154-0511/01 – Financial Markets (FMa)
Gurantor department | Department of Finance | Credits | 5 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. Martina Novotná, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Kateřina Kořená, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | | |
| | Study language | English |
Year of introduction | 2010/2011 | Year of cancellation | 2014/2015 |
Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Bachelor, Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The course provides introduction to basic knowledge of financial markets, students will learn in this course to understand financial markets principles functioning. At the end of the course students should be able to:
- grasp financial system and its basic functions,
- compare particular financial intermediaries,
- get acquinted with regulation principles in financial markets,
- understand role of ethics in financial markets,
- define money and capital markets,
- understand selected securities and be able to make principle calculations,
- learn investment principles including collective investment,
- recognize different types of funds,
- understand investing in funds,
- describe trading on stock exchanges,
- evaluate primary and secondary markets in selected countries,
- define new global market trends.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Summary
The course provides an introduction to financial markets, its aim is to teach students basic principles and functions of financial markets. This course enables students to understand basic functions of financial system, characterise money and capital markets, get acquainted with basic principles of regulation on financial markets and the role of ethics in financial markets, understand selected types of securities and basic calculations related to these securities, learn the fundamentals of investing including collective investment, characterise trading on stock exchanges.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
There are no other requirements on students.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Subject syllabus:
- Financial system (market, trends, institutions)
- Financial investments (forms, risks, information, liquidity)
- Money markets (classification, forms, risks, liquidity)
- Financial instruments of the money markets
- Capital markets (classification, forms, risks, liquidity)
- Instruments of capital market (shares, bonds)
- Collective investment
- Derivatives (forwards, futures, options, swaps)
- Stock exchanges
- Global financial markets
- Contemporary situation in the global financial markets
Conditions for subject completion
Conditions for completion are defined only for particular subject version and form of study
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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