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Department of Commerce
Department Profile

Introduction
The prosperity and the growth of any country is based on its commerce and trade. Commerce is
blood stream of a nation and it is the fundamental requirements for development. Commerce
education plays a very important role in economic growth of a country. Commerce is a
composite study of accounts, management, business law, tax, business statistics, human resource
management, entrepreneurial development, economics, and business studies. Commerce
provides direction, stability in the organization, and most importantly, it provides growth to the
organization. Accounts help the organization to see the true picture or condition of our business
with the help of balance sheets, journals, ledgers, etc. Economics, one of the most important
aspects of commerce, provides business knowledge on how to use limited resources for business
and get a maximum profit in the short term. Business studies provide knowledge about sales
management, HR management and marketing. Understand the need and importance of the
course, in 1982 B. Com undergraduate course was introduced in the college. Rural student’s
unprivileged and underprivileged background showed more interest in joining this course and the
admission are made on merit and government quota basis as co-education system.

The faculty of commerce places a very strong emphasis on providing the students with an in-
depth understanding of concepts, both theoretical and practical. Practical sessions help keep the

students engaged and focused. The faculty is committed to creating the best professionals,
managers and leaders in the commerce field. The faculty members were selected and appointed
by the state government with norms like qualifying test experience and interviews the shortage of
faculty members are appointed as guest lecturers.

Vision
“Provide values based Commerce education to the youngsters to serve the country, industry and
society with right knowledge, good skills and positive attitude.”

Mission
“Educate and train the Commerce students effectively with subject knowledge, practical skills
and life skills with ethical bases.”

Objectives of Department
Commerce education plays a very important role in economic growth. It is one of the keys which
lead to success in all sectors of the economy. Commerce education has gained such importance
because activities relating to commerce are also affected when the business cycle is going well.
Through commerce education, students are exposed to the environment of the business world. It
enables the importance of smearing economic ideologies while making business decisions. It
makes them aware of social, economic, and political problems. Commerce outfits to the
distribution trait of any business. Production must be consumed; there exists a suitable
distribution channel to aid this consumption. And that is what commerce does by creating a
market for surplus products. It has widened up the global market and has been similarly useful in
hastening the practice of exchange in local markets around the globe. It is already established
that good commerce plays a tremendous role in the economic development of the country.
Pedagogy
The College is affiliated to Rani Channamma University and Bagalkot University jamakhandi
and the Commerce Department follows the university syllabus.

Field study and Industrial Visit
Field work enables students and researchers to examine the way scientific theories interact with
real life. Field work is important in both the social and natural sciences. Social sciences, such as
economics or history, focus on people, culture, and society. The field study is an educational
technique, which makes the educational process more active, helps the students to work in real
situations and to develop skills, competencies and positive attitudes through activation of their
existing ones. We put a lot of emphasis on holistic learning. We believe learning should not be
restricted to four walls. To bring the immersive learning within the business students at Mudhol
we incorporate industrial visit as part of the curriculum. The aim of this industrial visit is
“Education – Exposure – Experience. “The main objective of conducting a field trip for students
is to reinforce experiential and contextual learning. Industrial visit are a way of enhancing
classroom learning by making real world connections and Industrial visit expose students to
different lifestyles and places. Our department students are taken to nearby Bagalkot super
markets, Industries and are asked to learn how even the small vendors /agriculturists market and
sell their products and produces. They are also taken to some big industries to have good amount
of knowledge on industrial environment. Besides these ,after getting nod from the Chartered
Accountants and Tax consultants our commerce department students are sent to their offices and
advised to learn how Income – Tax returns , GST forms are filed .

Faculty Role Model Contributions:
i. Staff Resource Inner Circle: Success of the student community mainly lies in the hands of
teaching staff. Keeping this in mind, our department staff members shape themselves by
preparing and delivering a speech in a meeting, called Staff Resource Inner Circle arranged by
the staff members of our department every month .Each and every teacher of department share
his / her own views in this platform on the recent vital issues and at the end of the speech a
discussion takes place. This is beneficial both for the student and teaching communities.

ii. Faculty Development Programmes: Our department staff members enrich their subject
knowledge by eagerly participating In National and International Seminars / Conferences /
Workshops / Symposia and Webinars conducted by our college and reputed educational
institutions in Bagalkot and nearby districts.
iii. Research Activities: Teaching and Research are the need of this hour. Realizing this, our
faculty members do researches and publish their research work / articles in Edited Book &
reputed journals bearing ISBN / ISSN Numbers. The students too are encouraged by the teachers
to conduct research works based on both primary as well as secondary Data and submit them to
our department for evaluation.

List of Faculty Members

01. Dr.S. M. Khot M.com, Phd – HOD

02. Shri.V.K.Viraktamath M.com -Lecturer

03. Dr.H.M.Honyal M.com,Phd .,KSET -Lecturer

04. Shri.A.A.Gudi M.com -Lecturer

05. Smt.S.K.Hiremath M.com ,KSET -Lecturer

06. Smt.M.N.Tumakur M.com -Lecturer

07. Smt.D.S.Burji M.com -Lecturer