Finance & Economics
MODULE: Finance & Economics
Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 51 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.
DESCRIPTION:
This program covers finance and economics. Finance presents a conceptual framework that unites corporate finance, investments, and financial institutions and shows how firms should be managed to increase wealth. Economics integrates concepts with the application of economic tools of analysis to a wide variety of situations. It covers the economy from past intellectual contributions to the evolution of contemporary economic thinking. This program is developed from a decision-making perspective in the context of practical, real-world financial and economic problems - the kinds that executives face every day.
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).
Finance & Economics
Financial Markets & Institutions Micro & Macro Economics Economic Development Money & Banking Creating & Managing Value Economic Analysis Community & Social Development Industrialized Countries Economy Global Political Economy Financial Accounting & Analysis Microfinance & Microcredits Financial Management Financial Strategic Planning Corporate Finance Capital Markets Investment Strategies
Academic Supervisor: Jose A. Cordova
More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.
* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.
* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.
* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.
* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.
* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.
* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.
BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.
Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):
Finance & Economics
This course deals with the principles of business finance and the functioning of the market economy with emphasis on the role of finances in determining the allocations of resources, the functioning of the firm in the economy and forces governing the production of economic goods. It focus on using economic and financial analysis in managerial decision making.
Instructor: Juan Carlos Bernial
Financial Markets & Institutions
This course illustrates how financial institutions work, their regulation and importance of financial markets for both businesses and the consumer. Key concepts covered include the role of financial markets in society, financial transactions in a global environment, and provides a framework for understanding the major institutions of capital markets, such as banks, money managers, pension funds and insurance companies.
Instructor: Saidur Rahaman Dipu
Micro & Macro Economics
This course examines the principles and variables of microeconomics: theory of the consumer, theory of the firm, perfect and imperfect competition, welfare economics, and selected topics in general equilibrium and uncertainty. It also covers the principles and variables of maroeconomics: models of aggregate supply and demand, theories of consumption and investment, money supply and demand, inflation, rational expectations, stabilization policy, financial markets, and international finance.
Instructor: Velichka Gáncheva Néycheva
Economic Development
This course deals with the performance and problems of developing countries in relation to growth, employment, structural change, and human development. It analyzes several theories and paradigms of development, sources of economic growth and policies to promote industrialization, trade and sustainability. It considers different development strategies adopted by several countries.
Instructor: Velichka Gáncheva Néycheva
Money & Banking
This course examines the principles of money, credit creation and banking; the organization, operation and control of the banking system; and the relationship between the quantity of money and the level of economic activity. It provides a theoretical and applied analysis of money, banking, and financial markets.
Instructor: Guy Marc Bonem
Creating & Managing Value
This course will analyze the decisions that companies must confront when they are generating and managing the value of the firm. Topics will include investments in new projects, debt financing, capital structure, mergers, acquisitions and the sale of companies.
Instructor: Jose A. Cordova
Economic Analysis
This course examines the theory and applications of several instruments of the economic analysis of a business: production technologies, cost and profit; perfect and imperfect competition, individual choice preferences and demand, and the market-based system (price formation, efficiency, welfare). It considers the use of economic analysis for problem identification, problem solving, critical thinking, consultation, project management, and strategies for effectiveness.
Instructor: Juan Carlos Bernial
Community & Social Development
This course deals with the sociological factors involved in the development and evolution of society and the community. It explains how to deal with economic, health and social problems, and considers cross cultural social perspectives and diversity in all its forms. It deals with the process of managing and integrating the experience and trajectory of a community towards a new and better global welfare.
Instructor: Francis Wambua Mulwa
Industrialized Countries Economy
This course explores the political and economic systems of advanced industrialized societies. It covers immigration, globalization, social movements, factors affecting business operations in developed countries, international integration, and multinational investment and activities.
Instructor: Velichka Gáncheva Néycheva
Global Political Economy
This course is a survey of principles and concepts of international political economy. It examines the Western system with emphasis on the relationships that influence Western trade; the North South system; the East West system with emphasis on trading policies; the new global economic order, its role and consequences in international political economy.
Instructor: Mª Teresa Martinho Almagro
Financial Accounting & Analysis
This course shows to interpret financial reporting and accounting in order to make useful business management and investment decisions. The main financial and accounting statements are analyzed: balance sheet, income, cash flows, cost accounting, cost-volume analysis, budgeting, and capital budgeting.
Instructor: María del Carmen Villanueva Kcom
Microfinance & Microcredits
This course deals with the effects of microfinance and microcredits in getting undeveloped communities out of poverty cycle, and in contributing to economic growth, employment, structural change, human development and sustainability in different cultural environments. It considers different development strategies adopted by several countries through microfinance and microcredits.
Instructor: Velichka Gáncheva Néycheva
Financial Management
Financial management and analysis is one of the most important and valuable skills for today's managers and executives. It is essential to understand the impact on the organization's financial performance of every decision made. This course gives the essential tools, strategies, and tactics for analyzing and improving the financial dimensions of operating decisions.
Instructor: María del Carmen Villanueva Kcom
Financial Strategic Planning
This course outlines the process for effective financial planning, including where to start, what types of budgets to prepare, and how to turn planning into a value-added activity. The objective of the course is to provide guidance for the user on how to do financial strategic planning.
Instructor: Juan Carlos Bernial
Corporate Finance
This course focuses on the techniques used by corporate financial managers to assure liquidity and to minimize the risk of bankruptcy. In addition to liquidity assessment, the course will examine investment of surplus funds, cash management, risk management, credit/accounts receivables analysis, inventory management, and short-term financing alternatives.
Instructor: María del Carmen Villanueva Kcom
Capital Markets
This course discusses the operation of capital markets from the perspective of investments (buy side) and corporate finance (sell side). It examines how investors construct portfolios consisting of securities with differing risk and return characteristics. It reviews capital budgeting, financing decisions, methods for evaluating and controlling risk, and compliance with regulatory requirements and processes.
Instructor: Saidur Rahaman Dipu
Investment Strategies
This course deals with the theory and practice of portfolio management. Topics included are alternative techniques for designing investment portfolios and the criteria for revision and performance evaluation. It also discusses portfolio insurance, the use of options and futures markets, and international topics, ethics, and social issues affected by investment strategies.
Instructor: Saidur Rahaman Dipu
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