Course details
This course emphasizes the economic way of thinking by developing a unifying framework to study money, banking, and financial markets. This analytic framework uses a few basic economic concepts to organize your thinking about the determination of asset prices, the structure of financial markets, bank management and the role of money in the economy.
Prerequisite(s)
- Acceptance into the Bachelor of Business Administration program.
Credits
4.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Differentiate the relationships among the institutions and the structures of the Canadian Banking System.
- Explain the determination of interest rates and the variables that impact interest rates.
- Explain the functions of the Bank of Canada and the "Bank Act".
- Assess and interpret Canada's Monetary Policy.
- Analyze and identify factors that cause exchange rates to change.
- Identify the linkages between international financial prices.
- Measure the impact of exchange rate movements on the cash flow of a firm.
Effective as of Fall 2015
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