Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka

The student completing the BSc. Honours in Financial Management Degree is a graduate.    

• who has an in -depth understanding and appreciation of management issues with a special attention on strategic and leadership orientation in both state and corporate sector organizations.
• who has an ability to identify and analyze complex business situations and to develop and implement effective solutions.   
• who is having good communication skills.     
• who is having a sound knowledge and skills in modern information and technological and computer based applications in the field of Financial Management.  
• who has an in- depth understanding of fundamental concepts, principles, theories and tools of analysis in the domain of Financial Management.     
• who has a capacity to analyze and synthesis and a capacity to adapt to new situations.     
• who has an ability to develop and practice ways to connect and apply his/her academic work to professional contexts.
• who is having an ability to design and implement, significant individual research project that explore complex issues using appropriate materials, concepts and methods from financial management discipline.     
• who is having good ethical, intellectual and spiritual values.     

 The Department of Accountancy & Finance offers BSc. Honours in Financial Management Degree

1. Scholarship & Intellectual Integrity: thorough understanding about finance theories; ability to apply scholarly conventions; familiarity in academic writing; contextualise research imagination (E.g. Mapping ideas); analytical reading: extract the main idea from a reading text
2. Practical & Strategic Sense: ability to use finance theories in different contexts (E.g. global financial crisis); environmental vigilance (E.g. Predictions, forecasting); security and security market analysis; tackling dynamic market environment, risk assessment; awareness about national & international financial literacy
3. Communication Skills: proficiency of the language (basic reading, writing, speaking & listening skills); basic oral & written communication skills; linguistically interpreting graphs, charts, tables &  other graphical information; negotiation skills (meeting handling, dominance, compromise, tolerance); presentation skills
4. ICT Literacy: ability to extract e-resources; software handling; programming; managing large scale databases (E.g. Bloomberg data base, data stream 7I); data mining (E.g. data base of global inflation)
5. Mental Agility: rational financing & investment decisions; empirical data analysis; statistical modeling & financial modeling; financial forecasting with time series models; financial reporting; Self learner
6. Healthy Personality with Leadership & Interpersonal Skills: smart; role model; disciplinary; team player (Group cohesiveness); convincing ability; respecting & accepting others
7. Numerical Skills: conduct financial analysis; analyze, interpret, summarize & communicate data; comparing & contrasting; accounting & financial data presentation
8. Creativity & Innovativeness: entrepreneurial skills, financial product innovation; ability to identify new financial business opportunities; exploring new avenues for financial investments