Bachelor of Commerce (Financial Markets)

Adm./BAF/2024-BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (FINANCIAL MARKETS) (B.F.M.)

A Candidate  for  being  eligible  for  admission  to  the  degree  programme  in  B.Com  – Financial Markets shall have passed 12th Class. Examination of the Maharashtra Board of Higher Secondary  Education OR its equivalent examination from any other board with all subjects, in one and the same sitting with 45 % of marks in aggregate.

Every candidate who intends to take admission to the Degree programme in shall have to first register at the University of Mumbai Portal, Please refer college website for link.

F.Y.B.F.M.

SYLLABUS

Under Choice Based Credit, Grading and Semester System  Course Structure

Activity 2023-24

• On 2^nd August 2023 the SY & TY students gave an official welcome to the FY into the BFM clan by organizing an online ice breaking and a “Freshers party”.
• The Students of SY & TYBFM continued the “Stocker’s Association” in BFM Department where the members met each other once in a week to discuss and share their insights on live trading and stock market for the seventh year of its initiation. FYBFM students were also introduced into the association.
• A 1 day BSE visit was organised for the BFM students on 19^th December 2023 where a session was conducted by Mr. Rakesh Nair on “The Journey of Financial Market in India – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”. The session was insightful and ended with a Q&A session.
• An industrial visit to Haridwar-Rishikesh-Dehradun-Mussorie for the BFM students was organized from 3rd February 2024 to 10th February 2024. Students visited Patanjali facility at Haridwar and were exposed to the working of the Patanjali facility. Students also visited Indira Gandhi National Forest academy at Dehradun during the visit.
• Add-on certificate course were offered for all BFM students like Financial Plan Construction was introduced to FYBFM students in collaboration with Financial Planning Academy and Leadership and Crisis Management was introduced to FYBFM students in collaboration with Progressio MCS Pvt Ltd, Investment Analysis was introduced for SYBFM in collaboration with Vocskill India and Fintech & Blockchain and GST and Taxation was introduced for TYBFM in collaboration with Vocskill India. All students who successfully completed the course were awarded with a certificate.
• Financial Awareness Fair was organised to celebrate the National Financial Awareness day in association with DLLE under the guidance of IQAC on 14^th August 2023 staff and students of LSRC appreciated the Financial awareness fair as it gave them many useful insights on how to save, invest and its advantages. Stalls were set up and detailed information were provided to the visitors. Fun fair games too were organised to make the event more attractive and to pass the financial awareness in a lucid manner.
• World Water Day was celebrated in association with IQAC on 22^nd March 2024 by screening a documentary movie “The Last Drop – India’s water Crisis to create awareness and sensitivity amongst the students to value water and spread the message of Save Water, and it will save you.
• The prize distribution ceremony was held for the BFM students on 19^th March 2024 to appreciate the students who excelled in curricular and extra-curricular activities.
• On 1^st April 2024 The FYBFM and SYBFM students organised a farewell party for the TYBFM to appreciate their seniors and to bid adieu them with sweet college memories.
• The degree distribution ceremony was organised on 27^th April 2024 to felicitate BFM students for the completion of their programme successfully.
• Under the banner of DLLE many BFM students showcased their sensitivity towards society and environment by participating in various activities.

Webinars, Workshops and Guest Lectures

• This academic year witnessed many interesting webinars and workshop in the department. On 25^th August 2023 a “Chart Activity on Technical Indicator” was organised for the TYBFM students.
• On 1^st September 2023 a Technical Analysis Quiz was conducted for TYBFM students to learn and to identify trends and patterns and determine how stocks will behave in the future.
• On 9^th September 2023 an Alumni Guest session on “Trading Strategies and Risk Management” was conducted for all BFM students to create a connection and build network between the current and alumni of L. S. Raheja College and to give practical understanding of Trading strategies and risk management by giving real life examples. The speakers of the session were Mr. Mohit Raithatha, Risk Manager, KIFS Pvt. Ltd and Mr. Manan Shah, Analyst, BlackRock Inc.
• On 17^th January 2024 “an Investor Awareness programme on Capital derivative market” was organised. The speaker for the session Mr. Pratyush Banerjee, SEBI Smart Faculty explained the topic in a very lucid manner for the audience to understand. The students interacted with the speaker in the Q&A session and many doubts were resolved regarding.
• On 1^st February 2024 Live screening of Interim Budget 2024 was streamed in the college by the BFM department in association with the Accountancy department for the staff and students. Everyone appreciated the efforts of organising the live screening as it gave them the insights about the various economic and fiscal policies planned by the GOI.
• On 8^th March 2024 a “Venture Chart Activity” was organised for the TYBFM students. The students thoroughly enjoyed the session as it helped them identifying the signs and trends in the stock market. It helped them to use the tools to demystify the market and make a clear analysis.

Attendance:

As per the university guidelines a student is required to maintain minimum 75% attendance in each subject in every semester.

The Department displays attendance records to students twice a semester i.e. one in mid-July and other in mid-August and for second half of the Academic year – one in mid-January and other in mid-February. Students whose names appear in the 1st attendance list as Defaulters are given a verbal warning and an undertaking is collected by the co-ordinator and if the same appears in the second list, Parents are called for a meeting and the attendance defaulter student is given an extra project work related to the subject in which he/she has defaulted in attendance.

Cultural Events

We, at L. S. Raheja College always encourage our student’s creativity and give a boost to their hidden talents by motivating them to participate in various collegiate and inter – collegiate events.

This year BFM students attended many intercollegiate festivals in which remarkable achievement was reflected which is worth a mention.

• The BFM students won the 1^st runner up trophy at intercollegiate festival Fantasies of SIES College.
• The BFM students won the 1^st runner up trophy as well as Best CL trophy at intercollegiate festival Arthanomics of Jai Hind College.
• The BFM students won 2^nd Runner up trophy at intercollegiate festival Finnac of R. A. Poddar College.
• This year the BFM students won Best Course in the BAMMC department Mediastaa fest
• 1^st Runner up in the BAF department #Trends fest
• Best CL in the BMS department’s MYOB fest
• Best CL in the BScIT department Technika fest
• Best CL in BBI department Banking Yard fest and
• Best PR in the Junior College Safar fest at Intracollegiate level.

The list of individual achievements of the department students is exhaustive. The students exuberantly organized an interdisciplinary intercollegiate festival “Parallax” which is a blend of academic and cultural activity on 11^th, 12^th & 13^th January 2024.

Under Stockers’ Association, the BFM students organised a FINMAZZA week between 23^rd January 2024 to 27^th January 2024. The BFM students organized an intra-collegiate festival “FinZard” on 29^th February 2024 and 1^st March 2024 successfully for the 5^th year where students of all other programme participated. The prize distribution ceremony was organised on 4^th March 2024 in college auditorium and was graced by the Principal Dr. Debajit N. Sarkar, who handed over the prizes to four contingents viz., Team BMS  (Best Course), Team Junior College (1^st Runner Up), Team BScIT (2^nd Runner Up) and Team BBI (Best CL). The winners were awarded with trophies and certificates.