Undergraduate - UnitBFB1300 - Money and capital markets

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Banking and Finance
Offered	Berwick Second semester 2014 (Day)

Synopsis

On completion of this unit students should demonstrate an understanding of a financial system, its operation and component parts; yield curve analysis, the term structure of interest rates, and exchange rate interaction; sources and types of business finance, short, medium and long term, domestic and overseas, and associate pricing formulae; the structure and operation of Australian financial institutions and markets; the major types of risk and the derivative products available to manage financial risk; the structure, functions and role of prudential supervision in the financial markets.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

describe the structure and operation of financial institutions and markets in Australia
evaluate short and medium to longer term financial instruments
explain government monetary policy and the term structure of interest rates
describe the derivative products available to manage financial risk
apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills to individual and/or group activities dealing with money and capital markets and demonstrate in an individual summative assessment task the acquisition of a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered by BFB1300.