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This course focuses on Capital Market Theory, its efficiency and implications. It establishes its coherence with the rest of the financial institutions within the financial environment. It introduces the nature, concepts and the different activities in investment banking in its intermediation between the sources and users of funds. It also offers how an investor may use the capital market for investment opportunities and to diversify risk. Integral part of the course will be the exposure of the students to the actual operations of stock exchanges. |
The course covers understanding and application of accounting principles and standards relating to the nature and composition of accounts, initial recognition, measurement and valuation, subsequent events and transactions, subsequent measurement and the required disclosures of non-financial assets such as inventories, biological assets, property, plant and equipment, intangible assets, investment properties, non-current assets held-for sale.