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Major FINANCE
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Course Title: Commercial Banking
Course Code: FIN 410
Credit Hours: Three (3)
Semester: Specialization for BBA
Prerequisite: FIN 260
The purpose of this course is to familiarize the students with various practical aspects of commercial banks,
their nature, significance, modus operandi, etc. It covers the different departments into which the operations
of banks are divided and the interrelationship that exists between them.
Course Outlines:
4. Special Markets
• Agricultural Loans
• Real Estate Loans
• Small Business Loans
• Lease Financing
RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS:
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• “Bank Management - Text and Cases”, by Hempel, Simonson & Coleman, (4th
Edition), John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
• “Modern Banking in Theory and Practice”, by Shelagh Heffernan, John Wiley &
Sons, 1996. (Latest Edition)
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Course Title: Investment Banking
Course Code: FIN 420
Credit Hours: Three (3)
Semester: Specialization for BBA
Prerequisite: FIN 260
An advanced level course in finance and security analysis. The course goes deep into the concept and
application of valuation as it applies to the process of buying and selling of the portfolio theory as it applies
to the setting up of mutual funds. The regulations concerning buying and selling of securities are also
discussed.
Course Outlines:
Recommended Textbooks:
• ”Inside Investment Banking”, by Block , E.,, Homewood, ILL . Dow Jones – Irwin,
1986
• “Investment Banking Handbook”, by Williamson , J. P.,, New York : Wiley, 1986.
• “Financial Institution Management: A modern perspective”, by Anthony Saunders –
Irwin.
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Course Title: Analysis of Financial Statements
Course Code: FIN 430
Credit Hours: Three (3)
Semester: Specialization for BBA
Prerequisite: FIN 260
The objective of the course is to prepare the students in accounting and analytical
techniques in order to enable them to see through the final reports for the hidden
financial information. Create conceptual understanding regarding the mechanics of
accounts behind the financial reports and their effects on the accounting results.
Course Contents:
Recommended Books:
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• “Practical Financial Statement Analysis”, by Foulke, R.A. (6th Edition), New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1968.
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Course Title: Budgeting
Course Code: FIN 440
Credit Hours: Three (3)
Semester: Specialization for BBA
Prerequisite: FIN 260
The course will prepare the students for the managerial function of planning and control.
It aims to acquaint them with various techniques and tools used for planning and
application of controls. It will provide a conceptual platform for decision making
Course Outlines:
Recommended Textbooks:
• Matz, Adolph and Usry, Milton F., Cost Accounting Planning and Control, Chicago,
South-Western Publishing Co.
• Kaplan, Robert, Advanced Management Accounting, New Delhi, Prentice Hall of
India Private Limited.
• Fischer, Paul M., Cost Accounting Theory and Applications Chicago, South-Western
Publishing Co.
• Maiz Usry, Cost Accounting Planning & Control, South-Western Publishing Co.
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Course Title: Development Economics
Course Code: FIN 460
Credit Hours: Three (3)
Semester: Specialization for BBA
Prerequisite: ECO 160
The aim of this course to study special economic problems of developing economy in general. Economic
growth and planning for the economic development are discussed in particular.
Course Outlines:
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• The Limited Value of the Historical Growth Experience: Differing Initial
Conditions.
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• The Important Role of Women
• The Economics of Agricultural Development: Transition from Peasant
Subsistence to Specialized Commercial Farming
• Toward a Strategy of Agricultural and Rural Development: Some Main
Requirements
Recommended Textbooks:
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Course Title: Multinational Financial Management
Course Code: FIN 470
Credit Hours: Three (3)
Semester: Specialization for BBA
Prerequisite: FIN 260
The course provides a conceptual framework wherein the key financial decisions of the
multinational firms can be analyzed. The subject treats international financial
management as a natural and logical extension of the principles learnt in the financial
management course. The course builds on and extends valuation framework provided by
domestic corporate finance to account for dimensions unique to international finance. It is
particularly useful for those students who want to specialize as Financial Analyst in the
world context and want to qualify professional examinations.
Course Contents:
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6. Foreign Investment Analysis:
(i) International Portfolio Management
(ii) Corporate Strategy and Foreign Direct Investment
(iii) Capital Budgeting for the Multinational Corporation
(iv) The Measurement and Management of Political Risk
Recommended Textbooks:
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Course Title: Derivatives Investment
Course Code: FIN 480
Credit Hours: Three (3)
Semester: Specialization for BBA
Prerequisite: FIN 260, QTM 220
Financial derivatives are techniques for using statistical theory to minimize risk and
maximize profits in banking and other financial institutions. The course is concerned with
pricing and hedging of derivative securities. This subject has undergone rapid a
expansion over the last two decades. This rapid expansion can be partly explained by the
realization by the financial institutions that the theory of derivative pricing can be used to
great benefit for the hedging of risk associated with writing options. Now every major
financial institution in Europe, North America and Asia trades or uses derivatives in one
form or another. The course aims at providing knowledge underlying derivative pricing
and a guide to applying these ideas to solve real pricing problems.
Course Contents:
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• Regulation: Functional Regulation. Functional and Institutional
Interaction, Regulatory Uncertainty, and the Economics of Derivatives Regulation
• Transparency and Disclosure. Derivatives Address. Position
Transparency: What do we need to know? When do we need to know it?
• Hedge Accounting: An Exploratory Study of the Underlying Items.
Recommended Textbooks:
• Financial Derivatives in Theory and Practice: PJ Hunt, Joan Kennedy; Edition 2000:
John Wiley
• Derivatives Handbook: Risk Management and Control; Robert J Schwartz; Edition
2000; Wiley Series in Finance
• Risk Management and Financial Derivatives: Satyajit Das; edition 2000
• Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (with Disk); John C Hull; edition 2001
• Derivatives: the Wild Beast of Finance
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Major INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
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Course Title: System Analysis & Design
Course Code: IT 420
Credit Hours: Three (3)
Semester: Specialization for BBA
Prerequisite: IT 110, IT 210
This course focuses on the understanding of system development life cycle and methods
and techniques used to perform structured analysis and design of Information Systems. A
project will also be assigned to individuals or groups. The purpose of the project is to
make the students apply the techniques they have learned through out the course and get
inside prospective of how Information Systems are developed.
Course Contents:
System Analysis
• What is system design
• System Development Life Cycle
• System Development Life Cycle
• Information System Development Life Cycle (1st ed)
Feasibility
• Methodologyss
• Underlying Principles
• Structured Analysis Techniques
• Building Blocks
• Traits of an Analyst
Data Modeling
Advantages of Data Modeling
Entity Discovery
Attributes, Properties of Data
Data Modeling ( Key Based Model, Fully Attributed Model)
Cases on Data Modeling
(a) Student Registration
(b) Order Processing System
(c) Tours/ Travel agency
Process Modeling:
Entities/ Agents, Process, Data Stores, Data Flows
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Common Errors
Black Holes, Miracale
Network Modeling
Process Modeling
(a) DFD
(b) Symbols used for Modeling
(c) Common DFD errors
(d) Common Mechanical Errors
Data Model for the Group Project Discussion.
Data Model for the Group Project Submission.
(a) Cash & Bank System
(b) Registration and Fee Slip Generation System
(c) Costing System
Object Modeling:
• Class, Inheritance, Generalization, Super type, Sub Type, Objects,
Relationships
• Multiplicity, Polymorphism
• Process of Modeling
• Case Modeling
• Design
• Input /Output Design
• Data Capture
• Issues for Input Design
• Internal Control for Input, GUI controls
• Proto Type
• Output Design (Reports)
• Output Media & Format
• Process Model for the Group Project Discussion.
• Process Model for the Group Project Submission.
• System Implementation
• Group Presentation of Project
Recommended Textbook:
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Course Title: Databases Design
Course Code: IT 425
Credit Hours: Three (2+1) (2 hours class and 2 hours lab)
Semester: Specialization for BBA
Prerequisite: IT 110, IT 210
This course is designed to provide the students an understanding in the theory and
implementation of databases. Emphasis is on how to design information system and how
to create relational databases. Extensive hands on DDL SQL.
Course Contents:
What is a Table:
• (Field, Record)
• Client Server
• (Getting SQL and Network accounts)
• SQL (Select)
• Process of DBMS
• Functions of DBMS
• Benefits of DB Approach
• Utilities of DBMS
• Intro to Relational Databases
• (Insert, Update, Delete)
Relational Database
• Domains and Relations
• User Defined, system Defined, Domains Constraint
• Properties of Relations
• Kind of Relations
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Relational Data Integrity
• Candidate Keys, Foreign keys, Rules of Foreign Keys
• Nulls and effect of nulls on Foreign and Primary Keys
Database Design
• Normalization (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
• Entity Relationship Diagrams
Recovery
• Transactions, Transaction Recovery
• Acid Properties
• System Recovery
• Media Recovery, Two Phase Commits
Concurrency
• Three Concurrency Problem
• Locking, Deadlocking
• Security
• Integrity
• Integrity Rule
• Domain Rule
• Attribute Rule
• Database Rule
• Check, Reference, Trigger
• DBA on Oracle
Recommended Textbook:
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Course Title: Advance Programming in Computer
Course Code: IT 435
Credit-hours: Three (2+1) (2 hours class and 2 hours lab)
Semester: Specialization for BBA
Prerequisite: IT 160
AIMS & OBJECTIVES:
To cover in depth the most current programming techniques in the context of object oriented paradigm. In
this course the students will apply C++ effectively in data abstraction and object oriented design.
COURSE CONTENTS:
1. Structures:
• Structure specification
• Structure definition
• Accessing structure elements
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6. Operator overloading:
• Overloading unary operators
• Overloading binary operators
• Data conversion
• Pitfalls of operator overloading
7. Inheritance
• Derived and base classes
• Derived class constructors
• Overriding member functions
• Class hierarchies
• Public & private inheritance
• Levels of inheritance
• Multiple inheritance
RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOK:
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Course Title: Computer Architecture and Operating Systems
Course Code: IT 440
Credit Hours: Three (2+1) (2 hours class and 2 hours lab)
Semester: Specialization for BBA
Prerequisite: IT 110
This course deals with two areas (a) Operating Systems (b) Computer Architecture. The
first part is an overview of computer architecture, and the second part deals with the
understanding and functioning of operating systems. The aim of the course is to learn
how these programs control and manage the devices on the computer. The course is
going to have hands on training on some basic functions of the operating systems like
Unix, Windows and NT.
Course Contents:
1. Architecture
4. Input/output Design
• Programmed I/O, standard I/O unconditional programmed I/O
• Interrupt I/O computer organization
5. Operating System
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11. File Management
Recommended Textbooks:
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Course Title: Data Communication and Networks
Course Code: IT 460
Credit Hours: Three (2+1) (2 hours class and 2 hours lab)
Semester: Specialization for BBA
Prerequisite: IT 110
Course Contents:
• Computer Networks
• Communication System Devices
• Channel characteristics
• Transmission Modes, Modulation
• Modems
• Network Architecture
• Layered Protocol
• ISO Reference Model
• TCP/IP
• RS-232-c and RS-449
• X.21
• Error Detection and Correction
• LAN
• IEEE 802
• Packet Switching, Segmentation, Re-assembly
• Virtual Circuits and Datagrams
• X.25
• Flow and congestion control
• Routing
• Transport services
• Network Security and Management
• File Transfer and Access Management
• E-mail, Internet and virtual terminals.
Recommended Textbooks:
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Course Title: Software Application in Business
Course Code: IT 161
Credit Hours: Three (2+1) (2 hours class and 2 hours lab)
Semester: Second Semester
Prerequisite: Nil
Objectives:
In this highly technologically advanced and competitive job market, each graduating
MBA students will encounter a number of software applications installed on the
computer desktop as soon as they start their new career.
This course ill familiarize them with the management aspect of the most common
software used in the industry today.
The students will be required to find a business which could benefit from one of these
software packages and implement it for that company.
• Advanced Microsoft, Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Project) Tips and
Techniques
• Using Contact Management software as MS-Outlook/Exchange
• Document Management Via Lotus Notes
• Planning and implementation, Management and Using the HRM model of
my SAP.
• Over view of Accounting software, QuickBooks (Small Business),
Peachtree Accounting (Medium sized Business) and mySAP Accounting (Large
Business).
• Overview of People soft HRM software, mySAP HRM Module
• mySAP Business Management Module
• E-mail, Internet and virtual terminals.
Recommended Textbooks:
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• Managing with Peoplesoft
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