Bachelor of Management Studies (B.M.S.) Basics of Financial Services Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
This is the SY BMS syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2025-26, examined under form 2225161. The University still sets the earlier Choice Based papers alongside it — forms 2M00155 and 2M00156, whose documents are below — so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for Basics of Financial Services
Module I: Financial System and Services An overview of Financial System, Financial Markets, Structure of Financial Market (Organized and Unorganized Market), Components of Financial System, Major Financial Intermediaries, Financial Products, Function of Financial System, Regulatory Framework of Indian Financial System (Overview of SEBI and RBI-Role and Importance as regulators, Role of other regulators like IRDA, PFRDA)
Module II: Commercial Banks, RBI, Development Banks
- Concept of Commercial Banks- Functions, Investment Policy of Commercial Banks, Liquidity in Banks, Asset Structure of Commercial Banks, Non-Performing Assets, Interest Rate reforms, Capital Adequacy Norms.
- Reserve Bank of India - Organization & Management, Role And Functions
- Development Banks-Characteristics of Development Banks, Need And Emergence of Development Financial Institutions In India, Function of Development Banks
- Introduction to NBFCs, Mutual Funds, Insurance companies and Merchant Banking Firms
Text Books
- 1 Khan M.Y., Indian Financial System, Tata McGrew Hill Publishing Company
- 2 Varshney P.N. & Mittal MN, Financial System, Sultan Chand & Co
- 3 A. Avadhani , Marketing of Financial Services
- 4 Bhole L. M: Financial Markets and Institutions; Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New Delhi.
- 5 Chandra Prasanna: Financial Management: Theory and Practice; Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi.
- 6 Gupta Suraj B: Monetary Economics; S. Chand and Co., New Delhi.
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for Bachelor of Management Studies (B.M.S.) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2025-26. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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