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Course Description & Objectives
Quantitative Business Analysis Course Code: HB-200
The course introduces students to the use of statistical concepts such as probabilities, common probability distributions, sampling and estimation, and regression analysis to various parameters such as market and portfolio returns, money market yields and other investments.
Course Objectives
The course introduces students to the application and use of statistical and quantitative methods as tools for market research and investment analysis.
English for Business and Administrative Communication Course Code: HB-202
English for Business and Administrative Communication is designed to teach students how to think critically, communicate effectively, and improve written and oral business communication skills by addressing and discussing real world examples and real business applications.
Course Objectives
The writing and communicating skills students will learn in this course will prepare them to meet and face a variety of challenges they may face in their future careers by learning and discussing real world examples and real business applications.
Real Estate Investment Course Code: HB-203
The course covers terminology, legislation, principles and analytical techniques pertaining to financing of real estate investments. It also discusses the techniques of investing, financing, appraising, consulting, managing real estate portfolios, leasing and managing property.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course students will be able to explain the various methods of real estate financing and types of loans available to commercial borrowers, assess the feasibility of and make a decision to lend on a multi-residential project.
Cost Accounting
Course Code: HB-204 The course of Cost Accounting covers the uses of accounting data for planning control and decision-making. Topics include budgets and cost concepts, techniques and behaviour.
Course Objectives
This course provides students with skills to gather data for purposes of planning, controlling and product costing with a managerial emphasis.
Services Marketing Course Code: HB-205
The course focuses on knowledge needed to implement services strategies for competitive advantage across industries. It includes frameworks for customer focused management, and strategies for increasing customer satisfaction and retention through service.
Course Objectives
The course will help students develop strong customer relationships through quality service and the basic skills to market services. Such skills include management and measurement of service quality, service recovery, and the linking of customer measurement to performance measurement to name a few.
Bank Management and Financial Services I Course Code: HB-201-1
The course introduces students to the structure and internal organization of banks. It covers decision making procedures applied to financial management, such as evaluation of bank performance, capital acquisition, liquidity and loans. Course Objectives The students will have a better understanding of the application of decision-making procedures to financial management situations- in banks.
Bank Management and Financial Services II Course Code: HB-201-2
This course introduces students to examine the procedures by which bank’s cost of funding is determined and how its deposits and loans are priced to increase the bank’s revenue generating ability and enhance profitability.
Course Objectives
The course introduces students to the type of funding available to banks to make loans or extend financing to the companies. It also discusses the pricing procedures of both sources and uses of funds that are followed by management to achieve its goals.
Economics I (Microeconomics) Course Code: 960-1
This course builds on the economics foundation course in the Banking Diploma Program. It examines the business environment from an economic viewpoint covering principles of microeconomics. The emphasis is put on the characteristics of competitive markets in the world economy, the process of price determination, market equilibrium, behaviour of market participants as well as the effects of price controls and taxes on economic activity.
Course Objectives
The economics course at the microeconomic level introduces students to the economists’ view of the world and previews ideas that recur throughout economics, such as opportunity cost, marginal decision making, the role of incentives, gains from trade and the efficiency of market allocation. It also introduces students to the basic tools of supply and demand and their application to examine price controls, such as rent control and minimum wage laws.
Economics II (Macroeconomics) Course Code: 960-2
This course introduces students to major theoretical and practical considerations of macroeconomic models, as well as the fiscal and monetary policies. In particular, the course explores the crucial role of the Bank of Canada (the Central Bank) regarding the stabilization of the economy and the control of inflation.
Course Objectives
Macro Economics introduces students to macro economic theory and its application to factors that determine the level of income, employment, output and prices in an economic system, with special emphasis on stabilization policies and empirical applications.
Financial Accounting I Course Code: 955-1
This course builds on the foundation accounting course in the Banking Diploma Program. It introduces the student to the accounting profession, control concepts in business entities and all elements of basic financial statements.
Course Objectives
The course covers financial statements and therefore introduces students to the different principles and underlying assumptions applied in reporting the specific accounts of these statements. It prepares students to apply accounting principles in business internal control and performance measurement.
Financial Accounting II Course Code: 955-2
In Financial Accounting II the student will learn how to analyze and apply the information that financial statements provide on the long term assets and liabilities, the accrual concept as applied to the accounting income and assets, the statement of cash flows, analysis of cash flows as well as ratio analysis.
Course Objectives
The aspects of disclosure, internal control and reporting continue to emerge on the international scene in light of the financial scandals of Enron, MCI WorldCom and Parmalat to name a few examples. Topics discussed in this course range from the use of accounting as a system of internal control and a tool to measure performance by observing profitability, ratio analysis, comparative analysis and common balance sheet analysis.
Business Finance I Course Code 950-1
Business Finance I introduces the student to the analytical techniques and rationale underlying corporate investment and financial decisions. This course will help the student make better business decisions for their financial institution and its customers.
Course Objectives
The following course will introduce the student to the role and objectives of financial management. The students will be able to demonstrate a working knowledge of capital budgeting concepts and analysis. They will understand how corporate finance concepts, such as cash flow, liquidity, leverage, cost of capital and dividends are used in the valuation process, as well as the analytical techniques and considerations underlying investment and financing decisions made by businesses. The student will also become acquainted with the field of investments and see how investors choose among various investment alternatives.
Business Finance II Course Code: 950-2
Business Finance II introduces the student to the theoretical aspects underlying the concepts of business finance. They will be able to describe the characteristics of a well functioning securities market, define an efficient market and discuss arguments supporting the efficient market concepts as well as interpret cost of capital, describe the different dividend policy theories, and managing working capital in a firm.
Course Objectives
In the course the student will learn how financial markets function and recognize their importance as a source of funding to firms and as the place where investors assess the firms’ performance in assigning a value to their securities.
Bank Financial Risk Management Course Code: 935
The decisions made by a bank’s financial team affect clients, employees and shareholders. This course provides an introduction to the factors that contribute to these decisions to help front line employees better understand the impact for clients. Students gain an understanding of the risk/return trade-off that bankers face and the key success factors that affect bank profitability.
Course Objectives
The course teaches awareness and sensitivity of day-to-day banking business. It teaches tools for the middle management of banks to conduct their decision-making in a way that strengthens the financial condition of the bank by optimizing profitability.
Organizational Behaviour I Course Code: 910-1
The course develops the student’s knowledge of personal, interpersonal and group behaviour within organizations. It emphasizes understanding the human factors involved in working with and managing people.
Course Objectives
The objectives of Organizational Behaviour are to prepare students to understand the complexities of human workforce, to organize work, to know what motivates labor in an organization, and how to build team spirit.
Organizational Behaviour II Course Code: 910-2
The course emphasizes higher management key inputs such as leadership, decision making and its timeliness, power and politics, as well as culture management.
Course Objectives
The objectives of Organizational Behaviour II focus on the role of leadership and individual values in building future managers and polishing their managerial skills. Personal Finance I Course Code: 700-1 Personal Finance I introduce students to useful communication techniques and relationship skills so they can advise and help their clients plan for their pension, children’s education or merely invest in a car or home.
Course Objectives
Personal Finance I introduces students to key personal and socio-cultural variables to better understand their clients and their needs. To obtain valuable input information from the clients, students, in this course, address the communication process both verbal and non-verbal which leads to effective communication skills.
Personal Finance II Course Code: 700-2
This course conveys the importance of understanding personal finance to better serve the client. Students learn the basic techniques commonly used in personal finance to help clients to formulate a budget and personal financial profile.
Course Objectives
Personal Finance II equips students with the adequate knowledge of preparing financial statements, and applying time value of money, economic concepts, and debt management as well as understanding the personal variables such as the psychological characteristics influencing their clients.
AICB Integrative Project
The integration activity incorporates the key concepts taught in the AICB program courses, allowing students to apply their understanding of the industry, skills and knowledge in a comprehensive project. Integrative Projects must be Written Individually
• The Integrative Project must be completed within one semester after the student selects his/her topic. Under special circumstances, this deadline might be extended to 10 weeks on the basis of a formal request made to the Higher Banking Diploma (AICB) Program with appropriate documentation.
• The paper must be a minimum of 10 pages (300 words per page) to a maximum of 20 pages in length.
Objectives
■ The completion of the Integrative Project will qualify candidates to the Higher Banking Diploma and the AICB designation while providing them with the opportunity to:
• study and present a general manager’s perspective of real life issues in financial services;
• show their integration of the different disciplines of management in a single project;
• apply generally accepted management tools, methods and framework for continuing self development by analysis and synthesis of actual situations in their sector;
• use of a variety of resources, for example, published materials, peers, managers etc., as a basis for research, comprehension and decision -making;
• expand the body of knowledge and resource materials in their respective industry.
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