Business Studies
Canadian Financial System
Course Outline
Upon completion of this course you will be able to answer questions and solve problems involved in decisions about saving and borrowing over time. The book covers all aspects of banking and securities in Canada including the function of the banks and the control of the money supply. The contents of the course are used on the job daily by the loans officers of banks and financial officers of commercial companies as well as by bankers, stockbrokers and economists. This is a single stream course.
Topics of study covered within this course include the following:
• Money, Monetary Standards, and Payment Systems
• The Flow of Funds and Intertemporal Consumption
• Financial Assets: Their Nature, Price and Yield
• The Level and Structure of Interest Rates
• Financial Markets
• Exchange Rates and International Payments Transactions
• Financial Intermediation
• Payments Intermediation and the Creation of Money
• Payments Intermediation, Risk, and Risk Management
• The Regulation of Financial Intermediaries and Regulatory Reform
• The Development of Canadian Banking
• The Chartered Banks
• The Near-Banks
• Nondepository Financial Institution
• The Bank of Canada and the Objectives of Monetary Policy
• Monetary Control: Central Bank Instruments
• The Implementation of Monetary Policy
• The Demand for Money
• The Role and Effectiveness of Monetary Policy
• Foreign Exchange Regimes
• International Financial Markets
• History of International Monetary Relations Before 1939
• Recent International Monetary Relations
• Monetary Policy in Canada: A Review
Duration
Approximately 20 hours
Text Books
The text book required for this course is outlined below and can be purchased through any online book supplier:
ISBN#:0-17-616856-7
Prerequisites
None
Cost
$699.00