DISTED’s Diploma in Business Studies provides cutting-edge AI knowledge and skills that are crucial to the effective and efficient management and operation of a business enterprise. The programme opens doors to varied employment opportunities in business related fields including accounting, management, marketing, international business, e-commerce, human resource management, and/or business enterpreneurship. Upon completion, graduates can choose to fast track to the Bachelor’s degree at DISTED in Collaboration with HELP University.
Ready to lead, innovate, and excel in the business world? The Diploma in Business Studies at DISTED College equips you with a strong foundation in marketing, finance, accounting, management, and entrepreneurship. You’ll also gain hands-on experience with advanced AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Canva AI, Excel Built in AI, Notebook LM, and HR AI Agent Training platforms technologies that enhance data analysis, automate tasks, and improve decision-making. Through industry-focused projects and real-world case studies. This programme prepares you with the skills and confidence to enter the workforce or progress seamlessly into a related degree programme.
Graduates of the Diploma in Business Studies are well-prepared for a wide range of career paths, including:
This diploma blends traditional business education with modern digital tools, offering students a comprehensive understanding of core business functions such as marketing, finance, accounting, management, and entrepreneurship. With the rise of AI in the workplace, students also gain hands-on experience with intelligent platforms that enhance productivity, decision-making, and strategic thinking.
By the end of this course, our students will be able to:
Students will participate in industry-relevant projects, case studies, and field visits to gain practical insights into business operations. Guest lectures and workshops with professionals from various industries further enrich the learning experience.
This module is designed to provide a solid foundation of the essential topics that business students need to understand. Its focus on practical skills, knowledge of the basics, and important developments in business. Students learn what work i.e best practices which make organizations successful and how to identify and obvious pitfalls. This subject lays the foundation for future in-depth study of business management.
This course provides broad based and balanced coverage of both the business and technology elements of e-commerce. This course presents concepts and skills for the strategic use of e-commerce and related information system technologies. Provides a framework for the analysis of e-commerce solutions to issues surrounding business-to-business, business to consumers, and intra-organizational trade. This course will allow the learners to gain an understanding of how to design, implement, administer and maintain e-Commerce applications.
Business Law introduces the basic legal principles that affect businesses. It covers key topics like contracts, company structures, employment law, and consumer rights. The course helps students understand how laws impact business operations and decision-making, preparing them to handle legal issues in a business environment.
This course equips students with fundamental principles of entrepreneurship, including creativity, business planning, resource management, marketing strategies, and financial concepts essential for organizing and managing a small business. Students will gain practical skills in developing comprehensive and actionable business plans. By the end of the course, students will be well-prepared to launch and manage their own small businesses successfully.
This module covers essential management principles, including planning, organizing leading and controlling. It highlights the importance of organizational structure, culture, communication, and motivation for team productivity. Students also explore modern management trends like diversity and sustainability. By the end, they’ll be well-equipped to apply these principles in real world scenarios and improve their leadership skills for effective management across different organizations and global contexts.
This module will look at basic issues of scarcity, choice, value and how and why resource allocation are organised in free markets, or in controlled markets or by government. Supply, demand, money, prices, elasticity and markets in both the ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ economies will be examined. The business organisation, its environment and market structures will be described. Short run and long run costs, fixed and variable costs, average, total and marginal costs, economies and diseconomies of scale, minimum efficient scale and the growth of businesses will be studied. Business structure, behaviour, pricing and output strategies and the need for government regulation of business activity will be discussed.
This course will equip students with an introduction to the concepts of marketing where they able to possess broad-based theoretical knowledge and relevant practical skills in area of an analyse market opportunities and select target markets, how to develop a marketing mix, and to develop skills on how to manage a marketing effort. The skills acquired through this course will enable students to perform sustainable operational and entrepreneurial tasks ethically in business organisations.
This module begins by introducing students the business transactions, sources of documents and accounting equations. It then continues to cover books of prime entry, double-entry bookkeeping systems, ledgers and bank reconciliation. The syllabus then finishes with the preparation of the trial balance and final accounts of a sole proprietor.
The subject introduces students to the principles of Management Accounting and the role played by the Management Accountant. The subject equips students with the essential concepts of management accounting like accounting for inventory and overheads, marginal costing, budgeting, cost-volume profit analysis and relevant information for planning and decision making .
This module will be focusing on essential concepts and skills in using three programs: a word processor, a spreadsheet and presentation software based on Microsoft Office suites, plus the use of Microsoft Teams. Word is a full-featured word processing program that allows you to create many types of personal and business documents, including flyers, letters, memos, resumes, report, mailing label and newsletters. Power-point is a complete presentation program that allows you to produce professional-looking presentation. Excel Intermediate is a powerful spreadsheet program that allows user to organise data, complete calculations, make decisions, graph data, advanced formatting techniques, such as conditional formatting, using formulas and functions, such as IF and COUNTIF, using pivot tables to analyze and summarize data. Microsoft Teams is a communication and collaboration platform that allows teams to work together in real-time. It is widely used by businesses, schools, and organizations to facilitate communication, collaboration, and productivity. suites. Word is a full-featured word processing program that allows you to create many types of personal and business documents, including flyers, letters, memos, resumes, report, mailing label and newsletters. Power-point is a complete presentation program that allows you ton produce professional-looking presentation. Excel is a powerful spreadsheet program that allows user to organise data, complete calculations, make decisions, graph data, develop professional-looking reports, published organised data to the web and access real-time data from web sites.
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The primary aim of Business Ethics module is to introduce the students to ethical concepts that are relevant to resolving moral issues in business; to impart the reasoning and analytical skills needed to apply ethical concepts to business; to provide an understanding of the social, technological, natural environments within which moral issues in business arise; and to supply case studies of actual moral dilemmas faced by businesses.
This module is designed to enable students to develop the skills required to manage and implement a business-based project. Students will learn project management principles such as defining, planning, scheduling, executing, and controlling a project. Project management techniques such as the use of work breakdown structure, critical path method, Gantt Chart, and project management software will be covered in this module.
This course equips students with essential skills in human resource planning, recruitment and selection, training and development, compensation and rewards, and employment relations. By the end of the module, students will gain the knowledge to excel in human resource management.
This course explores key concepts in organizational behavior, emphasizing the understanding and management of workplace dynamics to enhance individual and organizational performance. Students will examine topics such as motivation, leadership, team dynamics, communication, decision-making, negotiation strategies, organizational power and politics, culture, and conflict resolution. By the end of the course, students will develop the skills and insights needed to analyze and influence behavior within organizations effectively.
This course will provide general understanding of macroeconomic concepts, principles and theories and its application to major economic issues and institutions. Students will have critical understanding of the environment which set the operation of the enterprise within the wider context of a macro-economy, and an active political environment.
This course will equip students with comprehensive global marketing knowledge and skills where students enable to develop an international marketing plan, how to find global business opportunities, understand the cultural aspects and importing/exporting activities. The skills acquired through this course will enable students to resolve the recent strategic issues of product/market scope and policies on specific foreign market.
This course enhances the importance of accounting concepts, accounting knowledge in sole proprietor trading for year end adjustments, the preparation of extended trial balance and error detection in control accounts. It also aims to introduce the students to partnership accounting and financial statements analysis for performance evaluation purposes.
This course lays the foundation for future in-depth study of financial management. Students are exposed to topics such as roles played by the finance manager, time value of money, capital budgeting, cost of capital, working capital management, dividend policies and long term financing. The course has recently been updated to include the latest developments in finance like FINTECH.
This course equips students with the essential skills to derive meaningful insights and make informed decisions using data. Students will learn to systematically analyze, interpret, and present data, fostering their ability to solve business problems and enhance decision-making processes. Key topics covered include sampling methods, confidence intervals and estimation. The course also include the application of inferential statistics for single sample and two independent and dependent samples using appropriate statistical tests. Students will also get to explore relationships between variables and making predictions using regression and correlation analysis.
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Kursus ini menawarkan kemahiran berbahasa dari aspek mendengar, bertutur, membaca dan menulis sesuai dengan tahap intelek pelajar. Tujuan kursus ini adalah untuk meningkatkan kecekapan berbahasa dalam konteks rasmi dan tidak rasmi. Pengajaran dan pembelajaran akan dilaksanakan dalam bentuk kuliah, tutorial, tugasan, aktiviti kebahasaan, main peranan (role-play), ujian dan peperiksaan. Pada akhir kursus ini, pelajar diharapkan dapat menguasai kemahiran berbahasa secara lisan dan tulisan.
*For international students only
*For international students only
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Other equivalent qualifications recognised by the Malaysian Government.
2026 Intakes
This course provides an introduction to information technology and Information systems. The student will be introduced to computer software, hardware, and networking technologies, Information systems, databases as well as information security and privacy. The subject also teaches students to maximize their use of mobile devices, make the most of online tools for collaboration and communication, and fully utilize today’s Internet capabilities. It highlights today’s most current technology trends and developments.
