Course: Selected Financial Services

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Course title Selected Financial Services
Course code KFÚ/VYS
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Strýčková Lenka, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Hyblerová Šárka, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Lectures (topics): 1. Introduction to financial services and financial markets. Definition of the basic concepts. 2. Money. Currency. Evolution of money. 3. Banking services in the Czech Republic. Commercial banking. 4. Active (Credit) banking operations. Types of loans, the loan process. 5. Passive (Deposit) banking operations. Classification of deposit products, insurance of deposits. 6. Off-balance sheet operations. Payment system, instruments of the payment system. 7. Financial market supervision. Central banking. 8. Other financial institutions and their services (savings and credit associations, leasing companies, factoring and forfaiting companies, insurance companies, non-banking lenders, etc.). 9. Securities, capital markets, stock exchanges in the Czech Republic. 10. Collective investment, classification of investment funds. Seminars (topics): 1. Interest and time value of money, compounding and discounting. 2. Multiple period and mixed compounding and discounting. 3. Present and future value of multiple payment stream. 4. Payoff, loan amortisation. 5. Bills of exchange and exchange trades. 6. Stock and bond valuation.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Practicum
  • Class attendance - 28 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to introduce students to selected financial services especially those focusing on the banking sector and other financial institutions (insurance companies, leasing companies, factoring and forfaiting companies, building societies, pension companies, collective investment funds and others).
Students obtain knowledge in given course in accordance with requirements and course programme. It is the knowledge of the functioning of the banking sector and its importance in economic system - theoretical framework of contemporary knowledge of monetary systems, actively combining theory with practice, to lay the foundation for the study of related subjects.
Prerequisites
This object builds on the knowledge of the following objects: KEK/MI1 KEK/MK1 KPE/NOP

Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam

For successful completing a course, it is necessary to fulfil these conditions: - attendance at the seminars (at least 75 %), - seminary test, - final written test (at least for 60 %).
Recommended literature
  • Arnold, G. The Financial Times Guide to Banking. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2015. ISBN 978-0-273-79182-9.
  • Casu, B., Girardone, C. and P. Molyneux. Introduction to Banking. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2015. ISBN 978-0-273-71813-0.
  • Černohorský, J. a P. Teplý. Základy financí. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-3669-3.
  • Kalabis, Z. Základy bankovnictví. Brno: BizBooks, 2012. ISBN 978-80-265-0001-8.
  • Kantnerová, L. Základy bankovnictví. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2016. ISBN 978-80-7400-595-4.
  • Mejstřík, J., M. Pečená a P. Teplý. Bankovnictví v teorii a praxi. Banking in theory and practice.. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2014. ISBN 978-80-246-2870-7.
  • Mishkin, F. S. and S. G. Eakins. Financial Markets and Institutions. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2015. ISBN 978-0133423624.
  • Polouček, S. Peníze, banky a finanční trhy. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7400-152-9.
  • Radová, J, et al. Finanční matematika pro každého, příklady + CD-ROM. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-3584-9.
  • Radová, J, P. Dvořák a J. Málek. Finanční matematika pro každého. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978-80-247-4831-3.
  • Rejnuš, O. Finanční trhy. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2016. ISBN 978-80-247-5871-8.


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