AFF3301 - Money market operations
6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL
Undergraduate Faculty of Business and Economics
Offered
Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)
Synopsis
This unit will combine classroom teaching and direct observance experience of the money markets covering background to the money markets, participants, interest rate and exchange rate determination, instruments traded in the money and currency markets, strategies and money and currency market trading operations. The simulated treasury dealing room will be used extensively in this course.
Objectives
The learning goals associated with this unit are to:
- analyse dealing practices and conventions in the foreign exchange and cash markets
- co-ordinate the front office and back office functions of a simulated bank's treasury dealing room
- account and settle transactions completed in the treasury dealing room
- develop, implement, analyse and manage dealing strategies in the treasury dealing room
- apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills to individual and/or group activities dealing with money market operations.
Assessment
Within semester assessment: 100%
Contact hours
4 hours per week
Co-requisites
13 October 2017
19 December 2024