Course detail
Financial investments
FP-IfinKAcad. year: 2022/2023
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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Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Credit is awarded on the basis of successful completion of prescribed written tests, the content of which is the mathematics discussed in the exercises. The tests consist of five examples, of which for each correctly calculated example the student can get a maximum of 5 points. The student can get a maximum of 25 points from the test, while the minimum number of points for which credit can be awarded is 35 points. The first two tests are part of the exercise, the credit test then allows you to complete the required number of points. Credit is a condition of admission of a student to the oral exam. In the final evaluation of the course, the results of the credit test are taken into account by 30%, the results of the oral exam by 70%.
Completion of the course for students with individual study:
The conditions are the same, only credit is awarded only on the basis of a credit test, which contains 10 examples, of which for each correctly calculated example the student can get a maximum of 5 points.
Completion of the course in distance form:
The conditions for granting the credit are the same as for students with individual study. The exam will take the form of a test that will contain 20 multiple-choice questions, some of which may be correct. For each correct answer the student will receive a point, for each incorrect answer the point will be deducted. Unchecked answers will not be evaluated. The condition for successful passing of the exam is the achievement of at least 70% of possible points (evaluation by classification level E). Upon reaching 75% of the possible points, it will be graded D; when 80% of the possible points are reached by grade C; when 85% of the possible points are reached by grade B and when 90% of the possible points are reached by grade A.
Course curriculum
2) Banking system, banking institutions, banking operations, trades and products
3) Other non-banking institutions of the financial system
4) Theory of interest rates and their effect in the financial system
5) Theory of financial investments
6) Basic distribution of financial and real investment instruments
7) Corporate (corporate) shares
8) Bonds
9) Developments in financial markets in the individual phases of the business cycle
10) Forward derivative instruments of the forward, futures and swap contracts type
11) Option contracts and synthetic (compound) financial derivatives
12) Securities of investment property, resp. mutual funds
13) Structured products
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Mishkin, Frederic S. The economics of money, banking, and financial markets. Twelfth edition. Harlow, England: Pearson Education, 2019. 738 stran. ISBN 978-1-292-26885-9.
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.
ŠOBA,O., ŠIRŮČEK, M.: Finanční matematika v praxi. 2., aktualizované a rozšířené vydání, Grada, Praha, 2017. ISBN 978-80-271-0250-1.
Recommended reading
Jílek, Josef. Deriváty, hedžové fondy, offshorové společnosti. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2006. 260 s. Finanční trhy a instituce. Finance. ISBN 80-247-1826-X.
Jílek, Josef. Finanční a komoditní deriváty. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2002. 624 s. ISBN 80-247-0342-4.
Kislingerová, Eva a Hnilica, Jiří. Finanční analýza: krok za krokem. 2. vyd. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2008. xiii, 135 s. C.H. Beck pro praxi. ISBN 978-80-7179-713-5.
Rejnuš, Oldřich. Finanční trhy. 4., aktualiz. a rozš. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2014. 760 s. Partners. ISBN 978-80-247-3671-6.
Rose, Peter S. a Marquis, Milton H. Money and capital markets: financial institutions and instruments in a global marketplace. 10th ed. Boston: McGrawHill, 2009. xxxviii, 767, [33] s. The McGraw-Hill/Irwin series in finance, insurance, and real estate. McGraw-Hill International Edition. ISBN 978-0-07-126881-3.
Valach, Josef a kol. Investiční rozhodování a dlouhodobé financování. 3., přeprac. a rozš. vyd. Praha: Ekopress, 2010. 513 s. ISBN 978-80-86929-71-2.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme MGR-IM-KS Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Guided consultation in combined form of studies
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