Bachelor of Management Studies (B.M.S.) Introduction to Finance 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 Introduction to Finance
MU heads this subject’s second module “Introduction to Group Behaviour”, which is a module of Foundation of Human Skills in the first-year circular. The teaching printed under it is capital structure, shares, debentures, public deposits and dividend policy. The heading is reproduced exactly as the University set it.
Module I: Introduction to Finance Finance, Definition, Nature and scope of Finance function Financial Management: Meaning, scope and objectives Organisational framework of financial management- Relationship of finance department with other departments- Role of Finance Manager
Module II: Introduction to Group Behaviour
- Meaning of Capital Structure- Criteria of determining capital structure- factors influencing capital structure.
- Shares - Meaning, types, advantages, limitations Debentures- Meaning, types, advantages, limitations Public Deposits- Meaning, advantages, limitations Borrowing from banks- types of loans, advantages, limitations.
- Reserves and surplus, bonus shares, retained earnings, Dividend policy, Role of Depreciation, Importance, advantages and limitations of these sources
Text Books
- 1 Prasanna Chandra - Financial Management: Theory and Practice
- 2 I.M. Pandey - Financial Management
- 3 S. N. Maheshwari - Financial Management
- 4 Eugene F. Brigham & Michael C. Ehrhardt - Financial Management: Theory & Practice
- 5 Hampton, J. J. - Financial Decision Making
- 1 M.Y. Khan & P.K. Jain - Financial Management: Text, Problems, and Cases
- 2 J. Fred Weston & Eugene F. Brigham - Essentials of Managerial Finance
- 3 David K. Eiteman, Arthur I. Stonehill, and Michael H. Moffett – Multinational Business Finance
- 4 John J. Wild, K. R. Subramanyam, and Robert F. Halsey - Financial Statement Analysis
- 5 Peter L. Bernstein - Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
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.
The complete syllabus
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