Course Plan Class: MBA II Year Semester: IV

FINANCIAL SERVICES AND SYSTEMS

Name of the Instructor: P Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration. Instruction period: 5 Periods per week Course Purpose: This is a minor elective subject in Finance stream. It requires the background of international finance. This course gives a birds eye view of global financial systems.

Course Structure: First unit introduces the student to the basic financial system and services thereto. Second unit elaborates into the concept of leasing and hire purchase. It includes problems using NPV and IRR approaches. Third unit talks about factoring and RBI guidelines and the recommendations of Kalyanasundaram Committee. Venture capital financial details are envisaged in fourth unit. Fifth unit requires the detailed study of merchant banking from evolution to current state. Suggested Reading: 1. 2. 3. 4. Khan M Y , Financial Services, 2010, 5thEd Tata McGraw-Hill, Pvt Ltd , New Delhi Bharti Pathak, Indian Financial System, 2010, 3rd Ed Pearson Education Avadhani V A , Financial Services in India, 2009, 1st Ed HPH Dr Gurusamy S , Financial Services, Tata McGraw-Hill, Education Pvt Ltd 2 ndEd , New Delhi