Money and Banking

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• develop analytical skills using an evidence-based approach.
• develop skills in critically assessing and using official statements.
• learn to evaluate data, and use it in order to act upon it.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the function of banking in financial markets and the economy.
• the role of banks in credit, liquidity, and money creation.
• the institutional structure and uses of financial markets with emphasis on banking.
• the role of regulations in banking and the influence of the central bank.
• the risks, stability and performance of banks.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• assess the role and impact of banks and the central bank, and the need for appropriate regulation and supervision.
• Understand the key lending products and technologies of banks as well the role banks play in the markets of other financial instruments.

Formative

This is how we¡¯ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Questions and answers

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we¡¯ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we¡¯ll assess you if you don¡¯t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.