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Southern University Bangladesh Department of Business Administration Program: Undergraduate-BBA

This document outlines the course objectives, description, textbook, and chapter contents for an Introduction to Finance course at Southern University Bangladesh. The course is a 3-credit core course that introduces fundamental finance concepts including the financial system, time value of money, short and long-term financing options. Students will be evaluated based on coursework, a midterm exam, final exam, class participation and attendance. The instructor expects regular attendance, honesty, and for students to collect referenced course materials.

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Southern University Bangladesh Department of Business Administration Program: Undergraduate-BBA

This document outlines the course objectives, description, textbook, and chapter contents for an Introduction to Finance course at Southern University Bangladesh. The course is a 3-credit core course that introduces fundamental finance concepts including the financial system, time value of money, short and long-term financing options. Students will be evaluated based on coursework, a midterm exam, final exam, class participation and attendance. The instructor expects regular attendance, honesty, and for students to collect referenced course materials.

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Southern University Bangladesh

Department of Business Administration


Program: Undergraduate- BBA
Course Title: Introduction to Finance
Course Code: FI 2400
Credit Hour: 3
Course Category: Core
Prerequisite Course: N/A
Course Objective: Among others this course is designed to give the students fundamental concept of
finance and includes various topics related to financial decision making. Therefore it enables the learners
to understand the financial-decision making process and to interpret the impact that financial decisions
will have on value creation.
Course Description: Introduction, Financial System, Time Value of Money, Short Term Financing,
Term Loan, Long Term Financing, Lease Financing and Hire- purchase Financing.
Text Book: Essentials of Managerial Finance (14th Edition)
- Scott Besley
- Eugene F. Brigham
Reference Book:
1. Financial Management (Text, Problems and Cases) 6e
- Khan and Jain
2. Fundamentals of Financial Management
- Prasanna Chandra
3. Principles of Managerial Finance (Current Edition)
- Gitman
4. Finance by ZVI BODIE and ROBERT C. MERTON
Chapter Contents
Mid Term
1. Introduction Definition of Finance; Evolution of Finance; Importance; Functions;
Types/Classification of Finance; Goals of Finance & Organization,
Relationship of Finance with other Disciplines; Career Opportunities in
Finance.
2. Financial System Introduction; The Flow of Funds; The Functional Perspective; Financial
Innovation and the “Invisible Hand”; Financial Markets; Financial Market
Rates; Financial Intermediaries; Financial Infrastructure and Regulation;
Governmental and Quasi-Governmental Organizations.
3. The Time Value of Introduction; Definition; Reasons and Objectives of Time Value of Money;
Money Cash Flow Time Lines; Future Value; Present Value; Comparison Of Future
Value With Present Value; Solving for Interest Rates (r) and Time (n);
Definition of Annuity; Types of Annuity; Future Value of an Annuity;
Present Value of an Annuity; Mixed Streams; Computing Annuity Payments
(PMT), Interest Rates (r), and Time (n); Perpetuities; Uneven Cash Flow
Streams; Semiannual and Other Compounding Periods; Comparison of
Different Interest Rates; Amortized Loans
4. Managing Short – Introduction; Definition; Objectives; Sources; Accruals; Accounts Payable
Term Liabilities (Trade Credit); Short-Term Bank Loans; Choosing a Bank; Commercial
(Financing) Paper; Computing the Cost of Short-Term Credit; Use of Security in Short-
Term Financing;

Final Term
5. Term Loan/ Introduction; Definition; Features; Repayment Schedule/ Loan Amortization;
Intermediate Obtaining a Term Loan.
Financing
6. Long Term Introduction; Definition; Features; Types; Internal Sources of LTF;
Financing Institutional Sources of LTF; Non-institutional Sources of LTF; Definition of
Common Stock; Features of Common Stock; Advantages and disadvantages
of Common Stock; Decision to enlist the Stock in SEC; Procedures of selling
New Stock; The decision to go public/IPO; Stock Market/Capital Market;
Bond/Debenture/Long term Debt; Features of Bond/Debentures; Advantages
and disadvantages of Bond; Types of Bond/Debentures; Bond Ratings; Bond
Refunding; Definition of Hybrid Security; Preferred Stock; Features of
Preferred Stock; Pros and Cons of Preferred Stock; Convertible Security.
7. Lease Financing Concept- Meaning, Essential Elements; Classification- Finance Lease and
Operating Lease, Sale & Lease Back and Direct Lease; Single Investor Lease
and Leveraged Lease, Domestic Lease and International Lease; Significance
and Limitations; Financial Evaluation of Leasing- From the view point of
Lessee and Lessor.
8. Hire-purchase Conceptual Framework- Meaning and Characteristics; Hire-purchase Vs
Finance Installment Payment; Lease Financing Vs Hire-purchase Financing; Parties
to Hire-purchase Contract; Financial Evaluation- From the view point of
the Hirer and Finance Company.
Evaluation:
This course will be evaluated by the following components (Marks in total- 100)
1. Course work 25
 Class test
 Assignment
 Attendance
 Presentation
 Viva

2. Mid Term 25(50)


3. Final Term 50
Instructor’s expectation from the learners:
 Regularity in the class attendance (above 80%), participative, co-operative
 Honesty and integrity
 All kinds of course material or the reference of the course material will be given in the class.
It’s student duty to collect the course material according to the references.
 Any failure in meeting deadlines must be reported before expiration of deadlines and no case
will be entertained otherwise. This policy will be applicable for all kinds of assignment, class
test, viva etc.

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