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Faculty of Business and Accountancy University of Malaya

: Finance and Banking
Programme of Study : Bachelor of Business Administration
Course Code : CBEB 2102
Course Title : Financial Management
Credit Hours : 3
Course Prerequisite(s) / None
Minimum Requirement(s) :
Learning Outcomes : At the end of this course, students should be able to :
1. Identify the principles and basic techniques of finance.
2. Describe the various types of financial instruments, roles and functions
of financial markets and relevant regulators in the country.
3. Distinguish and apply the concept of time value of money.
4. Analyze the factors that determine a company’s need for external
financing, be it debt or equity using appropriate financial ratios.
5. Examine the decisions that affect current assets and current liabilities
and the impact of these decisions on firm’s value.
6. Evaluate tools needed for valuing investment projects, including the
determination of the relevant cash flows and the appropriate discount
rate.
Synopsis of Course Contents : This course discusses the various financial tools employed to effectively
manage e a company’s financial condition. Other topics discussed are
financial statement and analysis, time value of money, bonds and stocks,
capital budgeting and its techniques and short-term working capital
management.
Assessment : Continuous Assessment : 50%
Final Examination : 50%

Faculty of Business and Accountancy University of Malaya

Faculty : Business and Accountancy
Department : Finance and Banking
Programme of Study : Bachelor of Business Administration
Bachelor of Accounting
Course Code : CBEB2321
Course Title : Applied Financial Planning
Credit Hours : 3
Course Pre-requisite(s) /
Minimum Requirement(s) : None
Learning Outcomes : At the end of this course, students should be able to;
1. Identify the concept of financial planning, and its impact on individual
life cycle.
2. Demonstrate ability to use financial statement analysis to evaluate
individual’s financial strengths and progress.
3. Illustrate understanding of the budgeting process, cash management,
tax planning and its relationship to the financial planning and individual
retirement.
4. Demonstrate understanding of alternative investments (insurance,
property, liability, health, and life insurance) available and the major
factors impacting the return on these personal investments.
5. Assess the benefits associated with proper estate planning, such as
discussion of wills and trusts, and asset protection techniques from
probate, long term care and estate taxes.
Synopsis of Course Contents : This is a comprehensive financial planning course and will focus on the
final three stages of financial planning which are income tax planning tax
planning, retirement planning and estate planning.
Assessment : Continuous Assessment: 50%
Final Examination : 50%

Faculty of Business and Accountancy University of Malaya

Faculty : Business and Accountancy
Department : Finance and Banking
Programme of Study : Bachelor of Business Administration
Bachelor of Accounting
Course Code : CBEB 2320
Course Title : Treasury Management
Credit Hours : 3
Course Pre-requisite(s) /
Minimum Requirement(s) : None
Learning Outcomes : At the end of this course, student should be able to:
1. Explain how to assess the foreign exchange and interest rate risk
exposure of a firm.
2. Define the day to day activities of a company treasurer
3. Analyze the role corporate treasurer in a large company and solve
simple treasury problems.
4. Coordinate the development of policies and procedures for account
collections.
5. Evaluate effectiveness of current revenue collection policies and
procedures and state recommendations on how to improve them.6.
Assess the financial risks facing large multinational companies and
the hedging instruments and assess their suitability in relation to the
risks identified.
Synopsis of Course Contents : Among the topics that will be discussed in this course are the development
of the treasury management profession, the organizational aspects of
treasury and the main functional areas of treasury: foreign exchange and
interest rate risk management. A significant emphasis will be placed on
techniques employed in the solution of practical problems together with
the theories.
Assessment : Continuous Assessment: 50%
Final Examination : 50%

Database Design and Management Strategies
With the rapid advancement in computer usage, use of databases for strategic purposes has progressed dramatically. Knowledge of database fundamentals is a must for any manager, from top executive level to operational level. Words such as Database Marketing, Data Mining, and Data Warehousing have become buzz words among business people recently. In this course, students learn the fundamentals of database theory. They also explore existing databases and then design, create, and build a user interface in a database project of their choice while learning a popular database software tool. Samples of recent student projects have been in databases developed for e-commerce, finance management, human resources management, and property management.

Corporate Restructuring and M&A
This course provides students not only with the fundamental theories of capital structure, such as the MM prepositions and the role that leverage plays in capital restructuring involved in asset transactions, but also with a variety of financial restructuring techniques, which includes spin-offs, tracking stocks, equity carve-outs, LBOs, reversed LBOs, leveraged recapitalization, share repurchase, and bankruptcy reorganization. Of course, we discuss M&As as a most extreme form of corporate restructuring. Each topic that we discuss describes a transaction that restructures the firm in some particular way. The objectives of the course include: (1) to help build a framework for analyzing various corporate restructuring transactions primarily through valuation techniques; (2) to provide an overview of corporate restructuring approaches which can then be critically applied to solve business problems; (3) to establish an economic perspective from which to assess the corporate and social consequences of alternative corporate restructuring and reorganization techniques. Prerequisite: Corporate Finance. Co-requisite: Financial Accounting and/or Managerial Economics.

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo

5552: Real Estate Finance and Economics
Summer Yoshida
This course deals with economic analyses of real estate as a financial asset class. A wide variety of real estate-based financial products (e.g., direct investments, REITs, Mortgages, Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS), Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs), Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs)) collectively form much bigger markets than government debts in many countries. The course covers theories, empirical facts, and business practices in real estate finance. The topics include residential and commercial location choice, investment decision, rental agreements, asset pricing, return and risk characteristics, and various securitization.

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo

5056: Introduction to Numerical Methods in Finance with C/C++
Winter A.Takahashi
This course will cover basic numerical methods in finance with C/C++.

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo
2202: Public Finance
Summer Ihori & Jinno
This course covers a standrad level of public finance theories for undergraduate students.

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo1302: Market, Investment and Finance
Winter Kobayashi & Matsushima

The first half of this course is devoted to understand the basic levels of theoretical and empirical issues of investment and finance. The second half is devoted to game theory, informational economics, and experimental economics. The students study the basic concepts for decision making and market mechanisms.

1104: Statistics
Winter Kunitomo
This course is an introductory course in statistics for students who are going to study Economnics, Management Sciences and Finance. We shall discuss two aspects of statistics, that is, the descriptive statistics and the theoretical statistics at the introductory level. In the first part major economic data and governmental statistics in Japan, and their use are discussed. In the second part the introductory probability and mathmatical methods are discussed. We shall try to illustrate real lif examples in economics, management sciences and finance.