Description
Course Overview
The financial services industry represents a merging of traditional banking, insurance, finance and accountancy businesses, with a focus on products such as banking services, wealth management, and insurance/risk management from individual consumers through to major corporations. The Bachelor of Banking and Financial Services has been designed with our industry partners to allow graduates to gain the relevant competencies and skills to give them a competitive advantage when applying for employment in this sector.
Course Objectives
Students graduating from the Bachelor of Banking and Financial Services will be able to:
- Demonstrate broad and coherent knowledge of the theoretical and professional disciplines of banking, finance, investment analysis, portfolio management, accountancy, economics, quantitative methods, law, and the Financial Services Industry.
- Exercise informed commercial judgement within a professional setting which emphasises ethical and responsible decision making.
- A capacity to integrate technical and conceptual knowledge, and interpersonal skills to work effectively within the Financial Services Industry.
- Acquire and synthesise information within a complex professional setting.
- Think critically and creatively to identify better solutions within business constraints.
- Work collaboratively with others to solve applied problems.
- Communicate and explain specialised technical advice, knowledge and ideas, to professionals and non-experts involved with the Financial Services Industry.
- Reflect upon work practices, conceptual frameworks and performance feedback and action ongoing professional development.
Admission Requirements
Any applicant who meets the minimum entry requirements for admission into the University may be granted admission, the requirements are :
- O’level Result
- Birth Certificate
- Passport Photograph
REGISTRATION PROCESS
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FEE STRUCTURE
100 level Fee Structure
180,000 Naira tuition fee
10,000 Naira application fee
20,000 Naira acceptance fee
20,000 Naira Examination Fee
30,000 Naira study kit (t-shirt, course guide, workbook, pen, digital material)
Total 260,000 Naira
200 level Transfer Fee structure
180,000 Naira tuition fee
10,000 Naira application fee
20,000 Naira acceptance fee
20,000 Naira Examination Fee
30,000 Naira transfer fee
30,000 Naira study kit (t-shirt, course guide, workbook, pen, digital material)
Total 290,000 Naira
Transfer final year Fee structure
180,000 Naira tuition fee
10,000 Naira application fee
20,000 Naira acceptance fee
20,000 Naira Examination Fee
30,000 Naira transfer fee
20,000 Naira Project supervision fee
60,000 Naira Certificate fee
20,000 Naira convocation fee
30,000 Naira study kit (t-shirt, course guide, workbook, pen, digital material)
Total 390,000 Naira
CURRICULUM
BASIC MATHEMATICS FOR MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES I
Mathematics and Symbolic Logic
INTRODUCTION
One important instrument for communication, but not easily mentioned is the use of
figures. Figures are major instrument used for expression, especially where large
data are involved. It makes expression very concise in explanation and
interpretation. This makes it important for us to know how mathematical symbols
and logic could be used……..READ MORE
Simple Sequence and Series
INTRODUCTION
A series is a succession of numbers, of which each number is formed according to a definite
law which is the same throughout the series………READ MORE
Basic Financial Literacy
Meaning, Nature And Types Of Investment
INTRODUCTION
This initial study unit of the course material is used to discuss the nature and type of investment. Investment
is very important for the fact that it can be used to generate additional income. However, some elements of
risk are inherent in any form of investment but risks vary from one investment to another. Therefore, the
choice of investment is informed by the degree of risk involved but this can be ameliorated with a
combination of investments. In this unit, discussion is on the meaning and nature of investment and the
characteristics of investment. In addition, the various types of investment are also discussed……READ MORE
Investing Wisely In Capital Market Using Arbitrage
INTRODUCTION
This study unit of the course material is used to expose you to other strategies that can be employed in
respect of investing wisely in capital market. These other strategies include arbitrage and speculation. Just like
other ones treated in preceding units, the use of these two strategies, arbitrage and speculation, it is
advisable also to engage services of brokerage firms (as traders in financial market) since they are
professionals in such market. This study unit, therefore, is mainly used to discuss the concepts of arbitrage
and speculation as far as using them in investment in the capital market securities are involved……..READ MORE
PLANNING FOR CONTINGENCY FUND
INTRODUCTION
This study unit of the course material is used to expose you to the important issue of planning for contingency
fund, which is also regarded as emergency fund in some literature. Building emergency fund is very essential
toward meeting contingencies, which are not envisaged when they will actually take place and involves the
use of amount of money. In planning for emergency funds, certain strategies which are to be taken into
considerations, such that the regular contribution can be reasonable and the fund being kept in accessible
ways, are also discussed in this unit. Furthermore, the unit also discusses the ideal ways through which to
invest the contingency fund……READ MORE
AGRICULTURAL FINANCE
Meaning and Scope of Agricultural Finance
INTRODUCTION
This unit is very important because it gives the basic definition of agricultural
finance and explains what it entails. It describes the nature and the scope of
agricultural finance and the necessity for deep understanding of its subject
matter. It provides the foundation and general understanding of the course as
a whole. It will also help you to understand subsequent units…….READ MORE
Input-Output Relationships (Law of Diminishing Returns)Topic
INTRODUCTION
In the production process, inputs are converted into outputs. Whatever is put
into the production process come out as output. There is therefore a
relationship between the input (used) and the output (the final outcome).
Generally, a function states the relationship between variables. In production
economics, the most fundamental relationship is that between the factors of
production and the product……READ MORE
Internal Methods of Acquiring Capital
INTRODUCTION
There are nine methods discussed in this module by which farmers may obtain the
capital which they use in their farming business. These are:
1. Inheritance
2. Gifts
3. Savings
4. Family Arrangements
5. Incorporation
6. Leasing
7. Purchase Contracts
8. Vertical Integration
9. Borrowing
These methods can be divided into two categories – internal sources and external
sources. The internal sources include items 1 to 4 while the external sources are items 5
to 9. This unit deals with the internal sources……….READ MORE
ANALYSIS FOR BUSINESS DECISION
Elements of Decision Analysis
INTRODUCTION
Business Decision Analysis takes its roots from Operations Research (OR). Operation Research as we will
learn later is the application of scientific method by interdisciplinary teams to problems solving and the
control of organized (ManMachine) systems so as to provide solution which best serve the purpose of
the organization as a whole (Ackoff and Sisieni 1991) . In other words, Operations Research makes use
of scientific methodsand tools to provide optimum or best solutions to problems in the organization.
Organisations are usually faced with the problem of deciding what to do; how to do it, where to do it,
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for whom to do it etc. But before any action can be taken, it is important to properly analyse a situation
with a view to finding out the various alternative courses of action that are available to an organization.
Operations Research helps the organisation with the job of critically analysing a situation and finding out
the various alternatives available to choose from. OR also helps the organization to identify the best
alternative available there by enabling the enterprise to make the most rational decision after having
identified and analysed all available alternatives.
In the light of the above, it could be said that Operations Research provides the scientific process, tools,
techniques, and procedure for optimum decision in business analysis. In this chapter, we shall concern
ourselves with those critical elements and tools that organisations utilise to make sound decisions.
Operations Research (OR)
We mentioned in Unit 1, module 1, that the subject Business Decision Analysis takes its root from the
discipline Operations Research or Operational Research (OR). This unit is devoted to giving us
background knowledge of OR. It is however, not going to be by any way exhaustive as substantial
literature been developed about quantitative approaches to decision making. The root of this literature
are centuries old, but much of it emerged only during the past half century in tandem with the digital
computer (Denardo, 2002). The above assertion relates only to the development of the digital computer
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for use in solving OR problems. The proper roots of OR can be traced to the early 1800s. But it was in
1885 when Ferderick Taylor emphasized the application scientific analysis to methods of production,
that it really began (Gupta & Hira 2012).
This unit provides only an overview of OR with emphasis on the definition of OR, characteristics, Scope,
application, objectives, and phases of OR.
Mathematical Programming (Linear Programming)
Linear programming deals with the optimization (maximization or minimization) of a function of
variables known as objective function, subject to a set of linear equations and/or inequalities known as
constraints. The objective function may be profit, cost, production capacity or any other measure of
effectiveness, which is to be obtained in the best possible or optimal manner. The constraints may be
imposed by different resources such as market demand, production process and equipment, storage
capacity, raw material availability, etc. By linearity is meant a mathematical expression in which the
expressions among the variables are linear
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e.g., the expression a1x1 + a2x2 + a3x3 + … + aⁿxⁿ is linear. Higher powers of the variables or their
products do not appear in the expressions for the objective function as well as the constraints (they
donot have expressions like x1
3
, x 2
3
/
2
, x
1x 2, a1x1 + a2 log x2, etc.). The variables obey the properties of proportionality (e.g., if a product
requires 3 hours of machining time, 5 units of it will require 15 hours) and additivity (e.g., amount of a
resource required for a certain number of products is equal to the sum of the resource required for
each).
It was in 1947 that George Dantzig and his associates found out a technique for solving military planning
problems while they were working on a project for U.S. Air Force. This technique consisted of
representing the various activities of an organization as a linear programming (L.P.) model and arriving
at the optimal programme by minimizing a linear objective function. Afterwards, Dantzig suggested this
approach for solving business and industrial problems. He also developed the most powerful
mathematical tool known as “simplex method” to solve linear programming problems.
