This course focuses on international trade and international finance. International trade consists of international trade theory and policy. International trade theory deals with basis and the gains from trade, the modern theory of international trade, offer curves, Hecksher-ohilin theory, commercial policies, economic integration. International trade policy examines the reasons for and the effects of trade restrictions and trade protectionism. Further International finance deals with international financial environment that affects giant multinationals and other firms that involved in international trade and transactions. This encompasses the study of foreign exchange markets, foreign exchange rate determination, international parity conditions, managing foreign exchange risk and exposure and optimal policy tools to manage international financial environment.
- Lecturer: E Dayarathne
Advanced financial accounting is an extension course of the financial accounting course that was offered in the first year of the degree program. This course deals with advanced concepts and techniques of financial accounting. This course imparts students with knowledge in financial reporting concepts and practices and makes them appraise the issues and constructively criticize current practices.
- Lecturer: Kusal Nissanka
The rational of this course is to provide an introductory level understanding of major concepts, principles, theories and techniques in Financial Management while mainly focusing on the investment and financing decisions of firms. The course is organized into three modules such as Financial Environment, Markets and Analysis, Risk, Return and Valuation of assets and Corporate Finance to clearly understand the basic tools and techniques of finance that are necessary for handling decision making process of an organization.
- Lecturer: Dr. (Ms) Niluka Anuradha
This course provides an overview of the nature and applications of Management Science/ Operations Research (MS/OR). After surveying a variety of small and large practical problems which can be approached using the methods of management science, students will be able to formulate mathematical models of practical problems, then to solve them and finally to interpret the results, as they might have to do, as managers and business executives of large enterprises making decisions.
The major topics covered are Introduction to Management Science, Linear Programming: Model formulation and applications, Graphical Method, Simplex Method, Transportation Problem, Assignment problem, Network Flow Models, Project Scheduling: PERT/CPM Network, Decision analysis, and Dynamic programming.
S.S. Naotunna's Operation Research / Management Science Part I and II (Sinhala Medium) books are available at the Department of Commerce.
- Lecturer: Prof. Sudath Amarasena
This course provides comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies, information system applications, and their impact on business models and managerial decision-making in an exciting and interactive manner. While the importance of information systems for organizations is emphasized, the course identifies different types of information systems used in organizations.
- Lecturer: Ms Piruni Deyalage
- Lecturer: Ms.Sanduni Senaratne
This is an intermediate level course that provides the student with knowledge of the theory and practice of the banking operation especially in the context of banking system in Sri Lanka.
- Lecturer: Duminda Dayawansa