An Overview of the Financial System- Saving and Investment, Money, Inflation & Interest, Banking and Non Banking Financial Intermediaries.
Financial institutions and economic development: nature and role of financial system: financial system and financial markets, efficiency, stability, technology, government intervention in the financial system.
Financial Markets and Instruments- Money market and Capital Markets, Financial Instruments: REPO, TBs, Equities, Bonds, Derivatives etc. Characteristics of Financial Instruments: Liquidity, Maturity, Safety & Yield.
Concept of strategic decisions-changing global economic environment. Valuation of strategic options- merger and acquisition. Pricing & Planning, Strategy, Diversification & Merger-The Indian Cases. Strategic decisions regarding financial services-
Valuation of exchange rate mechanism, strategic decisions regarding securitization factoring and forfeiting, value creation and value based financial strategy.
Analysis of enterprise – concept of valuation EVA, MVA, enterprise value. Analysis of corporate financial models.