Course Structure
Basic Level
Fundamentals of Financial Markets 4 Credits
- An overview of financial markets, its need and importance
- Money Market
- Capital Market
- Corporate Debt Market
- Derivative Market
- Mutual funds – Definition, types, AMC etc.
- Depositaries
Basics of Finance 4 Credits
- Introduction to Accountancy – definition, objectives, importance
- Accounting cycle, journal, ledger
- Concept, conventions and International accounting standard, US GAAP
- Financial statements of limited companies – trading and Profit & Loss Accounts, Balance Sheet and cash flow statement, balance score card
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Source of capital: Debt, Accounting for bonds, leased assets, analysis of capital structure
- Source of capital: Owners' equity, form of business organization, ownership in a corporation, earning per share.
- Long-lived, non-monetary assets and their amortization
- Environment of business finance, ratio analysis, fund flow analysis, cash flow analysis, economic value added
- Capital Functionary – Cost of capital, operating and financial leverage, capital structure theories, dividend distribution theories
- Capital Budgeting Techniques – Capital expenditure, investment decisions
- Financial Markets – money market, capital market, international capital market
- Working capital management – cash, inventory, account receivable management and factoring
Securities and Business Laws 4 Credits
- Contract – definition and concept, agreement, consideration, capacities to contract, free consent, void agreement, discharge of contract, quasi contract, remedies for breach of contract
- Contract of Sales of Goods
- Partnership, Formation, Rights and obligations of parties, dissolution of a partnership firm
- Negotiable Instruments, promissory notes, bills of exchange and cheques
- Company – basic concepts, formation of company, memorandum and articles, capital of company, prospectus, all about shares, shareholders meeting etc., insolvency and winding up
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Banking Law
Computer & Communication in Management 4 Credits
- Fundamental of Information System
- System Development Tools
- Hardware, Software, Telecommunication, DBMS
- Transaction Process System, Information Reporting System, Decision Support System, Executive Information System
- Artificial Intelligence, Expert System
- Information System in function area
- Introduction of Communication
- Types of Communication
- Barriers in Communication
- Report & Letter Drafting etc.
Quantitative Techniques and Methods 4 Credits
- Introduction to Quantitative Techniques
- Central Tendency, Measure of Dispersion
- Correlation Regression
- Time Series
- Probability
- Sampling etc.
General Level
International Business & Finance 4 Credits
- International finance a business perspective, global financial environment
- Understanding financial risk
- The foreign exchange market
- Introduction to currency futures and option, management of currency exposure
- Swaps
- Working Capital management
- International long run financing and institutions
- Foreign Direct Investment and International capital budgeting
- The emerging markets and financial developments
- International portfolio investment
Strategic Mergers & Acquisitions 4 Credits
- Brief Outline about merges, acquisitions, takeovers, tender offer
- Change forces and merges, anti-trust policies
- Deal structure
- Merges and takeovers – theory and practices
- Alternative paths to growth, valuation
- Corporate Restructuring
- Takeover Defenses
- LBOs and MBOs, Financial Restructuring
- Corporate Governance and Performance
- Case Studies
International Portfolio Management 4 Credits
- Introduction to Portfolio Management
- Introduction and importance of investment
- Security Markets: present and future
- Sources of investment information
- Analysis and Valuation of Equity Securities – Economic Activities, Industry analysis, financial statement analysis
- Issues in efficient markets i.e. technical analysis and market efficiency
- Fixed income and leverages securities
- Derivatives products
Equity Research & Analysis 4 Credits
- Introduction of stock markets both at national and international level
- The emerging markets, financial repression and financial development
- Globalization and the multinational firm
- Basics of financial analysis
- Stock market operating, working, regulatory bodies etc.
- Types of debt and equity instruments, analysis of financial choices and investment decision
- Capital structure analysis, financial health analysis
- Human resource, market and technical analysis of companies
- Merges, acquisitions and takeovers tax aspects
- Credit Rating
- Ethics in finance and corporate governance
- Case Studies
- Analysis of business environment and industry wise analysis
Direct and Indirect Taxes 8 Credit
- Concept of Taxation
- Capital Gains
- Income from Salaries
- Income from Other Sources
- Tax Authorities etc.
Certified Level
Corporate Restructuring 8 Credits
- Concept of Corporate Restructuring
- Understanding financial statement and its analysis
- Capital structure
- Derivatives – options, futures and corporate finance
- Warrants and convertibles
- Derivatives and hedging risk
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Leverage buy outs and Management buy outs
- Efficient Market theory
- Arbitrage and Price Theory
- Portfolio performance evaluation, analysis
Corporate Financial Services
- Introduction to Financial Services
- Asset / Fund based Financial Services – theoretical and regulatory framework
- Accounting / Reporting framework and Taxation of learning
- Financial Evaluation of learning
- Hire Purchase and Commercial credit
- Factoring, Forfeiting, Bill Discounting
- Housing Finance
- Insurance Services – Life and Non-life
- Venture Capital Financing
- NBFCs'
- Merchant Banking and other Fee based/Advisory Financial Services i.e. issue management, mergers, amalgamations, takeover etc. equity research, stock broking
- Credit Rating
Derivatives trading
- Introduction to Derivatives
- Futures, mechanics of buying and selling future, future prices
- Hedging Fundamentals
- Social benefits of future markets and the role of speculation
- The Regulation of future markets, stock index futures, short and long term interest rate future
- Foreign currency future
- Commodity future
- The basics of options, Option pricing, applications of option
Financial Risk Management
- The need for Risk Management System
- The new regulatory and corporate environment
- Structuring and managing the risk management
- Measuring the risk management
- Measuring the market risk
- Credit rating systems
- Hedging credit risk
- Risk Management in non-bank corporation
- Risk Management in the future
Financial Engineering
- Concept of financial engineering, role of financial engineers in an organization
- Understanding financial statement and its analysis
- Capital structure
- Derivatives – options, futures and corporate finance
- Warrants and convertibles
- Derivatives and hedging risk
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Corporate restructuring
- Efficient Market theory
- Arbitrage and Price Theory
- Portfolio performance evaluation, analysis
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