HIGHLIGHTS OF FACILITIES AND EXPERTISE

The Business Support Center (BSC) mobilizes professional education, training and research programmes of the Institute of
Business Management, for serving the corporate sector to enhance both its profitability and contribution to the society. Support is provided in the areas of banking and finance, marketing, human resource development, and information systems management.

The BSC has well developed physical facilities including a spacious and well-equipped auditorium and conference rooms, a state-of-the-art computer lab and an information resource centre.

The Business Support Center places emphasis on in-house research through its well-educated and experienced faculty and a strong body of over 2300 students.

Under the auspices of the Business Support Center Finance,
Marketing, HR and IT Societies of IoBM arrange regular seminars in which leading professionals from Corporate sector of Pakistan are invited to share their experiences with the students, faculty and guests.

  SERVICES TO PUBLIC & PRIVATE SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS

• Training programs in banking, finance, information management and accounting for junior employees, middle management & senior executives.

• Selection & recruitment services.

• Corporate research.

• Preparing of project feasibility, rehabilitation, restructuring and mergers & acquisition studies.

• Consultancy services on specific organizational problems in the areas of accounting & finance, corporate affairs, marketing, operations, IT, HR.

• Market studies for specific products.

• Image building and market strategies.

• Events & publications management.

• Environment impact evaluation and social cost benefit analysis of projects and other corporate & social policy initiatives.

• Preparation of financial statements, annual accounts, press releases.

• Preparation of statements, speeches and papers of CEOs and other senior executives.

Visits of Delegations

· Governor Sindh - January 2005

· Chairman PARCO - January 2005

· Niamatullah Khan, City Nazim - February 2005

· Consul General Sri Lanka - March 2005

· Chief Secretary, Government of Sindh - March 2005

· Dr. Dan Berman, University of Hawaii, USA - May 2005

· IFC Delegation - June 2005

 

 



 

Governor Sindh Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ibad & President of the Institute

at IoBM Campus

 

  .::| ACTIVITIES OF BSC |::.

Courses, Workshops and Seminars Held in 2004-2005

Ø Diploma in Health and Hospital Management - October 2003 to January 2004

Ø Diploma in Export Management and Marketing - October 2003 to January 2004

Ø Sales, Distribution and Marketing Techniques for Small Businesses - January 2004

Ø Management Revolution - February 2004

Ø HRM in 21st Century - March 2004

Ø Subliminal Perceptions in Advertising - March 2004

Ø IT Conference 2004 - April 2004

Ø Self-Awareness - May 2004

Ø Train the Trainers - June 2004

Ø Diploma in Export Marketing and Management - June to September 2004

Ø Motivate Yourself and Others to Reach the Peak Performance Zone January 2005

Ø IT Conference - 2005, March 2005

Ø Export Marketing and Management - April 2005

Ø Teaching Strategies for Preparing Skilled Teachers - May 2005

   Entry & Recruitment

The College of Business Management offers The CFA® Advantage to students seeking Finance majors in their MBA program. The globally acknowledged Chartered Financial Analyst program is administered by US based Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR).

The CFA Track of CBM delivers higher quality to the business management program, by adopting the entire curriculum of the CFA program's Level I and Level II examinations. Secondly, the MBA (Finance majors) graduates of CBM, who have successfully completed the CFA Track’s elective courses, would be well equipped to pass the CFA Level I and II exams, if they wish to do so.

There are over 42,000 CFA charter holders the world over, including about 55 from Pakistan. Every year, more than 65,000 candidates the world over write CFA Level I, II or III exams, including more than 600 each year, from Pakistan. All these exams are conducted by AIMR of USA once a year in the first week of June, at over 75 locations the world over simultaneously, including Karachi and Lahore.

The CFA Track of CBM offers 4 finance electives structured around the CFA Level I and II exam curriculum. These are all sequential courses and the various textbooks from which reading material of these courses belong, are the same as prescribed by the AIMR. The description of these 4 finance elective courses are as follows:

1. Foundations of Financial Analysis: This is the first course that is based on CFA Level I exam curriculum. Starting from Ethical and Professional Standards and then quantitative methods, this course takes students through macro and microeconomics framework. Major part of the course
familiarizes students with the concepts of Financial Statement Analysis, Corporate Finance, various types and markets of financial assets including alternative investments and portfolio management.

 

2. Fundamentals of Asset Valuation and Portfolio Management: This is the second course based on CFA Level I curriculum, with the first course "Foundations of Financial Analysis" serving as the pre-requisite. The contents of "Fundamentals of Asset Valuation and Portfolio Management" cover topics like corporate investing and financing decisions; financial markets and instruments; equity, debt, derivative and alternative investments, capital market theory and operations.

 

3. Advance Financial Analysis: First 2 courses of the CFA Track serve as pre-requisites for this course "Advance Financial Analysis". This is the first course that is based on CFA Level II exam curriculum, and also starts from Ethical and professional standards, quantitative methods for valuation and economic evaluation. The major part of this course is however, the advance concepts of financial statement analysis, including inter-corporate investments and business combinations, global issues, special topics and considerations in financial statement analysis.

 

4. Advance Asset Valuation and Portfolio Management: The first 3 courses of the CFA Track serve as pre-requisites for this course "Advance Asset Valuation and Portfolio Management". This is the second course that is based on CFA Level II exam curriculum. It exposes the students to the topics like industry and company analysis; valuation models; special valuation cases, valuation perspectives and applications in equity investments; credit analysis, valuation issues, structured securities and trading strategies of debt investments, futures, swaps and options, alternative investments, capital markets and asset pricing models and practices.