Dr. Malabika Deo, Head
(head.com@pondiuni.edu.in)
The Department of Commerce aims at training the commerce graduates with professional skills required to handle the
Finance Function in large sized corporate enterprise. The P.G. programme is to impart knowledge and skills required to
take up activities like Investments and Portfolio Management, Security Market Operations, Forex Dealings, Accounts for
Managers, General Management, Taxation Management, Treasury Management and Management of Mutual Funds and
NBCS, etc.
The Department also offers M.Phil. and Ph.D. Programme in the fields of Finance, Banking, Marketing and
Personal Management.
Programmes of Study
M.Com. Business Finance
M.Phil. Commerce (Full-time)
Ph.D. Commerce (Full-time & Part Time)
Entrance Examination
The admission for the course is based on national level
entrance examination. The entrance examination
for admission to M.Com. (Business Finance) degree
programme consists of objective type questions. These
questions are mostly aimed at assessing the candidates
basic understanding of concepts in accounting, Banking,
Organizational Behaviour, Taxation, Insurance, Costing,
Statistics, Auditing, Legal aspects of Business, Business
Economics, Foreign Trade, Corporate Secretaryship,
Cooperation and such alike.
The admission for M.Phil. programme consists of
entrance test aimed at assessing the advanced
knowledge of the student at his/her P.G. level
courses. It is of objective type.
The admission of Ph.D. programme is based on the
vacancies available with eligible guides and the field
of specialization that a scholar wants to pursue. The
admission formalities are carried out by inviting the
candidates for a written test.
Infrastructure Facilities
The department is housed in School of Management
building (ground floor) with spacey class rooms and well
equipped common computer lab with internet connection,
Xeroxing facility, Overhead LCD projectors for presentations
constitute the basic infrastructure. A round the clock
internet facility with access to CMIE Prowess data base,
SPSS statistical software package, on-line journals from
Science Direct, Epsco are the merited facilities
in the Department.
Placements
The students belonging to this programme find placement
in finance divisions of major MNCs like IBM, FORD, Fund
Management & Stock Broking Consultants, Software
Companies concentrating on Accounting Solutions, in
addition to a good number of placements in Banking and
Insurance sectors like Laxmi Vilas Bank, ICICI Bank, etc. The
department also has produced high quality research works
and the research scholar of this department have
got placement in reputed business school like IIM (Indore),
IIM (Calcutta), NIBM, TAPMI and Universities like Pondicherry
University, Alagappa Univeristy, Anna University, M S
University, Karunya University, Bharathiar University, Periyar
University and Bharathidasan University, etc.
Some of the students, after completing M.Com. pursue
M.Phil./ Ph.D. programme. Our students have got admission
in reputed institutions like IIS, IIT Mumbai, Delhi University,
Hyderabad Central University, IFMR, etc. for their Ph.D.
degree.
P.G.Centre, Karaikal
In addition to M.Com. Business Finance, Department of
Commerce also offers M.Com. Business Finance in the PG
centre at Karaikal. As the main department in the university
campus specializes in finance it is proposed to offer a professional
course in Master of Financial Management (MFM) in
Karaikal in the year 2009-10.
Infrastructure Facilities (Karaikal Centre)
The Department has modernized infrastructure with well
equipped library, Centralized Computer Lab with Internet
facility, Overhead and LCD Projector for presentation and
teaching.
