Department of Finance and Banking

Core Courses

• Accounting (I), (II)

The major concept of Accounting is to introduce how to establish the procedures of business financial statements. The contents of course include the accounting procedure and the accounting theories of assets, liabilities, and owner equity of balance sheet and transaction methods of accounting.

• Banking Management

The banking industry has undergone massive transformation due to deregulation and competition from non-banks in the last decade. In the near future, the shape and scope of commercial banks will look nothing like its past. Thus, the objective of this course is to equip students with principles and tools which allow them to tackle realistic risk management problems associated with financial institutions.

• Business English Conversation (I), (II)

By the use of "everyday English" teaching as a basis, the instructor induces students to the field of intensive studies. The final purpose of this course is to cultivate the students?ability to read newspapers and magazines. Lessons are Aspects of Banking Affairs, Introduction to Banking English, Banking English Practical Conversation, Banking English Classroom: Reception and Information, Money and Exchange, Foreign Remittancencoming and Out coming, Collection, Deposit, etc.

• Business Law

This course introduces the basic concepts of company law and negotiable instrument law. While company law emphasizes its study on general provisions, limited company, and related enterprises, negotiable instrument law puts its heavy weight on checks, drafts, and promissory notes.

• Calculus (I), (II)

The contents include (1) fundamentals of mathematics, focusing on the use of real numbers, definition of functions, graphs and their operations; (2) fundamentals of derivation of functions, focusing on the deviation of the related formulae and their applications to the business enterprise; (3) definitions of exponential and logarithm functions, basic operations, derivatives and their applications; (4) anti-derivatives and integrals, focusing on the fundamentals of integration of functions, properties of integrals, methods for finding the anti-derivatives of functions and their applications on economics and business enterprise; and (5) integration techniques, including integration by substitution, integration by parts, integration using tables, improper integration, and numerical integration.

• Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance is a continuation of Financial Management. Students are trained, from the view point of business manager, to focus on the policy and operation of corporate finance, such as the analysis and prediction of financial statements, the decision of capital cost on investment projects, the management of working capital, the types of capital structure, and dividend policy.

• Data Processing

The course aims to understand the basic concepts and applications about data processing technology and communications. The course contents include: data expression, programming language, data communications, and database applications.

• Economics (I), (II)

This course provides an introduction to basic economic principles and method. It includes both microeconomics; the study of consumer choice, firm behavior, and market interaction, and macroeconomics; the study of economic growth, unemployment, and inflation.

• Financial Management

The major concept of Financial Management is to introduce the principles and the tools of analysis. First, we introduce the principles of the time value of money (TVM) and capital asset pricing model (CAPM). In the following we will discuss the important financial decision of cost of capital, capital budgeting, capital structure, dividend policy, the management of working capital, merger, and leasing to expect all students can get all knowledge of financial management.

• Introduction to Civil Law

This course is designed to help students understand the basic principles provided in "General Provisions" of civil law. The topics included in this course are: general provisions of laws, persons and personification, things, juridical acts, dates and periods, statute of limitations, and exercise of rights. Cases are added to let the students be equipped with the capability to comprehend law knowledge.

• Introduction to Computer

The course aims to understand the fundamental concepts about computer and the advanced applications in the business sector. The major contents about the course include: introduction, data expression, hardware structures, file and data management, programming language, data communications, operating systems, and database management system.

• Insurance

The course coverage includes basic concepts of risk and insurance, risk management, legal principles, functional and financial operations of insurers, and the nature of insurance regulation and current public policy issues.

• Investments

This course is mainly to discuss the basic concepts of investment, the measurement of the investment returns and risk, the evaluation of security price, and the pluralistic portfolio analysis of the risk etc. It is to let students possess basic investment knowledge, build up the correct investment idea, and then become professional investors.

• Macroeconomics

This course is designed to introduce: measurements of national product, unemployment, inflation; determination of national income, price level; role of stabilization policies; and economic growth.

• Money and Banking

This course is mainly to make students understand the structure of the security market, the trading types of the issuing market and secondary market, and therefore expect to establish the foundation for advanced courses.

• Security Market

Statistics is organized into two parts as follows: Part one introduces the meaning and using value of statistics of description, such as data mining, experimental design, measurement, information integration, typical value, correlation coefficient, and etc. Part two emphasizes the basic theorem of numeral, such as probability, outcome, random variable, distribution, etc.

• Statistics (I), (II)

Statistics is organized into two parts as follows: Part one introduces the meaning and using value of statistics of description, such as data mining, experimental design, measurement, information integration, typical value, correlation coefficient, and etc. Part two emphasizes the basic theorem of numeral, such as probability, outcome, random variable, distribution, etc.

• Theses (I), (II)

Students divided into groups (each group consists of six to eight students) are required to submit a specialized report for graduation. Articles can be on banking, insurance, stock or other business related ones.