The purpose of the Finance and Banking Program at the College of Business Administration of Rafik Hariri University is an integrative composite of four main dimensions: Specialized and General Business Knowledge, Employability, Critical Thinking, and Growth Potential.
Goal 1: Prepare graduates with an effective level of professional competence in conducting critical business activities, particularly those pertaining to finance and banking.
Objective 1: Apply essential business knowledge and skills in problem solving and decision making.
Objective 2: Apply time value of money concepts to evaluate capital investment projects and alternatives, and to make financial decisions.
Goal 2: Equip graduates with knowledge and skills which would facilitate their placement in the financial sector, in such industries as banking, insurance, investments, and financial services.
Objective 3: Demonstrate employability skills adequate for challenging entry and middle level professional positions and/or in self-employment.
Goal 3: Promote critical thinking, as well as ethically responsible conduct in various aspects in business.
Objective 4: Identify problematic issues in business, analyze them, and present plausible solutions.
Objective 5: Recognize ethical dilemmas in business and respond to them according to standard codes of conduct, ethics and best practice.
Goal 4: Provide graduates with knowledge and skills that enable them to advance in a dynamic global business environment, and to seek academic and/or professional growth opportunities.
Objective 6: Demonstrate knowledge and best practices in the fields of finance qualifying graduates for advancement, professional certification, or pursuit of graduate education.
This course emphasizes the fundamental principles of chemistry including: stressing atomic structure, bonding, stoichiometry, gases, solutions, acids and bases, solution equilibria. Prerequisite: None.
This course provides an opportunity to develop an understanding of several basic environmental functions, the complicated nature of environmental systems, and the need for multidisciplinary solutions to environmental problems. Topics covered include the hydrosphere, water quantity and quality, soil and the soil ecosystem, biological resources, waste disposal, air pollution, ozone depletion, acid rain, global warming. The course also serves a practical experience in different environmental analysis settings including air and water quality. Prerequisite: None.
This course is designed to enhance students’ professional writing skills. It is tailored to students pursuing careers in the professions and includes advanced business writing and editing, correspondence, critical review, writing professional reports and proposals, and making oral presentations. Prerequisite: ENGL 210. Every Semester.
This course is a continuation of BACC 201. It provides the necessary understanding of basic accounting principles and procedures for recording and reporting noncurrent assets and liabilities. It also introduces the students to the accounting practices in formation, income distribution and preparation of financial statements of partnerships and corporations and the preparation of the statement of cash flows, using the indirect method.
Prerequisite: BACC 201.
This course introduces the legal framework of business; with emphasis on Lebanese law as it pertains to regulating the conduct of business. Topics include legal concepts, sources of law, types and classes of contracts, legal forms of business organizations, the commercial code and labor issues.
Business Research Methodology is a way to systematically solve a research problem. Accordingly, students are exposed to the various steps generally taken by a researcher in studying the research problem, along with the logic behind them. The main topics of the course include problem definition, research design, types and methods, measurement and scaling, data collection, sampling, and reporting.
Business Statistics introduces students to the fundamentals of applied statistics. Accordingly, students are exposed to the concepts of statistics as they are directly applied in solving business problems. The course will cover random variables, sampling, probability distributions, expectation, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals, analysis of variance, correlation and simple linear regression.
The Community Engagement experience is a specific number of hours of volunteering by students at community organizations under the supervision of a faculty member. Community organizations may include governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and civil society organizations.
This course introduces students to managerial decision analysis using quantitative tools. The course will introduce students to the practice of using and building mathematical models that would help managers make informed decisions. Focus is on the applied aspects of statistics and math. As such, the course will cover the basics of probabilistic and statistical techniques, decision analysis, linear programming, optimization, forecasting, and waiting-line theory.
Prerequisite: BADM 250.
Students will study the general principles of microeconomics. Included are the theoretical constructs of consumer behavior, cost structure, and the operations of business firms in the market economy under conditions of perfect competition, oligopoly, monopoly and monopolistic competition.
Prerequisite: Junior Standing.
Students will study the general principles of macroeconomics. This course presents the formal Keynesian theory of income determination and its contemporary critiques, including the study of the possible causes and solutions to unemployment and inflation and the importance of the international economy. Government fiscal and monetary policies are examined in detail.
This course aims to expose students to the foundational principles, theories and applications of corporate and business finance as well as financial management. It covers such topics as simple and compound interest, risk and rates of return, time value of money, stocks and bonds valuations, discounted cash flow analysis and financial ratios.
Students study the basic functions of management, and are exposed to modern management practices, current events, problem solving, and ethical dilemmas. Topics include decision making, strategic and operational planning, organizational structure, Human Resources management, leadership, and control techniques. The instructor facilitates discussion, and integrates these topics through the use of contemporary business issues and case studies.
Co-requisite: ENGL 210.
This course introduces the basic principles, theories, and practices of marketing in our modern ever-changing business environment. The course covers the marketing process activities on how to create value for customers to capture value from customers in return. It also discusses the marketing mix and how to build long-term customer relationship with customers. Students will analyze case studies about a “real-life” product or service. Videos and in-class discussions on current marketing topics will assist in the learning experience.
Co-requisite.: ENGL 210
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to information systems and their application. It explains how to use and manage information technologies to revitalize business processes, conduct electronic commerce, improve business decision-making, and gain competitive advantage.
Prerequisite: BITM 200
This course engages the student in a series of self-reflection and self-discovery seminars, workshops and lectures. It is intended to encourage students to develop themselves and plan for the present and the future by becoming more self-aware. Topics and issues include personal SWOT analysis, alignment between career choices and personality types, developing a personal mission statement and goals, time management, stress management and organizational skills.
Solving linear and non-linear equations, modeling with equations, functions and their graphs, increasing and decreasing functions-transformation, quadratic functions-maxima and minima, modeling with functions, combining functions, polynomial functions and their graphs, dividing polynomials, real zeros of polynomials, complex numbers, complex zeros of polynomials, exponential and logarithmic functions, sequences and summation notation-arithmetic sequences, counting and probability.
The Co-op work experience is designed to provide students with full-time work term in business, industry, or government. The main thrust of this course is the opportunity to put into practice the major aspects of the student’s business education. Special emphasis will be placed on assessing the attitude and work ethics of the “co-op” student. Students will be encouraged to network in the industry and to participate in professional organizations.
Prerequisite: ENGL 217 and Senior Standing.
The Project is a culminating applied experience in which students pursue independent research on a business question or issue or problem of concern to industry or the community at large. Students are expected to engage with the scholarly debates in the pertinent disciplines, and produce a substantial paper that reflects deep understanding of the topic and competence in the chosen field of study.
Prerequisite: ENGL 217; Senior Standing.
The instructor leads the students through detailed aspects of starting a business, from the identification of the opportunity through the feasibility study, leading up to the preparation of a business plan which covers marketing, operational and financial aspects. Students also learn about funding, expansion, and franchising strategies.
Prerequisite: BACC 202.
If you have a query about a specific major or application, please contact the relevant Administrative Assistant.
Administrative Assistant Tel: +961 5 60 30 90 Ext. 301
E-mail: da_bus@rhu.edu.lb