IMT Centre For Distance Learing Ghaziabad

PGDM (Executive) – Finance

Programme Highlights
  • This programme empowers executives with Analytical Skills and Cross - Functional perspective to gain management expertise across all domains.
  • The curriculum of the programme lays a strong foundation for a leadership mindset
  • This is a career-changing programme to accelerate personal and professional growth of executives

Business managers are increasingly becoming responsible for managing their profit centres. They need a certain level of financial knowledge and expertise to evaluate their business performance and financial risk and determine the business and financial strategies for their businesses. This One Year Specialised Diploma Program will introduce participants to financial decision tools as well as financial management theories and practices that enable them to interpret financial statements, plan, and measure performance using budgets and other financial techniques, make financial decisions and manage financial risks.

The programme takes a realistic look into the broad aspects of Financial Management and relates theories, tools and techniques to practical experience. It also provides an exposure to the prevailing financial environment in the country.

Programme Eligibility

Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline from any recognized University or equivalent degree recognized by Association of Indian Universities (AIU) plus full time work experience of minimum Five (5) years after Graduation.

Programme Structure

The PGDM (Executive) programme is covered in Two (2) semesters with an additional 3 months for project work.
The Programme is of total Fifty Six (56) credits. It includes Three (3) non-credit Foundation Courses, Nine (9) Core Courses with a total of Thirty Six (36) credits, Four (4) Elective Courses with a total of Sixteen (16) credits and a Project Work of Four (4) credits.

Curriculum

This programme structure is applicable for students enrolled in the current session.

The Basics of Accounting course aims to provide an essential understanding of financial terminologies and accounting process to management aspirants. The course builds the foundation for pursuing the core finance courses like manage-ment accounting and financial management. After completing this course, the participants will be acquainted with basic financial terminology like assets, liabilities, shares, bonds, etc. Participants will get to know the accounting process, components, and structure of financial statements like Statement of Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet.

  • Introduction to Accounting
  • Accounting Process
  • Final Accounts

The Basics of Communication course is designed to understand Communication and its significant contribution in em-ployee engagement, employee productivity and relationship building. It also discusses role of communication in mana-gerial effectiveness and functions.

  • What is Communication?
  • Significance of Business Communication
  • Media in Communication
  • Managerial Implications
  • Role of communication in organisations

The Basics of Management course will help to understand the competence of a workplace and the managers, direct/guide the employees, and effectively coordinate, to meet the goals of the team and mission of the organization. This course on management introduces the learner with the role of a manager and the key management functions.

  • Meaning of Management
  • Role of a Manager
  • Management Functions
    Management Theories

This course is designed for students with no statistics background or as a refresher course for students who desire to review statistical methods before the sessions begin in the post graduate programmes. This course will help you in un-derstanding various methods of data collection and presentation. It covers descriptive statistics which is further divided into measures of central tendency and measures of variability (spread).

  • An Introduction to Business Statistics
  • Data Collection , Population vs sample, Variables, Scales of Measurement
  • Data representation techniques- Tabular and Graphical
  • Measures of Central Tendency- Mean, Median and Mode
  • Measures of Dispersion / Variation- Range, Quartile Deviation, Mean Deviation and Standard Deviation
  • Skewness, Moments and Kurtosis

The course is designed to provide fundamental knowledge of microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts that are useful to understand economic situations ranging from decisions that individuals make every day to decisions made by firms and governments in complex markets. The course focuses on assessment of the economic behaviour of a firm and household, functioning of markets and implication of major macroeconomic policies.

The course on management accounting provides a basic understanding of financial reporting and short-run decision-making that every management participant should be aware of. The initial units explain various components of financial statements and the evaluation techniques like cash flow and ratio analysis. Subsequent units of the course provide detailed understanding of the cost concepts, elements of costs, absorption, and variable costing. It further delves into cost-volume-profit analysis, short-run decision making like make or buy decision, accepting a special order etc. Partic-ipants are also provided the knowledge of budget and budgetary control techniques and advances in management accounting like carbon accounting and human resource accounting.

The course aims at development of understanding of key marketing concepts and their real-world applications through practical examples and contemporary case studies. This course would help you in formulation of marketing strategy based on the analysis of external and internal factors that influence marketing decisions. It further helps you in analysing and evaluating the best marketing practices and its implementation to enhance business profitability through customer acquisition, engagement, relationship, and loyalty.

The course provides a basic understanding of statistics and its applications in data-driven business decision-making. It facilitates familiarisation with the terminology of statistics, defining, collecting, organising, visualising, and summarising the data. It also includes the process of drawing inferences from the sample study.

The course on Managerial Communication will help you to become effective in your verbal and nonverbal communication. It is all comprehensive as it discusses concepts related to role of communication in team building. It will help you in honing your writing skills as well as presentation skills. Job related communication is also a part of this course.

The course introduces the learner with the major concepts and techniques of strategic analysis and strategy formula-tion coupled with selection of strategic actions and strategy implementation. The course emphasis on the creation of a strategy and its implementation and their relevance to build sustainable competitive advantage.

The course on Financial Management provides with multiple facets of the utilization of financial resources, and the application of general principles of management to the financial belongings of an enterprise. The course aims to provide an understanding of mobilisation and utilisation of funds in an organisation. It provides the participants with the knowledge of various sources of funds and the proportion of funds to be used by a firm in view of the cost of funds and business risk faced by the organisation. The course also covers the decision-making process for long-term investments and working capital management.

The course on organisational behaviour defines behaviour of human beings in their workplace/s and/or corporate set-ting/s. It provides the behavioural knowledge of individual and group work within the organization that can help in explaining and predicting behaviour to improve workplace performances and effectiveness. It will help you to under-stand the reason why people behave in a certain way and why one team is more effective than the other; also, to demarcate the process for optimum utilization of resources.

The course provides visualisation of manufacturing and service systems as a transformation process of inputs into value-added outputs. The course emphasises applying analytical and critical thinking skills to operational decisions and integrating supply chains, for the competitive global and dynamic technological environment.

The course on Management of Financial Services provides an overview of the financial markets and major financial services. Financial service sector is fast growing and offers employment to large number of financial professionals. It is quite evident that a finance aspirant should have the sound knowledge of key financial services. Initial units of this course acquaint the participants with the functioning of Indian financial system, capital market and money market. Units on financial services like banking services, NBFCs, insurance services, mutual funds enable the participants to understand the characteristics, products and functioning of BFSI sector of Indian economy. Venture capital, mer-chant banking, securitisation, leasing & hire purchase etc. are also described to provide the widespread knowledge in these areas. The course provides a holistic overview of the financial services sector.

The course provides explanation of format and components of financial statements and their analysis through ratio analysis and cash flow analysis to provide a sound basis for business valuation. It is important for investors, lenders, and many other stakeholders to know the true value of a business before they take decisions to invest into the business. The managers also need to access the worth of business to prepare the business plans and make forecasts to raise funding. The factors impacting the business valuation and approaches to access the value of a business, like discounted cash flow valuation, relative valuation etc. are well covered. The subsequent units explain the mergers & acquisitions, strategic alliances, and their impact on the valuation of business.

The course on security analysis and portfolio management aims to provide the detailed understanding of securities markets, the techniques to analyse individual securities and management of portfolio. In the initial units, financial market’s structure, primary and secondary markets, stock exchanges in India, key stock indices are elaborated to help participants to gain knowledge in these areas. The course covers approaches to analyse securities like funda-mental and technical analysis and portfolio management theories like Markovitz model, Sharpe index model, modern portfolio theory, capital asset pricing model, etc. and enables the participants to venture into this unknown territory and develop thorough understanding of portfolio management techniques.

The course on Fixed Income Securities is designed to provide extensive knowledge of debt securities, their characteristics, types, etc. The fixed income market is characterized by large volume of trades worldwide. The market is a complicated mix of variety of fixed income instruments, participants, issuers, investors, and strict regulations. The course also covers different participants like issuers, investors, credit rating agencies, regulators, intermediaries etc. The different types of risks associated to fixed income instruments like credit risk, liquidity risk and market risks and risk management methods are exhaustively covered. The course also provides detailed explanation of securitisation process, key participants, and various types of securitized debt instruments.

The course on Banking Services and Practices aims at providing the requisite understanding of Indian banking system, banking products which include loan and deposit products, remittance services etc. The banking system is the backbone of Indian financial system, and a finance professional is expected to be well-versed with the banking services. The course also provides an understanding of regulatory aspects and prudential norms for income recognition and asset management. The credit risk management and BASEL regulations for capital adequacy ratios to be maintained by banks are discussed in detail. The course provides an extensive understanding of banking services, risk management, and applicable regulations.

The course covers the various types of mergers, acquisitions & corporate restructuring. It delves into the motives of mergers, the process of M&A, and deal structuring. Mergers and Acquisitions are part of the growth strategy followed by most companies for growth. The M&A activity flourishes during the upward movement of the business cycle. A finance manager needs to be well-acquainted with corporate restructuring techniques. The course content equips the partici-pants with the valuation methods and performance analysis of M&A. The course has applications at the functional level in the finance area as well as at the strategic level to identify suitable targets, deal analysis, structuring, implementation, and post-merger integration.

Disclaimer - Programme Structure and Curriculum is subject to change at the discretion of IMT CDL and as per the directives issued by regulator.

Curriculum

This programme structure is applicable for students enrolled in the current session.

Foundation Courses
S. No.Course NameCredits
1Basics of AccountingNon Credit
2Basics of CommunicationNon Credit
3Basics of ManagementNon Credit
Semester – I
S. No.Course NameCredits
1Principle of Economics4
2Management Accounting4
3Marketing Management4
4Business Statistics4
5Managerial Communication4
6Strategic Management4
Semester – II
S. No.Course NameCredits
1Financial Management4
2Organisational Behaviour4
3Operations and Supply Chain Management4
4Elective-I4
5Elective-II4
6Elective-III4
7Elective-IV4
Project Term – 3 Months
S. No.Course NameCredits
1Project4
Total Programme Credits: 56 Credits.

 List of Electives

Area of Specialization – Finance
S. No.Elective CoursesCredits
1Financial Risk Management4
2Management of Financial Services4
3Financial Analysis & Business Valuation4
4Security Analysis & Portfolio Management4
5Fixed Income Securities4
6Banking Services & Practices4
7Mergers, Acquisitions & Corporate Restructuring4
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Disclaimer – Programme Structure and Curriculum is subject to change at the discretion of IMT CDL and as per the directives issued by regulator.

FEE STRUCTURE

PGDM (Executive) ProgrammeSemester-1Semester-2
Tuition Fee39,50039,500
Alumni Fee1000
Total Fee40,50039,500

Payment Schedule

The fee for all the programmes is payable at the beginning of every semester. Study material would be sent only after the fee is received by IMT CDL. Failure to deposit the fee would debar the candidate from attending Online/Offline Learning Sessions (OLS) and continued failure would result in getting debarred from the programmes. The students are required to ensure timely payment of the fee.

Note:

  • Every student is expected to pay semester-wise fee in January and July every year for the entire programme duration. If a student does not pay the fee payable in the concerned semester by the prescribed date the student will have to pay the fee along with a fine of Rs. 2500.
  • There is an additional Exam Fee for International Location. If a student is appearing for exam at an International location, then a fee of Rs. 2500 per exam has to be paid for each exam.

Mode of Payments

Payment through Demand Draft

Payments are accepted through Demand Draft, in favour of IMT CDL, payable at Delhi. The draft may be couriered to IMT CDL Ghaziabad, Head Office.

Online Payment

Students can deposit all types of fees through online mode also.

Scholarship

  • Scholarship shall be given to serving/retired defense personnel (Army, Air Force and Navy personnel only), SC/ST, War Widows and Handicapped Candidates in the case of the PGDM and PGCM only.
  • Category for scholarship once indicated in the admission form shall not be allowed to be changed

Application Forms, duly completed, may also be sent to:

Coordinator – Admissions
IMT-Centre for Distance Learning,
A-16, Site-3, UPSIDC Industrial Area, Meerut Road, Ghaziabad – 201 003

Note:

Students are advised not to submit any fee payment through cash.

General Information

  • All policies, rules, regulations, fee structure, syllabus, facilities, etc. are subject to review and change from time to time as per requirement. The changed policies, rules, etc. shall be binding on all the students.
  • Any dispute is subject to the jurisdiction of Ghaziabad court only.
  • IMT CDL reserves the right to change fee structure from time to time. The revised fee would be applicable to all the students.

ASSESSMENT

Evaluation

IMT CDL evaluation system has two components: Assignment (30 marks) and End Term Examination (70 marks). The student has to submit the assignments during the semester while examinations will be held at the end of semester. The examination will be held at designated centres.

Examinations

The End-Term Examination (ETE) is held at the end of every semester.

Components of ETE:

The following components will comprise the ETE for each course:

– Analytical and conceptual comprehension through multiple choice questions.

– Case or problem-solving exercises.

Assignments

Assignments are a very important aspect of the assessment system and an excellent tool for continuous evaluation. Two Assignments are conducted during the semester for each course. The assignments get activated in the student information system during the semester as per announced timelines. Students have to mandatorily submit their assignments before the commencement of the End-Term Examination.

Weightage: Assignment (30 marks) and End Term Examination (70 marks)

Passing criteria:

  • To be declared as ‘Pass’ in a course a student should secure 40% marks in aggregate (Assignments and ETE combined) with minimum 25 marks in ETE.
  • Student has to attempt two assignments of 15 marks each for each course. No minimum marks are to be secured in assignment to be declared as ‘Pass’ in a course.
  • Project is to be submitted by the student in final semester in Two Year PGDM and 15 months PGDM (Executive) programme. The student should secure minimum 40% marks in Project Work in order to be declared as ‘Pass’.
  • In PGCM programme, student has to appear for comprehensive Viva Voce in the final semester. The student should secure minimum 40% marks in Viva Voce in order to be declared as ‘Pass’.

Scholastic achievement

  • Pass with Distinction: Students with an aggregate percentage of 75% marks or above
  • Pass with 1st Division: Students with an aggregate percentage of 60% marks
  • Pass: Students with an aggregate percentage of below 60% marks and up to 40% marks
  • Students aggregating less than 40% marks are not eligible for award of Diploma/Certificate.