Innovation in Teaching Practice – Live Share trading

The innovation in teaching practice can benefit immensely when educators thoughtfully experiment and apply new or different pedagogical approaches, technologies, course design, etc. in the classrooms or beyond. XIME has adopted innovation in education through student engagement with the real-world which encourages students to explore, research and develop problem solving and decision-making skills.

Corporate Finance is a core paper offering in the third trimester in XIME that deals with sources of funding, the capital structure of corporations, the actions that managers take to increase the value of the firm to the shareholders and the tools and analysis used to allocate financial resources. The primary goal of Corporate Finance is to maximize the shareholders’ value.

As a part of the curriculum of Corporate Finance, an initiative on share trading activity in the classroom has taken place by the faculty for the students of batch 7. The basic intention of this initiative is to gain more knowledge and practical exposure in the Stock market and how to take an investment decision by valuing a share considering its risk and return using appropriate tools and techniques.

All the students with mutual consent contributed Rs. 500 each for investing in shares. The batch has opened two Demat accounts with the stockbroker, Zerodha with a total amount of Rs. 33000 (Rs. 16500 each for section A & B). The students were divided into 5 teams and each team will allow undertaking share trading for a week and then the next team takes over. Towards the end of the trimester, the shares would be sold off and the amount would be shared by all equally.

On 24^th February 2020 team 1 of Sec 7A invested in shares, here are the details:

1)       State Bank of India market by price chart-

The reason for purchase:

State bank of India –SBI is being a blue-chip company and expecting to have a low risk and steady return and is apt for a short term investment. News of SBI cards IPO to be launched in March seems to give a positive sign to the investors.

2) Tata motors daily Market by Price Chart-

The reason for purchase:

Tata Motors – The shares of TATA Motors are considered to be market innovators and their intervention into electronic vehicles seems to capture long term positive sentiments. The company shows stead financial performance and revenue and profit trends show high performance.

Ms. Lincy PT

Assistant Professor

XIME Kochi