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Knowledge: Students will have an awareness of current questions and issues concerning the international financial system on the basis of a knowledge of its development, changes and factors that determine the form of this system as well as current issues and development trends within the European Union. Students will know the basic theory of the development of foreign exchange markets and the main trends in the development of that theory. Students can describe the influence of flows captured in the balance of payments accounts on the development of the exchange rate and the risks acting on enterprises. Students understand the functioning, organisation and structure of the international financial markets, including the specifics of investing on the international markets and investment banking, as well as key international finance institutions, their location, mission, aims and connection to managing an enterprise’s finances in the international environment.
Skills: Students can comprehensively evaluate the current situation and judge the anticipated trends within the international financial system with an emphasis on Economic and Monetary Union. Students are able to evaluate individual forms of foreign investment and apply knowledge from the area of the international financial markets in choosing the optimum means of finance. Students are able to independently find solutions to problems in the field of international finance and weigh up their impact on the corporate economy.
Abilities: Students are able to independently find solutions to problems in the field of international finance, recommend an appropriate solution and justify it in a competent manner.

Knowledge of cash flows in enterprises, financial mathematics and an understanding of macroeconomics.

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The course is focused on the explanation of the main principles and presentation of the decision problems as well solution of model situation.

Conditions for passing an exam: Knowledge of taught topics and its practical application.
Form of examination: Combined – a written test and an oral examination if necessary.
Conditions for awarding the course-unit credit: Active participation in exercises will be controlled and assessed by the teacher. Successful completion of a credit test. Presentation of an assignment.

• Balance of payments – the significance of the balance of payments, the mutual connection between individual accounts of the balance of payments, the influence of the balance of payments on the demand for foreign currency;
• Foreign exchange markets – the organisation and structure of the foreign exchange markets, ways of quoting exchange rates, purchasing power parity theory and interest rate parity theory; the main trends in exchange rate theory;
• Exchange rate systems – classification of individual systems of exchange rates and their evaluation according to selected criteria;
• The policy of balance of payments in equilibrium – defining a country’s external imbalances, means of compensating for a balance of payments deficit, risks and impacts of individual methods on the economy and entities in a given country;
• Development of the international financial system – the main stages in the development of the international financial system, the origins of the first international financial institutions and the evolution of integration within Europe;
• Investment and financing trading operations in the international environment – the significance and forms of direct investment and portfolio investment, the significance and structures of European currency and capital markets, the specific features of the financial strategies of transnational corporations;
• Specific ways of financing cross-border economic activities – project financing and joint ventures, bound trading operations, multilateral development banks.

Not applicable.

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with developments and trends in the field of the international financial system, in the environment which provides the framework conditions for the financial management of enterprises in an international context, primarily in the European Union.

Control of results of independent work on assigned tasks. In case of excused absence from seminars, the teacher can set additional condition if appropriate, usually elaboration of partial written task.

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