Course detail
Financial Markets for Economic IT specialist
FP-IfteiPAcad. year: 2023/2024
The course enables acquirement of theoretical knowledge and practical skills with respect to all spheres of activities on a financial market. The course deals with the individual types of existing financial institutions and financial instruments as well as with the most important types of financial transactions carried out on financial markets. The course provides students also with the fundamentals of financial mathematics.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Completion of the course for students with individual study:
The conditions are the same, only credit is awarded only on the basis of a credit test, which contains 10 examples, of which for each correctly calculated example the student can get a maximum of 5 points.
The conditions for granting the credit are the same as for students with individual study. The exam will take the form of a test that will contain 20 multiple-choice questions, some of which may be correct. For each correct answer the student will receive a point, for each incorrect answer the point will be deducted. Unchecked answers will not be evaluated. The condition for successful passing of the exam is the achievement of at least 70% of possible points (evaluation by classification level E). Upon reaching 75% of the possible points, it will be graded D; when 80% of the possible points are reached by grade C; when 85% of the possible points are reached by grade B and when 90% of the possible points are reached by grade A.
The control of participation is fully in teacher’s competence. Active participation in lessons, control of knowledge in seminars.
Aims
Students will acquire theoretical and practical knowledge and skills from all spheres connected with functioning of a financial market. They will understand the significance of the financial market for the economy of every state and will have a grasp of the function and mission of each institution and subject operating on the financial market. They will learn to differentiate financial tools and to use them in practice. Students will also learn how to plan and carry out basic financial operations using existing financial tools in the corporate practice as well as for personal finances management.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
REJNUŠ, Oldřich. Finanční trhy: učebnice s programem na generování cvičných testů. První vydání. Praha: Grada Publishing, a.s., 2016. 380 stran. ISBN 978-80-247-5871-8. (CS)
Recommended reading
Jílek, Josef. Finanční a komoditní deriváty. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2002. 624 s. Finanční trhy a instituce. Finance. ISBN 80-247-0342-4. (CS)
Polidar,V.: Management bank a bankovních obchodů. Praha, Ekopress, 1999 (CS)
Rejnuš, Oldřich. Finanční trhy. 4., aktualiz. a rozš. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2014. 760 s. Profesional. ISBN 978-80-247-3671-6. (CS)
ŠOBA,O., ŠIRŮČEK, M.: Finanční matematika v praxi. 2., aktualizované a rozšířené vydání, Grada, Praha, 2017. ISBN 978-80-271-0250-1. (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Types of financial transactions
- Financial institutions
- Theory of interest rates and its functioning in financial system
- Introduction to the theory of financial investments
- Financial investment tools
- Stocks and bonds of collective investment
- Financial derivatives
- Structured products
- Fundamentals of financial mathematics
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Saving and pensions
- Amortisation
- Securities valuation
- Exchange trading of shares
- Trading of bonds, foreign currencies and commodities
- Credit test