In this 6 hours workshop for one group every day, students learnt about financial planning by playing an ONLINE simulation game and attending some classroom sessions. In Finance GYM game which is an online interactive game, students created and managed a virtual portfolio with real investment products to achieve the financial goals they had been given. By playing this game, they learnt the basics of financial planning, including basic financial terminology, setting financial goals, asset allocation strategy, pros and cons of different financial products, and tax planning.

The classroom activities and sessions covered Goal-based financial planning, Asset allocation and diversification, Purpose of different types of financial products – stocks, bonds, mutual funds, insurance, etc. in an investment portfolio, Analyzing a mutual fund factsheet and evaluating Debt and Equity Mutual Funds, Practical aspects of buying life insurance, Tax planning. All winners were declared at the end of program and felicitated. Event was coordinated by Dr Lalit Kumar Sharma.

It was a great learning experience to all participants.

The workshop was conducted by ACC Ltd. in collaboration with Praxis EL Training & Consulting Pvt. Ltd. At the beginning of workshop, Dr. Ajay Kumar, Director Management, I.T.S. Mohan Nagar Ghaziabad extended a floral welcome to Mr. Sharad Verma, Director, ACC Ltd. and  Dignitaries from ACC Ltd. and Praxis EL Training & Consulting Pvt. Ltd. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Kumar Abhishek, Director, Praxis EL Training & Consulting Pvt. Ltd. The workshop was divided into two parts, in the first part Mr. Kumar Abhishek gave a deep insight about current scenario of employ-ability and its various causes. He focused upon “Self Analysis” and its awareness to students in which he practically conducted psychometric profiling of students. The workshop enriched students with learning outcomes related to employ-ability and their own psychometric profiling.

The second part of the workshop was about One to one counseling session with students to discuss their psychometric profile and enhance their employ-ability skills. The workshop ended with a note of gratitude to Guests and Resource Person.

The objective of this workshop was to make students aware about the Research analytics through R, and to provide basic training in understanding the core techniques and concepts in Data science and R Programming.

The workshop on Research analytics through R was conducted by Mr. Abhishek Goswami, Founder, GRAP. He focused on how to program in R and how to use R for effective data analysis. While addressing the students he also mentioned that how to install and configure software necessary for a statistical programming environment and describe generic programming language concepts as they are implemented in a high level statistical analysis. The workshop covered practical issues in statistical computing which included programming in R, reading data into R, accessing R package, writing R functions, debugging, profiling R code, and organizing and commenting R codes. He said that R programming language is the most widely used language in Data Science and Analytics and with the rise of Big Data and data science, its growth and popularity is boundless. R also has a superb IDE, R Studio, facilitating reproducible research that helps to exploring, modelling, and visualizing data naturally. Extensive training was provided using R for the Statistical analysis with deep focus on real life / business problems.

At the end of this workshop students Understood Data Science and its applications, became familiar with Big data concepts, exposed to R Programming and related data analysis techniques. The workshop was also attended by faculty members of the institute including Prof. Sunil Upadhyay, Prof. Ajay Sinha, Dr. V. N. Bajpai, Dr. Satish Kumar, Dr. A P Tripathi, Prof. Alok Singh and Dr. Charu Chaudhary .

The session ended with vote of thanks to Mr. Abhishek for providing such a wonderful insights on Research through R. Overall the entire workshop was very interactive and informative for all the participants.

The workshop was very well coordinated by Prof. Sunil Upadhyay, Prof. Ajay Sinha.

Objective of the FDP was to discuss and understand data analysis and business modeling techniques using important Microsoft Excel Tools. Also, FDP covers the basics and fundamentals of data editing, coding, analysis and interpretation using MS Excel. The whole coverage was comprised of 4-5 integrated exercises covering different techniques of MS Excel. The difficulty level of exercise increases with exercise number where each exercise represents some meaningful business data. The participants were provided with instructions (each exercise) during respective deliberations and hands-on experience of MS Excel.

From this session all participants felt benefited and enlightened.