Course detail
Financial and Insurance Mathematics
FP-VfpmPAcad. year: 2013/2014
Cross-section of modern methods of financial and insurance calculations as they are applied in financial and insurance practice: types of interest rates, savings, income, systems of financial flows, investment rules, stocks, bonds, debt amortization, financial risk, financial portfolio management, financial analysis, basic insuranceprinciples calculations in life insurance, pension insurance.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
a) Apply methods of financial mathematics (interest running, discount, savings, earnings)
b) Compare interest rates for various interest periods
c) Evaluate investment projects
d) Apply various measures of financial analysis
e) Be well versed in repayment of a loan
f) Calculate market price of obligations and stocks
g) Calculate cross rate and forward exchange rate
h) Solve insurance operations
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
1. Professional activity is indicative of student preparation for seminars (evaluated by the teacher) – max. 10 points.
2. Successful completion of a test at pre-determined schedule date – max. 20 points. Students have right to use one regular and one repetative term of the test.
3. The total number of points for credit must be higher than 18 points.
Conditions for exam:
Knowledge of taught topics and its practical application. Form of examination: Combined – a written test and an oral examination if necessary. Written test – 45 minutes, two theoretical questions and one arithmetical problem. For the test are admitted only students who are logged in to the BUT system and who have written results of test in BUT system. Classification of a test is part of the overall evaluation of the course with a weight of 0.33. Classification methods depend on the BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations using the ECTS grading scale. The overall classification of "E - sufficient", classification is needed answers to theoretical questions and solving example at least a grade of "E", it means, the answer is correct, but there are some significant parts; solution example is correct, but contains a numerical error.
Course curriculum
2. Savings – short-term, long-term and their combination.
3. Income – income calculation. Temporary income. Real income.
4. Discount. Time value. Investment decision-making – rules and criteria.
5. Bonds and their evaluation. Bonds price sensitivity.
6. Loans. Extinction of a debt. Annuity. Instalment plan. Leasing.
7. Stocks, obligations. Market price of stock. Stock profitability. First option and its price. Short-term stocks and bonds.
8. Currency rates – cross rate and forward exchange rate.
9. Financial analysis – trend analysis. Time series of measures.
10. Financial analysis – analysis of proportional measures.
11. Financial risk. Portfolio theory and its analysis.
12. Financial strategy – structure of firm capital and its optimization. Economic value added.
13. Elementary calculation in life and pension insurance.
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Exercise: Check the results of independent work on assigned tasks. Attendance at seminars is required and checked by the tutor. In case of excused absence from seminars, the teacher can set additional condition if appropriate, usually elaboration of partial written task.
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Savings – short-term, long-term and their combination.
3. Income – income calculation. Temporary income. Real income.
4. Discount. Time value. Investment decision-making – rules and criteria.
5. Bonds and their evaluation. Bonds price sensitivity.
6. Loans. Extinction of a debt. Annuity. Instalment plan. Leasing.
7. Stocks, obligations. Market price of stock. Stock profitability. First option and its price. Short-term stocks and bonds.
8. Currency rates – cross rate and forward exchange rate.
9. Financial analysis – trend analysis. Time series of measures.
10. Financial analysis – analysis of proportional measures.
11. Financial risk. Portfolio theory and its analysis.
12. Financial strategy – structure of firm capital and its optimization. Economic value added.
13. Elementary calculation in life and pension insurance.
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Income – income calculation. Temporary income. Real income.
3. Loans. Extinction of a debt. Annuity. Instalment plan. Leasing.
4. Break-even point analysis. Structure of firm capital and its optimization. Economic value added.
5. Investment strategy - rules and measures. Time value.
6. Test.
7. Unit credits.