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MBA: FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY DEGREE PROGRAMME

CURRICULUM & COURSE STRUCTURE

[2020- 21 onwards]

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PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
DEPARTMENT OF BANKING TECHNOLOGY

The Pondicherry University (A Central University) was established by an Act of

Parliament, which was enforced by a Notification of the Government of India in October
1985. The campus is spread over 800 acres of land which is rolling down to the Bay of
Bengal sea beach. The inner landscape is featured by sprawling lawns, well nurtured
gardens, picturesque road shapes, and lush green belt with eco-forest mostly flavored by
Cashew-nuts. The tranquil setting makes Pondicherry University Campus a unique one with
exquisite natural beauty with sea shore that captures viewers’ imagination and provides an
ideal atmosphere for persuading study and research. On the University Campus, 15 Schools
and 37 Departments with ample number of students across the globe who undertake post-
graduation program under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS). The University is a
member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and signed MoU with several
foreign Universities/ Institutions.

School of Management

The School of Management is the first School to be established in the University in the year
1986 and is one of the popular Schools of Excellence in the campus primarily focusing on
the business-related courses since the very inception of this University. The School is
offering different MBA programs – MBA (Banking Technology), MBA (Financial
Technology), MBA (International Business), MBA (Logistics and Supply Chain
Management), MBA (General), MBA (Business Analytics), MBA (Tourism Studies), MBA
(Digital Business), MBA (General, Karaikal Campus) (Insurance Management, Karaikal
Campus).

Department of Banking Technology came into existence to offer a specialized M.B.A.

programme in Banking Technology from the academic year 2005-06. The UGC has
sanctioned this programme under its Innovative/Inter-disciplinary scheme during 10th plan.
Now the Department has been admitted for regular UGC funding with adequate Faculty
Members and state-of-art Computer Lab facility. The Department offers inter-disciplinary
Ph.Dprogramme in the area of Management and Computer Science & Engineering from the
academic year 2009-2010. A specialized and self-financed M.B.A. programme in Financial
Technology is offered from the academic year 2020-21.

Vision: To be a Global Centre of Excellence in all aspects of Technology Management in

Banking and Finance Industry

Mission: To create Manpower with know-how and know-why skills required for
Managing Technology Enabled Services offered by BFSI sector.

COURSES OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT

▪ MBA Banking Technology
▪ MBA Financial Technology
▪ Ph.D.

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MBA Financial Technology

Department of Banking Technology, School of Management, Pondicherry
University introduces a new specialized MBA programme in Financial Technology from
the academic year 2020–2021. The Fintech industry uses technology to disrupt the
traditional world of financial services in the areas of payments, lending, insurance, trading
and funding. This new MBA (Fintech) programme will cater to the need of Digital
transformation of Business. This MBA Financial Technology (Fintech) program designed
to prepare the students for their careers in Financial Services, Insurance, Management,
Consulting, Technology, Digital business and Data analytics.

MBA (Financial Technology) is a new specialized inter-disciplinary programme

primarily focused on developing manpower with know-how and know-why skills required
to transform and management of technology used in Fintech services industry. This
programme is tailored for graduates who plan to pursue a career in the Financial
Technology, Big Data Analytics in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence areas as well as for
those seeking career advancement, especially engineers, mathematicians, physicists,
computer programmers, and other high-tech professionals.

Focus:
MBA (Financial Technology) is a specialized programme primarily focusing on
developing manpower required in the Financial Technology Area.

This programme is aimed at:

• Imparting managerial skills and knowledge required to manage modern
digital business enterprises involved in providing various business
domains.
• Providing knowledge in the working areas of Finance, Operations,
Manufacturing, Sales & Marketing and Human Resource Management.
• Developing skills in the Technologies used in digital business, Digital
business transformation, Digital twins, Internet of Things, Data
warehousing, Information security, Digital Commerce, IT Infrastructure
Management, Information System Audit, Data Analytics, Deep
Learning, Blockchain, Business Intelligence, etc.

Major Highlights of the Curriculum

1. MBA (Financial Technology) is a blend of modern Management, Digital
Business along with IT subjects that are required to develop software
solutions to transform and manage the digital business.
2. Industry Integrated Curriculum
3. Two-month Internship in Digital Business Organizations
4. Soft skill training by Professionals
5. Digital Technology Training at ESCI
6. Case Studies on Fortune 500 Companies
7. Forex and Stock Trading Training
8. Bloomberg and CMIE Database based courses.
9. Facilitated with Digital Library with OPAC system and Wi-Fi Enabled
campus

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Aims and Objectives:

More specifically, this programme is aimed at:

▪ Providing the basic knowledge in the Management, Finance and Digital Technology
▪ Imparting skills required to manage modern Digital Business enterprises involved in
providing various business domains.
▪ Developing Manpower required in the emerging areas namely
▪ IOT
▪ Data Warehousing and Mining
▪ Blockchain
▪ Business Intelligence
▪ Machine Learning
▪ Data Visualization
▪ Information System Security

Duration of the Program: Two years in self-financing mode (intake of 40)

Eligibility for Admission: B.Tech/B.E in Computer Science/Information
Technology/ECE/EEE/ B.Sc., in Computer Science/ IT/ Statistics / Mathematics/ BCA/
B.Com / B.Com (Computer Applications) / B.Com (IT), B.Com (E-Commerce) B.A
Economics/ BBA/BBM.
Admission Procedure :

The Entrance Test for MBA Financial Technology programme will be a Common
Admission Test. Candidates need to submit the application for MBA Banking Technology /
MBA Financial Technology Programs through online. The selection will be done by the
University as per the norms of merit consisting of entrance exam mark, group discussion,
personal interview, and other statutory regulations.

Choice Based Credit System (CBCS):

The MBA (Financial Technology) Degree program is offered through a unique
‘Choice Based Credit System’. Under Choice Based Credit System, subjects are classified
into Hard Core and Soft-Core Papers. Hard Core subjects are compulsory. The students
have a choice to select from among the list of Soft-Core papers offered within the
department and by other departments.

Attendance:
Each student shall obtain 70 per cent attendance to be eligible for appearing for the End
Semester Examination.

Grading:
Grading of the marks obtained by the students shall be made as per the norms of Choice
Based Credit System (CBCS) in the same manner as followed in other Departments of
Pondicherry University.

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Weightage of Marks:
The weightage of marks between continuous Internal Assessment and End Semester
Examination shall be 40 and 60 respectively. Passing Minimum: A student is declared to
have passed a given subject only when he/ she secures a minimum of 40 marks in the end-
semester examination and an aggregate of 50% marks (both Internal and End-Semester
Examination put together). There is no minimum passing marks for the internal assessment
component.

Internal Assessment Components:

The weightage of 40 marks for Internal Assessment Components shall consist of the
following components.
1. Two Class Tests (15+15) : 30 marks
2. Two Written Assignments (5+ 5) : 10 marks
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Total : 40 marks
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Internship:
Every student of MBA: Financial Management shall undergo Internship training
during the summer vacation. This Internship shall be for 45 days. During this Internship,
every student should attach himself/ herself with any BFSI sector. The objective of the
Internship training is to give the students a hands-on experience of real-life business
operations. At the end of the Third Semester, each student should submit an Internship
Training Report explaining clearly what each student has learnt during the Internship
period. The Internship Report and the Viva-Voce Examination will be evaluated by the
internal Faculty Guide. The Weightage for the Internship Report shall be 75 marks and
weightage for Viva-Voce Examination shall be 25 marks (Total 100 marks).

Final Project:
Every student of MBA: Financial Management students should carry out a project in the
Fourth Semester. Once the guides are allotted to the students, the students should contact
the respective guides periodically and get necessary guidance and feedback on the project
work. At the end of the project period, every student shall submit a structured project report
as approved by the Faculty Guide within the period specified by the Department.
The Final Project Report and Viva-Voce examination will be evaluated by two
Internal Examiners. The list of Internal Examiners is to be approved by the Dean, School of
Management from a panel of Internal Examiners to be submitted by the Head of the
Department. Final Project Report will be valued for a weightage of 150 marks and Viva –
Voce examination for the Final Project shall carry a weightage of 50 marks (Total 200
Marks).

Mode of Evaluation for Continuous Internal Assessment (Weightage of Marks40):

Two Class Tests, Two Written Assignments, and any of these following
components: Attendance/ Mini Projects / Seminars / Quizzes (announced and / or
unannounced case analysis and case discussion / Term Paper Class Participation /
Assessment of Class Notes etc. End-Semester Examination (Weightage of Marks – 60):
At the end of the Semester a three-hour written examination will be conducted
covering the entire syllabus

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COURSE STRUCTURE-2020-21(Onwards)

Non-Credit Bridge Courses

Course Course Name Course Type
Code
MBAF 301 Basics of Communication Non-Credit
MBAF 302 Basics of Computer Programming Non-Credit
MBAF 303 Basics of Economics Non-Credit

Course Course Course

Course Name
Code Type Credits

SEMESTER I
MBAF411 Financial System in India Hard 3
MBAF412 Financial Statement Analysis and Reporting Hard 3
MBAF413 Fundamentals of Data Analytics Hard 3
MBAF414 Management Concepts and Organization Behavior Hard 3
MBAF415 Programming with Python and R Hard 3
MBAF416 Financial Information System with Big Data Hard 4
MBAF 417 IT Lab -1 Programming Lab using Python and R Hard 2
MBAF 418 Fin Lab – 1 Data Analytics Lab. Hard 2
Semester I Credits 23
SEMESTER II
MBAF 421 Strategic Financial Management Hard 3
MBAF 422 Investment Management Hard 3
MBAF 423 Digital Marketing and CRM Hard 3
MBAF 424 Advanced Data Analytics Hard 3
MBAF 425 Financial Technology Services & Management Hard 3
MBAF 426 Business Intelligence Hard 3
MBAF Elective-I Paper-1 Soft 3
MBAF Elective-II Paper-1 Soft 3
MBAF 427 IT Lab -2: BI Lab Hard 2
MBAF 428 Fin Lab – 2 : Advanced Data Analytics Lab Hard 2
Semester II Credits 28
SEMESTER III
MBAF 511 Design and Critical Thinking for Business Strategy and Startups Hard 3

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MBAF 512 Derivatives and Risk Management Hard 3

MBAF 513 Human Resource Management Hard 3
MBAF 514 Legal Aspects of Business & Financial Regulations Hard 3
MBAF 515 Financial Information Security & Privacy Hard 3

MBAF 516 System Analysis& Design and Agile Software Development Hard 3

MBAF Elective-I Paper-2 Soft 3

MBAF Elective-II Paper-2 Soft 3

IT Lab – 3: Development of Fintech Solutions using Agile

MBAF 517 Hard 2
methodology

MBAF 518 Fin Lab – 3: Corporate Finance Lab and Data Visualization Hard 2

MBAF 519 Summer Internship in BFSI Hard 2

Semester III Credits 30
SEMESTER IV
MBAF 521 Global Financial Markets and Instruments Hard 3
MBAF 522 Machine Learning Hard 3
MBAF Elective –I: Paper-3 Soft 3
MBAF Elective –I: Paper-4 Soft 3
MBAF Elective –II: Paper-3 Soft 3
MBAF Elective –II: Paper-4 Soft 3
MBAF 524 Final Project & Viva Hard 6
Semester IV Credits 24
Total Credits 105
List of Softcore Courses for Second Semester
MBAF 441 Service Oriented Architecture Soft 3
MBAF 442 Design Patterns Soft 3
MBAF 443 Software Project Management Soft 3
MBAF 444 Mutual Fund Management and Services Soft 3
MBAF 445 Insurance and Risk Management Soft 3
MBAF 446 Marketing Analytics Soft 3
List of Softcore Courses for Third Semester
MBAF 531 Artificial Intelligence Soft 3

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MBAF 532 Blockchain and Cryptography Soft 3

MBAF 533 Data Visualization and Reporting Soft 3
MBAF 534 Credit Risk Management Soft 3
MBAF 535 Capital Market Operations Soft 3
MBAF 536 Financial Modelling using spreadsheet Soft 3
List of Softcore Courses for Fourth Semester
MBAF 541 Cyber Security and Forensic Soft 3
MBAF 542 Information System Control and Audit Soft 3
MBAF 543 Natural Language Dialoguing and Chatbots Soft 3
MBAF 544 Social Media Analytics Soft 3
MBAF 545 Fixed Income Securities and Treasury Management Soft 3
MBAF 546 Forex and Currency Derivatives Soft 3
MBAF 547 Corporate Governance & Business Ethics Soft 3
MBAF 548 Project Management Soft 3

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BRIDGE COURSE – NON-CREDIT

NON-CREDIT BRIDGE COURSE

Course Subject Course Type Credit
Code
MBAF 301 Basics of Communication Hard Non-Credit
MBAF 302 Basics of Computer Programming Hard Non-Credit
MBAF 303 Basics of Economics Hard Non-Credit

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SEMESTER I
MBAF 301: BASICS OF COMMUNICATION
Hard Core Non-Credit
Prerequisites: NA
Learning Objectives
1. To introduce concepts and topics related to Communication
2. To Provide an overview on various communication channels
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts communication process
2. To acquire practical knowledge and understanding various communication channels
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion and presentation

1.Self-Introduction-Video Making.
2.Reading everyday Business Newspapers- Preparing an Audio PPT.
3.Week-end Survey on petty Businesses and Prepare a case report.
4.Review of any six big Family Businesses in India.
5.Developing a case study on any tech survey services business like Flipkart, amazon, vola, Uber Cabs,
Red bus.
6.Business quiz on CEOs, Taglines, PSUs, MNCs, Banks.
7.Contemporary articles in Business Magazines (News in articles) from Business India, Business
Today, Business World etc.
8.Understanding Indian Business environment structure Government of Indian Policies, acts and
enactments.
9.Business Autonomations Select cities and products, major exports, Industry Association.
10.Video Learning- Indian informal sector, CEO Presentations, AGM Meetings, CNBC Business
channel discussion, entrepreneurs case study presentation.
11.Written communication exercise- letter to editor, E-circular preparation, Ministry of the meetings.
12.Study reports on Economy, annual central budget, RBI, Credit policy, comparisons of different
economics
13.Preparation of a business plan report, estimation of Demand, consumers survey for census small
businesses like- Eateries, Parlours, provision stores, decorations, boutiques, cab.
14.Lab reports on International businesses personalities like Google CEO, Alibaba, Microsoft, etc.
15.Job description across different cadres of different industry like soft-ware, BPO, healthcare, tourism,
manufacturing, airports, financial services, E-commerce, etc.
16.Contemporary business issues, Government of India policy changes, Schemes for social sector
(Swachh Bharat, etc) digitalisation initiatives, launch of New Technology, consumer products.
17.Group Discussion topics on different contemporary issues, role play activities, summary of
convention and conservers.
18.Study on an Industry Review of Size and Structure of any Five Industries
19.Reports on world economic development, UN agencies, WTO, UNUAD, World Bank, MNCs
country case studies.
20.Ready a best seller in Business and Preparing a Review report.

Text Book and Reference Books:

1.Mukerjee, Hory Sankar. Business Communication: connecting at work. Oxford University Press, 2013.
2.Bovée, Courtland L., John V. Thill, and Roshan Lal Raina. Business communication today. Pearson
Education India, 2016.
3.Gibson, Robert. Intercultural Business Communication: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice for
Business People. Oxford University Press, 2002.
4.Sweeney, Simon. English for Business Communication Teacher's Book. Cambridge University Press,
2003.

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SEMESTER I
MBAF 302: BASICS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
Hard Core Non-Credit

Prerequisites:
NA
Learning Objectives
1. Introduce the students to understand basics of Computer Programming
Learning Outcome:
1. Develop programme for various process
2. Prepare to develop advanced programming
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion and presentation

A. Introduction to Imperative Programming using C

1. Data Types, Constant, Variables, Assignment Statement, I/O Functions
2. Control and Loop Statements– Arrays, Functions
3. Structure and Union –File Functions– Sample Programs

B. Introduction to Object Oriented Programming using C ++

4. Class, Constructor, Destructor, Data &Method Visibility
5. Operator Overloading–Function Overloading–Friend Function–Virtual
Functions
6. Template Class– Abstract Class–IO Streams– Sample Programs

C. Introduction to Client-side Scripting languages

7. HTML
8. JavaScript
9. Sample Application

D. Introduction to Server-side Scripting Language

10. JSP
11. JDB Cin JSP
12. Sample Applications

Text Book and Reference Books:

1. Balagurusamy, Programming in ANSIC, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2008
2. Balagurusamy, Object Oriented Programming, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2007
3. Bryan Basham, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates, Head First Servlets and JSP, 2ndEdition,
O’Reilly Media, 2008
4. BruceW. Perry, Java Servlet &JSP Cookbook, O’Reilly Media, 2004

Open Resources:

Tools / Software: -

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SEMESTER I
MBAF 303: BASICS OF ECONOMICS
Hard Core Non-Credit
Prerequisites:
NA
Learning Objectives
1. To introduce concepts and topics related to Economics and Banking
2. To Provide an overview Micro and Macro Economics
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of Economics and Banking
2. To acquire practical knowledge and understanding Micro and Macro Economics
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion and presentation

▪ Economic Logic and Different Concepts of Economics

▪ Theory of Firm and Concept of Profit Maximization
▪ Factors of Production and Market Mechanism
▪ Production and Consumption Theories
▪ Cost and Revenue Curves and Break-Even Analysis
▪ Market Structures and Basic Characteristics
▪ Pricing of Factors of Production and Pricing Policies
▪ Macro Economics, Concept of GDP and National Income
▪ Functions of Money, Demand for Money and Supply
▪ Interest Rate, Inflation, Aggregate Income
▪ General Theory of Income and Emp0loyment
▪ Real Market and Money Market Equilibriums
▪ Wealth of Nations and International Trade
▪ Trade Cycles, Growth and Welfare state
▪ Open Economy, Globalization

Text Book and Reference Books:

1. Mankiw, N. Gregory. Principles of economics. Cengage Learning, 2020.
2. Thomas, Christopher R., S. Charles Maurice, and Sumit Sarkar. Managerial economics. McGraw-
Hill/Irwin, Latest
3. Marshall, Alfred. Principles of economics. Digireads. com Publishing, Latest
4. Kajal Laturi, G.S.Maddala Introduction to econometrics, Latest
5. Paul Anthony Samuelson,William D Nordhaus, ―Economics‖, Mc Graw Hill, Latest

Open Resources: NA

Tools / Software: - NA

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SEMESTER I

Course Code Subject Course Type Credit

MBAF411 Financial System in India Hard 3
MBAF412 Financial Statement Analysis and Reporting Hard 3
MBAF413 Fundamentals of Data Analytics Hard 3
MBAF414 Management Concepts and Organization Behavior Hard 3
MBAF415 Programming with Python and R Hard 3
MBAF416 Financial Information System with Big Data Hard 4
MBAF 417 IT Lab -1 Programming Lab using Python and R Hard 2
MBAF 418 Fin Lab - 1 Data Analytics Lab. Hard 2
Semester I Credits 23

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SEMESTER I
MBAF411: FINANCIAL SYSTEM IN INDIA
Hard Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basic Knowledge in Business Environment
Learning Objectives
1. To introduce concepts and theories related to – Financial System in India
2. To facilitate the application of the concepts and theories into practice in the field of BFSI
sectors
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of Financial institution, markets and services
2. To acquire required knowledge and demonstrate skills sets required for BFSI sectors
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation, role plays, problem and games
Unit I : Introduction: Financial Environment of Business-Introduction to Financial System- Importance of
financial system- Flow of money- Capital Markets - Primary Market -Basics of capital market mechanism-
instruments- financing and rating institutions- Secondary Market Basics of stock exchanges and their role
Regulatory framework- Money Markets Basics of money market mechanism- instruments- institutions
Unit II: Banking in India: Banking System- RBI- RBI Act- Banking Regulation Act- Major Developments-
Evaluation of the Banking System and Future Trends -Commercial banking-Development Banking- Cooperative
and Rural Banking-Banking Regulations-Technological Innovations and Opportunities for Banks
Unit III: Indian Capital Markets: Functions-Structure- Primary Market System and Regulations in India -
Government securities- Recent Developments- Regulatory Framework-SEBI-Secondary Market System and
Regulations in India-Stock Exchanges in India- History and development and importance-Regulations and
Regulatory Agencies -Bond Market in India: Government Bond Market and its Interface with Capital Market z
Debt Market in India
Unit IV: Insurance in India: Insurance system- Insurance markets- Insurance Industry- Insurance Act-IRDA-
Life and General Insurance- Recent development in Insurance- Future Insurance Opportunities
Unit V: Merchant Banking: Introduction- Role of merchant bankers-Functions-Merchant banking services-
Fund based and Non-fund-based services-Public issue-Underwriting-Regulatory framework-Credit rating-
Depository services - Pension Funds- Foreign Institutional Investors
Text Book and Reference Books:
1. Khan M.Y, Financial Services, Tata McGraw Hill, Latest Edition
2. ThummuluriSiddaiah, Financial Services, Pearson India, Latest Edition
3. Meir Kohn, Financial Institutions and Markets, McGraw Hill Publishing Company, New York, Latest Edition
4. Bhole M.K., Financial Markets and Institutions, Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., New York. , Latest Edition
5. Auerbach Robert D., Finance Markets and Institutions, Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., New York. , Latest Edition
Open Resources:
1. https://www.nseindia.com/education
2. https://certifications.nism.ac.inhttps://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in
3. https://swayam.gov.in/course
4. http://www.iibf.org.in
5. https://students.icai.org
Tools / Software: -

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SEMESTER I
MBAF412: FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS AND REPORTING
Hard Core 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basic Knowledge in Accounting
Learning Objectives
1. To introduce concepts and theories related to Financial Statement analysis & Reporting
2. To facilitate the application of financial statement analysis techniques and tools.
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of Financial statements analysis and reporting
methods
2. To acquire practical knowledge and application over financial statement analysis of a company.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Problem Solving, Case studies, observations, presentation, and mini projects
Unit - I: Preparation of financial statements- Analysis of financial statements- comparative common size and
trend analysis- Preparation of final accounts of banking companies, asset classification and provisioning.
Unit - II: Ratio analysis- Profitability ratios-Liquidity ratios- Solvency ratios- Turnover ratios- DuPont control
chart- statement of changes in financial positions- preparation of cash flow statement- management of working
capital.
Unit - III: Budgeting and budgetary control- preparation of budgets- cost concepts- analysis and behavior-
preparation of cost sheets.
Unit - IV: Marginal costing and breakeven analysis- marginal cost equations- profit volume ratio breakeven
analysis- margin of safety- managerial application of marginal costing.
Unit - V: Emerging concepts in accounting– ERP- New accounting standards– IFRS- eXBRL preparation of
accounts using Spread sheet- Tally open source software.
Text Book and Reference Books:
1. Maheswary S N, Management Accounting, Sultan Chand & Sons, Latest Edition
2. Gupta R L and Radhaswami M, Advance Accounts, Vol., 1, Sultan Chand & Sons, New Delhi, Latest
Edition
3. Jain S P and K L Narang, Advanced Accounts, Kalyani Publishers, Ludiana, Latest Edition
4. Jain S P and K L Narang, Cost Accounts, Kalyani Publishers, Ludiana, Latest Edition
5. Shukla M C and Grewal T S, Advanced Account, Vol.,1 S Chand & Co, Latest Edition
Open Resources:
1. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in
2. https://swayam.gov.in/course
3. http://www.iibf.org.in
4. https://students.icai.org

Tools / Software: - MS Excel with VBA

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SEMESTER I
MBAF 413 : FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA ANALYTICS
HardCore 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basic Knowledge in Statistics
Learning Objectives
1. To introduce statistical tools and techniques to facilitate the decision making
2. To facilitate the application of the statistical tools and techniques for analysis and estimation.
Learning Outcome:
1. To make the students to familiarize with statistical tools and techniques
2. To expertise decision making by using statistical tools and techniques.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Problem Solving, Case studies, observations, presentation, and mini projects
Unit – I :Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion in Frequency Distributions – Summary Statistics –
Measure of Central Tendency – Arithmetic mean – Weighted Mean – Geometric Mean – Median – Mode –
Dispersion – Average Deviation Measures - Coefficient of Variance (CV).
Unit – II :Probability and Sampling, and Sampling Distribution – Meaning – Random Variables – Use of
Expected Value in Decision Making – Binomial Distribution – Poisson Distribution – Normal Distribution –
Sampling - Meaning – Random Sampling – Design of Experiments – Introduction to Sampling Distribution.
Unit – III : Testing of Hypothesis: One Sample Test – Introduction – Concepts Basics to the Hypothesis
Procedure – Testing of Hypothesis –Hypothesis Testing of Means when the Population Standard Deviation is
Known – Measuring the Power of a Hypothesis Test – Hypothesis Testing of Proportions: Large Samples –
Hypothesis Testing of Means when the Population Standard Deviation is Not Known – Testing of Hypothesis:
Two Sample Tests – Hypothesis Testing for Differences between Means and Proportions – Tests for Differences
between Means: Large Sample Sizes – Tests for Difference between Means: Small Sample Sizes – Testing
Differences between Means with Dependent Samples – Tests for Differences between Proportions: Large
Sample Sizes
Unit – IV :Chi – Square and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) – Introduction – Chi – Square as a Test of
Independence – Chi – Square as a Test of Goodness of Fit: Testing the appropriateness of a Distribution –
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) – Inferences about a Population Variance – Inferences about Two Population
Variances.
Unit – V :Simple Regression and Correlation – Introduction – Estimation using the Regression Line –
Correlation analysis – Making inferences about Population Parameters – Using Regression and Correlation
Analyses: Limitations, Errors, and Caveats.
Text Book and Reference Books:
1. Levin. Richard. I and Rubin. David. S ‘Statistics for Management’ Prentice-Hall, 8th Edi.
2. Gupta. S.P ‘Statistical Methods’ Sultan Chand & Sons, 7th Edition
3. Arora&Arora, StatisticsforManagement, S Chand& Co, New Delhi
4. Hooda, R. P. Statistics for business and economics. Vikas Publishing House, 2013.
5. Davis, Glyn, and BrankoPecar. Business statistics using Excel. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Open Resources:
1. https://dbie.rbi.org.in/, https://data.oecd.org/
Tools / Software: - MS Excel, SPSS

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SEMESTER I
MBAF 414: MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS AND ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR
HardCore 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basics of Business Environment
Learning Objectives:
1. To introduce concepts and theories related to – Management concepts and principles
2. To facilitate the application of the concepts and theories into practice in the field of
Management, organisation behaviour and leadership
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of management and organizational behavior
2. To acquire required knowledge and demonstrate skills sets required for managing organization
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation, role plays, problem and games
Unit-I :Introduction: Technology based business organization and projects- Nature of management-
Approaches to management -Functions of management – Various management approaches-management and
development of a modern technology-based company- New organizational capabilities –Ethics and Social
responsibility
Unit-II :Planning- Planning in digital firms- Theories – Policies – Process- Type of plans- Strategic planning
process-Decision making- Theories in decision making – Bounded rationality-Group Decision making-Decision
making strategies- Formulating strategy -MBO
Unit-III :Organization Structure and Design: Digital business organization and structure- Organizational
levels- Various structures- Modern structures- Designing organization structure-Span of management-
Departmentalization- Communication- Theories of communication- Authority – Responsibility- Delegation-
Leadership types
Unit-IV :Communication and Negotiation: Theories of communication- Models of communication- Media of
communication- Organizational context of communication – Barriers- Improving communication – Listening-
Improving listening- Groups and Teams- Formation and Development- Managing groups- Good negotiation-
Factors in effective negotiation
Unit-V :Controlling and Organizational Change: Control functions- Control process- Control effectiveness-
Operations management- Managing quality-Quality control – TQM-Six Sigma-Organizational change-Change
Process- Managing Change- Overcoming resistance to change-Approaches to change
Text Book and Reference Books:
1. Robbins, Stephen P., and Mary Coulter. Management 13E. Pearson India, Latest
2. Michael A.Hitt,J Stewart Black & Layman W.Porter. Management Pearson India, Latest
3. Rudani, Ramesh B. Principles of management. McGraw-Hill Education, 2020.
4. Kondalkar, V. G. Organizational behaviour. New Age, 2020.
5. Prasad, L. M. Principles and practice of management. Sultan Chand & Sons, 2020.
Open Resources:
1. https:/hbr.org/
Tools / Software: - NA

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MBAF 415: PROGRAMMING WITH PYTHON AND R
Hard Core : 3 Credits
Prerequisites: NA
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand fundamentals of Python programming
2. Establish an efficient scientific computing environment to identify and use available R packages
and associated Open-Source software to meet given scientific objectives.
Learning Outcome:
1. Knowledge in basic programming in Python and R.
2. Learnt skills in advanced libraries for application development in Python and R.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.
Unit I :Introduction to Python - The basic elements of python - Branching Programs - Control Structures -
Strings and Input - Iteration - Functions, Scoping and Abstraction - Functions and scoping - Specifications -
Recursion - Global variables - Modules - Numpy - Simple Algorithms and Data structures - Search Algorithms
- Sorting Algorithms - Hash Tables
Unit II: Files - Pandas - System Functions and Parameters -Structured Types, Mutability and Higher-Order
Functions - Strings, Tuples, Lists and Dictionaries - Lists and Mutability _ Functions as Objects - Testing,
Debugging, Exceptions and Assertions - Handling Exceptions - Classes and Object-Oriented Programming -
Abstract Data Types and Classes - Inheritance -Encapsulation and Information Hiding
Unit III: Networked programs, Using Web Services, Using databases and SQL - Regular Expressions – REs and
Python - Plotting using PyLab- Networking and Multithreaded Programming – Sockets, Threads and Processes,
Chat Application - Security – Encryption and Decryption , Classical Cyphers - Graphics and GUI Programming
– Introduction to Tkinter and Tensor flow
Unit IV: Basic fundamentals, installation and use of software, data editing, use of R as a calculator, functions
and assignments - Use of R as a calculator, functions and matrix operations, missing data and logical operators -
conditional executions and loops, data management with sequences - Data management with repeats, sorting,
ordering, and lists.
Unit V:Vector indexing, factors, Data management with strings, display and formatting - Data management -
data frames - Data frames, import of external data in various file formats, statistical functions, compilation of
data - Graphics and plots, statistical functions and visualisation through graphics
Text book and Reference Books
1. John V Guttag. “Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python”, Prentice Hall of
India, 2nd Edition, 2016
2. Wickham, H. Grolemund, G. "R for Data Science", O’Reilly, 1st edition 2017
3. Chun. “Core Python Programming”, Pearson Education India; 3rd edition (2015)
4. Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, Michael H. Goldwasser, “Data Structures and Algorithms in
Python”, Wiley. 8th edition, 2014
5. Hadley Wickham, " Advanced R", CRC, 2nd edition, 2019
Open Resources:
1. https://docs.python.org/3.9/
2. https://numpy.org/doc/stable/
3. https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/index.html
4. https://www.tensorflow.org/federated/get_started
5. https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html
Tools/Software:Python ver 3.9, Numpy, Pandas. Tensor flow, R

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MBAF 416: FINANCIAL INFORMATION SYSTEM WITH BIG DATA

HardCore :4 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basics of Set Theory
Learning Objectives:
1. To learn the fundamentals and issues in database systems and design of databases using
relational models
2. To learn data definition and query languages, transaction management, Big data
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of financial information system
2. To acquire required knowledge and demonstrate skills sets required for developing a back-end
data base application for financial information system
Methodology:
Exercises and Projects.

Unit I : Financial Information System – Concepts – Decision Support System – Financial Decision Process –
Internet and Web based Information System – Organizational Decision Making - – Electronic commerce –
Electronic Business - Introduction to Database Systems: Data-Database Applications -Evolution of Database -
Need for Database Management - Data models-Database Architecture –Key Issues and Challenges in Database
Systems

Unit II: ER and Relational Models: ER Models-ER to Relational Mapping-Object Relational Mapping -
Relational Model Constraints - Keys - Dependencies - Relational Algebra - Normalization -First, Second, Third
& Fourth Normal Forms-BCNF-Join Dependencies.

Unit III: Data Definition and Querying: Basic DDL-Introduction to SQL-Data Constraints -Advanced SQL-
Views-Triggers- Database Security-Embedded &Dynamic SQL

Unit IV: Transactions and Concurrency: Introduction to Transactions - Transaction Systems-ACID Properties -
System& Media Recovery –Need for Concurrency –Locking Protocols-SQL for Concurrency- Log Based
Recovery -Two Phase Commit Protocol - Recovery with SQL- Deadlocks & Managing Dead locks

Unit V: Evolution of Big data-Best Practices for Big data Analytics -Big data characteristics--Big Data Use
Cases-Characteristics of Big Data Applications - Understanding Big Data Storage-A General Overview of
Hadoop Eco System- HDFS- Map Reduce and YARN-Map Reduce Programming Model.

Text book and Reference Books

1. Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudharshan, -Database System Concepts,
7thEdition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2010.
2. RamezElmasri, Shamkant B. Navathe -Fundamentals of Database Systems, Sixth Edition, Pearson/
Addison - Wesley, 2010.
3. Data Science & Big Data Analytics: Discovering, Analyzing, Visualizing and Presenting Data, John
Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2015
4. C.J. Date, A. Kannan and S. Swamynathan, -An Introduction to Database Systems, Pearson
Education, Eighth Edition, 2006.
5. Raghu Ramakrishnan, -Database Management Systemsll, Fourth Edition, McGraw Hill, 2015.
Open Resources:
www.livesql.com
Tools/Software:MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2

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MBAF 417: IT LAB -1 PROGRAMMING LAB USING PYTHON AND R

Hard Core : 2 Credits
Prerequisites:
Programming logics
Learning Objectives:
1. To introduce programming in Python and R.
2. To facilitate the students to learn the advanced skills in Python and R.
Learning Outcome:
1. Development of basic Programming skills both in Python and R.
2. Development of advanced programming skills like OOPS, Databases, Web services, machine learning in
Python and statistical and machine learning skills in R.
Methodology:
Exercises and Projects.
Python Programming
1) Implement a Python program to calculate the exponentiation of a number.
2) Implement a Python Program to calculate the maximum from a list of numbers.
3) Implement a Python Program to perform Linear Search and Binary Search.
4) Implement a Python Program to perform insertion sort.
5) Implement a Python Program to perform selection sort.
6) Implement a Python program to multiply matrices.
7) Implement a Python program to Calculate the most frequent words present in a file.
8) Implement function overloading with different function signatures.
9) Implement concept of class, instances and inheritance.
10) Implement internal and external library.
11) Solve algorithmic problems by program using different problem-solving strategies.
12) Search content using regular expression library in python.
13) Implement Matrix multiplication using multi-threading in python.
14) Implement a Python program to draw various charts.
15) Implement a Python program using Numpy, Pandas and tensor flow
R Programming
1) Create, print, add column and slice matrix using R programming
2) Write R programming to use and understand data frame, list and functions
3) Write R programming to use and understand conditional and loop statements
4) Write R programming to import and export data from different file formats.
5) Write R programming to use and understand various statistical functions
6) Write R programming to use and understand simple machine learning algorithms
Text book and Reference Books
1. John V Guttag. “Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python”, Prentice Hall of
India, 2nd Edition, 2016
2. Wickham, H. Grolemund, G. "R for Data Science", O’Reilly, 1st edition 2017
3. Chun. “Core Python Programming”, Pearson Education India; 3rd edition (2015)
4. Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, Michael H. Goldwasser, “Data Structures and Algorithms in
Python”, Wiley. 8th edition, 2014
5. Hadley Wickham, " Advanced R", CRC, 2nd edition, 2019
Open Resources:
1. https://docs.python.org/3.9/
2. https://www.tensorflow.org/federated/get_started
3. https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html
Tools/Software:
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SEMESTER I

MBAF 418: FIN LAB - 1 DATA ANALYTICS LAB.

Soft Core: 2 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basic Knowledge in MS Excel and SPSS
Learning Objectives
1. To have hands on experience to learn MS Excel and SPSS
2. To facilitate the application of the MS Excel and SPSS for forecasting and estimation
Learning Outcome:
1. To make the students to familiarize with econometric tools and techniques
2. To expertise decision making by using econometric tools and techniques.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Exercise, and Mini project.
Unit – I: Data Management using MS Excel and SPSS

Unit – II: Frequency Distribution, Mean, Mode, Median and Coefficient of Variances

Unit –III: Descriptive Statistics and T-tests

Unit – IV: Testing of Hypothesis, Chi-Square, ANOVA

Unit – V: Correlation and Regression

Text Books and References:

1. Levin. Richard. I and Rubin. David. S ‘Statistics for Management’ Prentice-Hall, 8th Edition 2017.
2. Brooks, Chris., ‘Introductory Econometrics for Finance’ Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition.
3. Hair, Anderson, Tatham and Black., ‘Multivariate Data Analysis’ Pearson Education India, 7th Edition.
4. Wooldridge M., Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, Cengage Learning, 6th Edition.
5. Damodar Gujarati, Dawn C Porter, and Manoranjan Pal, Basic Econometrics, Mc Graw Hill, 6th Edition

Open Resources:
1. https://dbie.rbi.org.in/, https://data.oecd.org/
Tools / Software: - MS Excel, Eviews, and SPSS

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SEMESTER II
Course Code Subject Course Type Credit
MBAF 421 Strategic Financial Management Hard 3
MBAF 422 Investment Management Hard 3
MBAF 423 Digital Marketing and CRM Hard 3
MBAF 424 Advanced Data Analytics Hard 3
MBAF 425 Financial Technology Services & Management Hard 3
MBAF 426 Business Intelligence Hard 3
MBAF Elective-I Paper-1 Soft 3
MBAF Elective-II Paper-1 Soft 3
MBAF 427 IT Lab -2: BI Lab Hard 2
MBAF 428 Fin Lab – 2 : Advanced Data Analytics Lab Hard 2
Semester II Credits 28

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MBAF 421: STRATEGIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
HardCore: 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basics knowledge in Business Finance
Learning Objectives
1. To introduce the concepts and theories related to Financial Planning and financial functions
2. To facilitate the learning of financial decisions
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of Corporate Financial Functions
2. To acquire practical knowledge and application over financial decisions
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Problem Solving, Case studies, observations, presentation, and mini projects
Unit I: Financial Management: Introduction, Meanings and Definitions, Goals of Financial Management,
Finance Functions - Financial Planning - Time Value of Money: Introduction, Rationale, Future Value, Present.

Unit II: Cost of Capital: Introduction, Meaning of Cost of Capital, Cost of Different Sources of Finance,
Weighted Average Cost of Capital - Leverage: Introduction, Operating Leverage, Application of operating
leverage, Financial Leverage, Combined Leverage - Capital Structure: Introduction, Features of an Ideal Capital
Structure, Factors Affecting Capital Structure, Theories of Capital Structure.

Unit III: Capital Budgeting: Introduction, Importance of Capital Budgeting, Complexities Involved in Capital
Budgeting Decisions, Capital Budgeting Process, Investment Evaluation, Appraisal Criteria - Capital Rationing:
Introduction, Types, Steps Involved in Capital Rationing, Various Approaches to Capital Rationing.

Unit IV: Evaluation of lease contracts: Introduction – Meaning and essential – Classification – Financial lease –
Operating lease – Sales and lease back – Indirect lease; - Dividend Decisions: Introduction, Traditional
Approach, Dividend Relevance Model, Miller and Modigliani Model, Stability of Dividends, Forms of
Dividends, Stock Split

Unit V: Working Capital Management: Introduction, Components of Current Assets and Current Liabilities,
Concepts of Working Capital, Objective of Working Capital Management, Need for Working Capital, Operating
Cycle, Determinants of Working Capital, Approaches for Working Capital Management, Estimation of Working
Capital - Cash Management - Inventory Management - Receivable Management.

Text book and Reference Books

1. Khan MY, Jain PK., Financial Management, Tata Mc Hill, New Delhi,2017
2. Pandey I M., Financial Management, Vikas Publishing House, Delhi, 2016
3. Chandra, Prasanna: Financial Management, Tata McGraw Hill, Delhi, 2013
4. Van Horne, James C: Financial Management and Policy, Prentice Hall, Delhi, 2015
5. Brigham, Eugene and Ehrhardt C Michael., Financial Management: Theory and Practice, 2014
Open Resources:
5. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in
6. https://swayam.gov.in/course
7. http://www.iibf.org.in
8. https://students.icai.org

Tools / Software: - MS Excel, Tableau, Power BI

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MBAF 422:INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
Hard Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basic Knowledge in Finance
Learning Objectives
1. To introduce concepts and theories related to – investment analysis, fundamental and technical
analysis.
2. To facilitate the application of knowledge and skills to value and price the equity using different
models.
Learning Outcome:

1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of investment and Trading.

2. To acquire practical knowledge and understanding over investment and valuation strategies.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Problem Solving, Case studies, observations, presentation, and mini projects
Unit I:Investment: Meaning–Features - Alternatives - Investment, Speculation and Gambling – Indian
Capital Market – Primary Market and Secondary Markets – Processes of Buying and Selling Securities
– Secondary Markets – Types – Stock Exchanges – OTCEI – Depository – Role of SEBI in security
markets.
Unit II: Risk – Return Framework: Security Returns–Measurement of Returns–Risk Systematic and
Unsystematic Risk
Unit III: Fundamental Analysis: Meaning–Importance–Objectives – Analysis of Economic, Industry,
and Company– Financial and Non-Financial Parameters – Technical Analysis: Meaning – Difference
between fundamental analysis and Technical analysis - The Dow Theory – Technical indicators –
Charting Techniques – Stock market indicators – Market Efficiency: Weak form – Semi-strong form –
Strong form – valuation equity
Unit IV: Portfolio Analysis: Portfolio Returns and Risk–Mean Variance Criterion– Markowitz
Diversification – Efficient Frontier – Dominance Principle – Optimum Portfolio – Utility Theory
Unit V: Asset Pricing Model –Capital Market Theory–Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) –
Assumptions–Inputs -Capital Market Line-Security Market Line– CAPM Anomalies
Text book and Reference Books:
1. Fisher & Jordan, „Portfolio Management”, Prentice Hall, New York.
2. Reilly Brown, Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Cengage Learning, 8th Edition
3. Alexander, Gordon J and Sharpe, William F., Fundamentals of Investment, Englewood Cliffs,
New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc,
4. Elton, Edwin J and Gruber, Martin J., Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis, John
Wiley, NY,
5. Prasanna Chandra, Investment Analysis and portfolio Management, Tata McGraw Hill, New
Delhi, 3rdEdition.
Open Resources: NSE, BSE
Tools/Software: MS Excel

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MBAF 423:DIGITAL MARKETING AND CRM

HardCore: 3 Credits
Prerequisites: Basics knowledge in Business and Marketing
Learning Objectives
1. To create a learning experience to enable the students to Understand marketing skills and
strategies
2. To prepare the students for skillful marketing
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the marketing skills
2. Helps the students to become successful marketing managers.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Problem Solving, Case studies, observations, presentation, and role plays
Unit I: Introduction: Digital Marketing Foundation: Introduction to marketing- Concepts- Theories-
Difference between traditional, inbound, and outbound marketing methodologies - Digital vs. Real
Marketing -Digital Marketing Channels- Creating initial digital marketing plan

Unit II: Digital Marketing - Resource planning - cost estimating - cost budgeting - cost control- E-mail
marketing -E-mail marketing campaign analysis - Mobile Marketing – Content Marketing – App store
Optimization – Affiliate Marketing – Adwords – Online display.

Unit III:Social Media Marketing –Understanding Social Media – Marketing Tools- Internet marketing
– Face book- linkedin – Twitter advertising and publishing - Blogging- Freelancing-Video Marketing-
Platform Specific Tools –Strategies- Social Media Marketing architecture.

Unit IV:Competitor and Website Analysis: Competitor Research Tools- Website Analysis Tools- Web
analytics • Levels – Keyword Research Tools- Back Analysis Tools- Search Engine Optimization
(SEO) – Tools - On Page and Off page SEO – Google analytics

Unit V:CRM: CRM platform -CRM models – Exercise- CRM strategy- Customer Development
Process- customer Retention-Customer satisfaction- Customer Retention Strategies- Relationship
Management-CRM process for B2B markets -Technological Applications in CRM, -Customer
Databases and Information Systems- Emerging Trend in CRM - e-CRM in Service Marketing, e-CRM
strategies, e-CRM architecture

Text book and Reference Books:

1. Fundamentals of Digital Marketing by Pearson– 2017 by Puneet Singh Bhatia
2. Digital Marketing For Dummies 2020 by Ryan Deiss, Russ Henneberry
3. Digital Marketing Paperback – Illustrated April 2015 by Vandana Ahuja
4. Digital Marketing | Second Edition 2020 by Seema Gupta
5. Kingsnorth, Simon. Digital marketing strategy: an integrated approach to online marketing. Kogan Page
Publishers, 2019.

Open Resources:
https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/

Tools / Software: - Adobe Photoshop, ERP etc

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MBAF 424: ADVANCED DATA ANALYTICS
HardCore: 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basics knowledge on Statistical tools and Techniques
Learning Objectives
1. To create understanding on advanced statistical tools along with econometric modelling
2. To prepare the students for decision making and also create exposure on research
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the econometric modelling
2. To carry out research on forecasting and estimation of research problems.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Problem Solving, Case studies, observations, presentation and mini projects
Unit I: Introduction – Econometrics – Steps in Empirical Economic Analysis –Structure of Economic Data –
Causality and the Notion of Ceteris Paribus in Econometric Analysis.

Unit II: Regression Analysis with Time series data - Nature of Time series data – Examples of Time series
Regression Model – Finite Sample Properties of OLS under Classical assumptions – Functional Form, Dummy
Variables, and Index Numbers – Trend and Seasonality -Using OLS with Time series data – Serial Correlation
and Heteroskedasticity in Time series Regression.

Unit III: Advanced Time series modelling – Infinite Distributed Lag Models – Testing for Unit Roots –
Spurious Regression – Co-integration and Error Correction Models – Value at Risk (VAR) – Granger Causality
test - Non-Stationary Time series modelling: ARIMA Models – Autocorrelation functions – Partial
Autocorrelation functions – Modelling volatility and Correlation: Motivations- Historical Volatility – Implied
Volatility – ARCH Models – GARCH Models.

Unit IV: Simple Panel Data methods: Introduction – Pooling Independent Cross Sections across Time – Policy
analysis with pooled Cross Sections – Two Period Panel Data Analysis – Policy analysis with Two period Panel
Data – Differencing with more than Two Time Periods – Advanced Panel Data Methods: Fixed Effects
Estimation – Random Effects Models

Unit V: Multivariate Data Analysis – Introduction –Factor Analysis – Multiple Discriminant Analysis – Logistic
Regression – Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) – Cluster Analysis

Text book and Reference Books:

1. Wooldridge. J., ‘Econometrics’ Cengage Learning, 5th Edition.
2. Gujarati. N. Damodar ‘Basics of Econometrics’ McGraw Hill Education,5th Edition.
3. Brooks, Chris., ‘Introductory Econometrics for Finance’ Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition.
4. Hair, Anderson, Tatham and Black., ‘Multivariate Data Analysis’ Pearson Education India, 7th Edition.
5. Malhotra, Naresh K., and Satyabhusan Dash. Marketing research: An applied orientation. Pearson,,
2016.
Open Resources:
1. https://www.imf.org/en/Data
2. https://dbie.rbi.org.in/
Tools / Software: - Eviews, SPSS,Stata

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MBAF 425: FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES & MANAGEMENT

HardCore: 3 Credits
Prerequisites: NA
Learning Objectives:
1. The major areas in FinTech, including Money and Payment, Digital Finance and Alternative
Finance. Major technological trends, including cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, AI and Big Data.
FinTech Regulation and RegTech. The fundamental role of Data and Security in data-driven
finance. Business and regulatory implications of technology for the financial industry. Ways to
analyze and evaluate what is driving technology innovation in Finance.
Learning Outcome:
1. Knowledge in FinTech, Digital finance and RegTech.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.

Unit I: FinTech: Introduction - Transformation – FinTech Evolution: Infrastructure, Banks Startups and
Emerging Markets - Collaboration between Financial Institutions and Startups –FinTech Typology - Emerging
Economics: Opportunities and Challenges - 8 From too-Small-To-Care to Too-Big-To-Fail –
Introduction to Regulation Industry - The Future of RegTech and other Technologies Impacting it.

Unit II: Payments, Crypto currencies and Blockchain – Introduction - Individual Payments –Digital Financial
Services – Mobile Money – Regulation of Mobile Money – SFMS - RTGS - NEFT –NDS Systems –
Crypto currencies – Legal and Regulatory Implications of Crypto currencies –What is Blockchain? – The
Benefits from New Payment Stacks

Unit III: Digital Finance and Alternative Finance - Introduction – Brief History of Financial Innovation –
Digitization of Financial Services - FinTech & Funds- Crowd funding– Regards, Charity and Equity - P2P and
Marketplace Lending – New Models and New Products - What is an ICO

Unit IV: FinTech Regulation and RegTech - Introduction - FinTech Regulations Evolution of RegTech –
RegTech Ecosystem: Financial Institutions – RegTech Ecosystem Ensuring Compliance from the Start:
Suitability and Funds – RegTech Startups: Challenges –RegTech Ecosystem: Regulators Industry – Use
Case of AI in Smart Regulation and Fraud Detection – Regulatory Sandboxes – Smart Regulation – Redesigning
Better Financial Infrastructure

Unit V: Data & Tech - Introduction - History of Data Regulation – Data in Financial Services –Application of
Data Analytics in Finance - Methods of Data Protection: GDPR Compliance and Personal Privacy – How AI is
Transforming the Future of FinTech – Digital Identity – Change in mindset: Regulation 1.0 to 2.0 (KYC to
KYD) - AI & Governance – New Challenges of AI and Machine Learning - Challenges of Data
Regulation - Data is the New Oil: Risk of Breach – The Future of Data-Driven Finance - Case Studies

Text book and Reference Books

1. Agustin Rubini, “Fintech in a Flash: Financial Technology Made Easy”, Zaccheus, 3rd Edition, 2018
2. Susanne Chishti and Janos Barberis, “ The FINTECH Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors,
Entrepreneurs and Visionaries”, John Wiley, 1st Edition, 2016
3. Theo Lynn, John G. Mooney, Pierangelo Rosati, Mark Cummins, “Disrupting Finance: FinTech and Strategy in the
21st Century”, Palgrave, 1st edition, 2018
4. Abdul Rafay, “FinTech as a Disruptive Technology for Financial Institutions”, IGI Global, January, 2019
5. Bernardo Nicoletti , The Future of FinTech: Integrating Finance and Technology in Financial Services, Palgrave
Macmillan, August, 2018

Open Resources:Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access
Tools/Software:Open Source Tools

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MBAF 426: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
HardCore: 3 Credits
Prerequisites: Knowledge in Database
Learning Objectives:
1. To learn the fundamentals of Business Intelligence.
2. To learn the advanced concepts in BI, data warehouse, data mining technologies.
Learning Outcome:
1. Knowledge in Business intelligence.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.
Unit I: Business Intelligence : Effective and timely decisions – Data, information and knowledge –– Business
intelligence architectures: Cycle of a business intelligence analysis – Enabling factors in business intelligence
projects –Data Warehousing and Business Analysis: - Components –Building a Data warehouse – Mapping the
Data Warehouse to a Multiprocessor Architecture – DBMS Schemas for Decision Support – Data Extraction,
Cleanup, and Transformation Tools –Metadata – reporting – Query tools and Applications – OLAP –- Interface
of BI with organization capability
Unit II: Knowledge Discovery - Data Mining: - Data Mining Functionalities – Data Preprocessing – Data
Cleaning – Data Integration and Transformation – Data Reduction – Data Discretization and Concept Hierarchy
Generation. Association Rule Mining: - Efficient and Scalable Frequent Item set Mining Methods – Mining
Various Kinds of Association Rules – Association Mining to Correlation Analysis – Constraint-Based
Association Mining. Data Mining tools, Market Basket Analysis, Management Applications CRM, Data
Visualization and Multidimensionality GIS and Business applications.
Unit III: Classification and Prediction: - Issues Regarding Classification and Prediction – Classification by
Decision Tree Introduction – Bayesian Classification – Rule Based Classification – Classification by Back
propagation – Support Vector Machines – Associative Classification – Lazy Learners – Other Classification
Methods – Prediction – Accuracy and Error Measures – Evaluating the Accuracy of a Classifier or Predictor –
Ensemble Methods – Model Section
Unit IV: Cluster Analysis: - Types of Data in Cluster Analysis – A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
– Partitioning Methods – Hierarchical methods – Density-Based Methods – Grid-Based Methods – Model-Based
Clustering Methods – Clustering High-Dimensional Data – Constraint-Based Cluster Analysis – Outlier Analysis
- Mining Object, Spatial, Multimedia, Text and Web Data: Multidimensional Analysis and Descriptive Mining of
Complex Data Objects – Multimedia Data Mining – Text Mining – Mining the World Wide Web.
Unit V: Other Decision Supporting Technologies - Executive Support Systems, Knowledge Management
Characteristics and Capabilities of DSS Collaborative Computing Technologies: Group Support Systems
Intelligent Support Systems (Expert Systems, ANN, Genetic Algorithm etc.) and their Managerial Applications.
Text book and Reference Books

1. Jiawei Han and MichelineKamber “Data Mining Concepts and Techniques”, Third Edition,
Elsevier, Reprinted 2012.
2. Alex Berson and Stephen J. Smith “Data Warehousing, Data Mining & OLAP”, Tata McGraw – Hill
Edition, Tenth Reprint 2007.
3. K.P. Soman, ShyamDiwakar and V. Ajay “Insight into Data mining Theory and Practice”, Easter
Economy Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2006.
4. G. K. Gupta “Introduction to Data Mining with Case Studies”, Easter Economy Edition, Prentice Hall of
India, 2006.
5. Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar “Introduction to Data Mining”,
Pearson Education, 2007.
Open Resources:
http://hbr.org

Tools/Software:
Open-Source Tools for Data Warehousing and Mining

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SEMESTER II
MBAF 427: IT LAB - 2: BI LAB
Hard Core: 2 Credits
Prerequisites:
Knowledge in Database
Learning Objectives:
1. To learn the fundamentals of data warehousing and data mining.
2. To learn the advanced concepts in BI, data warehouse, data mining and decision support
technologies.
Learning Outcome:
1. Knowledge in Business intelligence.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.

• Defining Business Requirements

O Dimensional Analysis
O Developing Information Packages
O Requirements Definition

•Architecture and Infrastructure Specification

O Metadata definition
O Multi-Dimensional Modeling
▪Star Schema
▪Snow Flake Schema

•Extraction, Transformation and Loading

O Defining rules for ETL
O Usage of ETL Tools

•Information Delivery– OLAP, ROLAP and MOLAP

•Data Mining–Usage of Data Mining Tools

Text book and Reference Books

1. Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber “Data Mining Concepts and Techniques”, Third Edition,
Elsevier, Reprinted 2012.
2. Alex Berson and Stephen J. Smith “Data Warehousing, Data Mining & OLAP”, Tata McGraw – Hill
Edition, Tenth Reprint 2007.
3. K.P. Soman, Shyam Diwakar and V. Ajay “Insight into Data mining Theory and Practice”, Easter
Economy Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2006.
4. G. K. Gupta “Introduction to Data Mining with Case Studies”, Easter Economy Edition, Prentice Hall of
India, 2006.
5. Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar “Introduction to Data Mining”,
Pearson Education, 2007.

Open Resources: Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access
Tools/Software: Open-Source Tools for Business Intelligence

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SEMESTER II
MBAF 428: FIN LAB – 2: ADVANCED DATA ANALYTICS LAB

Hard Core: 2 Credits

Prerequisites: Basics knowledge on Statistical tools and Techniques
Learning Objectives
1. To make the students understand of Time series modelling and Multivariate analysis
2. To create understanding on advanced statistical tools along with econometric
modelling
Learning Outcome:
1. To have hands-on experience with econometric modelling to solve the business
problems using advanced statistical techniques.
2. To carry out research on forecasting and estimation of research problems.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Problem Solving, Case studies, observations, presentation and mini
projects
Unit I: Regression and Correlation Analysis

Unit II: Advanced Time series modelling Non-Stationary Time series modelling - Modelling
volatility and Correlation

Unit III: Panel Data methods

Unit IV: Factor Analysis

Unit V: Multiple Discriminant Analysis – Logistic Regression – Multivariate Analysis of

Variance Cluster Analysis

Text book and Reference Books:

1. Wooldridge. J., ‘Econometrics’ Cengage Learning, 5th Edition.
2. Gujarati. N. Damodar ‘Basics of Econometrics’ McGraw Hill Education,5th Edition.
3. Brooks, Chris., ‘Introductory Econometrics for Finance’ Cambridge University Press, 2 nd
Edition.
4. Hair, Anderson, Tatham and Black., ‘Multivariate Data Analysis’ Pearson Education India,
7th Edition.
5. Malhotra, Naresh K., and Satyabhusan Dash. Marketing research: An applied orientation.
Pearson,, 2016.
Open Resources:
1. https://www.imf.org/en/Data
2. https://dbie.rbi.org.in/
Tools / Software: - Eviews,SPSS,Stata

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SEMESTER III
Course Code Course Course Type Credit
Design and Critical Thinking for Business
MBAF 511 Hard 3
Strategy and Startups
MBAF 512 Derivatives and Risk Management Hard 3
MBAF 513 Human Resource Management Hard 3
Legal Aspects of Business & Financial
MBAF 514 Hard 3
Regulations
MBAF 515 Financial Information Security & Privacy Hard 3
System Analysis& Design and Agile Software
MBAF 516 Hard 3
Development
MBAF Elective-I Paper-2 Soft 3
MBAF Elective-II Paper-2 Soft 3

IT Lab – 3: Development of Fintech Solutions

MBAF 517 Hard 2
using Agile methodology

Fin Lab – 3: Corporate Finance Lab and Data

MBAF 518 Hard 2
Visualization

MBAF 519 Summer Internship in BFSI Hard 2

Semester III Credits 29

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SEMESTER III
MBAF 511: DESIGN AND CRITICAL THINKING FOR BUSINESS STRATEGY
AND STARTUPS
HardCore: 3 Credits
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge on Business
Learning Objectives:
1. To introduce concepts and theories related to Design and Critical Thinking for
business strategy and Startups
2. To facilitate the application of the concepts and theories into practice in the Startups
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of Design and Critical Thinking for
business strategy and Startups
2. To acquire required knowledge and demonstrate skills sets required for Startups

Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation, role plays, problem and
games
Unit I: Evaluating Entrepreneurial Career Options and Startup Opportunities Overview of
Entrepreneurship-What Does It Take to Be an Entrepreneur? Evaluating New-Business Opportunities
- Research & Analysis to Guide Your Startup Strategy –Entrepreneurial Traits - The Entrepreneur’s
Role, Task and Personality - Defining Survival and Success

Unit II: Design Thinking – Business / Corporate Strategy – Design Strategy – Business /
Corporate Design Strategy – Real case discussions, Creating Thinking – Principles of
Creativity – Creativity tools – Thinking Styles – morphological Analysis – TRIZ- Theory of
Inventive problem solving - SCAMBER (Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Eliminate,
and Reverse)

Unit III: Critical Thinking: Techniques and Tools for startups – Design Thinking and Startups
- Design Thinking and Global Startups – Startup Ecosystem and strategy

Unit IV: Understanding the Customers – Identification of their problems – Analyzing

Customer Problems – Designing the Product – Prototype – Testing the Product - Addressing
Suitable solutions – Feedback - Analyzing the failures

Unit V: Innovation - Building New Product using Critical Thinking and Design Strategy –
Iterating and ideating using Customer feedback – Embedding Design strategy with Business
Strategy -Defining and Testing Business Models and Business Cases

Text book and Reference Books:

1. Barringer, Bruce R. Entrepreneurship: Successfully launching new ventures. PEI
2. Drucker, Peter F., and Peter Ferdinand Drucker. Innovation and entrepreneurship: Practice and
principles. Routledge, Latest Edition.
3. Kuratko, Donald F., and Richard M. Hodgetts. Entrepreneurship: A contemporary approach. Fort
Worth;: Harcourt College Publishers, Latest Edition.
4. Timmons, Jeffry A., and Stephen Spinelli. "New venture creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st
century.", Latest Edition.
5. Timmons, Jeffry A. The Entrepreneurial Mind. Brick House Publishing..
Open Resources:
1. www.startupindia.gov.in, https://www.digitalindia.gov.in/

Tools / Software: - MS Excel, UML, XAMPP, etc.

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SEMESTER III
MBAF 512: DERIVATIVES AND RISK MANAGEMENT
Hard Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basic Knowledge in Finance
Learning Objectives:
1. To provide the basics of working of financial derivatives markets, pricing of futures,
options etc
2. To impart skills required for calculating option prices, VaR, Margin trading,
algorithm trading and risk measurement.
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of derivatives instruments and trading
2. To acquire practical knowledge and understanding over futures, options, swaps.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Problem Solving, Case studies, observations, presentation, and mini
projects
Unit I:Derivatives: Introduction - Evolution–Structure of Derivatives markets–Types of
Derivatives– Underlying assets – Spot markets – Participants in Derivatives markets –
Derivatives and Risk Management- Technical terminologies used in derivatives trading.
Unit II: Derivatives Pricing Theory: Option pricing–Black - Scholes Model–Assumptions–
Derivation and Properties – Determination of volatility – Historical and Implied volatility –
Option pricing on dividend paying stocks – Binomial Model – One period – Two period –
Three Period – Infinite Periods – Option strategies – Put – Call Parity Theorem.
Unit III: Futures: Meaning–Evolution of futures contract–Over–the - Counter Market–
Forward contracts–Types of traders in the derivatives markets – Specification of the futures
contract – Difference between forward contract and futures contract – Convergence of futures
price to spot price – Operation of margins – Role of clearing house – Forward and futures
prices – investment assets versus consumption assets – short selling – Assumption and
notation – Cost of carry – Delivery options – Hedging strategies using futures – Short hedges
and long hedges – Basis risk – Minimum variance hedge ratio – Stock index futures.
Unit IV: Swaps: Meaning–Mechanics of interest rate swaps–Valuation of interest rate
swaps–Currency swaps–Valuation of currency swaps.
Unit V: Trading & Clearance: Trading system: Trader Workstation–Clearing entities – Open
position calculation – Margin and settlement – Regulatory Framework – Risk Management –
Accounting Issues.
Text book and Reference Books:
1. Hull J C, Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, Prentice Hall, NJ
2. Baye and Jansen, ―Money, Banking and Financial Markets- An economics approach,
AITBS Publishers & Distributors, Delhi,
3. Marshal JF, ―Futures and Options Contracting: Theory and Practice’ South Western
Publishing Company, NY
4. Kolb R W, Futures, Options and Swaps, Blackwell Publishers, NY

Open Resources: Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access

Tools/Software: open-Source Tools for Data Warehousing and Mining

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SEMESTER III
MBAF 513: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Hard Core: 3 Credits

Prerequisites:
Basic Knowledge in Organization Behavior
Learning Objectives:
1. To provide the basic knowledge in Human Resource Management
2. To impart skills required for managing human resources in the organization.
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of human resource management systems
2. To acquire practical knowledge and understanding over HR functions.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Problem Solving, Case studies, observations, presentation, and mini
projects
Unit I: Data & Information needs for HR Manager – Sources of Data – Role of IT in HRM –
IT for HR Managers – Concept, Structure, & Mechanisms of HRIS – Programming
Dimensions & HR Manager – Survey of Software Packages for Human Resource Information
System including ERP Software such as SAP, Oracles Financials and Ramco’s Marshal [only
data input, output & screens] – EHRM – Objectives – Advantages & Disadvantages.
Unit II: Data Management for HRIS – Data Formats – Entry Procedure & Process – Data
Storage & Retrieval – Transaction Processing – Office Automation – Information Processing
& Control Functions – Design of HRIS – Relevance of Decision-Making Concepts for
Information System Design – HRM Needs Analysis – Concept & Mechanisms – Standard
Software and Customized Software – HRIS: An Investment.
Unit III: HR Management Process & HRIS – Modules on HR Planning, Recruitment,
Selection, Placement – Module on Performance Appraisal System – Training & Development
Module – Module on Pay & other Related Dimensions – Information System’s support for
Planning & Control.
Unit IV: HR Management Process II & HRIS – Organization Structure & Related
Management Processes – Authority & Responsibility Flows – Communication Process –
Organization Culture and Power – Data Capturing for Monitoring & Review – Behavioral
Patterns of HR – Other Managers and their Place in Information Processing for Decision
Making.
Unit V: Security, Size & Style of Organizations & HRIS – Security of Data and Operations
of HRIS Modules – Common Problems during IT Adoption Efforts and Processes to
Overcome – Orientation & Training Modules for HR & other Functionaries – Detailed
Analytical Framework – Opportunities for combination of HRM & ITES Personnel – HRIS
& Employee Legislation – An Integrated View of HRIS.
Text book and Reference Books:
1. Michael Armstrong, A Handbook Of Human Resource Management Practice,
Kogan Page
2. Gueutal& Stone, The Brave New World Of Her, Jossey-Bass
3. Monk & Wagner, Concepts in Enterprise Resource Planning, Thomson
4. Abbie Lundberg, ‘It inside the World’s Biggest Company’, Cio Magazine, July.
5. Gupta A.K, Management Information Systems, Sultan Chand And Sons

Open Resources: http://hbr.org

Tools/Software: Open source HRIS

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SEMESTER III

MBAF 514: LEGAL ASPECTS OF BUSINESS & FINANCIAL REGULATIONS

Hard Core: 3 Credits

Prerequisites:
Basic Knowledge in Business
Learning Objectives:
3. To provide the basic knowledge of legal aspects
4. To impart skills required for regulatory framework of financial institutions.
Learning Outcome:
3. To understand and appreciate the concepts of Contract Act and other relevant Acts.
4. To acquire practical knowledge and understanding Financial Regulations
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Problem Solving, Case studies, observations, presentation, and mini
projects
Unit I: Introduction: Introduction to Law- Fundamentals of Law-The Indian Contract-
Indemnity and guarantee- Termination of Contracts- Bailment- Agency

Unit II: Regulations and Compliance: Provisions of RBI Act, 1934- Banking Regulation Act,
1949- Banking Companies (Acquisition and transfer of undertaking Act 1970 & 1980) -
Government and RBI’s Powers-Companies Act, 1956/2013

Unit III: Banking Operations: The Negotiable Instruments Act,1881(Amendment and

Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2002- Notes, Bills and Cheques-Promissory notes, Bills of
exchange and cheques (Demand, drafts, payment orders etc.) -Responsibility of paying-
collecting banker indemnities -guarantees - scope and application - obligation of a banker –
Endorsement- Crossing of Cheques-Dishonors of Cheques

Unit IV: Commercial Laws with reference to banking operations -Letter of Credit,
Indemnity, Guarantee and Bond precautions and rights-laws relating to bill finance, LC and
Deferred payments - Law relating to securities - valuation of securities - modes of charging
securities - lien, pledge, mortgage, hypothecation etc.

Unit V: Other Laws: The Partnership Act, 1932- Definition- types of partnership-relation of
partners to one another - Minor admitted to the benefits of partnership -Dissolution of firm-
effect of non-registration - The Transfer of Property Act -The Sale of Goods Act, 1930 (Sale
and Agreement to sell)2000 - Right to information Act.

Text book and Reference Books:

1. Pathak, Akhileshwar. Legal Aspects of Business. Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2013.
2. Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Banking. Indian Institute of Banking and
Finance,Macmillan India Ltd (2010/Latest).
3. Kumar, Ravinder: Legal Aspects of Business,Ceneage Learning India Pvt Ltd, 201/Latest.
4. Pathak, Akhileshwar. Legal Aspects of Business. Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2013.
5. Satish B Mathur. Business Law. Tata McGraw - Hill Education,2013

Open Resources: www.rbi.org.in, www.sebi.org.in

Tools/Software: NA

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SEMESTER III
MBAF 515: FINANCIAL INFORMATION SECURITY & PRIVACY
Hard Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge of principles and practices of System Security.
Learning Objectives:
1. The course provides the knowledge of protecting the Financial Information Systems
against attacks and intrusions.
Learning outcome:
1. Gains knowledge in identifying the weakest component in the Financial Information
systems and helps in providing a countermeasure for it.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Problem Solving, Case studies, observations, presentation, and mini projects

Unit I: Introduction to Information Security - Information Security Overview –

Importance of Information Security – Security Methodology. Risk Analysis: Threat – Types
of Attacks – Secure Design Principles: The CIA Triad and Other models, Defense models –
Security Policies, Standards, Procedures and Guidelines – Security Organizations: Roles and
responsibilities, Managed security services – Authentication and Authorization.

Unit II: Data, Network and Operating System Security - Data Security – Securing
Unstructured Data – Encryption – Database Security -Security in Networks – Threats in
Networks – Network Security controls. Operating System Security – Operating system
security models – Security Technology – Access Controls – Firewalls – Virtual Private
Networks – Intrusion detection and Prevention Systems.

Unit III: Securing Infrastructure Services - E-mail– Web Servers – DNS Servers – Proxy
Servers – Application Security – Secure Application Design – Secure Development Lifecycle
– Application Security Practices.

Unit IV: Security Operations and Physical Security - Disaster Recovery, Business
Continuity, Backups and High Availability – Incident Response and Forensic Analysis –
Physical Security – Security Agencies – Certifying Authorities –National and International.
Compliance with Information security standards, Regulations and Laws.

Unit V: Recent Trends in Security - Case Studies: Analyze Information security for
Financial Systems.

Text book and Reference Books:

1. Mark Rhodes – Ousley, “Information Security, The Complete Reference”, Second Edition, 2013,
McGraw Hill.
2. Charles P. Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, “Security in Computing”, Fourth Edition, 2006
3. William Stallings, Cryptography and Network Security Principles and Practices, PHI Third Edition, 2005
4. Caelli, J., and Longley D. and Shain M., Information Security Handbook, Macmillan, 1991
5. Mcclure S., Scambray J. and Kurtz G., Hacking exposed: Network security secrets and solutions, McGraw-
Hill, 1999

Open Resources: Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access

Tools/Software: Open-Source Software for Information Security

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SEMESTER III
MBAF 516: SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN AND AGILE SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT
Hard Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge of system analysis and design.
Learning Objectives:
1. To teach students business systems more effectively and efficiently using OO
Methodology and Agile Methodology.
Learning Outcomes:
• To understand the concept of System Analysis and Design
• To acquire practical knowledge in developing the business systems using UML
and Agile
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Problem Solving, Case studies, observations, presentation, and mini projects

Unit I: Systems Development Life Cycle: Planning, Analysis, Design, Implementation –Systems
Development Methodologies: Structured Design, RAD, JAD, Prototyping - · Project Team Roles and
Skills - Project Initiation: Identifying Business Value, Feasibility Analysis - Project Management:
Creating a Work Plan, Project Staffing, Controlling the Project.

Unit II: Systems Analysis: Developing an Analysis Plan - · Process Modeling: Data Flow Diagrams
-Data Modeling: Entity Relationship Diagrams - System Design: Physical Data Flow Diagrams,
Physical Entity Relationship Diagrams - Architecture Design: Computing Architectures,
Infrastructure Design, Global and Security Issues.

Unit III: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, and Testing: Object Concepts, Introduction to the
Unified Modeling Language, Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Class Diagrams, State chart
Diagrams - OO Analysis - Use Case Modeling – OO Design – UI Design – Data Design – Program
Design – Testing – Test Plan- System Testing- Documentation – Installation – Implementation –
Maintenance and Review.

Unit IV: Agile and its Significance: Software is new product development–Iterative development–
Risk-Driven And Client-Driven iterative planning – Time boxed iterative development –
Evolutionary and adaptive development - Evolutionary requirements analysis – Evolutionary and
adaptive planning – Incremental delivery – Evolutionary delivery - Agile development –
Classification of methods – The agile manifesto and principles – Agile project management – Simple
practices and project tools – DevOps, Virtual Collaboration Tools - Empirical vs defined and
prescriptive process – Principle-based versus Rule-Based – Sustainable discipline: The human touch –
Team as a complex adaptive system – Agile hype – Specific agile methods – Agile Testing.

Unit V: Case Study: Agile–Motivation–Evidence–Scrum–Extreme Programming–Unified Process -

– Evo – Practice Tips – Banking Case study.

Text Books and Reference Books:

1. Systems Analysis and Design, Roberta M. Roth, Alan Dennis, Barbara Haley Wixom, John Wiley
Sons; 5th Edition, International Student Version edition (13 April 2012) (Text Book).
2. Craig Larman, “Agile and Iterative Development–A Manager‟s Guide”, Pearson Education, 2010.
(Text Book)
3. Elisabeth Hendrickson, “Agile Testing” Quality Tree Software Inc, 2012. (Text Book)
4. Agile Software Development, Principles, Patents and Practices, Robert C Martin, Prentice Hall, 2012.
5. The art of Agile Development, James Shore and Shane Warden, O’ Reiely, 2012
Open Resources: Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access

Tools/Software: open-Source Tools for Data Warehousing and Mining

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SEMESTER III
MBAF 517 IT LAB – 3: DEVELOPMENT OF FINTECH SOLUTIONS USING
AGILE METHODOLOGY

Hard Core: 2 Credits

Prerequisites:
Basics of Object-oriented Concepts
Learning Objectives:
1. This course gives a hands-on-experience to the students to build and manage the
financial information systems using object-oriented design by applying
established design principles using UML diagrams.
2. Design and Develop Financial Information Software applying Object Oriented
Modeling approach using typical Case Tool as given below:
Learning Outcomes:
1. Helps the students to design and develop systems using UML and Agile
Methodology
Methodology:

Lectures, Exercise & Mini project

Development of Financial System Software using Agile methodology and Agile tools.
1. Agile Management practices and principles
2. Agile development practices and principles

Problem Statement
1. Study of the problem
2. Identify project scope
3. Objectives and infrastructure

Business modeling and requirements specification

1. Prepare Software Requirements Specification
2. The specification language
3. Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Software Design using UML

1. Design data dictionary
2. Use case diagrams
3. Activity diagrams

Build and Test

1. Class diagrams
2. Sequence diagrams
3. Collaboration diagrams
4. Add interface to class diagrams

Software Implementation
1. Coding
2. Use tools for automatic code generation from system specifications.

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SEMESTER III
MBAF 518: FIN LAB – 3: CORPORATE FINANCE LAB AND DATA
VISUALIZATION

Hard Core: 2 Credits

Prerequisites:
Basic Knowledge in Computer and Finance

Learning Objectives
1. To provide concepts of visual analytics such as visuals reports and dashboards
Learning Outcome:

1. To Create ad-hoc reports, data visualizations, and dashboards

2. To acquire practical knowledge and understanding in data presentation and
visualization
Methodology:
Exercise, Case studies, Assignments and mini projects

Unit I: Intro to PowerBI- Course introduction - Basics of data visualization- Getting started
with PowerBI - Creating basic charts.
Unit II: Common charts I- Creating common visualizations - Creating dashboard layouts -
Using dashboard filters.
Unit III: Transformations and calculations- Creating calculated fields and measures - Using
Quick Table calculations.
Unit IV: Interactions - Using text and visual tooltips - Creating actions to drive interactivity.
Unit V: Common charts II - Creating more chart types - Advanced visual functionality
(formatting, colors etc.) Data story telling - Creating an interactive data story - Participating
in the Tableau community - Further opportunities to learn.
Text Books and Reference Books:

1. Steve Wexler, Jeffrey Shaffer, Andy Cotgreave: The Big Book of Dashboards

2. Ryan Sleeper: Practical Tableau

Open Resources: https://dbie.rbi.org.in/ ,https://www.imf.org/en/Data

Tools/Software: MS PowerBI, Tableau

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SEMESTER III

MBAF 519: SUMMER INTERNSHIP IN BFSI

Hard Core: 2 Credits

Prerequisites:
Basic Knowledge in Business, Computer and Finance

Learning Objectives
1. To provide hands-on experience in BFSI Sector
Learning Outcome:

1. To acquire industry experience

2. To acquire practical knowledge and understanding in BFSI sector

Methodology:
Internship and mini projects

Every student of MBA: Financial Management shall undergo Internship training

during the summer vacation. This Internship shall be for 45 days. During this Internship,
every student should attach himself/ herself with any BFSI sector. The objective of the
Internship training is to give the students a hands-on experience of real-life business
operations. At the end of the Third Semester, each student should submit an Internship
Training Report explaining clearly what each student has learnt during the Internship period.
The Internship Report and the Viva-Voce Examination will be evaluated by the internal
Faculty Guide. The weightage for the Internship Report shall be 75 marks and weightage for
Viva-Voce Examination shall be 25 marks (Total 100 marks).

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SEMESTER IV
Course Code Course Course Type Credit
MBAF 521 Global Financial Markets and Instruments Hard 3
MBAF 522 Machine Learning Hard 3
MBAF Elective –I: Paper-3 Soft 3
MBAF Elective –I: Paper-4 Soft 3
MBAF Elective –II: Paper-3 Soft 3
MBAF Elective –II: Paper-4 Soft 3
MBAF 524 Final Project & Viva Hard 6
Semester IV Credits 24

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SEMESTER IV
MBAF 521: GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTRUMENTS
Hard Core: 3 Credits

Prerequisites:
1. Completed a Course on Indian Financial System
Learning Objectives
1. To introduce the basic concepts of international financial system, institutions
involved, instruments traded and the nature of short term and long term markets
operate in it.
2. To highlight the role and functioning of different international financial
institutions facilitating the working of global financial markets
Learning Outcome:
1. Helps the students to work in the global financial consultancy firms
2. To acquire practical knowledge and understanding in global financial markets and
trade
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation, role plays, problem and games

Unit I: Euro Currency system – Initial years 1958-69 – Mature Years 1970 – 74 – Decline and Fall
of Breton Woods System – Role of Central Banks – Monetary controls – Problems of Intermediation.

Unit II: Central Banks – US Federal – European Central Banks – Central Bank of Japan – Bank of
England – Peoples bank of China – Central bank of Russia – Brazil – Saudi Arabia Monetary Agency.

Unit III: Financial Crisis: Latin American and African Debt crisis 1982 – Asian Financial and
Economic crisis 1963 – The Argentina crisis of 2001 – GFC 2008 – International Response to GFC

Unit IV: Regulatory Frameworks - the Brady plan of 1989 to 1994 – Post GFC – International
Financial Regulators – Dodd Frame Act of USA – Global Measures – IMF Regulations – Bank
Levis& Financial Taxes – A sovereign Bankruptcy Regime.

Unit V: Euro Debt Markets – Euro currency Markets – Evolution of Euro and Markets – Types –
Volumes – operations across countries

Text Books and Reference Books:

1. Ross P. Buckley, Douglas Arner, “From Crisis to Crisis, The global Financial System
and Regulatory Failure”, Kluwer Law International, ISBN 9789041133540, 2011.
2. Antonio G. Fazio, Luigi De Rosa, “International Banking and Financial Systems: Evolution
and Stability”, 2003.
3. Lessambo, Felix I, “The International Banking System Capital Adequacy, Core Businesses
and Risk Management”, 2012, Palgrave Macmillan UK
4. George W. McKenzie, “The Economics of the Euro-Currency System”, Macmillan Publishers
Limited 1976
5. Daniel Gros, Karel Lannoo, “The Euro Capital Market”, ISBN: 978-0-471-99762-7, Wiley

Open Resources: https://dbie.rbi.org.in/,https://www.imf.org/en/Data,

https://www.nasdaq.com/

Tools/Software: Bloomberg, CMIE

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SEMESTER IV
MBAF 522: MACHINE LEARNING
Hard Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites: Statistics, Algorithms.
Learning Objectives:
1. To understand the concepts of machine learning
2. To appreciate supervised and unsupervised learning and their applications
3. To understand the theoretical and practical aspects of Probabilistic Graphical Models.
Learning Outcome: Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Design a neural network for an application of your choice
2. Implement probabilistic discriminative and g e n e r a t i v e algorithms for an
application of your choice and analyze the results.
3. Use a tool to implement typical clustering algorithms for different types of applications.
Methodology: Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.

Unit I :INTRODUCTION: Machine Leaming-Machine Leaming Foundations-Overview - Design of

a Leaming system – Types of machine learning -Applications Mathematical foundations of machine
learning-random variables and probabilities -Probability Theory Probability distributions -Decision
Theory- Bayes Decision Theory -Information Theory
Unit II: SUPERVISED LEARNING: Linear Models for Regression –Linear Models for
Classification –Naïve Bayes -Discriminant Functions -Probabilistic Generative Models -
Probabilistic Discriminative Models- Bayesian Logistic Regression. Decision Trees- Classification
Trees- Regression Trees- Pruning. Neural Networks-Feed forward Network Functions -Back-
propagation. Support vector machines -Ensemble methods Bagging Boosting.

Unit III: UNSUPERVISED LEARNING: Clustering- K-means –EM Algorithm- Mixtures of

Gaussians. The Curse of Dimensionality –Dimensionality Reduction -Factor analysis – Principal
Component Analysis-Probabilistic PCA-Independent components analysis

Unit IV:PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODELS: Graphical Models-Undirected graphical

models - Markov Random Fields - Directed Graphical Models -Bayesian Networks -
Conditional independence properties -Inference - Leaming- Generalization - Hidden Markov
Models-Conditional random fields(CRFs)

Unit V: ADVANCED LEARNING: Sampling –Basic sampling methods - Monte Carlo.

Reinforcement Leaming- K-Armed Bandit- Elements- Model-Based Leaming- Value Iteration-
Policy Iteration. Temporal Difference Leaming- Exploration Strategies• Deterministic and
Non-deterministic Rewards and Actions Computational Leaming Theory - Mistake bound analysis,
sample complexity analysis, VC dimension. Occam learning, accuracy and confidence boosting.
DeepLeaming-RNN, ReLU,etc.

Text book and Reference Books

1. Christopher Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer, 2007.
2. Kevin P. Murphy, Machine Learning: A Probalistic Perspective, MIT Press, 2012.
3. Ethem Alpaydin, -Introduction toMachineLeamingll,MITPress,ThirdEdition,2014.
4. Tom Mitchell, "Machine Leaming",McGraw-Hill, 1997.
5. Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman, “The Elements of Statistical Learning”,
Springer, Second Edition, 2011
6. Stephen Marsland, -Machine Leaming - An Algorithmic Perspectivell, Chapman and
Hall/CRC Press, Second Edition, 2014

Open Resources: Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access

Tools/Software: Open-Source Tools for AI Application development.

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SEMESTER IV
MBAF 524: FINAL PROJECT & VIVA

Hard Core 6 Credit

Prerequisites: NA
Learning Objectives:
1. To develop problem and address the problem through
2. To Develop models, prototype etc. for the problem
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate various concepts in related current and previous semesters
2. To acquire required knowledge and demonstrate skills learned in the semester
Methodology:
Research, Viva and Examination

Guidelines:
The Final Project has two Phases.
In phase-I students under the guidance of Faculty in-charge(s) of the given project
work, carry out the background work, identify a tentative Title for the Project
work, Review20-25 Research papers, prepare a Review Paper.
A public presentation on broad areas of proposed work to be made by students
before starting II phase.
Presentations would be evaluated by the Committee of Internal Faculty
The division of Marks for Phase-I and Phase-II components is 40% and 60%
respectively
Final Project Work must be in the inter-disciplinary area of Banking/Finance and IT.
Students should being regular contact with their Faculty guide(s) and submit a
rough draft of the Report by the First week of April; Project work will be
evaluated by two external examiners in a Public presentation.

Final Project Report must contain the following Components: (75-100 Pages)
1. Title Page (Soft Binding)
2. 4-5Chapters (Back ground work, Methodology/Algorithm/Mathematical Model)
3. The final project report should be prepared by following the template provided by
the department.

Division of Marks:
Phase-I: Compilation of Research Papers and Presentation (Internal Assessment):40
Marks
Phase-II:
o Final Project work Report (External Evaluation): 30 Marks
o Presentation and Viva (External Evaluation) : 30 Marks

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List of Softcore Courses for Second Semester

Course Code Subject Course Type Credit
MBAF 441 Service Oriented Architecture Soft 3
MBAF 442 Design Patterns Soft 3
MBAF 443 Software Project Management Soft 3
MBAF 444 Mutual Fund Management and Services Soft 3
MBAF 445 Insurance and Risk Management Soft 3
MBAF 446 Marketing Analytics Soft 3

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SOFTCORE II SEMESTER
MBAF 441: SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE
SoftCore : 3 Credits
Prerequisites: Software Engineering / System Analysis and Design
Learning Objectives:
1. To understand the concepts behind SOA and its practical applications.
Learning Outcome:
• To understand the concepts behind SOA and its practical applications
• To help the Students to develop software systems using SOA
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.

Unit I : Introduction to SOA-Understanding of SOA -Evolution of SOA -Concepts of services

and SOA-Design principles of SOA-Relationship between SOA and web services- Advantages and
risks of SOA-Service Oriented Methodology - Introduction to a SOA adoption roadmap- Service
lifecycle-Three analysis approaches – Service oriented analysis - Service oriented design -
Introduction to service oriented patterns - Traditional EAI Approach -Problems With Traditional
EAI Approach - Building the Services-Advantages of SOA-Business Advantages -Adoption Stages-
Benefits of employing SOA- Review of common business goals-Evaluating trade off strategies.
Unit II : SOA Past and Present- From XML to Web Service to SOA-How SOA was done before-
Emerging standards for SOA-Compare SOA with other architectures -Basic Concepts - Building
from components -Modeling concepts -Object- Containment - Messages and methods -Object
interaction -Introduction to Business Process -Collection of services – Simple request response
interaction -Complex interaction involving many services-Need for a coordinator service emerges -
Orchestration or Business process - Composing processes using processes -Business Process
Execution Language(BPEL).
Unit III : Service Enablement –Basic web services elements- Core web services standards stack-
The Importance of WSDL-The design of SOA-The use of registries via UDDI-The basic concepts
of service orientation - Distributing Services Across a Network -Aligning functional and non
functional requirements -The role of Intermediaries in Service Networks -Modeling SOA building
blocks-Using UML to analyze and design interfaces -Generating a domain model - Implementing
and realizing Use Cases - Showing web service collaboration –Usage of communication
diagrams.
Unit IV : Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Objective- Service Invocation - Legacy System
Integration –The role of ESB in SOA- Security and ESB-Process Driven Services-Service layer
abstraction -Introduction to business process layer-Process patterns -Orchestration and choreography
- WS-BPEL for process automation –Layered Architecture –The layers pattern-Classic three-their
architecture -Application service layer-Business service layer- Orchestration service layer - Service
Oriented Reference Model - Reference models and reference architectures –SOA vendors and their
relationship with SOA- SOA support in .NETandJ2EEplatforms.
Unit V: SOA in Banking Domain-Banking business processes-SOA in Core Banking Software
Case Studies.

Text book and Reference Books

1. Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology and Design, Thomas Erl,
PrenticeHallPTR,Firstedition,2007(TextBook)
2. Service-Oriented Architecture: A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services,
ThomasErl,PrenticeHallPTR,Firstedition,2007
3. Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices, Dirk Krafzig, Karl
BankeandDirkSlama,PrenticeHallPTR,2004
4. SOA Principles of Service Design, Thomas Erl, Prentice HallPTR,Firstedition,2007
5. SOA Design Patterns; Thomas Erl, Prentice Hall PTR, FirstEdition,2008.
Open Resources: Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access

Tools/Software: Open Source Tools

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SOFTCORE II SEMESTER
MBAF 442: DESIGN PATTERNS
SoftCore : 3 Credits
Prerequisites: Software Architecture.
Learning Objectives:
1. To understand the concepts of Design Pattern and its applications in software
development.
Learning Outcome:
1. Knowledge in Software design pattern and its applications.
Methodology: Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.

Unit I: INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN PATTERNS-Design Patterns Arose from Architecture and

Anthropology-Architectural to Software Design Patterns- Advantages of Design Patterns-Adapter
Pattern- Strategy Pattern- Bridge Pattern-Abstract Factory Pattern.

Unit II: NEW PARADIGM OF DESIGN-Principles and Strategies of Design Patterns-Open-Closed

Principle-Designing from Context-Encapsulating Variation. Commonality and Variability Analysis-
Analysis Matrix- Decorator Pattern- Open Closed Principle- The Principle of encapsulating
variation- Abstract Classes vs Interfaces.

Unit III: VALUES OF PATTERNS- Observer Pattern - Categories of Patterns – Template Method
Pattern-Applying the Template Method to the Case Study- Using Template Method Pattern to
Reduce Redundancy.

Unit IV: APPLYING DESIGN PATTERNS –Design Patterns: Factories- Singleton Pattern and the
Double-Checked Locking Pattern-Applying Single ton Pattern to Case Study. Object Pool Pattern-
Management of Objects- Factory Method Pattern-Object Oriented Pool Pattern.

Unit V: CASE STUDIES - What to Expect from Design Patterns – The Pattern Community – An
Invitation - AParting Thought-Banking Case Study.

Text book and Reference Books

1. JasonMcC.Smith,"ElementaldesignPatterns",Pearson,2012.(TextBook)
2. Alan Shallowayand James R.Trott, "Design Patterns explained: A new
perspectiveonObject-OrientedDesign,2006.
3. ErichGamma,RichardHelm,RalphJohnson,JohnVlissides,"DesignPatterns:
4. ElementsofReusableObject-OrientedSoftware",Addison-Wesley,2003.
5. EricFreeman,ElisabethFreeman,KathySierra,BertBates,"HeadFirstDesignPatterns",O'
ReillyMedia,Inc.,2004.
6. Elizabeth Freeman,EricFreeman,BertBatesandKathySierra,"HeadFirst

Open Resources: Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access

Tools/Software: Open-Source Tools for Software Design and development.

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SOFTCORE II SEMESTER
MBAF 443: SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
SoftCore : 3 Credits
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Software Design principles.
Learning Objectives:
1. To study the project management concepts.
Learning Outcome:
1. Gaining knowledge on Software project management principles and practices.
Methodology: Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.

Unit I: Product, Process and Project - Definition: Product Life Cycle: Project Life cycle Models.
Process Models-IS0-9001Model,Capability Maturity Model, SixSigma. Metrics – Metrics strategy,
Setting Targets and Tracking, Metrics implementation checklists and Tools.

Unit II: Software Quality assurance - Quality control and Quality assurance, cost and benefits of
quality, Software quality assurance tools, Software Quality analyst's functions. Software
Configuration Management - Processes and activities. Risk Management- Processes and activities.

Unit III: Project Schedule planning –Top down and bottom up planning - initial and final project
schedule plans - types of activity relationships- estimating the duration of an activity- critical path-
identifying milestones - activity responsibility matrix - project checklist.

Unit IV: Project tracking - Overview of project progress - project outlook- occurrence of tracking-
tracking meetings-tracking meeting agenda-tracking meeting ground rules- recovery plans-the role
of escalations. Project estimation- Processes and activities.

Unit V: Project Management in Testing phase-Testing, Activities of Testing, Test scheduling and
types of tests. Management structures for Testing in Global teams. Project Management in
Maintenance Phase -Processes, activities, management issues, configuration management, skill sets,
metrics-Case study. Emerging trends in Project Management: Globalization issues in Project
Management, Impact of Internet on Project Management, People focused Process Models, Project
Management tools.

Text book and Reference Books

1. Ramesh, Gopalaswamy: "Managing Global Software Projects ",TataMcGraw
Hill, 2001.
2. NealWhitten:" Managing SoftwareDevelopment Projects,Formula forSuccess". John
Wileyandsons,Inc,IIedition,1995
3. Humphrey,Watts:"Managing thesoftwareprocess",Addison Wesley,1986.
4. Pressman, Roger, "Software Engineering -APractitioner's approach", McGraw Hill,
2001.

Open Resources: Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access

Tools/Software: Open-Source Tools for AI Application development.

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SOFTCORE II SEMESTER
MBAF 444: MUTUAL FUND MANAGEMENT AND SERVICES
SoftCore : 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
1. Basic Knowledge in Investment Management
Learning Objectives
1. To introduce concepts and theories related to – structure and types ofMutual Funds
2. To facilitate the application of the concepts and theories into practice in the field Mutual
Funds.
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of Risk/ Return Tradeoffs.
2. To acquire required knowledge and demonstrate skills sets required for Mutual Funds.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, presentation, problem and Case studies

Unit I: Introduction to Mutual Funds – Structure of Mutual Funds in India – Custodian – Role of
AMC – NFO - Role of Registrar and Transfer Agents – Investors Right and Regulations

Unit II: Mutual Fund Products and Features – Open ended and Close ended – Equity Funds – Index
Fund – Diversified large scale funds – Midcap funds – Sectoral funds – Other Schemes – NAV –
Expenses Ratio – Portfolio turnover – Entry and Exit loads.

Unit III: Gold ETF –salient features – Market making by Aps – Creation units, cash components,
Portfolio deposit - Debt Funds – Interest Rate Risk Credit Risk – Pricing of Debt Instrument – Debt
Mutual fund schemes - Liquid funds – salient features – Floating rate scheme – Portfolio churning in
liquid funds

Unit IV: Fund distribution and sales practices and investor services: Distribution channel, sales
practices, application and redemption, investment plans and services - Accounting, valuation, taxation
of MFs, measurement and evaluation of MF performance - Capital gain taxation – Indexation -
Regulation of MFs and MFs prospectus and balance sheet and offer document: Role of regulator in
India and self regulatory organization ( SROs) and investors rights and obligations, contents of offer
document, the key information memorandum - SIP – STP – SWP – Choosing between Dividend
payout, Dividend Reinvestment and growth options.

Unit V: Management of MFs (Investor advisory services): Helping investors with financial plan and
recommending financial planning strategies to investors; Strategies of investors in MF investing:
Selecting the right investment products, understanding risk in fund investing and constructing model
portfolio and selecting right fund.

Text Books and Reference Books:

1. Mutual Funds in India: A Study of Investment Management by Amitabh Gupta - Anmol
Publications
2. Financial Services by MY Khan, McGraw Hill Education (India) Private Limited, 7th edition 2013
3. Mutual Funds in India by Sadhak.H, Response Books New Delhi.
4. Mutual Fund Year Book 2000.
5. Financial services, ICFAI publication.

Open Resources:https://dbie.rbi.org.in, www.amfiindia.com

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Tools/Software: AMFI

SOFTCORE II SEMESTER
MBAF 445: INSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT
Soft Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basic Knowledge Business
Learning Objectives:
1. To introduce concepts and theories related to insurance and risk management
2. To facilitate the application of the life insurance, general insurance and risk assessment
Learning Outcomes:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of various insurance
2. To acquire required knowledge and to develop approach risk assessment and risk valuation
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, Assignments and mini projects

Unit I: Introduction: Meaning of risk-chance of loss-Peril-Hazards-Types of risks-risk methods-risk

process- risk assessment- insurable risks- risk management meaning-objectives-risk management
process- loss exposures-Risk management Programmes Loss Forecasting-Other risk management
tools
Unit II: Insurance – Introduction to insurance-Origin of Insurance- Importance of insurance- Basic
characteristics of Insurance- Insurable Risks-Adverse Selection and Insurance- Benefits of Insurance-
Cost of Insurance to society History of insurance regulation-Insurance Act-IRDA- Insurance and
society- Legal principles in Insurance and risks-Insurance Contract
Unit III: Life Insurance – Introduction to life insurance- Premature death- Financial Impacts- Types
of life insurance- Life insurance contractual provisions- Buying life insurance-Cost of life insurance-
Savings and investment- Tax and insurance- Annuities and retirement benefits- Types of annuities-
Group and health insurance
Unit IV: General Insurance- Introduction to General Insurance- Types of General Insurance-
Health-Cargo-Cattle-Motor- Accident- Households-House Insurance-Social Insurance-
Unemployment insurance- Homeowners Insurance-Auto Insurance- Liability Insurance-Commercial
Property Insurance
Unit V: Insurance Company- Insurance company operations- Underwriting- Claims Settlement-
Reinsurance- Investments- Financial operations of insurance companies- Life insurance companies-
Ethics in Insurance- Ethics in claim and settlement- Ethical concerns of policy holders
Text Book and Reference Books:

1. Rejda, George E. Principles of risk management and insurance. Pearson Education

India, 2011.
2. Gupta, P. K. Insurance and risk management. Himalayan Books, Latest edition
3. Outreville, J. Francois. Theory and practice of insurance. Springer Science & Business Media,
Latest Edition
4. Koller, Michael. Life insurance risk management essentials. Springer Science & Business
Media, 2011.
5. Diacon, Stephen, ed. A guide to insurance management. Springer, 2016.
Open Resources:https://www.irdai.gov.in/, https://www.licindia.in/
Tools / Software: MS Excel

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SOFTCORE II SEMESTER
MBAF 446: MARKETING ANALYTICS
Soft Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basic Knowledge in Business analysis
Learning Objectives:
1. To introduce concepts and theories related to market research and analytics
2. To facilitate the application of the concepts and theories to real life situations and take
marketing decisions
Learning Outcomes:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of marketing research
2. To acquire required knowledge and to develop approach to the problem
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, Assignments and mini projects
Unit I: Introduction: Introduction and Early phases of marketing analytics- Introduction to
marketing research-Defining marketing research problem-Developing approach to the problem-
Research Design-Exploratory-Descriptive-Casual Research-Variables-
Unit II: Research Design- Experimentation-Measurement and Scaling-Questionnaire Design-
Survey- Scales of Measurement- Marketing Research and social media-Nominal-Ordinal- Form
Design-Questionnaire Construction-Collection of Data
Unit III: Data Analysis- Sampling Design and Procedure-Classification of sampling-Data Collection
and preparation-Analysis of variance- Factor Analysis-SEM- Sample Size Determination-Data
Preparation-Hypothesis Testing-Analysis of Variance- Correlation and Regression-Factor Analysis-
Cluster Analysis -Multidimensional Scaling and Conjoint Analysis
Unit IV: Reporting and Presentation- Importance of Report and Presentations -Report Preparation
and Presentation Process -Report Writing-Guidelines for Tables and Content-Guidelines for reporting
and presentation
Unit V: Research and Ethics- Importance of Ethics- Data Privacy- Data Collection Protocols-
Ethical practices- Ethical Concerns-Ethical Behaviour during research- Ethics in Presentation and
Reporting -Social Media Research-Ethics in social media research-Text Analysis
Text Book and Reference Books:

1. Malhotra, Naresh K. "An applied orientation." Marketing Research 2 (2010).

2. Malhotra, Naresh K., and Satyabhusan Dash. Marketing research: An applied
orientation. Pearson,, 2016.
3. Chapman, Chris, and Elea McDonnell Feit. R for marketing research and analytics.
New York, NY: Springer, 2015.
4. Winston, Wayne L. Marketing analytics: Data-driven techniques with Microsoft
Excel. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
5. Hemann, Chuck, and Ken Burbary. "Digital Marketing Analytics." Making Sense of
Consumer Data in a Digital World," Que Publishing, (2013).
Open Resources:https://www.facebook.com/, https://twitter.com/, https://aws.amazon.com/opendata/

Tools / Software: - MS Excel, R, Python, SPSS

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List of Softcore Courses for Third Semester

Course Code Subject Course Type Credit
MBAF 531 Artificial Intelligence Soft 3
MBAF 532 Blockchain and Cryptography Soft 3
MBAF 533 Data Visualization and Reporting Soft 3
MBAF 534 Credit Risk Management Soft 3
MBAF 535 Capital Market Operations Soft 3
MBAF 536 Financial Modelling using spreadsheet Soft 3

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SOFTCORE III SEMESTER

MBAF 531: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
SoftCore : 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge in theory of computation, Algorithms and software building.
Learning Objectives:
1. To gain in-depth knowledge of the core areas of the AI.
Learning Outcome:
1. The course provides the knowledge for designing and analyzing the performance of
an intelligent system.

2. To provides the knowledge for designing and analyzing the performance of an

Intelligent system.

Methodology: Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.

Unit I: Introduction to AI: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence-History of AI –Intelligent Agents:

Agents and Environments- The concept of Rationality- The nature of Environments- The structure of
Agents.

Unit II: Problem-Solving: Problem-Solving Agents-Example Problems-Searching for Solutions-

Uninformed Search Strategies- Informed (Heuristic) Search Strategies- Heuristic Functions. Local
search algorithms and optimization problems, Games-Optimal decisions in games-Alpha-Beta
Pruning- Stochastic Games, Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Unit III: Knowledge, Reasoning and Planning: Knowledge-Based Agents- Logic- Propositional
Logic- Agents based on Propositional logic-First-order logic-Inference in First-order logic-
Propositional Vs First-order Inference-Forward Chaining-Backward Chaining-Planning and Acting in
the Real World.

Unit IV: Decision Making and Learning: Making Simple and Complex Decision-Learning from
examples, Reinforcement Leaming.

Unit V: Recent Trends in AI: Case Studies on AI in the Enterprise.

Text book and Reference Books

1. Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, "Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach",
Third Edition, Prentice Hall Series, 2010.
2. TomTaulli, "Artificial Intelligence Basics: An on Technical Introduction", Apress
,2019 Edition.
3. Dr.Dheeraj Mehrotra, "Basics of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Leaming,

Open Resources:Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access

Tools/Software:Open-Source Tools for AI Application development.

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SOFTCORE III SEMESTER

MBAF 532: BLOCKCHAIN AND CRYPTOGRAPHY
Soft Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Computer Networks and Security systems.
Learning Objectives:
1. To introduce the concepts of BlockChain and its usages.
2. To introduce the concept of Cryptocurrencies and its use cases
Learning Outcome:
1. To gain practical knowledge in developing secure systems using block chain and
cryptographic concepts
2. To develop secure systems using block chain and cryptographic concepts.
Methodology: Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.

Unit I: BlockChain-Introduction to crypto economics -Byzantine agreement-Extensions of

BFT(Ripple,Stellar)-Blockchain Dynamics -Public and private blockchains –Hard and soft forks-
Sharding, Side chain-Verifiers-trust, cost and speed-Proof of work and other models.
Unit II: Smart Contracts -Distributed Virtual Machines, Smart Contracts, Oracles-Basics of
contract law-Smart contracts and their potential, Trust in Algorithms, -Integration with existing legal
systems-Open Zeplin, Open Law-Writing smart contracts.
Unit III: Cryptography and Other Technologies: Application of Cryptography to Blockchain–Using
hash functions to chain blocks-Digital Signatures to sign transactions – Using hash functions for
Proof-of-Work.-Putting the technology together- examples of implementations with their tradeoffs.
Unit IV: Implementation: Supply Chain and Identity on Blockchain- Blockchain interaction with
existing infrastructure- Trust in blockchain data- Scaling Blockchain- reading and writing data.
Differentiate nodes, sparse data and Merkle trees –Fixing on the fly-Layer 2 solutions-Lightning and
Ethereum state channels
Unit V:Bitcoin-The big picture of the industry- size, growth, structure, players-Bitcoin versus
Cryptocurrencies versus Blockchain -Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) - Strategic analysis
of the space- Major players: Blockchain platforms, regulators, application providers, etc.-Bitcoin,
Hyper Ledger, Ethereum, Litecoin, Zcash.

Text book and Reference Books

1. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin and
Other Cryptocurrencies Is Changing the World, Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott,
Portfolio, 2018.
2. The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain Are Challenging
the Global Economic Order, Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey, Picador.2016
3. Blockchain Technology Explained: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide About
Blockchain Wallet, Mining, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Zcash, Monero, Ripple, Dash,
IOTAAnd Smart Contracts, Alan T. Norman, Create Space Independent Publishing
Platform, 2017

Open Resources: Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access

Tools/Software: Open-Source Tools for AI Application development.

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SOFTCORE III SEMESTER

MBAF 533: DATA VISUALIZATION AND REPORTING
SoftCore : 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge on Data warehousing and Data mining
Learning Objectives:
1. To introduce visual perception and core skills for visual analysis
2. To understand visualization for various analysis
Learning Outcome:
1. To gain knowledge in visual perception and core skills for visual analysis
2. To gain practical knowledge in use of current techniques, skills, and tools necessary
for visualizing data output and preparing business intelligence reports.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.

Unit I :CORE SKILLS FOR VISUALANALYSIS: Information visualization-effective data

analysis - traits of meaningful data- visual perception - making abstract data visible - building
blocks of information visualization - analytical interaction - analytical navigation - optimal
quantitative scales - reference lines and regions - trellises and crosstabs - multiple concurrent
views- focus and context- details on demand- over-plotting reduction - analytical patterns-pattern
examples.
Unit II :TIME-SERIES, RANKING, AND DEVIATION ANALYSIS: Time-series analysis -
time-series patterns - time-series displays - time-series best practices - part to whole and ranking
patterns - part-to-whole and ranking displays - best practices - deviation analysis-deviation analysis
displays- deviation analysis best practices
Unit III :DISTRIBUTION, CORRELATION,AND MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS:
Distribution analysis - describing distributions - distribution patterns - distribution displays -
distribution analysis best practices - correlation analysis - describing correlations - correlation
patterns - correlation displays - correlation analysis techniques and best practices - multivariate
analysis - multivariate patterns - multivariate displays - multivariate analysis techniques and best
practices.
Unit IV :INFORMATION DASHBOARD DESIGN: Information dashboard - categorizing
dashboards - typical dashboard data - dashboard design issues and best practices - visual
perception - limits of short-term memory - visually encoding data - Gestalt principles -principles of
visual perception for dashboard design
Unit V :INFORMATION DASHBOARD DESIGN II: Characteristics of dashboards - key goals
in visual design process - dashboard display media - designing dashboards for usability- meaningful
organization - maintaining consistency- aesthetics of dashboards - testing for usability - case
studies: sales dashboard, CIO dashboard, Telesales dashboard, marketing analysis dashboard.
Text book and Reference Books
1. Stephen Few, "Now you see it: Simple Visualization techniques for quantitative
analysis", Analytics Press, 1stEdition, 2009 (TextBook)
2. Stephen Few, "Information dashboard design: The effective visual communication of
data", O'Reilly, 2006.
3. Edward R. Tufte, "The visual display of quantitative information", Second Edition,
Graphics Press, 2001.
4. Nathan Yau, "Data Points: Visualization that means something", Wiley,2013
5. Ben Fry, "Visualizing data: Exploring and explaining data with the processing
environment", O'Reilly, 2008
Open Resources: Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access
Tools/Software: Open Source Tools

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SOFTCORE III SEMESTER

MBAF 534: CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT
Soft Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basic Knowledge in Credit Management
Learning Objectives
1. To introduce concepts and theories related to – Credit Risk Management
2. To facilitate the application of the concepts and theories into practice in the field Credit Risk
Management.
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of Risk/ Return Tradeoffs.
2. To acquire required knowledge and demonstrate skills sets required for Credit Risk
Management.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, presentation, problem and Case studies
Unit I: Introduction and Overview: Financial Risk: An Overview, Evolution, and the Environment.
Risks definition (market, credit, liquidity, operational), more specifically on the identification of
different forms of risk (currency, interest rate, equity, commodity)

Unit II: Credit policy and Loan characteristics-The credit process –Characteristics of different types
of loans- Evaluating commercial loan requests – Financial statement analysis- Cash flow analysis-
Fundamental credit issues - Credit analysis-Different types of borrowers – Balance sheet analysis for
lending – Forms of advances secured and unsecured advances- Short term and long term advances.

Unit III: Credit Risk: Definition - Framework for risk management - RBI guidelines for risk
management - Methods for estimating capital requirements -Credit risk - Standardized approach and
advanced approach –Capital Adequacy Norms.

Unit IV: Credit Risk modeling- Economic Modeling– Simulation techniques, VaR, Stress test, Back
Test, Sensitivity analysis. Statistical Modeling- Discriminant Analysis, LOGIT/PROBIT, Multiple
Linear Regression, Decision Trees

Unit V: Credit Risk management: Risk Rating and Risk Pricing, Loan review mechanism/ Credit
audit, RAROC pricing. Credit Derivatives-Hedging–Forwards–Futures–Options Arbitrage
opportunities-Regulatory prescriptions of risk management–Exposure Norms-Systems Audit-Risk
Organization and Policy

Text Books and Reference Books:

1. Foundations of Banking Risk: An Overview of Banking, Banking Risks, and Risk-Based
Banking Regulation by GARP (Global Association of Risk Professionals).
2. Moorad Choudhry, Bank Asset and Liability Management: Strategy, Trading, Analysis, Wiley
Publishing.
3. John C. Hull, Risk Management and Financial Institutions, Pearson, 2009
4. Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF), Risk Management, Macmillan Publishers India,
2010.
5. Risk Measurement Models to Capital Allocation Policies, Wiley, ISBN:978-0-470-02978 IIBF
Material.
Open Resources:https://dbie.rbi.org.in, https://www.imf.org/en/Data

Tools/Software: Open-Source Tools

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SOFTCORE III SEMESTER

MBAF 535: CAPITAL MARKET OPERATIONS
Soft Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge on Financial Market
Learning Objectives: Prepare Students -
1. To introduces the operations of Securities market
2. To understand the Trading process, settlement and legal frameworks
Learning outcome:
• To understand the Trading process, settlement and legal frameworks
• To acquire practical knowledge in stock and Forex trading
Methodology:
Virtual Trading, Opening Trading and Demat Accounts and Trading hands-on, Lecture,
Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation, and Trading games

Unit I: SECURITIES MARKET AND ITS OPERATION - Primary Market – Secondary Market
– Key Indicators of secondary market - Market Capitalization, Market Capitalization Ratio, Turnover,
Turnover Ratio – Products and Participation – Market segments and their products.
Unit II: FOREX MARKET AND ITS OPERATION – Forex market and its organisation –
Exchange Rates and its calculations – Forex Transactions – Types of Forex market – Forex market
operations.
Unit III: ONLINE TRADING - Procedure/process involved in performing share trading - OCITE -
Neat system – BOLT System - market types - trading system users hierarchy - local database - market
phases - logging on - log off/exit from the application. Online Forex Trading–Operations –
procedures. Opening of Trading and DEMAT Accounts – Procedure for opening Trading and
DEMAT accounts – Trading Vs. Investment – Steps to be followed for trading and Investment.
Unit IV :CLEARING, SETTLEMENT AND RISK MANAGEMENT - key terminologies used in
clearing and settlement process - transaction cycle - settlement agencies -clearing and settlement
process – Risk management in Trade and settlement – Depositories and their Roles. Legal
Frameworks – SEBI - Role of SEBI regarding the protection of investor - FEDAI Regulations – Role
of RBI.
Unit V :FUNDAMENTAL VALUATION CONCEPTS - Time value of money – Fundamental
Analysis - understanding financial statements - Ratio analysis – Economic Analysis - Technical
analysis – Different Techniques Market Capitalization and calculation of Market Capitalization -
Index – Types – Calculation of Index – Market return and Beta Calculation
Text book and Reference Books
1. EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT STOCK MARKET INVESTING -
Network 18 Publication Pvt. Ltd – 2 Edition, 2017
2. Sid Bhattacharjee, Generate Daily Income from Financial Market, Partridge India, 2014
November
3. Punithavathy Pandian, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management, Vikas Publishing House
Pvt. Ltd, 2nd edition, 2012. (Text Book)
4. V. A. Avadhani, Investment and Securities Market in India , Himalaya Publishing House.
5. SanjeevAgarwal, A Guide to Indian Capital Market , Bharat Publishers

Open Resources:
www.rbi.org.in, www.fedail.com, www.useindia.com, www.mcx.sx.com, www.nseindia.com,
www.easy.forex.com, www.indiaforex.com, www.nism.ac.in

Tools/Software:
Moneybhai Virtual Trading Platform , ICICI Trading Virtual Trading Platform, NSE Virtual Trading
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SOFTCORE III SEMESTER

MBAF536: FINANCIAL MODELING USING SPREADSHEET
Soft Core: 3 Credits

Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge in Finance and Computer
Learning Objectives:
1. To introduce concepts and theories related to – Financial modelling
2. To facilitate the application of financial models in real life business
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of Financial models
2. To acquire required knowledge and demonstrate financial modeling skills
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, Assignments and mini projects
Unit I: Financial Models Introduction to modelling, introduction to spreadsheet, database functions in
spreadsheet, finance function in spreadsheet, creating dynamic models. Basic Financial Calculations
– Financial Statement Analysis – Financial Ratios – Cash Flow Analysis - Financial Budget & other
Budget Modelling – Break even analysis - Financial Forecasting – Valuation and Rates of Return
Unit II: Corporate Financial Models Calculation of Time value of Money - Cost of Capital –
Leverage Analysis - Capital Budgeting – Financial analysis of Leasing
Unit III: Portfolio Models Calculating of Efficient Portfolios – Calculating variance – Covariance
Matrix – Estimating- Beta and Security Market line – Portfolio Optimization – Value at Risk
Unit IV: Derivatives & Option Pricing Models and Bonds -Introduction to Options – Binomial
Option Pricing Model - Black Scholes Model – Option-Greeks - Calculation of Bond Duration -
Returns – Modelling the Term Structure.
Unit V: Statistical Models- Application of Statistical tools for financial calculations and Model
Building through Excel- Addon.

Text Books and References:

1. Simon Benninga, Financial Modeling, MIT Press, Cambridge
2. Scott Proctor, Building Financial Models, Wiley India private Ltd, 2013
3. Clive Marsh, Business and financial models, konganPage.
4. Alastair L. Day, Mastering Financial Modelling in Microsoft Excel, 2/E pearson
5. Chandan Sengupta, Financial Analysis and Modeling using Excel and VBA, 2/E, Wiley.

Open Resources: Case studies, Companies Balance sheet

Tools / Software: - MS excel

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List of Softcore Courses for Fourth Semester

Course Code Subject Course Type Credit
MBAF 541 Cyber Security and Forensic Soft 3
MBAF 542 Information System Control and Audit Soft 3
MBAF 543 Natural Language Dialoguing and Chatbots Soft 3
MBAF 544 Social Media Analytics Soft 3
MBAF 545 Fixed Income Securities and Treasury Soft 3
Management
MBAF 546 Forex and Currency Derivatives Soft 3
MBAF 547 Corporate Governance & Business Ethics Soft 3
MBAF 548 Project Management Soft 3

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SOFTCORE IV SEMESTER
MBAF 541: CYBER SECURITY AND FORENSIC
Soft Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites: Fundamentals of computers and security
Learning Objectives:
1.Understanding of E-Procurement, Digital Crimes and Laws
2.Understanding the practices of Forensic Science
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand the practices of Forensic Science
2. To acquire required knowledge and demonstrate skills sets required for cyber security
in electronic business
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.

Unit I :Introduction - Laws, Investigation and Ethics - Digital Crime - Information Security and
Law, Types & overview of Digital crimes - Ethical issues in Intellectual property rights - Copy
Right - Patents - Data Privacy and protection - Domain name - Software privacy - Plagiarism -
Issues in ethical hacking.

Unit II: E-Records, E-Discovery and Business Law: E-Discovery - Records Retention -
Destruction - Email Retention - Forensics - Privacy Policies - Evidence Law -
Signatures. IT Security Laws and Policy: Security policy, Non-disclosure agreements and terms
of use, Honey pots and Entrapment-Active Defenses - Hacking Back.

Unit III :Forensic Technology - Introduction to computer forensics, use for forensics in law
enforcement- employment proceedings - computer Forensics services. Types of computer
Forensics Technology-Military, law, spyware and Adware-Biometrics security Systems.

Unit IV: Types of Computer Forensics Systems: Internet security, IDS, Firewall, Public key, net
privacy systems, vendor and computer Forensics services. Computer Forensics evidence and
capture: Data recovery, evidence collection and data seizure, duplication and preservation
of digital evidence, computer image verification and authentication.

Unit V :Computer Forensics Analysis - Discovery of electronic evidence - electronic document

discovery - identification of data - time keeping - forensic identification and analysis of
technical surveillance devices - Reconstructing fast events.

Text book and Reference Books

1. Nina Godbole, SunitBelapure, Cyber Security: Understanding Cyber
Crimes, Computer Forensics and Legal Perspectives, Willey.(Text Book)
2. John R. Vacca, Computer forensics:computer crime scene
investigation,Volume (Text Book)
3. Sood, "Cyber Laws Simplified", McGraw Hill Anthony Reyes, "Cyber Crime
Investigations: Bridging the Gaps Between Security Professionals, Law
Enforcement, and Prosecutors"

Open Resources:
Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access
Tools/Software: Open Source Tools

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SOFTCORE IV SEMESTER
MBAF 542: INFORMATION SYSTEM CONTROL AND AUDIT
Soft Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites: Basics of Information System
Learning Objectives:
1. To understand the concepts of Audit and Control in information system.
2. To learn the management control framework, data resource management controls,
application control framework and processing controls.
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand the concepts of Audit and Control in information system.
2. To gain practical knowledge for carrying out projects in information sytem audit and
control.
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.

Unit I : Introduction-Overview of Information Systems Auditing-Need for Control and Audit of

Computers -Effects of Computers on Internal Controls-Effects of Computers on Auditing –
Foundations of Information Systems Auditing- Conducting an Information Systems Audit-Audit
risks-Types of Audit Procedures -Auditing around or through the computer.

Unit II: Management Control Framework - Top Management Controls- Systems Development
Management Controls-Programming Management Controls

Unit III: Data Resource Management Controls- Security Management Controls-Operations

Management Controls- Quality Assurance Management Controls

Unit IV: The Application Control Framework- Boundary Controls - Input Controls -
Communication Controls

Unit V: Processing Controls-Database Controls-Output Controls Basic

Text book and Reference Books

1. Ron Weber, "Information System Control and Audit", Prentice Hall,
2011. (Text book)
2. Dube, D.P. and Gulati V.P., -Information System Audit and Assurance
(Including CaseStudies and Checklists from the Bank), Tata McGraw-Hill,
2ndEdition, 2008.
3. Frederick Gallegos, Daniel P. Manson, SandraSenft, and Carol Gonzales
Gallegos, - Information Technology Control and Audit, Auerbach
Publications, Second Edition, 2004
4. Alexander, Michael. 2007. Microsoft Access 2007 Data Analysis. Wiley.
ISBN 978- 0-470-10485-9
5. Mayor-Schonberger, V., andK. Cukier. Big Data. First Mariner Books
Open Resources:
Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access

Tools/Software: Open Source Tools

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SOFTCORE IV SEMESTER
MBAF 543: NATURAL LANGUAGE DIALOGUING AND CHATBOTS
Soft Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites: Data mining
Learning Objectives:
1. To introduce concepts and theories related to natural language processing
2. To facilitate the application of the concepts and theories into practice in the field of natural
language processing.
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of natural language processing.
2. To acquire required knowledge and demonstrate skills sets required for natural language
processing and chatbot application in business
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.

Unit I :Words - Structure – spell check, morphology using FSTs - Semantics - Lexical Semantics,
Word Net and Word Net based similarity measures, Distributional measures of similarity, Concept
Mining - Word Sense Disambiguation - supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised approaches) -
Parts of Speech.
Unit II : Sentences - Basic ideas in compositional semantics, Classical Parsing – different types of
parsing - Bottom up, top down, Dynamic Programming - Parsing using Probabilistic Context Free
Grammars and Expectation- Maximization based approaches for learning PCFG parameters.
Language Modelling.
Unit III :Machine Translation - rule-based techniques, Statistical Machine Translation, parameter
learning using Expectation- Maximization - Information Extraction - Introduction to Named Entity
Recognition and Relation Extraction - Natural Language Generation - the potential of using ML -
Advanced Language Modelling – Applications - summarization, question answering.
Unit IV :Chatbot – Design of a Chatbot - Introduction to Conversational Interface - Preliminaries,
developing a speech based Conversational Interface, Conversational Interface and devices -
Technology of Conversation: Introduction - Conversation as Action- The structure of Conversation -
The language of Conversation.
Unit V :Developing a Speech-Based Conversational Interface - Implementing Text to Speech - Text
Analysis - Wave Synthesis - Implementing Speech Recognition - Language Model, Acoustic Model -
Decoding - Speech Synthesis Mark-up Language - Advanced voice user interface design – Advanced
Chatbots.
Text book and Reference Books
1. James Allen, Natural Language Understanding, Second Edition, Benjamin/Cummings
Publishing Co. Inc., Subs. Of Addision-Wesley Longman Publ. Co390 Bridge Pkwy.
Redwood City, CA United States, 1995.
2. Srini Janarthanam, “Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development: Build
chatbots” Published by Packet Publishing Ltd., First Edition, 2017.
3. Jurafsky, Dan and Martin, James, Speech and Language Processing, Second Edition,
Prentice Hall, 2008.
4. Cathy Pearl, “Designing Voice User Interfaces: Principles of Conversational
Experiences”, Shroff/O’Reilly, First Edition, 2017.
5. Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol, “ The Conversational Interface:
Talking to Smart Devices”, Springer, First Edition 2016.

Open Resources:
Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access

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Tools/Software: Open Source Tools

SOFTCORE IV SEMESTER
MBAF 544: SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS
SoftCore : 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basics on Social Media Behavior
Learning Objectives:
1. To familiarize the learners with the concept of social media analytics and understand
its significance.
2. To familiarize the learners with the tools of social media analytics.
Learning Outcome:
1. To familiarize the learners with the tools of social media analytics.
2. To acquire required knowledge and demonstrate skills sets required for social media
data analytics
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.

Unit I :Introduction to Social Media Analytics (SMA) - Social media landscape, Need for
SMA; SMA in Small organizations; SMA in large organizations; Application of SMA in different
areas - Network fundamentals and models: The social networks perspective - nodes, ties and
influencers - Social network and web data and methods - Graphs and Matrices- Basic
measures for individuals and networks - Information visualization.

Unit II : Making connections: Link analysis. Random graphs and network evolution. Social
contexts: Affiliation and identity- Web analytics tools: Click stream analysis, A/B testing, online
surveys, Web crawling and Indexing. Natural Language Processing Techniques for Micro-text
Analysis.

Unit III: Facebook Analytics: Introduction, parameters, demographics - Analyzing page

audience. Reach and Engagement analysis - Post- performance on FB. Social campaigns. Measuring
and Analyzing social campaigns, defining goals and evaluating outcomes, Network Analysis -
Other Social media analytics: Linkedin, Instagram, YouTube Twitter etc. Google analytics.

Unit IV: Processing and Visualizing Data, Influence Maximization, Link Prediction, Collective
Classification, Applications in Advertising and Game Analytics - Introduction to Python
Programming, Collecting and analyzing social media data; visualization and exploration.

Unit V: Case Studies : BFSI Product, Process, People.

Text book and Reference Books

1. Matthew Ganis, AvinashKohirkar, "Social Media Analytics: Techniques and
Insights for Extracting Business Value Out of Social Media", Pearson, 1st
edition, 2016
2. Jim Sterne, "Social Media Metrics: How to Measure and Optimize Your
Marketing Investment", Wiley, 1st edition, 2010
3. Marshall Sponder, "Social Media Analytics", McGraw Hill, 1st edition, 2011

Open Resources:
Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access
Tools/Software: Open Source Tools

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SOFTCORE IV SEMESTER
MBAF 545: FIXED INCOME SECURITIES AND TREASURY MANAGEMENT
Soft Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basics of Treasury and Debt instruments.
Learning Objectives:
1. To introduce the basics of debt markets and treasury operations.
2. To provide the skills required to calculate yields, bond values etc.
Learning Outcome:
1. To introduce the basics of debt markets and treasury operations.
2. To helps the students to work in the treasury divisions of the banks
Methodology: Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation.
Unit I: Debt Instruments: Fundamental Features–Indian Debt Markets–Market segments–
Participants-Secondary Market for Debt instruments–Bond Market–SEBI (Disclosure and
Investor Protection) guidelines 2008.
Unit II: Analysis and Valuation of Bonds: Pricing of bonds–Measuring yields– Bond price
volatility– Factors affecting bond yields and the term structure of interest rates.
Unit III: Bond Portfolio Management Strategies: Passive management strategies–Active
managementstrategies–Globalfixedincomeinvestmentstrategy–Core-plusbondportfolio
management– Matched-funding Techniques.
Unit IV: Central Govt. Securities: G- Secs–Tenor and Yields–Primary Issuance Process,
Participants–SGL accounts– Dealers– Secondary Market– Negotiated Dealing system– T
bills–Cut off Yields–State Govt. Bonds–Money market instruments-Call Money Markets –
Participants
Unit V: Fixed Income Derivatives: Meaning–Types–Mechanics for forward rate agreements–
Guidelines for exchange traded interest rate derivatives.

Text book and Reference Books

th
1.FrankJ.Fabozzi, Bond Markets,AnalysisandStrategies,Pearson,8 Edition, 2012
2.Reilly, Brown, InvestmentAnalysisand Portfolio Management, Cengage Learning, Latest Edition
3.Fixed-IncomeSecurities.L.Martellini,P.PriauletandS.Priaulet.JohnWiley&Sons,Chichester,UK,
Latest Edition.
4. Parameswaran, Sunil Kumar,”Fixed Income Securities: Concepts and Applications” Walter de
Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2019.
5. Steven MBraggs ―Treasury Management: The Practical Guide, Wiley, Latest Edition 2010

Open Resources: https://www.nseindia.com/

Research papers from Journals and Conferences with Open Access,

Tools/Software: Open-Source Tools for AI Application development.

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SOFTCORE IV SEMESTER
MBAF 546: FOREX AND CURRENCY DERIVATIVES
Soft Core: 3 Credits
.Prerequisites: Basic Knowledge on Financial Market Operations
Learning Objectives:
1. To introduce concepts and theories related to Forex and Currency Derivatives
2. To facilitate the application of the concepts and theories into practice in the field of
Forex Trading
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of Forex and Currency Management
2. To acquire required knowledge and demonstrate skills sets required for Forex Trading
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation, problem solving, Market
Watch and currency trading games

Unit I: Foreign Exchange Market: Organization – Spot Vs Forward Markets – Bid and Ask
rates – Interbank Quotations – International Market Quotations – Cross Rates – Merchant
Rates – FEDAI Regulations – Role of RBI.
Unit II: Exchange Rates - Exchange rate systems – Gold Standard – Bretton Woods – Fixed
Vs Floating Exchange Rate systems – Determinants of Exchange Rates – Exchange Controls.
Unit III :Foreign Exchange Transactions – Purchase and Sale transactions – Spot Vs
Forward transactions – Forward Margins – Interbank Deals – Cover deals – Trading – Swap
deals – Arbitrage Operations – Factors determining Forward margins.
Unit IV :Ready and Forward Exchange Rates – Principle types of Ready Merchant rates –
Ready rates based on cross rates – Forward exchange contracts – Execution of Forward
contracts – cancellation and Extensions - Dealing position – Exchange position – Cash
position.
Unit V: Currency Derivatives – Currency Forwards – Currency Futures – Currency Options
– Exchange traded transactions – Financial Swaps – Forward Rate agreements – Interest Rate
Options.
Text book and Reference Books
1. Alan C Shapiro: Multinational Financial Management, Prentice Hall, New Delhi
(Text Book).
2. Francis Cherunilam : International Economics, Tata Mc Graw Hill Pub Ltd, New
Delhi
3. Ian H Giddy: Global Financial Markets, AITBS Publishers and Distributors, New
Delhi
4. C Jeevanandam, Foreign Exchange: Practice, Concepts, Sultan Chand & Sons, New .
Delhi
5. Vijayabhaskar P and Mahapatra B., Derivatives Simplified, Respose Books, Sage
Publications, New Delhi
Open Resources: www.rbi.org.in, www.fedail.com, www.useindia.com, www.mcx.sx.com,
www.nseindia.com, www.easy.forex.com, www.indiaforex.com, www.nism.ac.in

Tools/Software: Virtual Trading Open software

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SOFTCORE IV SEMESTER
MBAF 547: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & BUSINESS ETHICS
Soft Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge in Finance and Regulations
Learning Objectives:
1. To introduce concepts and theories related to – Corporate Governance and Ethical
practices
2. To facilitate the application of governance practices and ethical standards
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of good governance and ethics
2. To acquire required knowledge and demonstrate best practices and ethical standards
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, and Assignments
Unit I:Introduction- Corporate Governance- governance and management- Separation of ownership
-Agency theory- Theories and philosophies of corporate governance -Agency theory-Agency
Dilemma-Stewardship theory-resources dependency theory- Societal Perspective-Organisational
perspective
Unit II: Directorship- Constitutions of corporate entities-Appointment of directors-Chairman and
CEO- CEO duality- Independent Directors- Role of Independent Directors- Board Structures-Board
Committees -Functions of Boards-Board Disclosures-Family Business and Board- Delegation of
board functions-RBI regulations-SEBI regulations-Fit and proper criteria -Board room- Board room
reality-Board effectiveness
Unit III: Corporate Governance Codes – Cadbury Codes- Sarbanes Oxley Act- Indian corporate
governance codes- Role of Ministry- Role of RBI- Role of SEBI- Codes for individual Directors- Best
Practices-Corporate governance in India-Successful Governance-Governance index-OECD codes
Unit IV: Corporate Social Responsibility- Expectations- CSR strategies and policies- CSR
Reporting- Sustainable reporting- CSR in India- CSR regulations and policies- Voluntary CSR- Code
of conducts- CSR audit
Unit V:Ethics in Business- Ethics and values-Ethical Philosophies-Code of ethics-Building moral
content- Business ethics- ethics for management-Directors- committees-
Text Books and References:

1. Tricker, RI Bob, and Robert Ian Tricker. Corporate governance: Principles, policies,
and practices. Oxford University Press, USA, 2015.
2. Mathur, U. C. Corporate Governance And Business Ethics: Text And Cases. Macmillan,
Latest
3. Fernando, A. C. Business ethics: an Indian perspective. Pearson Education India, Latest.
4. DesJardins, Joseph R., and Joseph R. DesJardins. An introduction to business ethics:
McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Latest
5. Mallin, Christine A., ed. Handbook on Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions.
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016.

Open Resources: Case studies

Tools / Software: -NA

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SOFTCORE IV SEMESTER
MBAF 548: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Soft Core: 3 Credits
Prerequisites:
Basic Knowledge in Business
Learning Objectives:
1. To understand the concept of project and steps in project management.
2. To enable the students to prepare business proposals and evaluate the technical feasibility,
financial viability, market acceptability and social desirability of projects.
Learning Outcome:
1. To understand and appreciate the concepts of project and steps in project management
2. To acquire required knowledge and demonstrate skills sets required for preparing business
proposals and evaluate the technical feasibility, financial viability, market acceptability and
social desirability of projects
Methodology:
Lecture, Discussion, Case studies, observations, presentation, Business plan assignment,
problem and Problems for evaluation of projects financially and network analysis.

Unit I: Project – Meaning – classification – importance of project management – An Integrated

Approach – Project Portfolio Management System – The Need – Choosing the appropriate Project
Management structure: Organizational considerations and project considerations – steps in defining
the project – project Rollup – Process breakdown structure – Responsibility Matrices – External
causes of delay and internal constraints.
Unit II: Project feasibility studies: Opportunity studies, General opportunity studies, specific
opportunity studies, pre-feasibility studies, functional studies or support studies, feasibility study –
components of project feasibility studies – Managing Project resources flow – project planning to
project completion: Pre-investment phase, Investment Phase and operational phase – Project Life
Cycle – Project constraints.
Unit III: Project Evaluation under certainty: Net Present Value, Benefit Cost Ratio, Internal Rate of
Return, Payback Period, ARR – Theoretical Framework for Project Evaluation under Risk and
Uncertainty: Risk Adjusted Rate Method, Certainty Equivalent Method, Probability Method,
Sensitivity Analysis and Decision Tree Analysis –– – Social Cost Benefit Analysis: Commercial or
National Profitability, Social Desirability.
Unit IV: Developing a project plan: Developing the project network – constructing a project network
(Problems) – PERT – CPM – crashing of project network – resource levelling and resource allocation
– how to avoid cost and time overruns – Steps in Project Appraisal Process –Methodology for project
evaluation - Project Control Process – control issues – project audits – the project audit process –
project closure – team, team member and project manager evaluations.
Unit V: Managing versus leading a project - managing project stakeholders – social network building
(Including management by wandering around) – qualities of an effective project manager – managing
project teams – Five Stage Team Development Model – Situational factors affecting team
development – project team pitfalls.
Text Book and Reference Books:
1. Project Management: The Managerial Process by Erik Larson and Clifford Gray (2017);
McGraw Hill Education
2. Gopalakrishnan P and Ramamoorthy, V.E., Project Management, Macmillan, Latest Edi.
3. Projects: Planning, Analysis, Selection, Financing, Implementation, and Review by Prasanna
Chandra (2017); McGraw Hill Education; Eighth edition
4. B.B. Goel, Project Management – Principles and Techniques, Deep and Deep
5. Project Planning and Control with PERT and CPM B C Punia by K K Khandelwal (2016); Laxmi
Publications Private Limited; Fourth edition
Open Resources:
1. www.pmi.org, 2. www.projectmanagement.com, 3. www.mindtools.com,
4. www.projectscentre.com
Tools/Software: ERP, Software for Project Development

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