The Hashemite University
Faculty of Economics & Administrative Science
Department of Banking & Finance
Fall Semester 2013/2014
Course Name: Special Topics In Finance and Insurance
Course code: 110204441
Instructor
Ahmad Y. Khasawneh, Ph.D
Office Hours
Office / phone Ext. Econ. 343 / 4145
E-mail
Academic Website: http://staff.hu.edu.jo/ahmadkhasawneh
S. T. TH. 11 - 12
ahmadk@hu.edu.jo
Course Description and Objectives:
This course is designed to cover some selected topics in the field of finance, banking, risk
management and insurance. It is constructed to fill the gap in the curriculm of the undergraduate
programs' at the department of finance and banking. Covered topics include, but not limitted to,
stock market technical and fundamental analysis, market microstructure, behaifioral finance, and
personnel finance planning. In addition to the knowledge part of the course it is also constructed
to build on students skills like presentations, discussions, data collections & processing and
reporting.
Course Materials
There is no single textbook assigned to this course. Thus, differenct material sources will be
considered and will be handed out to the students promptly. Among the course materials, selected
chapters from textbooks, instructor's prepared materials, financial reported issued by Amman
Stock Exchange and thoses issued by publicly traded corporations, financial news papers,…..and
others.
Online Sources:
Amman Stock Exchange: www.ase.com.jo
Jordan Securties Commission: www.jsc.gov.jo
Central Bank of Jordan: www.cbj.gov.jo
Yahoo Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/
CNN Money: http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/
The Wallstreet Journal: http://markets.wsj.com/us
Jordan Insurance Federation: http://www.joif.org/
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And much more will be provided to you when needed
Academic Honesty:
All the assignments and work submitted by the student should be his or her own. All actions of
academic dishonesty including cheating, plagiarism or helping other students in such actions will
be dealt with strictly according to the university regulations.
Tentative course outline :
Topic One: Technical and fundamentals Analysis of Stock and FOREX market.
Duratio: one month
 Overview.
 Spot Rate Quotation.
 Trading FOREX.
 Trading on margin.
 Why trade FOREX?
 Trading Scenarios.
 Types of Orders.
 Successful Traders.
 FOREX analysis (Fundamental vs technical).
 FOREX Technical Analysis Patterns.
 FOREX Fundamental Analysis Indicators.
 FOREX glossary.
Topic Two: Behaiviaroal Finance
Duratio: one month
(Detailed outline will be provided as we start lecturing)
Topic Three: Market Microstructure
Duratio: one month
(Detailed outline will be provided as we start lecturing)
Topic Four: Personal Financial Planning
Duratio: one month
(Detailed outline will be provided as we start lecturing)
Students Responsibilities
To get the most out of this course, you should make every effort to attend all classes. All of the
understanding of the material contained in the text will be presented in the lecture and any
difficulties you have solving the assigned problems will be addressed in the lecture.
Students evaluation:
We will have small exam at the end of each topic, that is, there will be four topic exams each one
weighs 10% of your overall final grade. Another 20% of the overall grade assigned to class
activities, and home activities (there will be a presentation and assignment project). The
remaining 40% is for the final comprehensive exam. the computation of your average numerical
score for the course will be based on the following weighted scheme :
Exam
Quize 1
Quize 2
Quize 3
Quize 4
Class Activities and Home Assignments
Final Exam
Day/Date
End of month one
End of month two
End of month three
End of month four
As assigned
TBA
Best Luck;
Time
2–3
2–3
2–3
2–3
2–3
TBA
Place
Econ 310
Econ 310
Econ 310
Econ 310
Econ 310
TBA
Weight
10%
10%
10%
10%
20%
40%