Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit hours |
Description |
A0551201 |
Microeconomics |
3 |
The course provides the basic knowledge of economics that is essential for all business major students to know. Topics covered in microeconomics include equilibrium models used by consumers and producers to satisfy needs under scarce resources, the theory of demand and supply, shifts in supply and demand, elasticity of demand and supply, consumer equilibrium, producer equilibrium, and markets under perfect competition. |
A0591102 |
Management Information System |
3 |
|
A0571101 |
Principles of Marketing (1) |
3 |
This course aim to describe the Marketing Concepts, the importance of understanding the marketplace and build customer engagement, and marketing mix; Analyzing the Marketing Environment: Marketing Environment Definition, The Micro-Environment, The Macro Environment, Responding to the Marketing Environment; Products: Product Definition, Product Dimensions, Product Classification, Product life cycle and its strategy;? pricing: pricing concept, pricing strategies and tactics; marketing channels: Understand the importance of marketing channels, Understand what value channel members create; marketing communications: define the promotion mix tools, the integrated marketing communications. Include planning and execution of promotional program. |
A0551101 |
Principles of Financial Management |
3 |
This is an introductory finance course which assumes no prior knowledge of financial management. It introduces students to the fundamental concepts of financial management and the tools of financial decision making. These concepts relate primarily to the financial statement analysis, financial ratios analysis, time value of money, and capital budget techniques. |
A0110192 |
Computer Skills (Humanities) |
3 |
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A0511101 |
Principles of Business Administration |
3 |
This course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge of management functions. Students will learn the fundamental principles of business administration, which include: Introduction to management and organizations, management history, planning, organizing, leading, and controlling |
A0110104 |
Statistics For Business |
3 |
|
A0531101 |
Principles of Accounting (1) |
3 |
This course aims to prepare students to understand the definition and objectives of Accounting, and its Principles and Assumptions. As well, this course helps students to use the accounting equation in order to analyze the economic transactions, prepare the journal entries, posting, and prepare financial statements. Moreover, this course illustrates all of the following ( event, transaction, entry, journal, posting, ledger, trail balance, adjusting entries, correcting entries, closing entries, financial statement). |
Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit hours |
Description |
A05102404 |
Portfolio Management (lab) |
1 |
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A05103102 |
Financial Analysis (lab) |
1 |
|
A05103502 |
Technical Financial Transformation Management |
3 |
The objective of this course is to provide students with the tools for observing and analyzing how the role of digital technology is shifting from being a marginal efficiency enhancer to an established enabler of fundamental innovation in the financial sector. The course is designed to provide students with insights into the use of innovative technologies, data, and connectivity by enterprises to create value, revenue, and efficiency for organizations. Notably, as digital transformation requires businesses to remodel their own resources, their relationship with consumers, and the services they offer, the course provides valuable strategic insights and implications of digital transformation in the financial sector. |
A05104506 |
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in FinTech |
3 |
This course seeks to introduce students to the financing lifecycle of high-growth new ventures, key technologies, business models, and companies in the startup FinTech landscape. This subject is intended for students who are potentially interested in working at, establishing, or investing in early-stage startups in the FinTech sector. From a practical perspective, the course will follow a successful startup?s path through all of its stages. These stages include the venture capital industry and how entrepreneurs and investors realize returns. |
A05102501 |
Fundamentals of FinTech |
3 |
This course will introduce students to FinTech ? an innovation that is intended to transform the financial services industry. The theory behind how these systems work will be applied to real-life examples. Within this context, the course aims at explaining why, and when banks, financial institutions, and other organisations might benefit from utilizing these technologies to make payments more efficient and enhance customer experience. Upon successful completion of this module, students will have the ability to explain the current and future FinTech developments. No prior experience in programming is expected, as the core focus is on explaining how FinTech works in the real world. |
A05104503 |
Data Science Applications and Fraud Analytics |
3 |
This course teaches the essentials of interpreting data, performing analyses, communicating actionable insights, and how the results are applied in various fields. The course also seeks to introduce the students to the concept of fraud analytics and its importance. Moreover, the course explores the types of fraud detection and prevention techniques and their applicability in real-life contexts. Additionally, the course introduces a number of traditional methods of detecting fraud, which is a particularly important preventive measure. |
A05102202 |
Islamic Banks |
3 |
This course aims to introduce the key characteristics of Islamic banking and how these differ from conventional banking, especially pertaining to financial statements. Topics covered include how Islamic banking is consistent with the Sharia, history of Islamic banking and its evolution, contracts of Murabaha, Mudaraba, Musharaka, Ijara, Istisna'a, Salam, as well as Islamic insurance Takaful is also covered. |
A05104101 |
Corporate Finance |
3 |
This course aims to introduce students to the tools and techniques of financial management and their use in managerial decision-making. The course emphasizes the understanding of finance theory and working knowledge of the financial environment in which the firm operates to develop appropriate financial strategies. Hence, it covers the entire range of finance concepts such as cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, and merger and acquisitions. |
A05104202 |
International Finance |
3 |
|
A05102403 |
Portfolio Management |
2 |
The course examines the theoretical basis and practical approach to the management of stocks and investment portfolios. The course?s main objective is to familiarize students with the theoretical underpinnings of modern portfolio theory, investment objectives and constraints, efficient markets paradigm, diversification, asset allocation, evaluating portfolio performance, and the mathematical and practical calculation of portfolio risk-return using Microsoft Excel. |
A05103101 |
Financial Analysis |
2 |
The course seeks to provide students with a set of financial tools that enables them to interpret and analyse financial information and to make informed and effective financial decisions. The course comprises of the fundamental analysis of financial statements, the application and valuation techniques to a variety of decisions on a firm. The main purpose of the course is to teach students the processes and methods of financial analysis, how to extract data from financial reports, and make financial decisions relating to corporations and investments. Essentially, with a dynamic financial landscape, the course inspects relevant financial tools, such as key performance indicators, breakeven analysis, capital management, dividends, and how organisations analyse and act upon these decisions. |
A05104601 |
Field Training |
3 |
This subject aims to train students in relevant institutions or companies in order to acquire practical and professional skills in the FinTech field. Through exposing students to real-world companies, the course teaches students to abide by instructions and regulations in the workplace, teamwork, be punctual, operate ethically, and take responsibility for their actions. As a result, this course helps develop students with practical competence who are ready to join the labour market upon graduation. |
A05104402 |
Financial Modelling |
3 |
This course aims to build the financial modeling abilities necessary for applying financial theory to real-world situations in investment research, portfolio management, and valuation. The course will specifically cover the use of Excel spreadsheet functions and SPSS for the statistical analysis of financial market data, presenting financial information, and utilizing various models to predict credit default/financial distress. |
A05102400 |
Investment Management |
3 |
This course introduces students to the concepts of risk and return, the stock market, the principle of diversification, calculation of return on investment using different methods, the measures of risk, stock price behavior and market efficiency, and how different investment processes of security types are managed through security brokers and the type?s brokerage accounts. |
A05103308 |
Data Management and its Applications |
3 |
The goal of this course is to teach students the basics of how to manage and analyze financial datasets. The first segment of the course focuses on building skills in basic data; the second, and more important part, introduces various financial databases. Through practice on real-world financial datasets, students will learn methods used to prepare data for statistical computing. The latter part is essential for data analysis, which is applicable in various contexts in finance. The covered methods include basic statistical modeling and inference, simple textual analysis, classification, and alternative datasets. |
A05104504 |
Blockchain and Simulation of Financial Markets Applications |
2 |
The focus of this course will be on important FinTech topics, namely: blockchain and cryptocurrencies; crowdfunding and P2P lending; high frequency trading, and simulating trading in financial markets. Specifically, students will learn what technologies are being used, how they are used in practice, and the advantages and disadvantages of applying those technologies to financial markets. This course is meant to be taught in a lab to enhance experiential learning and provide students with a connection between theoretical knowledge and real-world experience. |
A05104400 |
Risk Management and Financial Derivatives |
3 |
This course aims at providing students with information regarding the risks that face the financial institutions and the ways to manage them. Precisely, the risks discussed in the course include operational risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, market volatility and value at risk. The course also links risk with derivatives by covering topics such as options, forward contracts, future contracts, and swaps. By the end of this course, students will know how these contracts work, how they are used, and how they are priced. The emphasis of this course is on understanding the instruments and their use in risk management. |
A05104505 |
Blockchain and Simulation of Financial Markets Applications (lab) |
1 |
A practical application to the material
taught in the Blockchain and FinancialMarket Applications subject. |
A05103307 |
Financial Information Systems |
3 |
This course introduces students to financial information systems by providing an overview of the key data available for taking informed financing and investment decisions. It also describes the role of information for corporate decisions, its sources, and the analytical tools used to collect, store, manage, and report economic and financial data. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to investigate, analyse, and optimize business processes using financial information. |
A05104501 |
Artificial Intelligence in Finance |
3 |
The course gives an overview of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is applied in finance. Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) are also discussed. Practical applications using ML techniques will be utilized to for prediction purposes on various financial issues. Students will learn how to choose the basic data preparation method and model and then how to improve them, how to train and test the models, and how to choose the most accurate model. |
A05102305 |
Security and Protection of Information Systems |
3 |
This course introduces the concepts and understanding of the field of computer security and how it relates to other fields of information technology. Topics include security threats, hardening systems, securing networks, cryptography, and organisational security policies. The duties of cybersecurity analysts, who are responsible for detecting security incidents in information systems and responding to such incidents are also explored. |
A05102300 |
Electronic Financial and Banking Services |
3 |
This course aims to equip students with major current developments in the banking industry with respect to the application of electronics in finance, in order to promote self-service retail banking. Specifically, the course seeks to cover electronic banking, electronic commerce, interbank clearing system and settlement, and many other related issues. As a result, upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to explain how electronic and digital transformation impacted the banking and financial markets. This will give students an idea of how control systems, like check truncation, electronic settlements, and clearance systems, work in an electronic interface. |
A05101102 |
Statistics in Finance |
3 |
This course introduces students to the foundational statistical skills necessary for financial analysis. The objectives of this subject are to provide basic knowledge in mathematics and statistics in financial disciplines, to develop the ability to analyse and interpret business-specific data in decision-making, and to develop the ability to apply a modern toolkit using Microsoft Excel to analyse quantitative data. |
A05103202 |
Financial Markets and Institutions |
3 |
This course provides students with
introductory information about the
functions of financial markets and institutions.Hence, the discussion involves stock markets alongside bond and money markets.Furthermore, the course covers the characteristics of depository and non-depository financial institutions such as commercial banks, investment banks, security firms, mutual funds, and pension funds. |
A05102201 |
Banks Management |
3 |
This course provides students with the fundamental concepts related to the management of banks and financial institutions. The course begins with defining banks and their roles, followed by showcasing and explaining organizational structures. Thereafter, the course explains what the financial statements are and describes how their performance can be evaluated. The final part of this course explains how to allocate and manage assets and liabilities, taking into consideration both profitability and liquidity. |
Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit hours |
Description |
A0551202 |
Macroeconomics |
3 |
"This course offers an introduction to economics with a focus on macroeconomic issues. The central |
A0531102 |
Accounting Principles (2) |
3 |
This course aims to prepare the students to understand the classification of assets like cash, bank, account receivable, and note receivable, inventory and plant assets. This course covers the topic like cash control, bank reconciliation, accounting for receivables, accounts receivable, notes receivable, inventories and the comparison between the perpetual and periodic entries. This course illustrates how to deal with plant assets, determining the cost of plant assets, calculate the depreciation, and plant asset disposals. |
A0554302 |
Behavioral Finance |
3 |
This course aims to introduce students to the tools and techniques of behavioral finance. Topics covered include the impact of psychology, uncertainty, and the cognitive biases/forces that affect people?s decisions. Behavioral finance applies the scientific method to understand the impact of cognitive forces, including motivation, emotions, impulses, fear, regret, loss aversion, and genuine uncertainty upon financial market outcomes. |
A0593301 |
Electronic Payment and Financial Systems |
3 |
This course introduces students to a wide diversity of electronic payment mechanisms that are used worldwide. The course is designed to provide students with basic knowledge about the use of new technologies in money transfer nationally and internationally. This course will help students to identify the different forms of electronic money, how money is transferred through the world's banking systems, and e-payment systems are secured. |
A0561102 |
Principles of E-Marketing |
3 |
This course aims to provide students with the basics of internet marketing, its benefits and advantages and the difference between traditional marketing and e marketing as part of the marketing communications mix. This course also aims to provide students with knowledge related to business models, e-strategies, methods used for online advertising, and methods of maintaining and existing customers via the internet. New customer acquisition techniques, as well as the basic tools used in Internet marketing, developing Internet marketing strategies and plans and evaluating their results. |
A0412301 |
Electronic commerce legislation |
3 |
Studying the most important legal aspects raised using electronic information systems, clarifying means of communication and their components, their impact on different branches of law, and the definition of electronic commerce. As well as studying the legal of electronic payment by credit card, in addition defining the applicable law for E-commerce disputes |