Dept. Finance
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Mission
Empowering students with outstanding knowledge, skills, and values, fostering excellence in the finance field through research, and community service.
Program Goals
- Comprehensive Financial Knowledge: Cultivate a deep understanding of financial concepts to address complex professional challenges.
- Interdisciplinary Business Integration: Integrate knowledge from various business disciplines to navigate complex financial environments.
- Analytical Proficiency: Enhance skills in quantitative and qualitative finance analysis for evidence-based decision-making.
- Effective Communication: Strengthen the ability to clearly and persuasively communicate financial solutions in professional settings.
- Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving: Promote innovative problem-solving in diverse financial contexts, supporting Vision 2030's goals of economic diversification and sustainability.
- Ethical Awareness: Foster ethical decision-making to uphold integrity and ethical practices in finance.
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of financial concepts, principles, and theories. (KLO1)
- Outline fundamental business disciplines and their interaction with the financial environment
- Exhibit proficiency in statistical, electronic, research, and inquiry techniques relevant to Finance
- Implement financial analysis tools to inform finance decisions and optimize business performance.
- Use critical and creative thinking, and problem-solving, to perform tasks, and formulate and analyze business problems, particularly those that span across various financial settings (KLO5)
- Develop interpersonal and communication skills to effectively communicate business and financial solutions through both verbal and written means. (KLO3)
- Apply essential skills and technologies to solve different problems and in general business and finance (KLO4).
- Identify ethical dilemmas encountered in business, in general, and in the finance environment. (KLO6)
- Demonstrate the ability to work independently and as part of a team, utilizing business and financial knowledge and tools to make well-informed and effective decisions. (KLO2)
- Develop essential skills crucial for success in the finance and investment field, emphasizing autonomy and commitment to lifelong learning.
Professions/jobs for which students are qualified
Graduates of the Program can work in financial institutions, business
organizations or governmental entities such as:
Relevant occupational/ Professional sectors
Program Consistency with NQF
PLO Consistency with UPM GAs
Program Handbook Finance
Program QA Manual Finance
Program Specificaiton - Finance NQF
STUDY Study Plan Finance
Course Specification
FIN 394 Course Specifications
Career Opportunities
- Banking
- Financial institutions
- Business organizations.
- Investment firms
- Insurance and financial services
- Nonprofit organization
- Consulting