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Undergraduate Catalogue: Finance and Banking Course Descriptions

The following outlines of course content are correct at the time of writing, although the material (or the order in which it is covered) may be subject to change.

1. All courses are 3 credit hours each, unless otherwise indicated.

2. Normally, a course will not be run without a minimum enrolment of students.

FIN201: Fundamentals of Financial Management

Financial management from the viewpoint of the business manager emphasizing profitability, liquidity, and long-range financial planning.

FIN202: Introduction to Banking

Banking organizations, non-bank financial institutions, basic functions of banks. Principles and theories of banking. Recent developments and the effect of technological changes on banks, deregulation, globalization of the banking industry.

FIN301: Banking Laws

The legal principles relating to the banker-customer relationship, banking and other financial services provided by banks, including secured lending and investment advice and services, the operation of bank accounts, security.

FIN302: Commercial Bank Management

Treasury management of financial services institutions, management of a bank's own balance sheet exposures: liquidity and cash management, management of capital, supervision and regulation. The business environment, management processes, theories, models, skills and techniques. Management theory and practice relevant to banking institutions. Lending policies, investment policies, liquidity and capitalizations. Interest policies.

FIN304: Financial Intermediation

Theory of financial intermediation and the role of the financial intermediaries in economy, problems of financial intermediation in developing accounts, reasons for financial intermediation and necessary conditions to develop financial system.

FIN305: Bank Accounting

The basics of accounting, reporting financial performance, examining published accounts, methods of valuing shares and businesses, ratio analyses and cash flow statements are also covered in this course.

FIN401: Money and Banking

The definition and role of money in economic activity. Analysis of commercial and Central banking institutions. Examination of macro relations between financial organizations, and principle objectives of stabilization policy.

FIN402: Credit Analysis and Lending

Fundamentals of managing credit selection risk and underwriting risk; bank lending policies and procedures; loan pricing; creating loan agreements; monitoring loan performance; consumer and real estate lending; lending to large corporations; lending to small business.

FIN405: Risk Management and Insurance

Risk identification and measurement. Risk control tools, pricing of risk. The concept of risk insurance. Fundamentals of the insurance business, life and health insurance. Property and liability insurance contracts. Government regulation. International insurance and re-insurance markets.

FIN420: Public Financial Management

Methods used to manage public financial resources, including accountability, financial statements, and review procedures.

FIN490: Finance and Banking Internship

This course provides the student experience in his/her chosen field of study. Through this experience, the student gains a practical understanding of work in the industry, experience on the job, enhancement of skills learned in the classroom, and contacts with professionals in the business world.

FIN495: Finance and Banking Project Paper

The Project Paper will provide the students with the opportunity to find, research, design, implement, document, and orally present a project in the chosen field of study.

 
DISCLAIMER:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBODIA RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES TO THESE CATALOGS AS IT SEES FIT, SO THAT WE HAVE THE NECESSARY FLEXIBILITY IN AN EVER-EVOLVING WORLD.

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