Accounting and Finance

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OpenCoursa

Products, services and branding

In this free course, Products, services and branding, you will find out about how organisations manage their products and services. This will include learning about how new products are developed and how the existing portfolio of offerings is managed. The particular characteristics of service products will be explained so that you can understand the impact that these features have on how services are managed.

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OpenCoursa

PG Diploma in Finance and Risk Management

This PG qualification helps professionals in Accounting, Finance Managers, Bankers & Investment Professionals and Management Students to acquire effective Finance and Risk Management knowledge which is essential to the leading organizations. This qualification can serve as a supplement to other finance related academic or professional qualifications and would suit the learning requirements of those aspiring to gain an in depth understanding of the finance domain. Successful learners gain an edge over the peer group in the industry and this course would be highly demanding especially in UAE, Dubai is considered as the leading financial hub in this region.

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Lincoln University College

Bachelor of Economics and Finance (Hons)

Bachelor of Economics and Finance (Hons) programme is designed to equip the student with a thorough understanding of financial accounting and economics. Finance is taught as an application of Economics. This course is organized in terms of modules that emphasize both theory and relevant applications. The program offers a systematic exposure to tools with which the students can analyse financial markets, cost accounting and corporate financial strategic management. The curriculum for the Bachelor of Economics and Finance has a mechanism built into it that requires the students to continue learning, gathering new information, and make use of the information to improve upon the technologies. It also helps students to broaden the sphere of technology applications, developing novel means of improving the financial condition, contributing to a sustainable economy, to make new inventions for the betterment of the society and to utilize the learning to bring prosperity to the masses. On completion of the program, graduates will have an understanding of fundamental issues, debates and problems related to the operations of financial systems at both the micro and macro levels, in the context of national and global economies. They will be ready for a career in various accounting, finance and banking professions

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OpenCoursa

Musharakah & Mudarabah Training

In the modern economic system, Islamic banks are mostly using the debt-creating modes of trade and leasing for their financing activities, while the main basis for mobilising deposits from the public are the partnership modes of Musharakah and Mudarabah. Both modes belong to profit-and-loss sharing or the risk-sharing techniques involved in partnerships. If the financier wants to finance the whole project, the form of Mudarabah can come into operation. If investment comes from both sides, the form of Musharakah can be adopted.

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OpenCoursa

You and Your Money

An important aspect of personal finance is the way in which individuals and households manage their debt, how much it costs and the different types of credit they can or cannot access. This course, You and your money, explores these issues, with respect to the wider, changing, social and economic context.

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OpenCoursa

Understanding Sukuk

The most commonly used sukuk structure is that of sukuk al-ijara. The popularity of this structure can be attributed to a number of different factors; some commentators have described it as the classical sukuk structure from which all other Sukuk structures have developed, whilst others highlight its simplicity and its favor with Shari’a scholars as the key contributing factors. In the Islamic finance industry, the term “ijara” is broadly understood to mean the ‘transfer of the usufruct of an asset to another person in exchange for a rent claimed from him’ or, more literally, a “lease”.

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