FIRST SEMESTER
Course objectives: This course is designed to familiarize the students with banking activities, mechanism, techniques and provision required to conduct and manage the business of banking in Bangladesh as well as around the globe.
Course contents: Banking structure and system, financial system and banking structure in Bangladesh, banker and customer relationship, opening and operating bank accounts, negotiable instruments, cheque, bill of exchange and promissory note, the paying banker and collecting banker, endorsement, loans and advances, types of securities, modes of creating charge, guarantees, commercial banking, liquidity management, central banking, letter of credit and others.
Textbook: Banking Law and Practice by P.N. Varshney
Reference books
- Banking by N.T. Somashekar
- Banking Law and Practice by S. N. Maheshwari
- Business of Banking by R.M. Debnath
Course objectives: This course attempts to develop the skills of students in exchanging messages with the clients for development of mutual understanding needed to enter into business deals. The course focuses on the techniques of preparation of reports on business matters and the art of presenting them.
Course contents: Communication, written and oral communication, major media of written and oral communication, communication, non-verbal communication, internal communication, effective meeting, information age and the use of computers in business communication, audio-visual aids in communication, office memos, business reports, short essay writing on topics relating to business world, common business abbreviations and acronyms, meaning and use of commercial terms, comprehension and precise writing, art of addressing meeting and conferences, business documents and office papers.
Textbook: Business Communication by A.C. “Buddy”Krizan, Patricia Merrier, Joyce P. Logan, Karen Schneiter Williams
Reference book: Basic Business Communication by Raymond V. Lesiker
Course objectives: The objective of the course is to introduce the students with the concepts and techniques of mathematics and quantitative skills that will help them to solve the numerical problems in the business arena.
Course contents: Number system, indices and surds, theory of sets, logarithm, linear equations, quadratic equations, coordinate geometry, progression.
Textbook: Mathematics with Application for Business and Economics, by E. K. Bowen
Reference books
1. Business Mathematics by D. C. Sanchetiand V. K. Kapoor
2. Business Mathematics by Md. Rafiqul Islam and Mohammad Osman Gani
Course objectives: This course presents the underlying framework and concepts of financial accounting in the context of how accounting fits into the overall business environment. Students will learn how accounting functions as an information development and communication system that support economic decision making and provide value to entities and society.
Course contents: Accounting cycle, accounting equation, concepts and principles, International Accounting Standard, preparation of work sheet, merchandising operations and inventory management, accounting for partnership, issue of common stock, bonus and right issue, and depreciation strategies of tangible and intangible assets, statement of cash flows, corporations: organization and capital stock transactions, plant assets, natural resources, and intangible assets.
Textbook:Accounting Principles by Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso
Reference books
1. Fundamental Accounting Principles by Kermit D. Larson, John J. Wild, Barbara Chiappetta
2. Advanced Accountancy, Volume-I: Principles of Accounting by S.P. Jain, K.L. Narang
Course objectives: This course has been designed to equip students with the knowledge about focal themes relating to Bangladesh. The first theme is the inevitability of the emergence of Bangladesh as a state entity in the context of a long historical background starting from 4th Century B.C., and the second theme draws attention to the experience of Bangladesh as a small state in the Third World in governance and democratization.
Course contents: History of Bangladesh, the basic nature and characteristics of Bangladesh economy, politics and governance in Bangladesh, monetary system of Bangladesh, banking in Bangladesh, insurance industry in Bangladesh, alleviation of poverty, public finance of Bangladesh, economic planning in Bangladesh, perspective plan of Bangladesh 2010-2021.
Textbook: Bangladesh Studies by Rubaiyet Hasan Khan, Ershad Ali, Nurul Karim Nasim
Reference books
1. Bangladesh Studies by Md. Shamsul Kabir Khan, Daulatunnaher Khanam
2. Bangladesh: National Cultures and Heritage: An Introductory Reader by A.F. Salahuddin Ahmed and BazlulMobin Chowdhury
SECOND SEMESTER
Course objectives: This is a fundamental insurance course designed to equip students with a basic understanding of insurance, types and dynamics of insurance, its principles and operation in general. In addition, this course will give an exhaustive picture of the total industry perspective coupled with the practice of existing insurance companies.
Course contents: Origin, history and development of insurance; insurance and risk, principles of insurance, various classes of insurance; insurance contract, operations of insurance company, reinsurance.
Textbook: Principles of Risk Management and Insurance by George E. Rejda
Reference book:Insurance Principles and Practice by M. N. Mishra
Course objectives: This course will provide students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to manage information technology systems effectively. Students will learn how to use Microsoft Office applications and explore the fundamentals of computer hardware and software. The class will also examine the relationship between technology and society as well as interpret how computer technology can benefit businesses, government, and educational organizations. Eventually they will be able to formulate and execute IT policies, strategies, plans and procedures in business organizations.
Course contents: Exploring computers and their uses, looking inside the computer system, transforming data into information, operating system basics, networking basics, the internet and the world wide web, understanding the need for security measures, taking protective measures, information systems in global business today, ethical and social issues in information systems, securing information systems, achieving operational excellence and customer intimacy: enterprise applications, e-commerce: digital markets, digital goods, managing global systems.
Text book: Introduction to Computers by Peter Norton
Reference book: Management Information System by Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Course objectives: This course is designed to provide an introduction to business statistics emphasizing on how to apply various statistical techniques in the support of managerial decisions in different functional areas of business.
Course contents: Introduction, organizing and graphing data, types and shapes of histograms, numerical descriptive measures, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, measures of position, sampling distribution, linear correlation, simple linear regression, time series, index numbers.
Textbook: Introductory Statistics by Prem S. Mann
Reference book: Statistics for Management by David S. Rubin Richard I. Levin
Course objectives: This course aims to enable students to improve their ability to take microeconomic decisions regarding the use of scarce resources in more efficient and effective way. After completion of the course students should be able to combine theoretical concepts with formal analytical tools in order to understand how consumers and producers make optimal choices, and how these choices affect real market outcomes.
Course contents: The concept and broad area of microeconomics, economic models and circular flow diagram, production possibilities frontier, microeconomics vs. macroeconomics, positive vs. normative analysis, market forces of supply and demand, elasticity and its application, consumers, producers and the efficiency of markets, the cost of production, firms in competitive market, monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, game theory.
Textbook: Principles of Microeconomics by N. Gregory Mankiw
Reference books
1. Microeconomics by Michael Parkin
2. Microeconomics Theory and Applications by Dominick Salvatore
Course objectives: This course is designed to provide with the various philosophies, roles and functions of management. In addition, it will cover ongoing changes in business that have a direct effect on the role of management. Upon successful completion of this course, the students will be able to explain the four management functions: planning, organizing, leading and controlling, analyze and apply management theory, and utilize the appropriate approach and analytical skills to deal with managerial issues that arise in modern business world.
Course contents: Management functions, management perspectives, business environment, management practices in international businesses, planning and decision-making, organizing and basics of organization structures, leadership, human resources management, control mechanism and process of strategic management.
Textbook: Management: Principles and Practices by Ricky W. Griffin
Reference book: Contemporary Management by Gareth R. Jones and Jennifer M. George