- Identify intricate dynamics of the Indian Financial Systems, functions of banks and their operations
- Classify various financial instruments, banking services, and their complexities
- Identify the processes of acquiring deposits, disbursing loans and functioning of the intricate monetary ecosystem.
- Identify Various categories of financial institution accounts and their prerequisites.
- Identify Credit Mechanisms and the role of Credit Reporting Agencies in credit rating
- Identify Indian Taxation system and various factors of tax payment.
- Demonstrate Tax Planning and navigating through the calculation of taxable income.
- Diagnose inflows and outflows of finances and assessing one's creditworthiness through the Credit Information Bureau India Limited (CIBIL).
- Compare the wide array of investment opportunities available to individuals looking to diversify and enhance their financial portfolios.

Finance Foundations : Indian Banking and Taxes
Explore the Indian financial system, banking operations, and the basics of taxation.
Introduction
What you'll learn ?
- Interpret functions of banks and their intricate operations within the Indian Financial Systems
- Discover the operations of banking products and accounts are conducted.
- Review process of Deposits, loans, records of transactions and the facilitation of monetary economy
- Illustrate the various categories of bank accounts, procedural intricacies involved in initiating the process of opening a bank account
- Interpret the Mechanisms of Credit Rating agencies in Credit Scores and the process.
- Interpret how Taxes are paid in India and revealing the fundamental reasons underlying the necessity of tax payment.
- Illustrate Tax Planning, the mechanisms behind Tax Planning.
- Paraphrase how Income and expenses are tracked through investments and to access the Credit Rating (CIBIL).
- Experiment with individuals’ financial portfolio offered by various investment opportunities ranging from traditional options to alternative investments.
Certification
- KLiC courses are recognised by Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU).
- MKCL provides certificate to the KLiC learner after his/her successful course completion.
- Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) provides mark sheet to successfully passed KLiC learners (Jurisdiction: Maharashtra).
Academic Approach
The academic approach of the courses focuses on the “work-centric” education i.e. begin with work (and not from a book!), derive knowledge from work and apply that knowledge to make the work more wholesome, useful and delightful. The ultimate objective is to empower the Learner to engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at leading the learner to his/her rewarding career as an employee or entrepreneur as well as development of the community to which s/he belongs. Learning methodology:
- Step -1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work.
- Step -2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
- Step -3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
- Step -4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
- Step -5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
- Step -6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
- Step -7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
- Step -8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
- Step -9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
- Step-10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
- Step-11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
- Step-12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!
Syllabus
- Introduction to Indian Financial Systems
- History of Indian Banking
- Institutional Vs Non-Institutional
- Role of Banks in Economic Development
- Key Takeaways
- Different Roles of a bank
- Bank's Duties
- Bank's Rights
- RBI
- Commercial Banks
- Cooperative Banks
- Bank Operations
- How Does a Bank make money?
- Various Sources of Bank Income
- Taking Deposits
- Providing Loans
- Maintaining Records of Transactions
- Facilitating the Monetary Economy
- Case Study - Debt recovery
- RBI
- Guidelines to Commercial Banks
- Guidelines to Payments Banks
- Types of banks accounts (Savings, Current, Demat)
- Differences of Each account type
- Opening a bank account
- Pre - requisites and process
- Introduction to Types of banking customers
- Individual
- HUF
- Companies
- Trust
- Clubs
- Local authorities
- Firms
- Choosing a Bank
- What to consider when choosing a bank
- How to Choose a Bank Account
- Filling Necessary forms
- Bank and bank operations
- Nomination
- Debit Card
- Cheque book
- Account for minors
- Dormant account
- Closing of account
- Current account
- Interview of expert - Arpita Mishra
- Introduction to KYC
- Guidelines on KYC
- Customer Privacy
- UIDAI & Aadhar
- E-KYC
- Advantages of e-KYC
- Introduction to Physical Branch Operations
- Physical Branch
- Bank/Branch/ RBI Timings
- Types of Services at Branch
- Getting Service at Bank Counters
- What is a Home Branch
- Why branches are still important
- What are banking instruments
- Types of instruments
- Working with Cheques (writing, Depositing, Process of Clearing)
- Working with Demand Drafts
- Phone Banking Mobile banking
- ATM
- Internet banking/ Netbanking
- Introduction to Transferring Payments : Digital
- RTGS
- NEFT
- ECS/ NACH
- UPI Methods
- Introduction to Payment Wallets
- Benefits of Wallet Payments
- RBI Guidelines & Difference from Banks
- Using Payment Wallets
- Security Considerations
- Introduction to Using Netbanking/ Mobile Banking
- Transact
- Opening a Fixed Deposit
- Opening a Recurring Deposit
- Liquidate Fixed / Recurring Deposit
- Enquire
- Beneficiary Registrations
- Introduction to Taxes
- Taxes
- Who Pays Taxes in India
- Direct and Indirect Taxes
- How is Income Tax Collected?
- The Reason Why We Pay Taxes
- What is Tax Planning ?
- Importance of Tax Planning
- How Tax Planning Works ?
- Calculation of Income Taxable Income
- What is Dearness Allowance ?
- What is Capital Gain ?
- What are Capital Assets?
- Type of Capital Assets
- General Principles of Investing
- Why should you Invest?
- Time Value Of Money
- Calculation of returns
- Credit Rating of Investment Schemes
- Price earning ratios
- Understanding interest rates
- Interest Rate drivers
- Regulation by RBI to maintain interest rates
- Market Inflation - Deflation
- Term Structure of interest rates
- Concept of Compounding
- Banking Products
- Types of Deposits
- Interest Rate depending on Type.
- Fixing Tenure
- Opening an FD
- Non-Banking Deposit Schemes & Risks
- Introduction to Banking products: Retail
- Lockers
- Paying your bills online
- Aadhaar enrolment
- Bancassurance
- Interview Arpita Mishra - Banking Products – Retail
- Introduction to Banking Products : Loans
- What are loans
- Types of loans ( Secured vs Unsecured)
- EMI
- Eligibility
- Interest Rate
- Interview: Shashank Wagh
- Introduction to Working with Loans
- Disbursement of loan
- Loan Repayment
- Foreclosure
- Change in Interest & EMI
- Loan Takeover
- Interview: Shashank Wagh
- Introduction to Loan : Process Flow 1
- Documents necessary for applying for each type of loan
- Basic financial indicators for approving loans
- Compute loan repayment schedule
- Prepare summary sheet for loan file
- Credit Evaluation procedures
- Introduction to Loan : Process Flow
- Legal framework and laws concerning background of applicant
- Customer profiling concepts
- Administrative and clerical procedures
- Interview: Shashank Wagh
- Legal check
- Procedure for destruction/shredding of sensitive documents/documents
- Interview: Shashank Wagh
- Introduction to Default of loans
- Understanding Default of loans
- Types of default
- Consequences of default
- Introduction to Debt Recovery
- Debt collection
- Process of Debt Recovery
- The Evolving Scenario of Debt Recovery
- Introduction to Financial Analysis of an Individual
- Tracking Income and Expenses
- Set Goals to improve savings
- Investment schemes for beginners
- Credit Rating (CIBIL)
- Credit information companies
- Impact of credit on financial market
- How to maintain a good credit score
- Mr Sridhar interview
- a. Concept of Credit Rating
- b. How Does Credit Rating Work
- c. Credit rating vs credit score
- d. Credit reporting agencies
- e. Credit reporting agencies table
- f. Importance of credit rating
- g. Impact of Credit Rating
- h. How to keep Credit Scores high
- Credit Cards- What are they?
- Types of Credit Cards
- Interest & Charges
- Introduction to Insurance
- Type of insurance
- Purpose
- Introduction to Regulatory Framework: Insurance
- Regulatory Agencies
- Areas of regulation
- Functional of Regulatory Agencies
- Challenges in regulation
- Introduction to Insurance Instruments
- Types of insurance instruments
- What do Insurance Companies do with your money
- Importance of Insurance
- How to buy Insurance
- Precautions
- How much does Insurance cost
- Where to spend insurance money
- Introduction to General Insurance
- Types of Insurance
- Guidelines on General Insurance
Evaluation Pattern
Evaluation Pattern of KLiC Courses consists of 4 Sections as per below table:
Section No. | Section Name | Total Marks | Minimum Passing Marks |
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1 | Learning Progression | 25 | 10 |
2 | Internal Assessment | 25 | 10 |
3 | Final Online Examination | 50 | 20 |
Total | 100 | 40 | |
4 | SUPWs (Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments) | 5 Assignments | 2 Assignments to be Completed & Uploaded |
YCMOU Mark Sheet
Printed Mark Sheet will be issued by YCMOU on successful completion of Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3 and will be delivered to the learner by MKCL.
YCMOU Mark Sheet will be available only for Maharashtra jurisdiction learners
MKCL's KLiC Certificate
The certificate will be provided to the learner who will satisfy the below criteria:
- Learners who have successfully completed above mentioned 3 Sections i.e. Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3
- Additionally, learner should have completed Section 4 (i.e. Section 4 will comprise of SUPWs i.e. Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments)
- Learner has to complete and upload minimum 2 out of 5 Assignments
Courses Fee Structure from 01 July, 2025 Onwards
KLiC 30 hour course fee applicable from 01 July, 2025 all over Maharashtra
KLiC Course Duration | MFO (Inclusive of GST) |
ALC Share (Service Charges to be collected by ALC) |
---|---|---|
30 hours | Rs. 300/- | Rs. 1,500/- |
* Above mentioned fee is applicable for all Modes of KLiC Courses offered at Authorised Learning Center (ALC) and at Satellite Center
* Total fee is including of Course fees, Examination fees and Certification fees
* MKCL reserves the right to modify the Fee anytime without any prior notice