AUL | Bachelor of Business Administration - Banking and Finance (BBA)

Bachelor of Business Administration - Banking and Finance (BBA)

Banking & Finance Major Overview

The Banking & finance program at the Faculty of Business Administration was established to prepare graduates for careers in various areas. Our Program enables students to discharge technical and managerial function for life-long career development. The program introduces students to the theoretical, scientific and practical basis that enables them to acquire professional competences that meet future needs and job opportunities in Lebanon, Arab world, and international firms.

Program Description

The minimum credit hours required to earn a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration with concentration in Banking & Finance is 98 credit hours consisting of:

University General Requirement: 2 Courses 6 Cr.
English Requirement: 3 Courses 9 Cr.
Business Common Requirement: 14 Courses 43 Cr.
Major Requirement: 10 Courses 28 Cr
Major Elective: 3 Courses 9 Cr
Free Elective 1 Course 3 Cr.

The cumulative GPA grade must be at least 2.00 in order to attain the relevant academic degree. Otherwise, students must repeat one or more courses to increase the cumulative GPA to at least 2.00.

In order to graduate with Honor, students must attain a GPA of 3.50 and above.

Continuing Education:

As we are always looking for the best to our students, we encourage our Banking & Finance graduates to continue their education by enrolling in one of the following degree or certificates:

Master in Business Administration (MBA)
Junior Investment Analyst (JIA)
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

Academic Staff

Chairperson: Dr. Haytham Yassine

Chairperson Assistant: Mrs. Osseyma Moghrabi

AUL Branches’ Coordinators

Jadra Branch Mrs. Nazleh Moussa

Dekweneh Branch Dr. Rabih Zotti

Sin El Fil Branch Dr. Shadia Sawaya

Tripoli Branch Dr. Shadia Sawaya

Kaslik Branch Mrs. Cynthia Sfeir

Chtoura Branch Mrs. Salma Rehimi

Career Opportunities:

Potential Job Opportunities:

Graduates may seek employment in multiple professional settings, since finance professionals are necessary in a wide variety of businesses and organizations. Therefore, our graduates may find careers in: public sector, private companies, financial regulatory & supervisory authorities.

Some career options include:

Banking Professional; Credit Analyst; Personal Financial Advisor; Loans Officer; Financial Analyst; Financial Controller; Risk Analyst; Investments Banker; Security Analyst; Lending Officer; Financial Planner

Courses & Requirements

General Requirements

Code	Name	Credits
CST201	General Education I	3
CST 202	General Education II	3

Required Credits: 6

Description: Courses required for all AUL Students

English Requirements

Code	Name	Credits
ENG203	English for Academic writing English for Academic writing ENG203 This course is a comprehensive rhetoric and sentence structure course. It aims at developing the students’ reading skills to become strategic readers, to expand general vocabulary, and to think critically. Students are expected to be able to comprehend reading by practicing various reading skills such as predicting, scanning for details, skimming for main ideas, guessing meanings from context and making inference. Moreover, students are helped to learn how to appreciate literature. This course emphasizes, however, the interaction of reading and writing skills. Therefore, students are guided to organize and express ideas through writing well-organized and developed essays.	3
ENG204	Advanced Eng. Academic Writing Advanced Eng. Academic Writing ENG204 This course is designed to develop students’ reading, writing, and speaking skills and help them fulfill their academic requirements. They will boost their critical thinking skills through fulfilling various text-analysis tasks, and enrich their vocabulary repertoire. Students will thus improve their sentence structure, paragraph, and essay writing whilst multi-drafting essays of various types. They will have the chance to enrich their fluency and accuracy through preparing and presenting an authentic public talk.	3
ENG206	Business Communication Skills	3

Required Credits: 9

Description: three courses are required (ENG203, ENG204, ENG206)

Business Common Requirements

Code	Name	Credits
ACC210	Accounting I Accounting I ACC210 This course is intended to introduce the basic theory, concepts and practice of financial accounting and to enable students to understand information contained in the published financial statements of companies and other organizations. This course will focus on external reporting of accounting data. The course will include the accounting cycles for service and merchandising firms; preparing and interpreting related financial statements. Specific aspects of accounting will also include control over cash, accounts receivables, and inventory costing under the perpetual and periodic methods. By the end of the course students will acquire a good understanding of basic accounting terminology, principles and procedures; they will be able to use their knowledge and skills in everyday life or for continued studies in accounting.	3
ACC211	Accounting II Accounting II ACC211 This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of financial accounting and covers various financial accounting topics, including basic accounting principles that are applied to the partnership and corporate entities with emphasis on the structure of corporate financial statements. Topics include stockholder’s equity, long-term liabilities, short-term investments and cash flow statement. More importantly, students will learn how accounting information assists financial statement users in facilitating their decision making.	3
BUS210	Business Law Business Law BUS210 This basic field of study includes contracts, sales, and introduction to Uniform Commercial Code, product liability, warranties, and commercial papers. It also includes corporate law, agency and partnership, real and personal property, security transactions, wills and trust, and insurance	3
BUS319	Business Ethics Business Ethics BUS319 The issue of business ethics has attracted the attention of companies and institutions worldwide. We think it is imperative that students focus on ethical guidelines for ensuring corporate norms and values. After studying Business ethics, students should be able to identify the major justification and motivations behind concern for professional ethics in business practice. In fact, adherence to a code of professional ethics separates professions from other skilled occupations. Ethical issues take on added importance because professionals with special expertise have unprecedented power in decisions that affect every aspect of society, in the global village, where information and influence reach most parts of the world with amazing speed and ease. Business ethics is a global concern, with social responsibility no longer simply a local issue. The objectives are also to explore the ethical and professional foundations of public relations practice.	3
ECO210	Microeconomics Microeconomics ECO210 This is an introductory course in economics. It gives students general information about the functioning of market forces in determining the prices and the level of production in a free economy. The course introduces the behavior of each firm as a part of the trade in different types of markets. The topics covered in the course include the mechanics of individual prices, demand, supply, and elasticity, theory of consumer behavior, and costs of production, price and output determination under different market conditions, the employment and pricing of economic resources.	3
FIN210	Managerial finance Managerial finance FIN210 This course is the introduction to the world of finance. It introduces the theories of annuities, amortization, bonds and securities, capital cost valuation models, risk and rates of return, cash and marketable securities, credit management. As well as developed topics like capital budgeting techniques, the cost of capital, capital structure and leverage, dividends policy, and common stock financing	3
HRM210	Human Resource Management Human Resource Management HRM210 The world of human resource management has experienced major changes. The impact of global competition and rapid technological advances has accelerated trends such as shared service centers, outsourcing, and just-in-time training. All business areas are being restructured in many organizations. This course provides a realistic approach to the management of human resources. It is balanced throughout by current HR theories and concepts. Case studies are discussed relative to each chapter. The course is intended for students who are being exposed to Human Resource Management for the first time.	3
MAT212	MAT212-Business Math MAT212-Business Math MAT212 Introduces limits, continuity, differentiation and its applications, introduction to integral Calculus and applications	3
MAT213	Business statistics Business statistics MAT213 The course starts reviewing the essential measures students are supposed to know from school (Descriptive Statistics). It then tells us how to analyze business situations in order to take appropriate decisions. Sample statistics are used to estimate population parameters (Inferential Statistics) and to carry on some hypothesis testing.	3
MGT210	Introduction to management Introduction to management MGT210 Introduction to Management covers a lot of ground. Its focus ranges from understanding the functions and roles of managers to making sound decisions and working in teams. Successfully managing an organization is an enormously demanding task. This course will help students to acquire basic management skills to take a launch in the business world. It is oriented for first-timers in practicing management and get you acquainted with the main theories and principles drawn from the schools of management established during the 19th and 20th century.	3
MGT410	Business Research Business Research MGT410 This course is written with a progressive logic, which means that terms and concepts are defined when they are first introduced. This course gives a comprehensive introduction to the subject of business research. Acquainting participants with all modern and universally applied research concepts, tools, and techniques, it encourages them to apply their acquired theoretical knowledge to real life situations.	3
MIS210	Management Information System Management Information System MIS210 This course introduces students to the basic concepts and developments in information systems. Areas of study include computer technology, information system concepts, information system development, and the use of technology in organizations. Students gain hands-on experience by using microcomputers to solve business problems.	3
MKT210	Introduction to Marketing Introduction to Marketing MKT210 This course evolves on analyzing the elements of the marketing mix, namely product, price, promotion and channel of distribution. It introduces the marketing concept and the relevant internal and external factors affecting the marketing activities. It also highlights the consumer buying process, along with its complementary analyses.	3

Required Credits: 43

Major Courses

Code	Name	Credits
FIN320	Credit Analysis Credit Analysis FIN320 This course introduces the credit regulations and principles of consumer credit, along with the proper understanding of the Balance sheet and Report that introduce the banking analysis and ratio studies thus enabling a broader scope for banks to grant financial credit line, and avoiding risks involvement.	3
FIN321	Corporate Finance & Budgeting Corporate Finance & Budgeting FIN321 After covering the fundamentals in “Managerial Finance” students need to grasp well the Corporate Finance Concept. Of course, there will be no finance without budgeting as they may link to the same meaning. This course aims to provide advanced knowledge of corporate finance in the business world, and to understand how big industries are financed and how capital budgeting is being raised through today’s turbulent world markets.	3
FIN322	Banking Operations Banking Operations FIN322 This course stresses on studying major commercial bank operations and their various departments. Also, students will understand the financing of various trade operations	3
FIN323	Monetary Theory Monetary Theory FIN323 This course provides an understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of monetary policy and how such policy affects the economy. This course provides an overview of relevant macroeconomic theory, an analysis of the relationship between money and aggregate economic activity, and a discussion of various mechanisms for the transmission of monetary policy.	3
FIN420	Financial Markets Financial Markets FIN420 This course completes the understanding of how financial markets perform the important role of channeling funds from lender-savers to borrower-spenders. Also, it presents the examination of securities traded in financial markets; these instruments (securities) traded in the money market and then turn to those traded in the capital market.	3
FIN421	Financial Derivatives Financial Derivatives FIN421 This course is intended for the Business students in general and for the Banking & Finance students in particular in their junior or senior year. Financial Derivatives shed the light on how financial engineering is playing an increasing role in the financial markets in helping investors, portfolio managers, investment firms, private and public corporations to plan their financial affairs. The various types of derivatives will be explained and their practical use will be explored and analyzed with reference to theoretical applications and real life cases.	3
FIN422	Insurance and Risk Management Insurance and Risk Management FIN422 Risk is costly. This statement is absolutely agreed by businessmen and professionals, particularly those facing inherent risk in their professional lives. Minimizing the cost of risk to an optimum level unanimously means that we are increasing the value of a firm.	3
FIN423	Special Topics in Banking & Finance Special Topics in Banking & Finance FIN423 Academic knowledge is important and when paired with professional exposure. Over the semester, professionals from various sectors in finance, banking, brokerage, government sectors lecture students weekly to transfer their on-the-job knowledge to students. Reports are submitted by students to assess their understanding of topics covered.	3
FIN425	Banking and Finance Practical Training Banking and Finance Practical Training FIN425 This course entails indulging B&F students in on-the-job marketing tasks in finance or banking industy. A report is to be submitted by the employer to the university to reflect on the student’s work accomplished; and another report is to be submitted by the student reflecting on the various jobs handled. A minimum of 60 hours of internship is required. Grades are based on the reports’ evaluation.	1
FIN426	Banking and Finance Senior Project Banking and Finance Senior Project FIN426 This course integrates the major B&F principles and practices into research projects, case studies, market surveys and presentations. Topics are to reflect on current market challenges and demands.	3

Required Credits: 28

Major Elective

Code	Name	Credits
ACC320	Business Software Application Business Software Application ACC320 Business Software Application course is considered essential for students to practice the Lebanese Chart of Account and to learn and review all kinds of daily accounting transactions, created, and related accounts such as assets, inventory, customers, suppliers, and partners’ accounts and link them to chart of account to get financial statement using Account, Stock, and Payroll Software. In addition, students will have example of Value Added Tax and Salaries & Wages tax declarations.	3
ACC323	Financial Statement Analysis Financial Statement Analysis ACC323 This course focus on the effective analysis of financial statements by integrating the concepts and principles learned in previous accounting courses. Examine the analytical tools to assess a company's performance, the concept of quality of earnings, approaches to valuation and other issues.	3
MGT324	International Business Administration International Business Administration MGT324 Identifying, understanding, and managing the cultural components of organizational and business dynamics present in global business enterprises. Focus on strategic issues involved in international expansion, international competition, international organizational relationships, and international human resource utilization.	3
MKT421	International marketing International marketing MKT421 The successful global marketer must broaden his/her knowledge to include the numerous of activities required to select, gain entry and compete outside the “home” country. This course will offer an overview of each of these vital concepts for global marketers.	3

Required Credits: 9

Description: Choose three of the following courses (ACC320, ACC323, JIA301, jIA401, JIA402, MGT324, MKT421)

Free Elective

Code	Name	Credits
FRE-I	Free Elective	3

Required Credits: 3

Department Majors & Programs

Bachelor of Business Administration - Banking and Finance (BBA)
98 Credits

Bachelor of Business Administration - Banking and Finance (BBA)

Banking & Finance Major Overview

Program Description

Academic Staff

Courses & Requirements

English for Academic writing

Advanced Eng. Academic Writing

Accounting I

Accounting II

Business Law

Business Ethics

Microeconomics

Managerial finance

Human Resource Management

MAT212-Business Math

Business statistics

Introduction to management

Business Research

Management Information System

Introduction to Marketing

Credit Analysis

Corporate Finance & Budgeting

Banking Operations

Monetary Theory

Financial Markets

Financial Derivatives

Insurance and Risk Management

Special Topics in Banking & Finance

Banking and Finance Practical Training

Banking and Finance Senior Project

Business Software Application

Financial Statement Analysis

International Business Administration

International marketing

Department Majors & Programs

Bachelor of Business Administration - Banking and Finance (BBA)

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