Course detail
Financial Markets
FP-UftPAcad. year: 2016/2017
The course enables acquirement of theoretical knowledge and practical skills with respect to all spheres of activities on a financial market. The course deals with the individual types of existing financial institutions and financial instruments as well as with the most important types of financial transactions carried out on financial markets. The course provides students also with the fundamentals of financial mathematics.
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Course curriculum
Types of financial transactions
- Direct and indirect funding, the types of financial markets
- Factors integration of financial market segments
- Current trends in the financial system
Financial institutions
- The banking system, banking institutions, banking transactions, bank products
- Other non-banking financial market institutions
The theory of interest rates and their effect in the financial system
Introduction to the theory of financial investments
- The definition of "investment," their distribution and basic characteristics
- Supply and demand in investment financial instruments
- Basic factors of investment strategies for investor
- The interdependence of investment factors
The financial investment tools
Classic Securities
- Business (corporate) shares
- Bonds
- Developments in the financial markets in the different stages of the economic cycle
Stocks and bonds of collective investment
Financial derivatives
- Definition of spot and futures
- Fixed-term contracts, forwards and futures
- Swap contracts
- Option contracts
- Synthetic (composite) financial derivatives
Structured products
The content of the seminars / Fundamentals of Financial Mathematics /
1. Simple interest and discounting
2. Compound Interest
3.Ssaving
4. Pensions
5. Loan Repayment
6. Bonds and Stocks
7. Credit test
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Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
REJNUŠ, Oldřich. Finanční trhy: učebnice s programem na generování cvičných testů. První vydání. Praha: Grada Publishing, a.s., 2016. 380 stran. ISBN 978-80-247-5871-8. (CS)
Recommended reading
Polidar,V.: Management bank a bankovních obchodů. Praha, Ekopress, 1999 (CS)
Rejnuš, Oldřich. Finanční trhy. 4., aktualiz. a rozš. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2014. 760 s. Profesional. ISBN 978-80-247-3671-6. (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
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Syllabus
- Types of financial transactions
- Financial institutions
- Theory of interest rates and its functioning in financial system
- Introduction to the theory of financial investments
- Financial investment tools
- Stocks and bonds of collective investment
- Financial derivatives
- Structured products
- Fundamentals of financial mathematics
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Compound interest
- Savings
- Pensions
- Amortisation
- Selected short-term equities
- Bonds
- Shares