Finance program
Intermediate Diploma
Levels
5
Courses
24
Credits
78
Number of students
629
Overview
The "Finance" program aims to prepare qualified graduates in the field of financial management to meet labor market demands and support societal needs. The program provides foundational knowledge in financial fields and encourages students to effectively apply their skills and knowledge to achieve competitiveness. It also promotes ethical values and social responsibility, preparing students for careers in government and private sectors, including banks, insurance companies, and financial market institutions.
Program content
Admission requirements
Program levels
المستوى الاول
ACDM 110 - Communication skills - mandatory
Credits
2
Theoretical
2
Pratical
Training
Total Content
2
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This course is designed for students to know and understand the theories, skills, and strategies needed to become effective communicators in academic and professional settings. The course explains the major theories of human communication and persuasion in interpersonal, small group, and public communication contexts. The course also focuses on effective communication skills and strategies for writing reports and CV’s and for preparing and delivering effective presentations.
AENG 110 - English language skills 1 - mandatory
Credits
5
Theoretical
2
Pratical
6
Training
Total Content
10
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This edition of Roadmap was created in collaboration with Arab World educators to provide learners with a culturally relevant learning experience. Roadmap is a general English course for adults which recognises that every class is different, and every learner is unique. Built on Global Scale of English learning objectives, Roadmap gives learners the specific language training they need to progress. Engaging, relevant content and extensive support materials make lessons enjoyable for both learners and teachers.
Roadmap enables learners to:
◦ Make measurable progress with a syllabus built on GSE learning objectives.
◦ Build confidence in speaking with relevant, communicative tasks.
◦ Develop strategies for improving reading, writing, and listening skills.
◦ Practise grammar and vocabulary out of class with the mobile app.
ACDM 112 - Principles of Marketing - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This course presents an overview of marketing, Development of marketing and Segmenting Markets. Topics covered include Marketing Information and Research, market segmentation, marketing mix, Direct Sales and Digital Marketing and Public Relationship and Sponsorship.
ACDM 113 - Principles of Economics - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This course describes the basics of economics, the theories presented in the field of economic development, and the concept of economic planning. It also enables the student to develop the skills of analyzing types of markets, demand and supply, and the concept of equilibrium price.
ACDM 111 - Principles of business management - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This is the introductory course in management. The course is designed to provide students with an overview of the management functions and its role in organizations and society. The course aims to provide students with the basic managerial knowledge necessary for Business students. The course focuses on providing students with analytical, developmental, managerial and technical skills that relate to managerial positions in organizations. This course is an introduction to the critical management skills involved in planning, organizing, controlling, leading and decision making in an organization. It provides a framework for understanding issues involved in both managing and being managed, and it will help you to be a more effective contributor to organizations that you join. This course develops a "systems" view of organizations that examine organizations as part of a context, including but not limited to environment, strategy, structure, tasks, people and outputs.
AITA 110 - Introduction to information technology - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
2
Pratical
2
Training
Total Content
4
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This course is a test of practical skills and competencies of computer theory and practice. The course helps to establish a benchmark for basic computer skills giving the opportunity for the students to effectively join the new information age and consequently leading to fulfilling the ultimate objective of computer literacy. It also emphasizes the development of problem-solving skills by using a range of widely used office software applications.
المستوى الثاني
AENG 120 - English language skills 2 - mandatory
Credits
5
Theoretical
2
Pratical
6
Training
Total Content
10
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This edition of Roadmap was created in collaboration with Arab World educators to provide learners with a culturally relevant learning experience. Roadmap is a general English course for adults which recognizes that every class is different, and every learner is unique. Built on Global Scale of English learning objectives, Roadmap gives learners the specific language training they need to progress. Engaging, relevant content and extensive support materials make lessons enjoyable for both learners and teachers.
Roadmap enables learners to:
◦ Make measurable progress with a syllabus built on GSE learning objectives.
◦ Build confidence in speaking with relevant, communicative tasks.
◦ Develop strategies for improving reading, writing, and listening skills.
◦ Practice grammar and vocabulary out of class with the mobile app.
AFM 121 - Statistics in business - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
The course deals with the importance and methods of data collection and presentation, in addition to the measures of central tendency and its importance, and dispersion standards, the time series and their components, and the graphical representation.
AFM 120 - Principles of financial management - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This course provides an explanation of financial management, its functions and importance as well as familiarity with planning and financial control, risk analysis and financial statements, knowledge of different methods of valuation of capital investments, and calculation of the cost of capital and how to manage it.
AACT 120 - Principles of accounting and financial reporting - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This course introduces the conceptual framework of accounting, accounting systems, basics and procedures of financial accounting and preparation of financial reports of commercial and services corporations and financial accounting report analysis.
AFM 122 - Financial Mathematics - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This course aims to familiarize the student with:
- The importance of studying financial sports and the urgent need for it because of the expansion of investment activity and the multiplicity of funding sources.
- Knowledge the law of simple and compound interest, present value, discount rates, and amortization of long- and short-term loans
- and How to use compound interest tables and their practical applications.
المستوى الثالث
AFM 232 - Principles of insurance and risk management - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
The student should Know of the nature and concept of risk, types and how to manage it, the concept of insurance and its benefits on the economic, cost of insurance, the basic principles of the contract of insurance, and the conditions that must be met in the insurance premium, in addition to the role of insurance companies' functions and the importance and role of supervision and control of insurance activity.
AFM 235 - Commercial bank management - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This course provides an explanation of financial management, its functions and importance as well as familiarity with planning and financial control, risk analysis and financial statements, knowledge of different methods of valuation of capital investments, and calculation of the cost of capital and how to manage it.
AFM 231 - Markets and financial institutions - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This course aims to identify the principles of markets and financial institutions, such as the definition of capital market characteristics, and types of securities, brokers, dealers, institutions and financial companies operating in this market. It also looks at the speculation mechanism; efficient capital markets, indicators used in these markets and adjust the manipulation mechanism. Study how to invest in securities, through study security types, and its historical and future return and risks measurement. And then study the types of portfolios, and how to choose the optimal portfolio, through a range of models, study the capital asset pricing model, arbitrage model, margin and short selling system
AFM 233 - Financing small and medium enterprises - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This course contains the basic concepts of small and medium enterprises. It focuses on the theoretical and practical aspects of financing small and medium enterprises in the long, medium and short term. What are the most common models for financing these projects, whether in developing or developed countries, and the extent to which commercial banks and financial institutions contribute to the financing process, and identifying ways to finance these projects, Islamic banks, savings and investment funds in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
AFM 234 - Principles of banking - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This Introductory course covers fundamental knowledge about the banking industry. The course begins with an overview of the role and genesis of the financial system and the nature of financial intermediation.
It covers the main characteristics and types of banks (e.g., commercial and mutual; retail and wholesale; role of central banks) and analyzes recent trends and developments in banking markets. The module also explores the main items contained in banks' financial statements and explains how to assess bank performance by using basic financial ratios.
The second part of the course focuses on the main risks of banking, with reference to credit risk and liquidity risk, and outlines elementary risk management and asset and liability management techniques. Moreover, it examines the rationale for bank regulation and distinguishes between the different types of regulation, especially in relation to the recent financial crisis.
المستوى الرابع
AFM 242 - Financial modeling - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
2
Pratical
2
Training
Total Content
4
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This course provides an explanation of data tables, Basic Financial Calculation, corporate valuation overview, Calculating the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC), Pro Forma Financial Statement Modelling, building a Pro Forma Model: The Case of Caterpillar, financial analysis of leasing, Portfolio Models—Introduction, and Calculating Efficient Portfolios.
AFM 243 - International finance - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This course deals with the study of the global monetary system and how to know the functioning of exchange rate markets and the impact of exchange rate fluctuations on the economies of countries. In addition to studying the balance of payments and the economic policies that may affect it. Also, one of the objectives of this course is to give the student an idea of foreign investments, multinational companies, and the economic factors affecting the movement of capital.
AFM 240 - Financial technology - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This course provides the fundamental drivers of FinTech, Market outcomes, Policy objectives and roles for policy makers, organization of this publication, About fintech and the future of finance, conceptual framework, key technologies, Impact of economic forces, Market Outcomes, New players, Regulation and Supervision, and data-generation issues.
AFM 244 - Government finances - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This decision deals with what government finances are and the key components of them, namely expenditures, revenues and the general budget by knowing how revenues are obtained, where they are spent, identifying their sources and sources, and the same for expenditures and knowledge of expenditures and types, as well as rationalizing expenditures and their impact on the economy as a whole, and finally balancing the two previous elements under the so-called general budget.
AFM 245 - Financial engineering - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
An introduction to pricing, valuation, and hedging of derivative securities which include equity and index, foreign currency, commodity, fixed-income and interest-rate derivatives. The course will also cover risk measurement models, risk management and control models, and hedging techniques using derivatives.
AFM 241 - Investment portfolio management - mandatory
Credits
4
Theoretical
2
Pratical
Training
Total Content
4
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This course provides students with a solid foundation in theories and methods of portfolio management. It provides an overview of the operation of the securities markets and the mechanics of trading securities. This course focuses on common stock, the stock market, and approaches to investing in the stock market and building stock portfolios. Emphasis is given to three competing approaches to stock investment: fundamental analysis, technical analysis and efficient market analysis. To optimize the skills, students will be exposed to modern portfolio theory which include risky asset allocation, portfolio performance and introduction to futures and options market.
المستوى الخامس
AFM 300 - Applied training (2) - mandatory
Credits
4
Theoretical
4
Pratical
Training
Total Content
34
Prerequisite
Course Description:
Practical Training is a great experience that provides students with hands-on, real-world experience in a work setting. This is mandatory internship program for all students. The course is designed to provide students opportunity to apply their academic education through practical experience. Students are sent to different companies to get the real flavor of work group, communications and professional development experiences.