Objectives and competences
Students:
1. Acquire knowledge about the place and function of bank in the national economy.
2. Enhance the basics of banking organization, services and bank management.
3. Gain the foundation for understanding decision making process, information flows and analysis of bank’s operations.
Content (Syllabus outline)
1. Banks and their role in the national economy
2. Banking activities
3. Bank regulation
4. Bank financial reports
5. Bank performance
6. Bank risks
7. The basics of bank management
Learning and teaching methods
– Lectures
– AV presentations
– Active coursework
– Active individual/group work in the PC room
– Formative assessment elements
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Development of knowledge and understanding:
Students:
1. Obtain the importance of banks for a national economy
2. Get familiar with the specifics of bank and bank activities on domestic as well as international level international level.
3. Acquire the knowledge about rules and logics of bank business and its internationalization.
4. Develop basic skills to define and understand the bank performance indicators
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Cognitive/Intellectual skills:
Students:
1. Get the ability to search for and synthesise new information from the banking field.
2. Can find and critically evaluate professional literature in the banking field.
3. Synthesize different knowledge and procedures in a banking problem field from previous levels of studies.
4. Have knowledge of banking terminology (in Slovene and English).
Key/Transferable skills
Students:
1. Develop skills and fundamental knowledge of understanding bank activities.
2. Further develop their skills of comprehending rules and logic of bank business.
3. Develop the ability to use this knowledge in the praxis at real specific problems solving in the field of banking, organisation and bank management.
4. Develop the capability to read, assimilate and appreciate the papers dealing with monetary and financial issues within domestic and foreign scope of literature.
Practical skills:
1. Students are capable of transferring theory to praxis in the sense of interpreting all current events in the field of banking.
2. In a bank, acquired knowledge can be used in the problem-solving process.
3. Students can act autonomously with defined guidelines and a certain level of supervision.
Readings
1. Casu, Barbara, Claudia Girardone, Philip Molyneux. 2021. Introduction to banking. 3rd Edition. Pearson Education Limited (izbrana poglavja)
2. Dimovski, Vlado in Aleksandra Gregorič. 2000. Temelji bančništva. EF, Ljubljana (izbrana poglavja)
3. Korošec Bojana in soavtorji. 2005. Računovodstvo finančnih inštitucij. EF, Ljubljana (izbrana poglavja)
4. Simoneti, Marko (urednik), Dolenc, Primož (urednik), Jašovič, Božo (urednik), Košak, Marko (urednik) 2019. Bančno poslovanje : "European Foundation Certificate in Banking - EFCB". Ljubljana: Združenje bank Slovenije. (Izbrana poglavja.)
5. Richard S. Grossman. 18 Dec 2012 , The Economic History of Banking from: Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History Routledge. Accessed on: 15 Mar 2016 https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9780203075616.ch17
(izbrana poglavja)
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Additional information on implementation and assessment Written examination 100%
or
»knowledge checks during current semester«: 80% + 20%
- two tests and
active coursework during the current semester (report, seminar paper…). *
*Note: Knowledge check during the semester foresees two tests (2x40 points maximum) and all pre-semester defined elements of active course work (20 points maximum). Students pass the exam when they cumulatively reach 56 % of all test points, that is 45 points, and all together 56%, that is a minimum of 56 points (max. 100 = 40 + 40 + 20). Collected points from active course work and from tests are only valid in the current semester when applying “knowledge checks during current semester” mode.
