| Financial markets | Second Year | The aim of this module is to provide deeper understanding of the financial system and financial markets, including Money and Capital Markets. Furthermore, it provides thorough understanding to the concept of market microstructure and market players (brokers, specialists and market makers. Participants will gain an understanding of the instruments traded in each market. It also provides an introduction to the index numbers and stock market indices in terms of calculations and interpretations of stock indices. Finally, this module covers the concepts of stock market efficiency and stock market anomalies. |
| Financing Management | Second Year | This module aims to deepen the understanding of students about financial management in terms of theory and practice. The focus of this module is on the financial decisions taken by the financial manager, both in the short and long-term, which deals with short-term financing in terms of alternatives and costs of each alternative and also addresses long-term financing in terms of alternatives and costs. The module then focuses on the capital structure mix and calculates its cost of capital (WACC). Finally, the module provides students with an introduction to the dividend policy and theories that explain this policy. |
| Investment Management | Third Year | This module aims to deepen students ' understanding of the concept of investment and differentiate between investment, gambling and speculation. It also covers investors ' perceptions to risk and understand the types of investors based on these tendencies. In addition, the module aims to increase students ' understanding of the investment instruments available to investors by clarifying investment areas and vehicles. The module then goes on to cover available financial investments by evaluating the financial instruments and understanding the factors that affect the prices of these tools, which helps investors to make the right investment decision. Finally, the module proceeds to cover the concept of institutional investor. |
| Econometrics for Finance | Fourth Year | The course aims to introduce students to the concept of econometrics and its application in the field of finance. It also helps student to understand the basic econometric techniques and analyses real financial problems and to deal with financial datasets in terms of management and analysis, mainly regression analysis. The module provides student with deeper understanding of how to run simple econometric models (cross-sectional and panel data models) with the help of computer econometric package such as SPSS and STATA. Finally, this module deepens the student understanding of interpreting regression results. |