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 306-305 Management of Financial Institutions

Prerequisites

306-203 Business Finance.

Semester

1

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week, plus up to eight 1-hour seminars presented by practitioners

Subject Description

Types of financial institutions and their roles in the Australian financial system. The management of such institutions, including: liquidity management, asset and liability management, capital adequacy policies, credit evaluation and lending policies, product development and pricing. Methods of assessing performance of financial institutions; factors affecting performance, such as economies of scale, competition and regulation.

Assessment

A 3-hour end-of-semester examination (70%); a 2000-word essay (30%).

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