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Banking and developing financial markets

Study: Second cycle

Semester: First semester

Professor: Prof. Ph.D. sc. Almir ALihodžić

Section:      Business and public finance

ECTS:          7,5

Exam results

Course content

  1. The role of the financial sector in the economy
  2. Structure of financial institutions
  3. Regulation of the financial sector
  4. Banking business
  5. Financial statements of banks
  6. Risk management in banks
  7. Monetary system in BiH International market of money and capital
  8. Contemporary portfolio theory
  9. Returns and risks in financial markets
  10. Problems in emerging financial markets
  11. Forms of financial market efficiency
  12. Financial regulation
  13. Financial markets in BiH

Objective of the course

After completing the course, the student should understand the importance of financial markets and institutions and recognize the functioning of financial institutions and financial instruments. The student should get to know the process of valuation of financial instruments and be able to competently analyze and interpret the basic processes in modern financial markets. Also, the student will improve the knowledge acquired during his undergraduate studies in order to apply the acquired knowledge and skills when solving specific problems. in business practice, by making decisions in the field of financial management within the framework of financial institutions that are the most represented in the BiH financial system. Based on the acquired advanced knowledge in the activities of the stock exchange, investment financial institutions, the money market and the capital market, commercial banks and other types of financial institutions, the student will be able to perform the tasks that are the most common and which are the basis for the performance of financial services.

 

Teaching methods

  1. Lectures,
  2. case study cases,
  3. presentations of access papers,
  4. solving practical problems/tasks,
  5. individual work.
 

Knowledge testing methods

  • Access Paper (20%)
  • Partial tests (Test I + Test II) (80%)
  • For students who do not use the right to earn points during the semester, the following applies: Integral test (100%)
  • The oral exam is used for students who want to achieve a higher grade.

Competences

  1. Understanding of bank operations (credit and deposit operations).
  2. Reading and understanding financial statements of banks and financial investments.
  3. Understanding the operations of non-banking financial institutions and the services they provide.
  4. Getting to know the operation and way of organizing financial markets, service providers and their users.
  5. Basic knowledge of securities issue processes (issuance, secondary trading)
  6. Possibilities of analysis and monitoring of events and dynamics of growth in financial markets.
  7. Basic market theories and concepts of investment calculations.
 

Literature

Mandatory

  1. Plakalović, N., Alihodžić, A. (2015). Money, banks and financial markets, University of Banja Luka - Faculty of Economics, Banja Luka (the textbook is in the final stage).
  2. Bodie, Z., Kane, A., Marcus, AJ (2009). Basics of investment, DATASTATUS, eighth edition, Belgrade.

Additional

  1. Mishkin, FS, Matthews, K., Giuliodori, M. (2013). The Economics of Money, Banking & Financial Markets, Pearson Education, UK.
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