Higher Diploma in Financial Management

Principles of Accounting

Module Objective:
To ensure that a company’s financial statements are complete, consistent and comparable.

Content

• Revenue recognition principle.
• Matching principle
• Materiality principle
• Consistency principle

Taxation

Module Objective:
To generate revenue for the government to fund its various activities and programs, such as infrastructure development, social welfare, and national defense.

Content

• Direct taxes
• Indirect taxes

Business Analytics

Module Objective:
Inform changes to a business through utilization of predictive models that provide insight into the outcome of proposed changes.

Content

• Descriptive Analytics can show what happened and is the foundation of data insights.
• Diagnostic Analytics
• Predictive Analytics
• Prescriptive Analytics

Business Communication

Module Objective:
To convey information effectively and efficiently to achieve the goals and objectives of the organization.

Content

• Context, Sender/Encoder, Message, Medium, Receiver/Decoder and Feedback.

Business Economics

Module Objective:

• Future Prediction
• Recognition
• Classification of business issues
• Drafting business policies
• Establishing relations between different economic aspects

Content

• Supply
• Demand
• Product factors, consumption and dissemination

Business Law

Module Objective:

• Regulating the conduct of businesses and individuals engaged in commerce.
• Promoting fair competition and free trade.
• Protecting consumers and safeguarding their rights.
• Facilitating the orderly conduct of business transactions.

Content

• Rights assignment
• Drafting and work delegations
• Breach of contract
• Transactions
• Contracts
• Penalties for violation of the agreement

Business Research Methods

Module Objective:
To identify the issues and evaluate a plan to resolve them for better managerial functioning.

Content

• Research design
• Research methodology
• Approach within a research methodology
• Research method
• Use of longitudinal data
• Sampling strategy
• Data analysis techniques

Corporate Finance

Module Objective:
To maximize or increase shareholder.

Content

• Proper budgeting
• Raising capital to meet company needs and objectives with debt and/or equity.
• Efficient management of a company’s current assets and liabilities.

Corporate Law

Module Objective:
Overseeing all legal and external affairs matters including litigation, investigations, compliance, mergers and acquisitions, contract matters and international trade issues.

Content

• The body of law governing the rights.
• Relations
• Conduct of persons
• Companies
• Organizations and businesses

Digital Marketing

Module Objective:

• Sell – Grow sales. Start with your most important transactions that lead to revenue and profit.
• Speak – Get closer to customers through dialogue and participation.
• Serve – Add value.
• Save – Save costs.
• Sizzle – Extending your brand online.

Content

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Social Media Marketing (SMM)
• Pay-per-click Advertising (PPC)
• Email Marketing

Entrepreneurship

Module Objective:

• Develop a business plan.
• Launch your first product.
• Create an online presence.
• Achieve financial stability.
• Hire the right people.
• Delegate effectively.
• Work with ideal clients.
• Connect with like-minded individuals.

Essentials of Information Skills

Module Objective:
To enable them to exploit the wide range of information resources available and to retrieve, evaluate and use that information effectively.

Content

• Identify
• Find
• Evaluate
• Apply
• Acknowledge sources of information

Financial derivative

Module Objective:

• Risk management
• Hedging
• Arbitrage between markets
• Speculation

Financial markets and institutions

Module Objective:
Facilitating the smooth operation of capitalist economies by allocating resources and creating liquidity for businesses and entrepreneurs.

Content

• Bonds
• Equities
• The various international currencies.
• Derivatives

Financial Technology

Module Objective:
Help companies, business owners and consumers better manage their financial operations, processes and lives.

Content

• Block chain technology.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Machine Learning
• Other big data functions like robotic process automation (RPA).

Human Resources Management

Module Objective:
To ensure the right people with the right skills for the right job position in an organization.

Content

• Recruitment
• Induction
• Working environment
• Staff relations
• Staff development

Introduction to Finance

Module Objective:
To give an understanding of the role of financial management in industry.

Content

• Banking
• Leverage or debt
• Credit
• Capital markets
• Money
• Investments
• Creation and oversight of financial systems

Introduction to Financial Accounting

Module Objective:
To accurately prepare an organization’s financial accounts for a specific period.

Content

• The income statements
• The balance sheets
• The cash flow statement
• The statement of retained earnings

Introduction to Management Accounting

Module Objective:
To maximize profit and minimize losses.

Content

• Product costing
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Various financial analysis

Organizational Behaviour

Module Objective:
To understand the human interactions in an organization find what is driving it and influence it for getting better results for attaining business goals.

Content

• Motivation
• Leader behaviour and power
• Interpersonal communication
• Group structure and processes
• Attitude development and perception
• Change processes
• Conflict and negotiation and work design

Principles of Management

Module Objective:

• Establishment of objectives
• Performance
• Appraisal of performance based on the objectives

Content

• Planning
• Organization
• Commanding
• Coordinating
• Controlling

Quantitative methods

Module Objective:
To develop and employ mathematical models, theories and/or hypothesis pertaining to phenomena.

Content

• Data Analysis
• Sampling Profitability
• Questionnaire
• Experiment
• Sampling methodology

Risk Management and Insurance

Module Objective:
Protect not only the assets and income of an organization from the potential of accidental loss, but also other stake holder’s dependent upon the organization.

Content

• Risk identification is the process of documenting potential risks and then categorizing the actual risks and business faces.
• Risk analysis
• Response planning
• Risk mitigation
• Risk monitoring

Strategic Management

Module Objective:
Covers the setting objectives for the company, keeping an eye on competitor’s actions, reassessing the organization’s internal structure, evaluating present-day strategies, and affirming the implementation of those strategies throughout the company.

Content

• Goal setting
• Gathering information
• Strategy formulation
• Strategy implementation
• Strategy evaluation
• The Start
• Analyzing
• Forming the strategy