B.Com. (Financial Markets) Stock Market for Beginners Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the FY BFM syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2024-25. The University still sets the earlier Choice Based papers alongside it for ATKT candidates, so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for Stock Market for Beginners
Module I: Stock Market and Trading Mechanism
- Primary and Secondary Market- Types of Securities traded, IPO and related concepts, how to apply for the same, Demat Account, Secondary Market V/s Primary Market, Market Capitalization and its categories, BSE and NSE, Procedure to place orders in secondary market. Online Trading, Types of Orders and Trading Mechanism.
Module II: Understanding Price Fluctuations and Market Indices
- Macroeconomic Factors, Corporate Actions like Dividend, earning, Bonus and their impact on prices, Investors sentiments and their impact. Index meaning, Types, BSE and NSE Indices, Dow Jones, NASDAQ, S&P 500
Reference Books
- Financial Services, Dr.S Gurusamy, The MgrawHill companies, 2 edition (26 June 2009).
- Financial Markets and Financial services, Vasant Desai, Himalaya Publishing House, First Edition edition (2010).
- Financial Services, M.Y.Khan, Tata Mc-Graw Hill Publishing Company Ltd, Ninth edition (2017).
- Financial Markets and Services –E.Gordon and K.Natanrajan,Himalaya Publishing House, Tenth Edition edition (2016)
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Com. (Financial Markets) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2024-25. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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