ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
BVS2003 | Fund Management in Banking and Insurance | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Language of instruction: | Turkish |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Instructor SERAP GÖKSU |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | There are no program components. |
Course Objectives: | Financial management, financial markets, promote the management of banks and insurance funds |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1. Define Financial Markets and Institutions. 2. Explan the function of Central Bank . 3. Explain Banking Risks. 4. Able to explain Exchange Rate Systems and eurocurrency markets 5. Calculate the interest on term deposits 6. Able to explain the management of funds of insurance companies 7. Recognize the private pension system and pension investment funds |
Financial Markets and Institutions, Sources of Funds of Banks, Bank Money Creation Process,Use of Banks and Loans Fund,The role of the Central Bank and the financial system Banking Risks, Repeating courses and Midterm Exam Exchange Rate Systems,Eurocurrency markets, Eurobond Markets Term Structure of Interest Rates and Interest Rates Insurance companies and fund-raising process. Uses of funds The functioning of the Private Pension System and pension funds |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Financial Markets | |
2) | Treasury Management | |
3) | TL Management | |
4) | Central Bank and Interbank Market | |
5) | Interbank Markets | |
6) | Over the Counter Markets | |
7) | Pricing of Treasury Bonds | |
8) | Fixed Income Securities | |
9) | Pricing of Fixed Income Securities | |
10) | Derivative Markets- Forward and Futures | |
11) | Derivative Markets- Options | |
12) | Risk Management | |
13) | Types of Risks- Market Risks, Credit Risks, Operational Risks | |
14) | Fund raising process of insurance companies Pension Funds |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Finansal Piyasalar ve Kurumlar, Frederic Mıshkin,(çeviri)Prof Dr. İlyas Şıklar, Prof Dr. Ahmet Çakmak, Yrd Doç. Dr. Suat Yavuz Finansal Ekonomi, Muharrem Afşar, Aslı Afşar |
References: | www.bist.gov.tr, www.tcmb.gov.tr www.tbb.org.tr, www. tsrsb.org.tr, www.egm.org.tr, www.spk.gov.tr |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Midterms | 1 | % 40 |
Final | 1 | % 60 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 40 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 60 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 4 | 56 |
Presentations / Seminar | 2 | 5 | 10 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | 5 | 10 |
Midterms | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 121 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |