Courses
Essentials of Finance and Business Program
The Essentials of Finance and Business Program is very useful for:
- the non-Finance professionals
- anyone who wishes to study the essential courses in a typical Business program.
The courses are offered online via Zoom.
These courses are very useful for the experienced non-Finance professionals who wish to gain further insight into the business world and wish to learn how to evaluate investment proposals, analyze the financial markets, interpret financial statements, use probability concepts and statistics to make better decisions, analyze the microeconomic aspects of doing business and the macroeconomic factors that impact businesses, etc.
For those who have completed high school, and are going for further studies, this program is suitable for you. Regardless of the non-Business majors that you will choose for your undergraduate or postgraduate study, be it Law, Engineering, Architecture, Building, Social Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, IT, Health Sciences, Music, etc., you will learn how to apply these tools to make better business decisions as you take on managerial duties alongside your primary duties in the future. The Director of Aquewood Strategy, Dr Casey Lim, strongly believes that students should pursue a field they are interested in as they will certainly excel in a field that one is passionate about. Business knowledge permeates decision making and a grasp of these essential courses in Business will certainly benefit all non-Business students in your respective future careers.
For those pursuing Business studies as your major at a university, be it Finance, Marketing, Decision Sciences, etc., this program is also very useful as you will learn the ways to solve problems analytically and intuitively. With this preparation, you will know better what you are in for when you later enrol in a business program at a university or college.
This program covers the following courses:
ACCT100 Fundamentals of Accounting
ECON100 Fundamentals of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics
STAT100 Statistics and Math for Business and Finance
FINC100 Corporate Finance
You can enrol in individual units if you have already taken for eg., Economics and Accounting, but have not studied Statistics or Finance. All prospective students are welcome to enrol in all these four courses if they wish to. The style of delivery adopted in this program will help you to enhance your analytical skills.
You will learn systematically:
- How to read and analyze the Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statements
- How to build models in microeconomics and macroeconomics and critique the models currently in the literature.
- How to apply the basics of statistics in business.
- How the financial markets work, how businesses raise funds, the benefits of leverage, disadvantages of overleveraging, the actions undertaken by various parties in a business deals and their respective goals, etc.
ACCT100 Fundamentals of Accounting
Objectives:
How to read a Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statements;
How to interpret and analyze financial statements to determine the sources of growth of a company;
How to use the financial statements to do basic valuation of firms;
How financial statements may be manipulated by certain parties unethically;
How understanding these financial statements will help you in your personal investments.
ECON100 Fundamentals of Economics
Objectives:
How to build models in microeconomics and macroeconomics, and critique the models currently in the literature.
STAT100 Fundamentals of Probability and Statistics
Objectives:
Learn the fundamentals of probability and statistics. Gain an insight into the numerous applications of statistics in Finance and business.
FINC100 Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
Objectives:
Learn the fundamentals of Finance. Understanding Finance will help you to analyse how the financial markets work, gain an insight into how businesses raise funds and the issues involved with the various fund sources, value firms, understand the benefits of leverage, manage financial risks, hedge the various types of financial risks, use tools to hedge risks including the applications of derivatives, etc.
