COURSE OUTLINE FOR E-BANKING AND E COMMERCE

COURSE INSTRUCTOR:  DEBORAH ADU-TWUMWAAH            

LEVEL: 400 & 300  

CODE: PBBF 309

COURSE TITLE: E-BANKING AND COMMERCE

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course is designed to equip students with current developments in the banking industry with respect to the application of electronics in banking to promote self-service retail banking. It seeks to cover electronic banking and electronic commerce, the truncation of cheques, interbank clearing system and settlement and many other related issues in electronic banking and commerce.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

At the end of the course students will be able:

1.      Explain electronic banking and commerce and what goes into electronic banking and commerce

2.      Explain the fundamental changes in banking and financial markets as financial institutions and brokers have extended to electronic platform.

3.      Apply cash management, decision-making, and controlling techniques in an electronic interface.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

This course seeks to:

1.      Provide students with a clear understanding of the concept of electronic banking (E-banking) and electronic commerce (E-Commerce).

2.      Equip students with modern and more current developments in the Banking Sector; precisely the application of the internet, computers and other electronically-based gadgets that facilitate the operations and practices of banking, locally and in international transactions.

3.      Enable participants to gain insight knowledge into cheque truncation and electronic settlement and clearance system

COURSE OUTLINE IN A WEEKLY FORMAT

WEEK	TOPIC	RESOURCES	INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH	ACTIVITY
1	Introduction of the course and discussion of the course outline	Projector, labtop and maker	Presentation and discussion	Formation of groups for term paper
2	General Overview of Traditional Banking. General Overview of E-banking and history of e-banking (global and Ghana),	Projector, labtop and maker	Presentation and discussion	Assignment – register to be part of the Moodle platform. Share your view on the question posed at the forum blog
3	Importance of E-banking, human involvement and e-banking. E-banking technologies – personal computer banking, Telephone banking, branch networking	Projector, labtop and maker	Presentation and discussion	Term paper questions given out. – Present a 20 paged report on any topic of your choice in e-banking and commerce. You’ll conduct a field survey on the topic, gather data and analyze the data gathered. Assignment – use your groups to write an essay on the death of a bank branch and submit in Moodle.
4	E-banking technologies/ electronic delivery channels – ATM, electronic cards, mobile phone banking, E-zwich	Projector, labtop and maker	Presentation, discussion	Assignment -Watch two movies on ATM and credit cards for discussion
5	The concept of electronic commerce; General overview of E-commerce and history of e-commerce, electronic commerce Technology	Projector, labtop and maker	Presentation and discussion	Go to the forum blog to participate in a discussion on e-commerce
6	Web strategy, Problematic issues in e-banking and e-commerce	Projector, labtop and maker	Presentation and discussion	Assignment – discuss five   companies in Ghana’s web strategy. Submit in Moodle
7	The Truncation of cheques and other banking instruments via electronic means	Projector, labtop and maker	Presentation and discussion	Students would be tasked to read more the the Cheque Codeline Clearing and Ghana Automated Clearing House
8	E-banking risk management	Projector, labtop and maker	Presentation and discussion
9	Other issues related to e-banking and commerce	Projector, labtop and maker	Discussion
10	Future trends Banking systems for electronic delivery	Projector, labtop and maker	Presentation and discussion
11	Interim Assessment and revision	Answer sheets
12	Presentation of term paper	Projector, labtop and maker
13	Presentation of term papers	Projector, labtop and maker