UNDERGRADUATE REGULATIONS & SYLLABUSES 2013 - 2014 THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES LEVEL: III SEMESTER: I (EU) COURSE CODE: MGMT 3081 COURSE TITLE: CREDIT ANALYSIS AND LENDING CREDITS: 3 PREREQUISITES: MGMT 1022 , MGMT 2031 AND MGMT 2023 DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: MANAGEMENT STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course covers the principles and practice of: Business Lending: risk management at portfolio level; the principles of business lending: credit monitoring, control and recovery; borrowing requirements and credit risks associated with differing types of business; specialist services relevant to a lending situation; Consumer credit: the effective management of risk with the broadening of lending facilities to individual (non-business) customers.
LEVEL: III SEMESTER: II (FT) COURSE CODE: MGMT 3060 COURSE TITLE: OPERATIONS, PLANNING AND CONTROL CREDITS: 3 PREREQUISITES: MGMT 2026 (MGMT 3057) DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: MANAGEMENT STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTION: Building on the earlier course in Production and Operations Management, this course is intended to illustrate the array of planning and control techniques available to management to ensure the maximum productivity, quality, efficiency and profitability of the various operation systems involved in the production of goods and services. LEVEL: III SEMESTER: II (FT/EU) COURSE CODE: MGMT 3062 COURSE TITLE: COMPENSATION MANAGEMENT CREDITS: 3 PREREQUISITES: MGMT 2008 AND MGMT 3017 DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: MANAGEMENT STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTION: The objective of this course is to familiarize students with the following: theories of compensation; organisation policies and its impact on compensation; behavioural effects of compensation plans.
LEVEL: III SEMESTER: II (FT) COURSE CODE: MGMT 3085 COURSE TITLE: DERIVATIVES MARKETS CREDITS: 3 PREREQUISITES: MGMT 2023 AND MGMT 2024 DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: MANAGEMENT STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this course is to provide the students with the necessary skills to value and to employ options, futures, and related financial contracts. In order to provide a useful treatment of these topics in an environment that is changing rapidly, it is necessary to stress the fundamentals and to study some important applications. The topics that will be covered are: • Futures Markets and Their Applications, including the pricing and the use of futures contracts on stock indices, on commodities, and Treasury instruments; • Options Markets and Their Applications, covering the valuation and use of options, including a discussion of the empirical evidence and dynamic asset allocation strategies; • Swaps, Complex Derivatives, Structured Securities including several cases, and the use (and misuse) of derivatives in the context of corporate applications.
LEVEL: III SEMESTER: II (EU) COURSE CODE: MGMT 3079 COURSE TITLE: ADVANCED BANKING LAW CREDITS: 3 PREREQUISITES: MGMT 2030 AND MGMT 2021 DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: MANAGEMENT STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is a following–up of “Banking law“ and takes into account the considerable changes in banking law, regulation and practice that have taken place in recent years. It puts a special emphasis on financial markets: New technology has revolutionized the nature and threatened the existence of traditional stock and exchanges; the course analyses how exchanges have responded to developments in automation, and the resultant laws and their enforcement. LEVEL: III SEMESTER: II (EU) COURSE CODE: MGMT 3080 COURSE TITLE: BANK TREASURY MANAGEMENT CREDITS: 3 PREREQUISITES: MGMT 1022 AND MGMT 2031 DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: MANAGEMENT STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is concerned with money market, foreign exchange and capital market business from the point of view of the bank. It covers treasury management of financial services institutions; banking and investment supervision and regulation; market practice and procedures.
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