I. Description
All types of organizations, from public sector agencies to small and large corporations, require people who are skilled in finance to make sound decisions that will contribute to the entity’s steady and solid financial growth. Finance professionals make investments, oversee long-range financial planning, acquire assets, and work with existing resources.
II. Learning Objectives
Associate of Banking and finance is the system that manages the circulation of money, the granting of credit, the making of investments, the acquisition of financing and the provision of banking facilities. This system is central to the efficient running of an economy.
III. Learning Outcomes
Students graduated from the program will be expected to have knowledge and practical skills in:
- making basic capital investment decisions, analyzing and valuing securities, including debt and equity instruments.
- understanding of the relationship between risk and expected return generally and for specific security classes.
- knowledge of the characteristics of the principle asset classes and key securities to be able to evaluate their appropriateness as investments in a broad range of portfolio applications.
- ability to use the concepts of the time value of money, the risk/expected return relationship and asset-class and security diversification, to construct an investment portfolio that satisfies a hypothetical client’s objectives and constraints.
familiarity with major domestic and global financial institutions and the role of those institutions in the global economy and financial markets.
