The aim:
1. Provide a practical introduction to prepare students for today’s changing landscape of finance.

Acquired knowledge:
1. Provide knowledge about personal finance, financial markets and institutions, corporate finance.

Acquired skills:
1. Students develop the critical-thinking and problem-solving skills necessary to respond to challenging situations in their future careers.

Acquired social skills:
1. To organize students’ thinking then examines the models as real-world scenarios from a practitioner’s perspective.

Course contents: 
1. The Financial Environment.
2. Money and the Monetary System
3. Banks and Other Financial Institutions.
4. Federal Reserve System.
5. Policy Makers and the Money Supply.
6. International Finance and Trade.
7. Savings and Investment Process.
8. Interest Rates.
9. Time Value of Money.
10. Bonds and Stocks: Characteristics and Valuations.
11. Securities Markets.
12. Financial Return and Risk Concepts.
13. Business Organization and Financial Data.
14. Financial Analysis and Long-Term Financial Planning.
15. Managing Working Capital.
16. Short-Term Business Financing.
17. Capital Budgeting Analysis.
18. Capital Structure and the Cost of Capital.

Recommended reading:
1. Introduction to Finance: Markets, Investments, and Financial Management, 15th Edition, Ronald W. Melicher, Edgar A. Norton , Wiley. 2013.