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Managerial Accounting

  • Introduction to managerial accounting.
  • Cost – Volume - Profit analysis.
  • Short term decisions and relevant costs.
  • Budgets: operating and Financial Budgets.
  • Long term investment decisions.

Responsibility accounting. Students will be able to

Studying managerial accounting is one of the best investment students can make. Why? Because success in any organization- from the smallest corner to the largest multinational corporation – requires the use of accounting concepts and practices to provide information. Managerial accounting provides key data to managers for planning and controlling, as well as costing products, services and customers and how accounting information help managers make better decision, making teams instead just data providers. By focusing on the basic concepts, analyses, uses and procedures, we recognize accounting information as managerial tool for business strategies and implementation.

We also prepare students for the rewards and challenges facing them in the professional managerial accounting word both today and tomorrow.. To review the purpose, structure and operation of national and international economic institutions. By the end of the course, students should be able to:

  1. Understand to introduction of managerial accounting.
  2. Definition of managerial accounting- objective of managerial accounting.
  3. Explain classified costs.
  4. Component cost of manufacturing company.
  5. Understand the break even point analysis.
  6. Compute the methods of break-even point. ,
  7. Explain margin of safety.
  8. Incremental analysis.
  9. Understand Budget and how prepared of operation budget.
  10.  Responsibility accounting.

International Trading

The subject matter of international economics divides rather neatly into what are referred to as international trade and international finance. The body of thought that comes under the title of ‘international trade’ is concerned with ‘real’ aspects of international economics where the term ‘real’ is to be understood as contrasting with ‘monetary’ or ‘financial’. Alternatively, you might wish to think of international trade as the application of microeconomics to the international economy; and international monetary economics as the application of macroeconomics.

The starting point for studying international trade concerns questions such as:

  • Why do countries trade with each other?
  • How do countries gain from international trade?
  • What determines the international pattern of specialization and the commodity and composition of trade?

International trade not only results in increased efficiency but also allows countries to participate in a global economy, encouraging the opportunity of foreign direct investment (FDI), which is the amount of money that individuals invest into foreign companies and other assets. In theory, economies can therefore grow more efficiently and can more easily become competitive economic participant. This course is directed toward students interested in understanding what the Global Economy and what are the International Marketing - principles and practice. Also, identify the Legal Environment, The Export Order Process, Customs Controls and ICT and export documentation.

Three of the most important theories which can be studied throughout this course are the Absolute Advantage, Comparative Advantage and Factor Proportions theories that focus on some specific areas as follows:

  • Specialization of production.
  • Division of labor
  • Free Trade. This course offers an introduction to the main theoretical tools and policies that are central to the study of international trade, but with an emphasis on application to the trade flows, trading blocks and international macroeconomic events that characterize the global economy today. The ability to use economic analysis to reach a deeper understanding of international trade will be an important formative element for those who intend to develop careers in international business and management. This course is designed for students interested in understanding why do countries trade with one another, why do nations trade what they do and what are the gains from trade. The objective of the course is also to familiarize students with different types of theories that have been posed by famous economists as patterns that countries depend upon to trade with one another. Moreover, The course has been designed also to teach students the trade policies that are used by nations to export and import goods and services to and from other nations

Teacher: SHIVAN ALI

Fund Management

This course will cover some basic concepts in funds management is the overseeing and handling of a financial institution's cash flow. The fund manager ensures that the maturity schedules of the deposits coincide with the demand for loans. To do this, the manager looks at both the liabilities and the assets that influence the bank's ability to issue credit. Funds management also referred to as asset management covers any kind of system that maintains the value of an entity. It may be applied to intangible assets (e.g., intellectual property and goodwill), and tangible assets (e.g., equipment and real estate). It is the systematic process of operating, deploying, maintaining, disposing, and upgrading assets in the most cost-efficient and profit-yielding way possible. This course is designed for students interested in understanding what the funds are and how to manage them. Funds management always plays a huge role in the investment and portfolio management. The target clientele are students who enjoyed their investment class and would like more advanced course that will give you a way of thinking about portfolio management. This course will be differentiated by its emphasis on both the theoretical and practical considerations that guide the making of investment decision around the world. By the end of the course, students should be able to:

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the funds management process,
  • Explain the characteristics of different asset classes and evaluate their historical and relative performance,
  • Analyse fund management styles including the business case for sustainable investment,
  • Demonstrate an understanding of fixed income fund management,
  • Demonstrate an understanding of equity fund management,
  • Evaluate the performance of managed funds,
  • Demonstrate an understanding of hedge funds and be able to evaluate their performance,
  • Discuss emerging concepts in the funds management industry, and
  • Demonstrate an ability to apply appropriate quantitative techniques.

Security Analysis

The emphasis of the course is upon the analysis of marketable securities. Topics to be covered include the investment characteristics of the securities available in exchange markets, investment strategies to improve rates of return, and the techniques of traditional security analysis and valuation. 


This course focuses on the fundamental principles and techniques of security analysis. The course in addition will deal with the following topics: definition of securities; securities regulation; the investment environment; markets and instruments; macroeconomic and industry analysis; fundamental analysis; technical analysis; equity valuation models; financial statement analysis; derivatives instruments; and some other related topics.

This course is designed for students interested in understanding the analysis of financial securities in any exchange market. The target clientele are students considering a career in finance and those interested in acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary for making informed personal investment decisions. This course will be differentiated by its emphasis on both the theoretical and practical considerations that guide the decision making to invest in exchange markets. Upon completion of this course, students would be able to: 

  • Value assets such as stocks and bonds.
  • Measure the riskiness of a stock or a bond position.
  • Understand and critically evaluate investment advice from brokers and the financial press.
  • Have a firm grasp on the concepts of securities; 
  • Be knowledgeable on the different markets and instruments; 
  • Have a general understanding on securities trading and regulation; 
  • Be knowledgeable on macroeconomic, industry, fundamental and technical analysis; 
  • Have a general understanding of equity valuation models and financial statement analysis 
  • Appreciate other topics related to security analysis.

Teacher: SHIVAN ALI

Financial Derivatives

This course covers one of the most exciting and important areas in finance: derivatives. Financial derivatives such as forwards, futures, swaps, and options allow a risk manager

to mitigate or even eliminate unwanted risks her company is facing, thereby allowing the company to focus on its comparative advantage. For instance, a risk manager of a US based company may enter into a forward contract on the British Pound to lock in the exchange rate for future account receivables, the risk manager of an airline may enter into a futures contract on crude oil to hedge against future increases in jet fuel, or a bank may use credit default swaps to hedge the credit risk of a client. Interest rate and currency swaps give a company a lot of flexibility when choosing to finance a project with debt. For instance, a US based firm may take out a cheap USD floating rate bank loan and convert this loan into a USD fixed rate loan with an interest rate swap or a firm based in Japan may also take out this USD bank loan and uses a currency swap to convert this loan into a fixed rate loan in Yen. In both cases the firm lowers its borrowing cost without any exposure to interest rate and/or currency risk. Moreover, an active portfolio manager may use a put option on the S&P500 to protect against market downturns. If stock market returns are currently very volatility, then she may use a collar on the S&P500 insead to finance the expensive put premium. Financial derivatives allow investors to trade on future price movements with minimal upfront investments thereby making financial markets more liquid and efficient. For instance, traders in the equity index and FX futures markets can often lever up their positions more than 25 respectively 50 times (varies with the volatility of the underlying). Investor in option markets can obtain similar leverage ratios even without ever facing a margin call. This leverage baked into derivatives is often not well understood and the reason for many derivative trades that have gone terribly wrong (Lehman Brothers, Long Term Capital Management, Orange County, Barings Bank, etc). Derivatives are also often used to predict future prices or events. For instance, fed fund futures can be used to predict the future monetary policy of the fed, weather derivatives traded on the CME can be used to predict future changes in temperature, and currency options can be used to infer the likelihood of a successful exchange rate peg. Financial derivatives are sometimes in the news because they can be used to circumvent tax or accounting rules. This regulatory arbitrage is possible when regulatory authorities do not treat with derivatives synthetically created assets (e.g. loans) as such and thus they receive different tax or accounting treatment.

There have been important development since the financial crisis such as the switch from one-leg to two-leg pricing of interest rate and currency swaps, the move to central clearing of derivatives, and the valuation adjustments to the fair value of derivatives done by dealers to take into account funding, credit risk, and regulatory capital costs. Moreover, the upcoming switch from LIBOR to SOFR based USD floating rate loans (similar changes will occur in other countries or currencies areas) will diminish the importance of the most widely used derivatives such as the Eurodollar futures contract and the Libor swap. Instead SOFR futures and swaps will become more popular.

The main objective of this course is to help students gain the intuition and to provide the necessary skills for pricing and hedging of derivative securities, and for using them for investment, risk management, and prediction purposes. We discuss a wide range of applications and real-life cases, including the use of derivatives in asset management, the valuation of corporate securities such as stocks and corporate bonds, interest rate derivatives, credit derivatives, as well as crude oil derivatives and currency derivatives. In addition to theoretical discussions, we also emphasize practical considerations of implementing strategies using derivatives as tools, especially when no-arbitrage conditions do not hold. In order to provide a useful treatment of these topics in a world that is changing rapidly, it is necessary to stress fundamentals and to explore topics at a technical level. Specifically, the objective of this course is to teach students how to analyze a problem/situation involving derivatives so that they also know how to deal with a different one in the future.

Teacher: ZERAVAN ASAAD