Course Types
 
 
Finance (FIN)

LEGEND : The numbers  that appear at the end of each course title like 3 0 3, 0 9 3, 2 3 3 etc. indicate the lecture hours per week, the practical/seminar/project hours per week and the number of units in that order. Wherever a single number (with or without*) appears, it indicates only total units and its break up in terms of lectures and practicals/seminar/project may be announced from time to time through the timetable whenever it is needed.

List of Courses Under FIN (Click on the course for its description)
 
Merchant Banking
International Financial Markets & Services
Theory of Finance
Project Finance
Management Accounting
Econometrics
Financial Management
Project Appraisal
Risk Management and Insurance
Financing International Trade
Money, Banking and Financial Markets
Marketing                            
Issues in Indian Economy 
Advertising and sales Promotion
Organisational Behaviour
Corporate Planning 
International Business
Services Marketing
Special Project

 

FIN C311 Merchant Banking                                 3 0 3

Merchant banking function - perspective; organisation of merchant banking function; managing new issues; negotiating terms with financial institutions, brokers, investors and under-writers; pricing of further issues - SEBI guidelines; mobilising response from NRIs; syndication of loans from banks; preparation of loan dossiers and application for financial assistance; negotiation, mergers, amalgamations and buy-outs; public deposits to finance working capital; agencies mobilising public deposits; regulations governing raising of public deposits; cost of public deposits.

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FIN C312 International Financial Markets & Services             3 0 3
Currency  futures,  options and swaps; interest rate determination and asset pricing in face of volatile nominal and real exchange rates; international portfolio management; treasury risk management and performance measurement; major  international  stock exchanges: New York; ISE London; Tokyo; trading and settlement practices; listing of Indian derivatives on Brussles stock exchange; arranging foreign collaboration; floating India funds; syndication of Euro-dollar loans.

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FIN C321 Theory of Finance                                              3 0 3

Functions  and  operations  of capital market, analysis of consumption-investment decisions of investors, diversification and portfolio selection, valuation theory and equilibrium pricing of risky assets, theory of efficient  markets  and  investment  and financing decisions of the firm.

Expected utility theory; stochastic dominance; portfolio frontiers; mutual fund separation; asset pricing model; arbitrage pricing theory; Arrow-Debreu theory; dynamic spanning; options; rational expectations; financial signaling.

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FIN C322 Project Finance                                                  3 0 3

Project identification, feasibility; appraisal of projects from technical, financial and economic view points; design of capital structure; factors influencing form of capital; instruments; shares, preference shares, debentures, convertible debentures; borrowing from development finance institutions.

Lease or buy decisions; leasing capital equipment; impact on investment; features of leasing companies in India; legislation regulating leasing; role of leasing companies in industrial countries.

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FIN C331 Management Accounting                            3 0 3
Accounting as a language for management decisions; Accounting principles, conventions and concepts; concepts relating to financial statements, analysis of financial statements; inventory pricing and valuation; inflation accounting; cost accounting and budgetary control systems - cost determination, standard costs, differential cost and direct costing; profit budgeting and analysis; capital investment analysis; disinvestment decisions.

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FIN C332 Econometrics                                                         3 0 3
Course description is same as given under ECON C342.

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FIN C342 Financial Management                                         3 0 3
Course description is same as given under ECON C481.

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FIN C411 Project Appraisal                                                               3 0 3

Prerequisite : ECON C212   

Course description is same as given under ECON C411.

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FIN C413 Risk Management and Insurance                3 0 3
Introduction to risk; types of risk; risk measurement; risk management techniques; risk avoidance, loss control, loss financing, risk retention, risk transfer, internal risk reduction through diversification etc.; insurance business and operations; insurance pricing; insurance v/s hedging; life, health and income risk; property and liability risk – commercial and personal; social insurance; insurance regulation.

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FIN C421 Financing International Trade      3 0 3
Export:  financial needs - terms of payment, documentary credit, different types of letters of credit, procedure, types and uses; DP, DA arrangement; packing credit; short term finance; medium and long term financing; deferred payment terms; foreign exchange cover; financing for deferred payments; IDBI scheme; buyers credit; export credit and guarantee corporation; financial guarantees; export factoring imports: review current ploicy provisions; import compression; linking  imports  exports; classification  of  imports:  OGL specific licenses; negative list, import of capital goods against free foreign exchange; suppliers credit; foreign equity, foreign commercial borrowing; borrowing by export oriented units, opening letters  of  credit  and remittances against imports; import factoring.

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FIN C422 Public Finance: Theory and Practice              3 0 3
Course description is same as given under ECON C322.

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FIN C424 Money, Banking and Financial Markets     3 0 3
Course description is same as given under ECON C362.

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FIN C431 Marketing                                                                             3 0 3
Definition and scope; marketing research; channels of distribution; sales promotion; regulation of marketing and public policy.

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FIN C432 Issues in Indian Economy                                3 0 3
Course description is same as given under ECON C421.

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FIN C433 Advertising and sales Promotion                3 0 3
The communication process and models of persuasive communication; advertising research; advertising campaign components; advertising campaign planning; advertising/media scene; media concepts; media planning & strategy; advertising campaign planning, execution and evaluation; advertising agencies; sales promotion types and techniques; sales promotion strategy; measuring the effectiveness of the promotional program; regulations of advertising and promotion; Extending marketing communication to social communication, personal selling, international advertising, interactive advertising, advertising laws, social, ethical and moral issues.

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FIN C441 Organisational Behaviour                              3 0 3
A new perspective of management; conceptual model of organization behavior; the individual processes- personality, work attitude, perception, attribution, motivation, learning and reinforcement, work stress and stress management; the dynamics of organizational behavior- group dynamics, power & politics, conflict & negotiation, leadership process & styles, communication; the organizational processes- decision making, job design; organizational theory and design, organizational culture, managing cultural diversity; organizational change & development.

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FIN C442 Corporate Planning                                                3 0 3
Assessment of corporate strengths, weaknesses and opportunities; planning and deployment of capital assets; profit planning and control; functions, problems, pressures, responsibilities, limits of the chief executive; evaluation of one's own business undertaking; formulating objectives, strategies, policies and programmes for improving company's present situation; personnel strength and implementation of the policies and programmes.

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FIN C451 International Business                                                3 0 3
International business - an overview, general international environment - political, legal, socio-cultural and economic factors, international operational framework, tax aspects, marketing factors, labour factors and economic integration. BOP analysis, foreign exchange control, governmental policies, international finance, economic community, IMF, managing multinationals/globalization of operations.

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FIN C462 Services Marketing                                             3 0 3
Distinctive elements, system: relationships with customers; positioning; managing customer portfolio, demand management, service delivery  process,  pricing;  promotion;  operating  strategy;  quality,  productivity,  human  resource  management; internationalization of services; services marketing in future.

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FIN C491 Special Project                                                    3 0 3
Course description is same as given under BIO C491.

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