergraduate Degree programs in both regular and extension followed by Management and Tourism & Hotel Management as the third & fourth undergraduate degree programs launched in 2012/13 & 2015/16 respectively at the root place of history of Tewodros II the first industrial center of Africa; Debretabor, Gafat. In 2015/16 the faculty also opened a post graduate program in Development Economics.

Staff profile of Faculty of Business and Economics 2015/2016

Department	Educational Status									Grand Total
	Phd			MSc (MBA)			First Degree
	M	F	Total	M	F	Total	M	F	Total
Management	–	–	–	14	3	17	3	–	3	20
Accounting & Finance	–	–	–	9	1	10	10	3	13	23
Economics	2	–	2	9	2	11	9	2	11	24
Tourism & Hotel Management	–	–	–	3	–	3	2	1	3	6
Total	2	–	2	35	6	41	24	6	30	73

In line with the main objective of the university, the Faculty staff members are committed to conduct community based research & serve the community on areas of Business and Economics in addition to the teaching learning activity. For instance; besides its normal task, the Faculty had offered short term awareness creation training for the Zonal Category A and B tax payers about tax proclamations, tax assessments, internal control and financial management for Small and Micro Enterprises with tangible output. The faculty also train & supports small business owners about entrepreneurship, time management, customer handling & leadership & change management.
Besides the community service, the faculty have had identified numerous thematic researchable Business and Economics areas and more than 10 proposals were submitted to the faculty since 2014/2015.

Thematic Research Areas of the Faculty:

Investment potential
Revenue potential
Trade/Market potential
Food security/improvement of the households living standard
Empowering the Micro and Small Business

Service sector performance and resource management

With the need for expansion of higher education and the need for highly specialized manpower in the community specifically and the country in generally, Faculty of Business and Economics is hopefully working hard to launch post graduate programs in Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and MSc in Accounting and Finance in 2014/15.
Vision
Our vision is to be the leading server and engine of the community change in the areas of Business, and Economics by 2020.
Mission
The Faculty of Business and Economics is devoted to produce competent, passionate, ethical and innovative professionals of business, finance, economics, marketing and management and contribute to the socio-economic development of the nation through quality education, relevant research and community service.

Values

First for Customers: What are we for without Customers?! Hence, we value our students and their affairs are our top concerns
Quality at all: Premier quality as a foundation of everything we do is our guiding principle
Team work and Respect Diversity: We value teamwork to compensate the weakness of some in the group by the strength of others in the same group. And we treat everyone with respect and appreciate individual differences. We carefully consider the impact of business decisions on our people and we recognize exceptional contributions
Committed to ethics: We obey the law and do not compromise moral or ethical principles. We expect to be measured by what we do, as well as what we say.
Care for staff: “contented cow gives better milk”; our staffs are the cornerstones of the faculty. Hence we care for them.
Proudly community servant: We are not an island. We are part of and live with the community. We feel their pains and share their joy. Therefore, we feel proud to belong to and serve our community
MottoEntrepreneurship: We are strategically entrepreneurial in the pursuit of excellence, encouraging original thought and its application, and willing to take risks based on sound business judgment.

Committed to be engine of the Business Community Transformation!