Awards Offered

CERTIFICATE OF COMMERCE (BANKING & FINANCE)
DIPLOMA IN BANKING & FINANCE
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (ACCOUNTING)

Course Descriptions

HBF235 Finance
This course provides an overview of financial systems applicable to long and short term investment and financial decisions. Topics covered include the capital market, technical tools used in financial decision making, risk analysis model, a firm’s investment decision and competing alternatives, short and long term finance and dividend policy.

Prerequisite(s): NIL

HBF236 Commercial Banking and Finance
This course examines the nature, principles and policies of commercial banking.

Prerequisite(s): NIL

HBF238 Financial Institutions and Market
This course provides an understanding of the overall structure and regulatory environment of financial institutions in Samoa.

Prerequisite(s): NIL

HBF239 Banking and Lending Practices
This course provides an understanding of the principles and practices of lending as well as the procedures for lending to both private and public clients.

Prerequisite(s): NIL

HBF332 Investments
This course introduces students to the Capital Asset Pricing Model, Multi-factor Models, portfolio management, the measurement of fund performance, and a study of the efficiency of the financial markets.

Prerequisite(s): NIL

HBF335 Public Finance
Public Finance is about how the Government obtains the money that it needs to do the things that it wants to do, how it spends that money, and the effects on the economy of these processes. This course examines the issues of public finance generally and in particular, how the ideas of public finance are applied in Samoa.

Prerequisite(s): NIL