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Banking and Financial Institutions
Undergraduate | TAS-BEA321 | 2024
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed,
- No prior study
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 26 Feb 2024
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Banking and Financial Institutions
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Analyse the reasons why different financial institutions have distinct functions in the economy supporting sustainable growth.
- Assess how institutions and markets are regulated in domestic, and international environments, and be able to evaluate proposals for regulatory reform.
- Evaluate how financial institutions assess and manage risk using some of the trading strategies and instruments available in financial markets.
- Analyse the role and mandate of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
- Module 1: Overview of the financial system; the role of markets and intermediaries; flow of funds
- Module 2: Why do interest rate change? How do risk and term structure affect interest rate?
- Module 3: Are financial markets efficient? Why do financial institutions exist?
- Module 4: Central banks: A global perspective
- Module 5: The RBA mandate and Australian monetary policy
- Module 6: Conduct of monetary policy: tools goals, strategy, and tactics
- Module 7: Financial systems in Australia and globally
- Module 8: Banking and Financial institutions management, regulation, and competition
- Module 9: Foreign exchange rate market
- Module 10: The international financial system
- Module 11: Fixed and floating exchange rate regimes
- Module 12: The great pandemic and the financial market
This subject is a mandatory course for third-year Finance majors in the Bachelor of Business program. It is an elective subject in Economic Analysis major in the Bachelor of Economics. The subject examines the Australian and international financial systems and analyses the different roles of intermediaries and markets and the role they play in the flow of funds in the economy, the use of financial instruments such as debt, options and other derivatives to manage risk in banks, prudential supervision, regulation and risk management; The role played by the foreign exchange market, the objectives of monetary policy, the role of financial markets in the operation of monetary policy.
- Individual Assignment (30%)
- Online quizzes (x 2) (40%)
- Research Report (30%)
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- 0.125 EFTSL
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